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Presents:
The European BATTLE

        Powered by:
      @the_ff_german
          @TIIM
      @TomDegenerate
      @FF_Dominator
         & Friends

Thanks for signing up and being part of the „European Battle”.
The EFFC is a charity tournament where the Winner gets to donate the
 prize pool to the charity organization of his choice. It is the European
              Version of the legendary “Scott Fish Bowl”.
In this guide you find all information about the EFFC like Scoring etc.
   We want to thank all our sponsors for their donation. Thanks for
                        making this possible.
    If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
                       Thanks for your support!

                        - MAY THE BEST WIN –

                            Peter @the_ff_german
                                  Tim @TIIM
                           Tom @TomDegenerate
                           Jörgen @FF_Dominator

Overview
  1.   Rules and Scoring
  2.   Analyzing Scoring Settings EFFC
  3.   Charity Procedure
  4.   Prizes + Sponsors

1. Rules and Scoring

Draft

  •     The drafts start august 12th, 2019 at 10 am ET
  •     It will be a slow draft style played on MyFantasyLeague.com.
  •     8 hour pick timer
  •     Overnight shutoff: 2 am ET to 8 pm ET
  •     The draft will be 22 rounds, snake style.

Basic Rules

  •     120 Teams
  •     10 leagues (divisions) of 12 teams
  •     2 conferences
  •     22 round slow draft.
  •     Start: 1 QB, 2 RB, 3 WR 1 TE, 4 Flex (can flex 1 QB) - (11 Total)
  •     Bench: 11 players
  •     No Kickers or Defenses
  •     No Trading Allowed
  •     Waivers: $100 Blind Bidding

Scoring

  •     Scoring is fractional (meaning 4 yards rushing = .4 points, 1 yard
        passing = .04 points, etc)

Passing:

  •     6 point passing TD
  •     -4 point interception
  •     -2 point interception for TD
  •     1 point for 25 yards passing (.04/per),
  •     2 point per 2 point conversions
  •     5 point milestone/achievement bonus for every 300 yards (not
        fractional)

Rushing:

  •   6 point rushing TD
  •   1 point for 10 yards rushing (.1/per),
  •   2 points for 2 point conversions
  •   .5 point per 1st down
  •   5 point milestone/achievement bonus for every 50 yards (not
      fractional)

Receiving:

  •   6 point receiving
  •   1 point for 10 yards receiving (.1/per),
  •   2 points for 2 point conversions,
  •   .5 point per 1st down
  •   .5 point per reception
  •   5 point milestone/achievement bonus for every 50 yards (not
      fractional)

TE:

  •   Extra .5 point per first down
  •   Extra .5 point per reception

Returns:

  •   6 point for any return TD
  •   6 points if your player recovers a ball in the endzone for a TD

Time Expiration During Draft

  •   Time limit. It is 8 hours and is shut off overnight from 2AM EST to
      8AM EST. If you let your clock expire, NFL Draft rule applies.
      Your pick will be skipped. Owners picking after you may make
      selections. You may make your selection at any time by
      contacting the commissioner with your pick. Must be from
      available players and commish will get to it when he can. The
      commissioners are not always available. The commissioner may
      replace you if you timeout.
  •   If you let the clock expire a second time, the commissioner
      reserves the right to replace you.
  •   If you are on the turn, please make both picks in a reasonable
      amount of time. Don't be the guy that makes one pick and comes
      back many hours later for the 2nd pick. There isn't trading

allowed, so there is no reason to sit on the 2nd pick. If you are on
      the turn, please make both picks in a reasonable amount of time.
      Don't be the guy that makes one pick and comes back many
      hours later for the 2nd pick. There isn't trading allowed, so there
      is no reason to sit on the 2nd pick. Commissioner may replace
      you if you do.

Inactivity

  •   If you miss setting your lineup twice, the commissioner is almost
      guaranteed to replace you.
  •   If you don't login to the site in over 14 days (meaning 14 days
      and 1 minute or more)... the commissioner reserves the right to
      replace you. You may get an email if you haven't logged in in
      over 10 days.

Accidental Drop / Lineup Move / Picks

  •   Accidental Drop: you must contact me within an hour for me to
      reverse it should someone else pick that player up.
  •   Accidental Lineup move: you must contact me within an hour for
      me to reverse it and the mistake must be somewhat obvious to
      me.
  •   Accidental picks: you must contact me immediately. Preferably
      no other picks made, if too many are made, I won't be able to
      revert.

Waiver Moves

  •   Waivers will run Wednesday at 1PM EST.
  •   After 1PM EST Wed. It will be First Come, First Serve until
      Sunday at noon.
  •   No players will be allowed to be picked up from noon Sunday
      until the Wed. waiver run.

Waiver Moves Once Eliminated

  •   If your team has been eliminated from playing in all brackets,
      you are not allowed to make waiver moves.

Setting Lineups

  •   If you do not set a lineup for week 1 before kickoff on Sunday,
      the commish will set a lineup for that team and possibly replace
      the owner.
  •   Lineups will rollover from week to week.

Team Ownership

  •   If you are invited and given a team in EFFC, that team is yours.
      You may not give it away in a contest or sell it in any fashion.

Commissioner Lockout

I need to set lineups for inactive people every week and check to
make sure lineups don't have injured players or players w/byes in
them. This is to give any potential replacement a fighting shot at
making the playoffs. I go through this every week. There were over
120 missed lineups when the league was 240 teams. It's a constant
issue. I could use the lockout at open and close of waivers each week,
but that sends 2 emails to each league member every week and is a
pain for me with all I already need to do for this league. The lockout
will stay off. If you have a problem with this, don't play.

Name

Please put up your real name in the owner section. You can add the
twitter handle to your franchise name.

Best Interest Clause

Should circumstances, issues, or problems arise for which a remedy is
not stated in the Rules... the Commissioner reserves the right to take
whatever actions he deems necessary in the best interest of the
league. He may consult with some or all other owners and/or possibly
take a vote.

Why such a big bench, no kickers, no defenses, and no trading, etc?
Many of us have a lot of leagues. This one is designed so that it takes
less effort each week than your other leagues. With deep benches, the
waiver wire will be less intensive. Without K or D, you won't have to
worry about getting them for your bye weeks. Also, they are a little
annoying to me. Without trading, all that energy can be spent on your
other leagues and there will be no chance of collusion

2. Analyzing Scoring Settings EFFC
                   by Florian Schmitt, Fantasy Stats Lover
                               @Flosch1006

In this article, we will dissect the scoring setting that will be used for
the inaugural season of the European Fantasy Football Contest. As we
will use the same setting as the well-known Scott Fish Bowl, you might
already be familiar with the settings, I promise though, that also you
can find some little insights into positional value, scoring composition
and the much talked about TE premium format.

Roster & Scoring Settings
Similar to the Scott Fish Bowl, we will use one of the more interesting
roster compositions out there in the world of Fantasy Football. Each
week, participants will have to submit a lineup consisting of the
following positions: 1 QB, 2 RB, 3 WR, 1 TE, 4 Flex. The catch is that
each team is allowed to start a maximum of one QB on a flex position,
creating a steep rise in QB value. Why is that? Well, let’s save this
question for later and first have a look at the scoring setting and its
differences to standard leagues:

Passing:
   • 6 point passing TD
   • -4 point interception
   • -2 point interception for TD
   • 1 point for 25 yards passing (.04/per),
   • 1 point per 2 point conversions
   • 5 point milestone/achievement bonus for every 300 yards (not
      fractional)
Pick sixes are penalized with another -2 points. Also a bonus of 5
points will be rewarded to your QB for every 300 yards thrown within
a game. As soon as the QB completes 300 yards passing, 5 points are
added to his performance. Should he complete 600 yards within a
single game (looking at you Pat!) he would receive another 5 bonus
points.

Rushing:

  •   6 point rushing TD
  •   1 point for 10 yards rushing (.1/per),
  •   2 points for 2 point conversions
  •   .5 point per 1st down
  •   5 point milestone/achievement bonus for every 50 yards (not
      fractional)

Contrary to standard scoring settings, a half point is awarded for
every first down gained on the ground. Also, a 5-point bonus is
awarded for every full 50 rush yards. This means if your RB rushes for
155 yards in a game, he gets a total of 15 bonus points.

Receiving:

  •   6 point receiving
  •   1 point for 10 yards receiving (.1/per),
  •   2 points for 2 point conversions,
  •   .5 point per 1st down (QB,WR,RB); 1 point per 1st down (TE)
  •   .5 point per reception (QB,WR,RB); 1 point per reception (TE)
  •   5 point milestone/achievement bonus for every 50 yards (not
      fractional)

As for rushing rushing first downs, for every receiving first down 0.5
points are credited to QBs, WRs and RBs. TEs are awarded one full
point per first down. The same logic applies to receptions. Per
reception, a half point bonus is given to the player if he is a QB, WR
or RB. TEs receive a full point per reception. Last but not least, we
have another 50 yards bonus of 5 points for every full 50 receiving
yards.

Miscellaneous:

  •   6 point for any return TD
  •   6 points if your player recovers a ball in the endzone for a TD
      Return TDs being credited to the return player also differs from
      standard leagues. This adds a little extra value to players like
      Tyreek Hill who regularly return punts or TDs.

Positional Value
In order to compare the value of different positions to each other, we
will apply this year’s scoring settings to last year’s performance.
Please note, that this is NOT a prediction. It is a tool to measure
positional value.

What’s awesome about this scoring setting is that the elite players at
every position accumulated roughly the same amount of points at
season’s end. RBs remain the premium position group to target early
though. Only Patrick Mahomes was able to finish in the top 5 as a non-
RB. The further we look down the ranks of each position, we notice
different behaviours for each group. We will now dig into each
position on its own and try to find out what drives the scoring and
when there is a significant drop off after a certain rank.

Quarterbacks

Patrick Mahomes outscored Matt Ryan (QB2) by a whopping 80
points. That’s the equivalent of 2.67 games that Matt Ryan would have
needed on top of his 16 games to reach Mahomes production.
Whether you think Mahomes can repeat this level of production is up
to you - if you do, you should even consider picking him 1st overall.
While his numbers are overshadowed by Mahomes’, Matt Ryan also
played a standout season in 2018, logging in just after the 4 elite RB
at #6 overall. Next man up was Big Ben who lead a group of 12 QBs
down to Mitch Trubisky (QB15) that all finished within 100 points. It
seems like there is a small group of QBs from teams that boast a top-
notch passing attack which stand out from the rest. Currently, that’s
only Matt Ryan and Patrick Mahomes. Will there be someone ready
to join them in 2019? Baker Mayfield? Deshaun Watson? Andrew
Luck? Aaron Rodgers?

As this league will feature 2 QB spots in your weekly lineup, QBs are
far more valuable than in standard leagues. Remember there is only
32 starting QBs in the league and up to 8 of them might be on a bye
week which leaves 24 QBs for 12 teams. If you cycle back to the first
chart, you will notice that QB6 to QB15 outscores RB6 to RB15 as well
as WR6 to WR15. So it might not be the worst idea to double down on
two of those top 15 QBs rather early.

When looking at the pie chart that explains how QBs score fantasy
points, one thing stands out: passing yards (46.79%) & passing TDs
(46.14%) account for just over 90% of positive points. There is almost
a perfect 1:1 ratio, which should make you think twice before you
draft someone like Russel Wilson early who gained considerably
more points by throwing TDs than by accumulating passing yards.

Running Backs

Now let’s look at the group that typically dominates the first picks of
fantasy drafts: running backs. In 2018 there was a group of 4 players
who ran away from the rest of the backs. McCaffrey, Gurley, Barkley
& Elliott separated Kamara by at least 40 points and Conner by 85
points. Within the first 9 RBs there is a point difference of almost 200
points. McCaffrey scored 1.6 times as many points as Kareem Hunt
who finished 9th amongst RBs! From here on out, there is not much
differences from one RB to another with a neighboring rank.
Considering everyone will use one flex spot on a QB, that leaves us
with 3 additional flex spots for RBs, WRs and TEs. As TEs simply do
not provide the value of a RB or WR, let’s assume the 3 flex spots are
filled with 1.5 RB and 1.5 WR on average. This results in about 40 RBs
that find themselves in a starting fantasy spot each week. The good
thing is, that Gus Edwards as RB40 was closer to Kareem Hunt (RB9)
than McCaffrey was to Hunt. This indicates as well a rather small
difference once the top guys are gone. Now it’s up to you to guess
who is gonna be top guy this year.

For RBs the bonus per 50 rushing yards is very important. It is even
more important than touchdowns. This gives a big advantage to
workhorse backs who simply rely on volume to get their yardage and
do not need to break big runs on limited carries. Receiving ability
(receptions, receiving yards, receiving TDs, receiving bonus)
accounts for about 25% of an RB’s fantasy production. Most of the elite
RBs separate themselves from the crop by being more productive as
a receiver.

Wide Receivers

The top 3 WRs from 2018 finished very close to each other in terms of
fantasy points. Deandre Hopkins, Julio Jones and Tyreek Hill
produced roughly 40 points more than Davante Adams as WR4,
making the former trio the clear-cut elite WRs. Adams, Antonio
Brown, Mike Evans, Adam Thielen, Michael Thomas and JuJu Smith-
Schuster formed the tier 2 WRs. From here on out, the differences
remain rather big until we reach Kenny Golladay at WR20. Only now
the differences get smaller as we move down the ranks.
Similar to RBs, one would expect about 40 WRs on a starting spot
across the fantasy league. As the production difference is bigger
within the first 20 WRs, having 2 WRs out of that group could turn out
very well. Investing draft capital between WR25 and WR30 seems to
be not worth the price though.

As you would expect, WR production is driven by receiving yards by
a mile. Receiving yards bonus also seems important with a slight
edge on receptions and TDs. Receiving 1st downs are almost
negligible for WRs.

Tight Ends

Tight Ends definitely make for the most interesting group in the
scoring setting at hand. The profit heavily of the additional 0.5 points
per reception and first down. While any other player catches a pass
for 3 yards and a first down receives 1.3 points, TEs are awarded 2.3
points for the same catch. The production drop off within the first 6
TEs is incredibly huge. Travis Kelce finished as TE1 gaining a little
more than twice the points Austin Hooper made as TE6. But even
within this group of the top 5, the differences are big enough to
differentiate further. Kelce was the clear TE1 by 40 points, Zach Ertz
and George Kittle finished close to each other as TE2 and TE3 but still
led the tier 2 TEs (Jared Cook & Eric Ebron) by well over 100 points,
who again led aforementioned Austin Hooper by another 80 points.
Only now, there seems to be a first big group of TEs that do not
produce considerably differently. This group include Austin Hooper
at the top and TE17 Mark Andrews at the bottom. As Andrews scored
just about the same amount of points as Kenny Golladay as WR40,
TEs18+ shouldn’t see the starting lineups if not for a bye week or an
injury.

TE scoring is driven by yards and receptions for the most part
(~60%). Receiving TDs & 1st downs account for about another 30%
which leaves the 50 yards bonus at the back end of contributors. It is
much more important to have a TE that is targeted often, on third
down and in the red zone than one who occasionally has big time
catches.

Draft Strategies
I divided the 12 teams into 3 groups based on their draft spot and
based on our analysis we suggest the following draft strategies:

Tone setters - Draft Spot 1-4
Go get yourself that elite RB, you don’t want them to fall intos the
waiting arms of your chasers in spots 5-8. The drop off after RB4 is
considerable which raises their value just over the elite TEs as RBs
simply score more than TEs do. On the back end of the 2nd round,
the elite TEs and WRs will be gone but you might be able to snag a
tier 2 WR, Matt Ryan or a tier 2 QB with upside such as Mayfield,
Watson or Luck. If the WRs are gone, getting a tier 2 TE or even 2
QBs might be an option.

Chasers - Draft Spot 5-8
To me, there is only one option for those spots: Pick any QB that is
named Patrick Mahomes or any TE that is named Travis Kelce, Zach
Ertz or George Kittle. Yes, elite TEs and QBs are worth more than
elite WRs. in the middle of the 2nd round, you should look for the
best available WR or RB, you might find some gems here.

Garbage-Truck-Guys - Draft Sport 9-12
You take advantage of anything you can get your hands on that
those in front of you didn’t value! Most likely, the elite WRs
(Hopkins, Hill, Jones) will still be on the board and you can pair
them with one of the RB5-RB8 group (Conner, Gordon, Mixon) that
are able to stick their head out of the crowd before the RBs get
easily substitutional.

3. Charity Procedure
                         By Christian Waechter
                  Fantasy Football Lover and Lawyer
                               @Waechti

The entry fee is minimum 10 Euro. At the end of season, the winner
of the EFFC can chose the recipient of the price pool.
We must make some compromises this year. These are mainly
necessary because of lack of time and legal reasons. Sadly, it is not
that easy to raise money.

So:
  • We must use PayPal for this year
  • It will not be possible to give you a donation recipe through
    PayPal

But we will provide full transparency about the donation process at
the end of the year. We do not want to give the winner any limitation
to which charity he can give the money, but we must make sure, that
it is charity at all.
So, we recommend, that the winner will choose an institution, that is
known and legit.
We already started to find a better way in 2020.
Please use the PayPal Account Joergen.Walch@gmx.de for your
entry fee.

Thanks for your understanding.

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