Rules & Setup
Introduction
For those who have participated in the first 3 seasons of PFCL, things should sound familiar. Even copied most of the information from last season. For those who are new to the league, let me try to explain.
Punters Fantasy Cycling League let's a manager select his team through a draft system before the start of the season. The team has to consist of 15 cyclists. This team will score points as the riders are in the top 15 result of a race from the calendar. So far a regular kind of prediction game. However the league part is what makes it interesting; the races are grouped together in rounds or match-days. This creates a fixture where teams are matched-up and can score 2 points for a victory or 1 point for a draw. These results of the fixtures are summarized in the league table.
Pricepool
The entrance fee will be £15 per team of which roughly £1 goes into admin fee, to cover the currency swaps and PayPal transaction fee's, and the rest goes in the price pool.
If we have 30 teams participating we'll have this price-pool distribution;
Draft
Everyone will start with $1500 as their budget. Their will be multiple round in the drafting and this will go on until all the teams are full. You can bid for up to 10 riders in each round. You can not spend more money in the draft than the remaining budget. The whole drafting process will be explained in detail in the following post. All drafts will be done via email or in special occasions via DM on Twitter.
Draft Deadlines
The deadlines for each round of auctions will be as follows, I stress these are deadlines, you can submit your bids way in advance:
This should get all the bidding done by the time the season starts (first race will be 11th of January) and should give people time to consider their bids and not have to rush making any decisions. I will try to get the results out by the end of the day or following morning at the latest. I also will send out the list of players that have joined each team and information on the remaining budget for each manager. I know we have managers from various difference time zones so all these timings are in Amsterdam time GMT+1,
Do have a good think about your draft bidding strategies, there are plenty of articles about fantasy draft bidding, most for nfl but the same principles apply.
Redraft
During the season we'll have re-draft windows. This will start with the option for teams to release riders and get half their value refunded in return. After this I will make the team overview including budgets and the free-agentlist. The re-draft will start after this with every 2 days a round until all teams are full again. After every 10 matchups there will be a re-draft scheduled. Deadlines and detail will be posted here in due time. In the fixtures it will also show when the redrafted teams will count in the scoring.
Calendar
The calendar will consist of all UCI races *.1+ races for man and *.2+ for women, excluding TTT's and will and be to grouped into the rounds or match-days. The total calendar and the consisting of the rounds or match-days will be here as well. The UCI calendar is still under construction, but as it looks now on http://www.uci.ch/road/calendar/ we'll have around 85 women's and 200 men's races grouped into 58 rounds.
Points
The cyclist will score points according to race-type and Classification listed below, TTT's are excluded.
For those who have participated in the first 3 seasons of PFCL, things should sound familiar. Even copied most of the information from last season. For those who are new to the league, let me try to explain.
Punters Fantasy Cycling League let's a manager select his team through a draft system before the start of the season. The team has to consist of 15 cyclists. This team will score points as the riders are in the top 15 result of a race from the calendar. So far a regular kind of prediction game. However the league part is what makes it interesting; the races are grouped together in rounds or match-days. This creates a fixture where teams are matched-up and can score 2 points for a victory or 1 point for a draw. These results of the fixtures are summarized in the league table.
Pricepool
The entrance fee will be £15 per team of which roughly £1 goes into admin fee, to cover the currency swaps and PayPal transaction fee's, and the rest goes in the price pool.
If we have 30 teams participating we'll have this price-pool distribution;
- 1st £150, 2nd £75 and 3rd £50 of the League-table
- Overall top points scoring team: £50
- TDF top points scoring team: £45
- Giro top points scoring team: £25
- Vuelta top points scoring team: £25
Draft
Everyone will start with $1500 as their budget. Their will be multiple round in the drafting and this will go on until all the teams are full. You can bid for up to 10 riders in each round. You can not spend more money in the draft than the remaining budget. The whole drafting process will be explained in detail in the following post. All drafts will be done via email or in special occasions via DM on Twitter.
Draft Deadlines
The deadlines for each round of auctions will be as follows, I stress these are deadlines, you can submit your bids way in advance:
- 1st draft - 18:59 CET on the 2nd of January 2018
- 2nd draft - 18:59 CET on the 4th of January 2018
- 3rd draft - 18:59 CET on the 6th of January 2018
- 4th draft - 18:59 CET on the 8th of January 2018
- 5th draft - 18:59 CET on the 9th of January 2018
- 6th draft - 18:59 CET on the 10th of January 2018
This should get all the bidding done by the time the season starts (first race will be 11th of January) and should give people time to consider their bids and not have to rush making any decisions. I will try to get the results out by the end of the day or following morning at the latest. I also will send out the list of players that have joined each team and information on the remaining budget for each manager. I know we have managers from various difference time zones so all these timings are in Amsterdam time GMT+1,
Do have a good think about your draft bidding strategies, there are plenty of articles about fantasy draft bidding, most for nfl but the same principles apply.
Redraft
During the season we'll have re-draft windows. This will start with the option for teams to release riders and get half their value refunded in return. After this I will make the team overview including budgets and the free-agentlist. The re-draft will start after this with every 2 days a round until all teams are full again. After every 10 matchups there will be a re-draft scheduled. Deadlines and detail will be posted here in due time. In the fixtures it will also show when the redrafted teams will count in the scoring.
Calendar
The calendar will consist of all UCI races *.1+ races for man and *.2+ for women, excluding TTT's and will and be to grouped into the rounds or match-days. The total calendar and the consisting of the rounds or match-days will be here as well. The UCI calendar is still under construction, but as it looks now on http://www.uci.ch/road/calendar/ we'll have around 85 women's and 200 men's races grouped into 58 rounds.
Points
The cyclist will score points according to race-type and Classification listed below, TTT's are excluded.