Setting Up Your Scoring System
MyFantasyLeague.com offers a number of ways for you to define your scoring rules for your league. You can do any of the following:
1. Use our Online Scoring System Setup utility to define your league rules.
Go to the For Commissioners > Setup > Scoring Setup > Custom Scoring System Setup
screen.
2. Use one of the many 'standard' scoring rule sets that have been defined.
Go to the For Commissioners > Setup > Scoring Setup > Select A Packaged Scoring System
screen and select one of the following:
| • | Copy league scoring rules from this 2008 League ID: xxxxx |
3. Use our offline FFLM configuration utility to define your league rules and then upload the results to your online league.
In order to utilize this tool, please perform the following steps:
1. Download* the install file to your PC's hard drive. Click here: FFLM
Version 9.0 (2/1/2009)
2. Run the downloaded file (fflmsetup.exe) on your PC to install the setup tool.
3. Double-click on the new FFLM icon on your desktop to run the setup tool program.
4. Create a new league (File > New League) or open an existing FFLM league (File > Open League).
5. Create the customized scoring rules data for your league.
6. Go to File > Exchange With MyFantasyLeague... to enter your 5-digit league ID, commissioner password, and click on the Verify League & Password button.
7. Click on the Export tab, then the "Transfer the Scoring Rules" button to upload your custom rules to your MyFantasyLeague.com league.
*Note: Mac & Web-TV users cannot use this PC-based program.
4. Send an email to our technical support department to have them define your scoring rules for your league.
In order to have us define your 2009 MFL scoring rules for your league, please ensure the following:
1. You have placed your order for your 2009 online league using the $$Purchase League$$ option on your home page. This option will disappear from 'For Commissioners' menu once your league has been purchased.
2. You've gone to For Commissioners > Setup > Players & Rosters > Starting Lineup Setup
and verified that you've properly chosen the correct scoring positions for your league.
3. You know your 5-digit league ID for 2009 (the last 5 digits of your home page web address/URL).
4. You have verified that your rules are supported
.
5. You have FINALIZED your scoring rules with your league. Please do not send us a request if your league might want to make changes in the near future.
6. You have defined your list of rules in a format similar to this SAMPLE
Once you've met the above criteria, please contact us via our online support form with your formatted rules. We'll update them for you within five (5) days.
Testing Your Scoring System
When your league's rules have been defined, the system flags your league to calculate your defined scoring rules against the 2008 statistical data. Depending on when you complete the rules, this process may take up to a few hours. Check on the results by using the Reports > Players > Top Performers/Player Stats
report for your league.
Now you can click on any of the links corresponding to the weekly points for a given player. For example, by clicking on the "24" for Payson Manning's week 1 point total, the system will explode this total into the specific rules and points as shown below:
From this you can determine that he scored 12 points for 256 yards passing, 12 points for 2 TDs thrown, 1 point for 18 rushing yards, and -1 point for a single interception thrown. Hopefully this is exactly what you expect to find. If it isn't, go to the Reports > Rules > League Scoring report to determine how your rules are actually defined:
In this example, the QB is awarded 1 points for every 20 yards passing. For 256 (from 240-259) yards, he receives exactly 12 points. Note that the other point awards checks out as well.
Repeat this process with multiple players at every position to ensure that your rules are, in fact, defined exactly the way you want them to be defined. A little extra effort before the season starts might save you unnecessary frustration if you have to determine why the points are off in week 1 for your league.
Statistics Lifecycle & Special Plays
On occasion, an statistics and/or scoring issue might arise that is less than clear for your league. For this reason we've created a couple of documents to aid in how MyFantasyLeague works with statistics, stat changes, special plays and other related information.
Statistics Lifecycle
- review this document to learn about live scoring results, preliminary & final weekly results, official NFL stat changes, and an overview of special plays.
Special Plays - read this document to learn how MyFantasyLeague.com scores unique plays that your league may not have addressed in your league scoring.
