Add, Drop and Swap to put together your best starting lineup
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Now rank your fantasy starters in tiers
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Enjoy Gameday: View your Head-to-Head Matchup for this week
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See if your tier rankings paid off or hurt your team
How It Works
With the rise of the Internet and the popularity of content creators growing,
the phenomenon of rankings entities into tiers using a colored tier list is now
a popular way to make categorizations based on opinion or fact,
then sharing the results with the rest of the world.
The tier rankings start with the supreme S tier and then the other ranks are
identified using the letters A-F (for this
game, we'll use A-D). Read here if you are unfamiliar with the tier ranking craze.
Each week, all of your starting roster slots (QB1, RB1, RB2, WR1, WR2, TE1, FLEX, K1 and DFST1)
are randomly associated with various tier rankings, which you can then adjust based on the
players you have in your starting slots and how well you think they'll perform.
The effect of each ranking tier is described below:
S tier (1 slot)
+100% bonus applied to fantasy point total (points doubled!)
A tier (2 slots)
+50% bonus applied to fantasy point total
B tier (2 slots)
normal fantasy point totals
C tier (2 slots)
25% is deducted from fantasy point total
D tier (2 slots)
75% is deducted from fantasy point total
Each roster slot must be
assigned to a single tier ranking at all times. The S tier can only have one roster slot assigned to
it while all others must have two assigned to them. Specifically, there are 9 total rankings assignments for the 9 total starting
slots. Setting up your tier rankings looks like this:
So which players on your roster do you really believe in? Check player matchups, shoot from the hip and
hope for the best!
NOTE: Tier rankings do not carry over from week to week and reset
randomly at the start of each fantasy week. The
deadline for setting tier ranking is the start of the first NFL game of
the week (usually Thursday night). Once the deadline passes, all tier rankings are locked and you can see your opponent's
tier rankings (and vice vera).
Championship Prize:
The Lancelot Cup
Regal and breathtaking, the Lancelot Cup
will go to deserving owners who persevere over the course of a long fantasy season.
Named after the legendary Sir Lancelot, this award features
eye-catching rubies and an exquisite golden finish. This award is for owners who have mastered
their roster and tier rankings, a feat that can turn a common knight into a royal leader.
This is a fitting prize for what many consider to be the most daring of all Sir Football
game modes. It's certainly the one that requires the most adaptation, as fantasy owners need
to consider their roster carefully and hit on a high number of their tier rankings to
consistently topple their opponents. A Lancelot winner must act with bravery and
instinct while maximizing all fantasy football knowledge available to them.
Why Play Tier Lord:
You'll become immersed in the tier ranking choices that you need to make.
With timely and informed choices, you can overcome a talent deficit.
You can cheer when your opponent makes a horrible tier ranking choice.
You can capitalize on favorable fantasy matchups and rack up big points.
You can assign the D tier to fantasy players that are frustrating you.
You've already watched too many videos of people doing tier rankings on breakfast cereals, the Led Zeppelin discography and fast food restaurants.
League Rules
Read the rules specific to this game mode.
League Size: 12 teams
Scoring Mode: Standard or Points Per Reception (PPR).
Standard is the default.
League Structure:
Two Divisions, with 6 teams in each division
Teams play opponents in both divisions during the regular season
Division winner, and playoff seeding is determined by:
Highest regular season win-loss percentage
(tiebreaker) Highest regular season point total
(second tiebreaker) Best regular season point differential (points scored - points allowed)
Emerald Division winner is awarded the #1 seed, while the Topaz Division winner is awarded the #2 seed
Robo League Rules:
Robo Leagues do not have a commissioner
Trades are not allowed
Many Robo Leagues are created near June 1 of each year with designated draft dates/times.
Draft dates/times range from the end of July to the Tuesday right before the first regular season NFL game (early September).
Every Robo League will draft at the listed time no matter how many human owners have joined.
Unowned/Unclaimed teams are deemed Robo Teams and are controlled by computer logic
A Sir Football user can only own one team per Robo League
A Sir Football user can own teams in up to 6 Robo leagues.
Users are permitted to leave the league at any time before and during the fantasy regular season. When a user leaves, the team
is vacated and becomes a Robo Team. Any pending waiver claims or deferred replacement transactions the user
had in-progress are cancelled.
During the regular season from NFL Weeks 1-14, if a Sir Football user has not made any
discernible team updates (rename team, change avatar,
swap players on roster, add player, drop player, change spell, select pennant, make Double Down pick, change Pick'em
selections, modify tier rankings) in the last 21 days, server administration reserves the right to remove ownership
from the user of that team and transfer control to Robo Team logic. This is done to help keep leagues competitive and
allow other users who would be active and engaged in the game to claim that team.
Robo teams are identified by a r- prefix to their team abbreviation.
If the league has already drafted and has 1 or more Robo Teams, a user can
claim a Robo Team and take control of it. The Robo Team assigned to the user from the Robo League is chosen arbitrarily.
The user is not allowed to inspect the team's roster or win-loss record before control is assigned.
The period for claiming a team in Robo League is NFL Week 1-14. You cannot claim any team after the fantasy playoffs begin.
Schedule:
NFL Week 1-14: Fantasy regular season games with H2H (head-to-head) scheduling
NFL Week 15: Fantasy Playoffs week 1
Each Division winner receives a bye for this week.
#1 seed wildcard plays #4 seed wildcard (Wildcard Game 1)
#2 seed wildcard plays #3 seed wildcard (Wildcard Game 2)
All eliminated teams in league are matched against each other for leisure/exhibition play
NFL Week 16: Fantasy Playoffs week 2
Division #1 Winner plays winner of Wildcard Game 1 (Semifinal Game 1)
Division #2 Winner plays winner of Wildcard Game 2 (Semifinal Game 2)
All eliminated teams in league are matched against each other for leisure/exhibition play
NFL Week 17: Fantasy Championship
Semifinal Game 1 winner plays Semifinal Game 2 winner
All eliminated teams in league are matched against each other for leisure/exhibition play
Draft Rules:
Draft Rankings and ADP information:
Default draft rankings/order are based on ADP values loaded from our stats provider.
There are separate rankings/ADP for Standard and PPR scoring.
Updates to rankings/ADP occur at least once a week during the offseason/preseason. Updates won't occur
more than once a day.
When these updates occur they WILL NOT alter any of the rankings you have saved.
If you reset your rankings, you will start with the latest order available based on rankings/ADP.
In most cases, Robo Team draft selections will follow the rankings/ADP pretty closely.
There is some variance and logic for bye weeks also built in.
Once NFL Week 1 begins, rankings/ADP values will no longer be loaded. For the entirety of the NFL
regular season, the ADP values shown will be the final ones from the preseason.
A total of 15 players must be drafted.
The draft is executed in serpentine/snake fashion.
The draft order is determined randomly just prior to the draft room opening.
At this time, draft tools and interface are available only on laptop/PC. For best results, use a wide display and browser window.
The draft room opens 30 minutes prior to your league's schedule draft time. During this time, you can note the draft
order and place players in your draft queue in order to prepare.
A timer of 10 seconds is used for each Robo Team pick, and also for any user team who has Autopick mode turned on.
A timer of 30 seconds is granted for each user team to select a player when it is their turn. This includes human owners
who are "no-shows" for the live draft.
You can expect the online draft to take from 30 to 90 minutes. It will vary based on the number of human owners in the league
and how many users present are using close to their fully allotted 30 seconds for their picks.
If time expires for a user-owner team without a pick being made, an Autopick will be made based on:
Whether picking manually or on Autopick mode, all user and Robo Teams must conform to the following position rules by the end of the draft:
QB: Minimum of 1 player. Maximum of 3 players.
RB: Minimum of 3 players. Maximum of 7 players.
WR: Minimum of 3 players. Maximum of 7 players.
TE: Minimum of 1 player. Maximum of 4 players.
K: Minimum of 1 player. Maximum of 2 players.
DFST: Minimum of 1 player. Maximum of 2 players.
There is no "Chat" feature for draft rooms in Sir Football. People seeking to chat during league drafts are encouraged to make other
arrangements and utilize an external app (Slack, Discord, Zoom, etc)
Roster Positions: 9 starters, 15 total
QB1 [quarterback]
RB1 [runningback]
RB2 [runningback]
WR1 [wide receiver]
WR2 [wide receiver]
TE1 [tight end]
FLEX [runningback, wide receiver or tight end]
K1 [kicker]
DFST1 (Defense/Special Teams) [NFL team]
6 Bench slots[any combination of player positions post-draft]
Additional Notes on Rosters:
There are no IR slots
There are no "undroppable" players
All player designated positions are final at start of season and determined by our statistics provider.
Roster locks:
For roster slots (starting or bench) that are not empty, a roster spot is locked (indicated by lock symbol)
within a half hour prior to that player's NFL game kickoff time. Players are locked based solely on their NFL team affiliation.
Players that are designated inactive or on IR by their NFL team will also be locked.
After each NFL game completes, all related roster spots remain locked until Tuesday AM when scorecards are finalized. If there
is a player who did poorly and you wish to drop, you'll need to wait until after Tuesday AM to do so (unless you use the Deferred Replacement mechanic).
Players that are locked for whatever reason cannot be dropped or moved to other roster slots (including the bench).
NFL players on a bye week will not become locked during that week.
Roster slots (whether empty or populated with a player) that are associated with a pending waiver claim are locked and will remain so
until the waiver claim is cancelled, processed or unsuccessful.
Waivers:
Anytime a player is dropped from a roster, he is placed on waivers.
During the fantasy draft season (starting at end of July and concluding before NFL Week 1), waivers are processed twice a week on Tuesday and Thursday AM (approximately 9:30AM CST)
During NFL Week 1 - 17, waivers are processed twice a week: on Tuesday AM (approximately 9:30AM CST) and on Thursday AM (approximately 7:30AM CST).
Once on waivers, owners can submit a waiver claim for that player to fill a specific slot on their roster. If the waiver claim is successful,
the player occupying that spot will be dropped and placed on waivers (unless the roster slot was empty).
Once the waiver claim is submitted, the related position on the roster is Locked (marked with a lock symbol) until either:
Waivers are processed on Tue/Thu AM and that claim is processed or unsuccessful.
The waiver claim is cancelled by the owner.
If two or more teams have a claim on the same player, the following criteria is used to determine the waiver claim "winner":
Number of players the owner has already claimed, in priority order desired.
The total points scored in the season for the owner's fantasy team (not win-loss record).
After waivers are processed on Tue AM/Thu AM, you will receive a team memo informing you of the outcome
(successful or unsuccessful) of the waiver claim.
Players that had been placed on waivers but were not claimed are removed from waivers and are now first-come, first-serve free agents.
When adding a player via waivers with a roster slot in mind, the rules of the roster slot must be respected (for example,
you cannot add a kicker to fill your WR1 roster slot).
Robo Teams cannot claim players on waivers. But any players dropped by a Robo Team do go on waivers.
Deferred Replacement:
The Deferred Replacement mechanic is available from approximately 7:30AM CST on Thursday of each week through
approximately Tuesday 9:00AM CST.
Once performed, Deferred Replacement locks the applicable roster slot for the rest of the fantasy week and cannot be undone.
Deferred Replacement can be used to add a free agent or a player currently on waivers to a specific roster slot.
You can only use the mechanic on starting roster slots. Bench slots are not eligible for Deferred Replacement.
At approximately 9:30AM CST on Tuesday, Deferred Replacement actions will be executed. Any players to be dropped
via this mechanic will be dropped and placed on waivers. The player reserved via Deferred Replacement is then assigned
to the applicable roster slot, and the roster slot is unlocked.
If another team had a higher waiver claim for a player you were trying to add via Deferred Replacement,
the Deferred Replacement action will be discarded. The player originally occupying the roster slot (if any) will
not be dropped and instead will be retained.
When adding a player via Deferred Replacement and a given roster slot, the rules of the roster slot must be respected (for example,
you cannot add a kicker to fill your WR1 roster slot).
Robo Teams cannot use the Deferred Replacement mechanic.
All player scores, tabulations and team grand totals are rounded to two decimal points. The exceptions to this are Barstool Bingo
and Paydirt modes, which use whole numbers for their scoring.
Except for Barstool Bingo and Top Dog modes (which have their own tiebreaker rules in place) and Squid League (which is not head-to-head),
the following tiebreak rules are used in the event of a head to head tie:
The starting roster slots of each team are considered in order: QB1, RB1, RB2, WR1, WR2, TE1, FLEX, K1, DFST1.
Starting with QB1, the player grand totals of that starting roster slot from each team are compared. If one player grand total is higher
than the other, then the player with that team is named the winner and a +1 bonus is added to that team's grand total.
If the two teams' QB1 totals are also tied, the same comparison is made with RB1, and then the rest of the roster slots down
the line until a winning team can be determined.
League Scoring
Read scoring rules applicable to this game mode.
Scoring (game mode modifiers may also apply):
All fantasy point totals, averages, caliber and ranks shown in Sir Football are based on
half-PPR scoring.
