Last season I introduced this brand-new, one-of-its kind fantasy football league to the world.
It’s be based off the popular television series, ‘Survivor.’
We will start with 16 teams and play until Week 17.
Essentially, there will be no traditional matchups during this, instead, playing for a reward and an immunity challenge each and every week.
I guess to better understand this league, I’ll break it down in relation to the television show and how it’ll work.
Scoring Format
To begin, we’ll go over the standard fantasy football aspects of this league. It’ll be a redraft league with a live draft taking place at an agreed upon date and time.
Roster sports will work as followed:
Quaterback - 1
Runningback - 2
Wide Reciever - 2
Tight End - 1
Flex (RB/WR/TE) - 2
The scoring will be full point PPR (point per reception) and due to it being a 16 man league, will not be superflex or tight end premium. Easy enough.
Waivers will work in response to the results of the weekly challenges. Most weeks, the winning tribe(s) will have waiver wire priority. From there, it’ll be the reverse order of season long points for. To clear things up, say the winning tribe has seven members. The lowest season long points for the members of that tribe will get first priority and so on until each of the winning tribe members are listed. The same will then take place for the losing tribe.
Tribal Council
Instead of playing in a traditional head-to-head matchup and although the app we will use (Sleeper) will put you in a head-to-head matchup each week and keep track of your overall record, we will disregard that, each week the league (or those who remain) will vote out a team.
This will take place over the course of Tuesdays, following the completion of Monday Night Football.
Each week, a team will be voted out of the league as voted on by the ‘tribe.’ I, as the host, will post in the league general chat stating that voting is open and set a deadline. Each member of the league will cast their vote to me via DM and whoever received the most votes will be removed from the league.
In the event of a voting tie, the tiebreaker will serve as whomever had the higher points for in the previous week (the week prior to the voting.)
Once voted out, the team that was removed will move to ‘Castaway Island’ where they will have a chance to play themselves back into the league.
Castaway Island
Whoever is voted out week one will remain idle until someone is voted out in week two. Following week two, those two ‘castaway’ teams will go head-to-head with the winner (highest score for the week) will remain on castaway island with the other team being removed for good.
Each week up to and including Week 5, the ‘castaways’ will play head-to-head of whomever won the previous ‘castaway’ matchup and whomever was the next voted out. Following the conclusion of Week 5, whoever remains the winner of the ‘Castaway Island’ will rejoin the league and compete with the remaining teams starting Week 6.
The ‘Castaway Island’ process will then repeat itself starting with whomever was voted out in Week 5 and play though Week 9. Same process, week-by-week basis. The winner of the previous ‘Castaway’ matchup plays whoever was voted out the week prior. After Week 9 and starting Week 10, whoever won the ‘Castaway Island’ will rejoin the league.
That will be the last chance to play in. If you were on ‘Castaway Island’ the first five weeks and failed to make it out, you are done for good.
Winner
Unlike the television show with those voted out voting on a winner at the end of the season, it will be whoever of the remaining two teams that wins the week 17 head-to-head claiming the title.
Immunity Idol
This is simple. Whoever has the most points for each and every week will receive the immunity idol and therefore cannot be voted out in that week’s tribal council. This idol cannot be transferred to another player/team once won.
Reward Challenges
There will be no reward in Week 1 as it’ll be the week prior that grants the reward.
Each week I will determine a ‘challenge’ (example: highest scoring starting RB duo.)
The rewards challenge will be rewarded the following week of your victory. For example, if you win the reward challenge in Week 1, the reward will be granted for Week 2.
Rewards will be announced with the challenge given each week. Rewards can be anything from 20-added fantasy points for the upcoming week or ability to remove a player from an opponent's lineup. Something like that to give a leg up.
Hidden Immunity Idols
Prior to the start of the season, I (as the host) will develop a preset list of hidden immunity idol challenges. It could be anywhere from an exact amount of rushing yards by a player or four touchdowns scored.
If your player or team achieves one of these preset challenges, you’ll be granted a hidden immunity idol. The idol can be played just once and must be told to me via DM prior to the start of tribal council that you are playing it.
If you play the hidden immunity idol and you receive the most votes at tribal council, those votes placed on you will be voided and the person with the next highest number of votes will be voted out.
If a hidden immunity idol is played and all votes are cast for one player/team, we will revote. If a hidden immunity idol is played and there is a tie for the next highest vote totals, it’ll default back to the original tribal council rule where the higher points scored in the week prior will be safe.
Buy-In
This league will require a small buy-in of $20 to keep players interested season long and the league and concept competitive. It’ll also offer incentive for players to continue and incentivize the work that will be put into this league.
Buy-ins will be placed on League Safe.
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