FantasySharks.com provides a unique twist to standard fantasy football league play, by providing tournament style leagues for fantasy football owners. Tournament style changes the game as you advance or retreat in rank based on your performance year over year. A good performance propels you into a higher and more difficult bracket, for failure, you are dropped to a lower bracket. Have you ever wondered if you’re good enough to slug it out with the very best? Now you can find out. The best teams across all leagues will move up until they reach the pinnacle, The Great White Shark League. The Great White Shark League is the most advanced fantasy football league in existence because it is made up of only proven league champions in this hobby. Only the cream of the cream will make it to the top. Are you good enough?

FantasySharks.com in conjunction with myfantasyleague.com, provides for the Shark Leagues, for FREE! The Showcase Leagues (Great White and two Whale Shark Leagues) will contain two FantasySharks.com staff members, the FantasySharks.com Coach (TM) virtual owner, and nine members that have earned their spot in the leagues.

The leagues are tiered like so:

In compliance with the COPPA act you must be over the age of 13 to participate. By joining a shark league you affirm that you are over the age of 13.

At the top of the League Ladder is the Great White Shark League. The champion of the Great White Shark Showcase League each year is the FantasySharks.com site champion! One tier below the Great White Shark League are the two Whale Shark Leagues, then come the four Hammerhead Shark Leagues, and so on. League assignments will be sent out via Email every July and an announcement that will remain up each preseason will be made at FantasySharks.com. If an owner does not respond, they can be replaced. Placement in pay leagues will be random, giving everyone who signs up a chance at the higher Shark leagues (like the Hammerhead Shark League.) League placement will occur approximately 3 weeks before the start of the season. Once you have attained a spot in the leagues, YOU will determine your own future! Here is how:

Each league, from the Great White Shark League to the Sand Shark Leagues, will operate under the same set of rules with playoffs and individual league championships. The champion and team that scored the most points through 13 weeks (the regular season) in each league will ascend the following season to the league directly above them in the league ladder. In the case where the champion and total points winner is the same team, then the championship runner-up will advance as well. The bottom 4 in the league will descend.

Should openings in leagues occur due to any reason such as withdrawal or expulsion due to a dead beat owner (no activity), those spots will be filled from the league directly below them.

We reserve the right to increase the amount of leagues to accommodate demand by adding additional tiers.

FantasySharks.com staff positions in the Shark Showcase Leagues are static. They are in place to provide a high quality blockade for anyone good enough to make it. Site owner Tony 'The Prognosticator' Holm will always have the defending site champion in his division unless the champ is a FantasySharks.com staff member.

The champion and total points winner of each Whale Shark League will move up the ladder to the Great White Shark League replacing four teams from the Great White Shark League that will be dropping down to the Whale Shark Leagues due to poor performance.

The bottom four in the Great White Shark League will be determined first by seeing which non-staff teams did not make the playoffs, if it is four, then they all drop. In the unlikely event that it is less than four, that means a non-staff playoff team will have to drop down as well and that will be the one making the quickest exit from the playoffs. Should there be more than one, then ties between those teams will be broken by regular season winning percentage, followed by regular season total points, and then head-to-head winning percentage. Ties beyond that will be a coin flip.

If more than four non-staff teams miss the playoffs in the Great White Shark League, then they will be ranked from worst winning percentage to best, with the bottom four descending. Should there be a tie in winning percentage, that will be settled first by total points, and then head-to-head winning percentage between those involved in the tie. Ties beyond that will be a coin flip.

Please note that these tie-breakers apply to ascending/descending teams only, tie breakers for making the playoffs in the individual leagues are as outlined below.

Where applicable, to determine the top two and bottom four teams to move up and down the ladder:

1) The teams that descend will be the bottom four non-playoff teams in each league determined by worst winning percentage and then lowest total points. Ties after that will be broken by head-to-head winning percentage. After that, ties will be broken by a coin flip.

2) There will be two teams that ascend from every league. The League Champion, and the team with the highest regular season total points through 13 weeks. Please note that the total points winner does not have to make the playoffs to advance. Should there be a tie for that spot, first overall winning percentage, and then head-to-head winning percentage will be followed, and after that will be a coin flip. In the case where the League Champion is also the league total points winner, the runner up in the championship game will move up.

Once we announce the leagues, a draft date will be set for each. It will be an online draft, with a 12 hour window to make your selection. Last season drafts took an average of 8 days to complete. Drafts will be handled in the usual myfantasyleague.com format, and owners will be responsible for familiarizing themselves with it. It is easy, and explained well by the host. Missed picks will not be forfeited, but instead will default to your preset-rankings, and should you fail to do that, then the myfantasyleague.com pre-rankings. Of course, picking for yourself is encouraged, it is faster, and makes for a better team, so if you sign up, don’t be a slouch, and make your own picks! Myfantasyleague.com has an excellent pre-selector function, and use of it is encouraged, especially if you anticipate being away from the keyboard for an extended period of time.

After twelve hours on the clock a team forfeits it right to draft in that round and the missed pick will result in an auto pick being made in accordance with myfantasyleague.com pre-ranked autodrafter. In addition, the missed pick will activate the autodrafter and it will no longer wait twelve hours, and instead will immediately make each and every pick for the offending team. For the remainder of the draft, the offender must create pre-draft lists to have their pick be selected instead of the myfantasyleague Average Draft Position auto selection.

Showcase league participants are expected to comment on their draft selections as they draft, using software provided by FantasySharks.com.

Rosters will be 16, with 1 QB, 2 RB, 2 WR, 1 TE, 1 K and 1 D your starting roster. There are no roster position limitations, and no roster requirements.