This year's Fantasy Bowl winners are: League I --- Hawaii 5-0 (Grant Yorita/John Troan) League II -- Chesapeake Bay Bombers (Scott Day) League III - Sunville SunJewel's (Keith Jones) Off-season matters -- - ALL ROSTERS ARE NOW LOCKED until February 15. Any transaction requests sent in before then will be rejected and returned. - If anyone has any rules proposals for the January Competition Committee E-meeting, send them in. I'll post them this week. The deadline for sub- missions is January 17, 2003, at 18:00 EST. The results will be posted Superbowl weekend, sooner if all votes are received before then. - If anyone won't be returning for the 2003 season, please let me know. - The 2003 draft order and schedules will be posted in February. A couple of the proposals could affect the 2003 draft order if passed. Now a comment on participation this season, especially in December. In accordance with Section 15 (last paragraph), several teams will be penal- ized for tossing in the proverbial towel and not trying to win their final games. Evidence of this is on the log of week-to-week activity with the RAFFLE offices -- which will be posted to the site as a .pdf -- and sub- mitting incomplete lineups, relative to the weekly lineups submitted during the season. (One owner chose not to have a HC on the roster all season and will not be penalized for not having one in the last few weeks of the season since the team didn't get those points during the season.) All owners to be penalized will be notified next week. (I want to get through New Year's week and complete a home computer project first.) Appeals will be accepted -- with a reason for why you're appealing -- until January 17 at 18:00 EST and will be voted by all owners in the *other* leagues during the following week, with 50% + 1 of the votes cast needed for a successful appeal. (Teams in the same league as the team appealing are not eligible to vote on that team's appeal, but will be able to vote on other teams' appeals.) My reason for doing this is an attempt to protect the integrity of the league. If I hear from enough owners who don't share this concern, I will drop enforcement of this rule and will submit a proposal to strike this text from the league rules. (I consider 20 owners "enough" to do this.) The updated FFLM files for all three leagues have been posted to my space on Vnet's web server. (Links to the files are on the RAFFLE home page.) Standings ~~~~~~~~~ 6: SunJewel's ------------------+ 6: SunJewel's 3: Fatboys +------------------+ ------------------+ + 8: Little Giants 7: Dream Team +------------------+ ------------------+ 5: Dachshunds + + 2: Dust Bunnies +------------------+ + ------------------+ + 6: SunJewel's 5: Dachshunds +-------------------- ------------------+ 8: Little Giants + 4: Patriots +------------------+ + ------------------+ + 6: SunJewel's + 8: Little Giants +------------------+ ------------------+ 2: Bruins + 1: Wildcats +------------------+ ------------------+ Results ~~~~~~~ Little Giants ( 78) Sunville SunJewel's ( 93) Lynn Dachshunds ( 47) Dust Bunnies ( 72) Dream Team ( 64) Frankfort Fatboys ( 62) Dalton Patriots ( 65) Gamblin' Wildcats ( 81) Green Woodpeckers ( 87) Bills ( 64) Killers ( 88) Tel Aviv Breakdancers( 62) Waiver Wire ~~~~~~~~~~~ FFL ------------Dropped------------ -------------Added------------- TM TM Pos Player TM Pos Player ~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2 Arz RB Damien Anderson Arz QB Jake Plummer Trades ~~~~~~ None this week. Waiver Wire Windows ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rosters are locked until Feb 15, 2003. Next Week's Games ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2003 schedule to be posted in February. NFL schedule should be posted in April.