It's a FREE game where each week you try to pick which NFL Team(s) will have the most Passing Yards, most Russing Yards, most Points Scored, and fewest Points Allowed. You can use the same or different teams for each category, but can't use the same team two weeks in a row.

You create a "fantasy team" which accumulates stats from your picks, and your team's totals are compared to those of other teams. At the end of the season, the player with the best overall ranking - wins a youth size NFL jersey.

Did we mention it's FREE?

This league is an accumulated stats league for beginning football fans, designed to stimulate their interest in the NFL, sports statistics, and fantasy sports in general.

The league commissioner tracks statistics in four categories: 

• Points Scored,
• Points Allowed,
• Yards Gained by Passing (team net yardage... yards lost from Sacks are subtracted from the quarterbacks' totals), and
• Yards Gained by Rushing.

The players' fantasy teams use the statistics from real NFL teams in each of those categories. After each week, the fantasy teams' totals in those categories will be updated. The overall standings are determined by the ranking the teams' accumulated totals in each category and adding those rankings together:
Points Allowed is ranked fom fewest to most, while the three other categories are ranked from most to least.
Each week the team totals and possibly the rankings will change, and at the end of the 17 week NFL season, the winning rotisserie team wil be the team with the lowest TOTAL ranking.

There is no head-to-head scoring or playoffs.

Each week of the NFL season, a player must choose the team to represent them in each category (the same team may be used for more than one category). For example: 

These selections must be mailed to jrcommish@turnleftatthecorner.com by 11:59 PM EST on SATURDAY of each week. (Note: if there is a Thursday game, be sure you send your picks in early if you plan to use one of those teams!!!)

 Please be sure to put your FANTASY TEAM NAME and THE WEEK NUMBER the selections are to be used for in your email.  You may submit your selections in advance, and you can change your choices until the 11:59 EST deadline.  All decisions of punctuality of submissions (whether or not you make it in before the deadline) are made by the commissioner and not subject to debate or discussion.

 After all the games that week have been played, the stats will be updated.
 There is one very important rule regarding selections:  see below.

YES!!!!
As stated before, you can use one team for all four categories, or you can use multiple teams to accumulate your statistics.
However, YOU CANNOT USE THE SAME TEAM IN A CATEGORY TWO WEEKS IN A ROW.
Let's look back at our earlier example:

• Cindy might choose to use the San Diego Chargers for Points Scored and Yards Gained by Rushing, but use the Arizona Cardinals for Passing Yards and the New York Giants for Points Scored. There is no problem with her using the Chargers for two categories. However, when she makes her selections for the next week - she cannot use the Chargers for Points Scored or Rushing Yards. She CAN use the Chargers for either of the other two categories, and she can use the Chargers for Points Scored and/or Rushing Yards in two weeks, but each week a different team must be used for each spot.
• Similarly, Brian (who picked the Patriots for all four categories in the example) could not use the Patriots for any of his categories the next week, but could use the Patriots the week after that.
  
• And Hector could use the same four teams if he wished, but he could not use the same teams for the same stat category two weeks in a row.

If a deadline is missed or if a team is used in consecutive weeks for a particular category, the player will earn points as follows:

The game is free.  FREE!
Junior Rotisserie Football is made possibly by a generous donation from J2 Content LLC, and is offered free to to the community.

The player with the best overall ranking at the end of the season will win a youth sized JERSEY (!!!) from their favorite NFL team. (you pick the team, we pick the player - but we'll work with you)

The season begins Thursday, September 10, 2009 so you want to sign up before then, but late signups are allowed (see below).

Actually, it did NOT start yet, so you are fine. But, if you end up waiting too long and decide you want to join the fun AFTER September 3, then you should email the commish at jrcommish@turnleftatthecorner.com to let him know you are interested right away. We will review late signups on a case-by-case basis. Players allowed to join late will be identified with an asterix, "*" at the end of their team name and will be awarded adjusted scores as if they had forgotten to submit picks.

With some luck and smart selections, you can join late and still be a top finisher in the game - but why wait?  Sign up now and join the fun!