2020 Announcements

Welcome back, boys. Unless you’re Qualley or Austin. In your case, just welcome. Qualley and Austin have been invited to join the big leagues, as IFL veterans Brat10 & Anton have, for now, retired. Their exodus now makes Brady the lowest winning percentage active coach in the league. A move that I hope they smile upon as they enjoy their retirement.

The IFL Draft will take place on Sunday, September 6th at 12:30 PM CT. Naturally, it will be done remotely via Zoom this year.

Draft order selections will be made in the coming days. Stay tuned.

As is now tradition, the competition for Best Team Name will now commence. For Qualley & Austin’s sake, here’s the rules:

• The day after the draft a poll will be posted to vote for best team name based on these criteria: creativity, originality, comedic value, and poignancy

• An appropriate team logo image must be included to qualify, and it's quality and relevance will also factor in to the above vote

• Coach with most votes will get to submit 3 (or more) punishment ideas for the league's vote, one of which will be inflicted on the team that comes in last place at the conclusion of the season. Punishments will be non-permanent to the victim, approved by the commissioner prior to submittal, and intended to inflict maximum embarrassment. The submitted punishment ideas will then be voted upon by the entire league, and the last place team must comply or else be banished from the league for all eternity.

And to give a sense of where the bar has been set, here are our past winners:

2017 Best Team Name

BRADY
TC'S SICK FANTASIES

Much like the rings of Middle-earth, it is said IFL championship rings carry their own curious powers. Hot off his 2016 IFL Championship, Brady divined a team name so darkly comedic, that it trumped all other contenders. His ring, I fear, was the source of this darkness, and I personally worry for his long-term mental health. Nevertheless, the peers agreed, and TC's SICK Fantasies took the freaking cake for the 2017 Best Team Name. 

2018 Best Team Name

DREW
SLICK RICK & THE FIREPOLES

Drew said in his wedding speech, that Rick “taught me how to be a man”. But the bigger reality is, Rick taught us all how to be a man. Even if you’ve never met the guy, just the mere image of him, holding his catch like an aquatic trophy, barely allowing himself any outwardly sign of happiness, you know what a man should look like. We all want to be like Rick, and in that way, we are the firepoles. Rick’s teenage funk-punk band name carried Drew to Best Team Name 2018

2019 Best Team Name

DREW
bRETT’S REGRETS

Drew wasn’t able to repeat in the IFL Superbowl, but he did manage back-to-back titles in Best Team Name with his “Big Brett”-centric team, capitalizing on the gummy bear theme from the 2019 draft party that Big Brett had popularized, and pulling off some appropriately apt photoshop work, it was an easy choice for the league.

2020 Iowa Fantasy League Invitation

Dear sir,

With Trump actively undermining the U.S. postal service, I cannot rely on sending out formal invitations to the Iowa Fantasy League by mail this year, so this will have to suffice.

Last year, the man that started off his IFL career 0-8, TC, found championship glory in Lamar Jackson. This year, he will look to be the first coach to ever wear two rings. After his residency with Aaron, god knows he has the shoulders to carry such a load.

Despite the fact that the season may very likely be delayed or cancelled or just plain weird with COVID19, we're moving forward tentatively, and we thought, while we're at it, why not throw in another grenade in the mix, and add IDP (individual defensive players) this season. We're going to start by adding a single defensive linemen, linebacker, defensive back, and a flex IDP position (for a total of 4 new positions). On the offensive side, we're going to eliminate the 2nd flex position, since we'll have more strategy and point potential on the defensive side, creating more depth in the free agent pool. The DST position will remain unchanged.

The IDP scoring settings have been added to the Sleeper app, but to give you an idea, QBs and RBs remain the power positions, WRs remain deep, but LBs will be similar in scoring to WRs and are the stongest IDP position, with DL's & DB's most similar to TE's in scoring. The top IDP player of 2019 would have been Bobby Wagner w/ 274 points, and he would have been the 18th highest scorer overall last season.

The buy-in is the same as last year’s, $60. With 16 owners, that makes the total prize pool $960. The 2020 payout structure will be as follows:

Place Awards
Champion = $342
Runner-Up = $70
3rd Place = $10
Division Winner = $28
Wild Card = $7
Season Awards
Pick 'Em Champ = $25
The Bounty = $20
Regular Season Champ = $15

Weekly Awards
Highest Scoring Team = $15
Highest Scoring Player = $7

Please let me know whether you intend to participate as soon as possible and send a minimum of $20 by September 1st via mail to the address above or PayPal to zrhodes3@gmail.com or Venmo @ZachRhodes3.

Godspeed in our 7th season of the Iowa Fantasy League, we will all need it.

The Commissioner