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Win $30,000 In The 2023 NFFC Best Ball Championship

Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2023 12:45 pm
by Greg Ambrosius
It's the same great game, but it has a new name!!!

That's right, the NFFC Draft Champions National Championship is now called the NFFC Best Ball National Championship because that's exactly what this contest is. It's a Best Ball National Championship with over 3,000 teams all competing for the same $30,000 grand prize. These are 12-team, 34-round drafts that pay the Top 3 in each league and also the Top 20 overall.

When we first started this national contest it was called Draft Champions, because obviously the best drafter in a Best Ball format will be the winner. This format was actually first known as Draft Masters and was started by the WCOFF, so Draft Champions became almost synonymous with that format.

But now everyone knows what Best Ball is and it just makes sense to follow suit and call this the NFFC Best Ball National Championship. It is now ordained with that name.

And already we're off to a rousing start. We opened the draft room for these leagues days after Week 18 of the NFL season and we already have finished drafts and more going off now. This is the third straight year for the $30,000 grand prize and we'd love to get that prize and the entire overall prize pool up higher in years ahead. I think we'll top 3,000 teams again this year and we'll add to the overall prize pool if we go well beyond that. Thanks all and enjoy.

Once again we are offering 4-Hour, 2-Hour, 1-Hour and even 30-Minute Draft Champions Leagues, along with nightly Express leagues. The clock will again automatically go in half for the 4-Hour and 2-Hour DCs starting in Round 21 (it stays at 1 Hour for the 1 Hour DCs and 30 Minutes for the 30 Minute leagues). So for Rounds 21-34 in the 4-Hour leagues, you will have a 2-Hour clock for those last 15 rounds and for the 2-Hour DCs the clock will be 1 Hour.

We found out last year that this really quickened each Draft Champions league, giving players more chances to join more leagues. The software also allows you to easily set your queue for any and all rounds that you want. It's so easy now to set your queue for Round 25 or 26 and to also put the Auto-Pick feature on 1 Round if needed.

We increased to an 8-hour pause at night last year and that will continue again this year. The pause now takes place between 1 am and 9 am ET, but you can still make picks during the pause. The longer overnight pause allowed people to get into more 2-hour and 1-hour leagues last year and all of them still got done sooner than past years. Enjoy your sleep, but be ready to draft when you get up!

We will again have Team Kicker for $150 and $400 DCs. In fact, we are using Team Kicker for all NFFC leagues for the third straight year and I think it's been well received not only by the NFFC community but by the entire fantasy football community. This move opens roster spots as you don't need more than three kickers now and it assures scoring from this position all year long.

The regular season will again be 17 weeks long as the NFL incorporates for the third straight year its 17-game, 18-week regular season. The Best Ball National Championship will have best ball scoring from Weeks 1 through 17 and the team with the most points among all teams in this contest will win the $30,000 grand prize.

Drafts will start 30 minutes after the league fills and draft spots are announced 15 minutes after the league is full. Always set your KDS preferences after you sign up and be ready to draft.

Here's a link to the Contest page, Rules and Lobby:

https://nfc.shgn.com/rules/1714
https://nfc.shgn.com/signup/football?for=0;1714
https://nfc.shgn.com/rules/1715
https://nfc.shgn.com/lobby/football#356

We look forward to a record-breaking year for this national contest. Good luck all and enjoy.