Ten Yards

2026 season · Sleeper · 12-team Full PPR

Real leagues. Published bylaws. My fee never goes above $50.

Most league hosts take a cut of your prize money and don't make it easy to find out how much. Here is the whole arrangement, on the front page. Third place gets their buy-in back. Second place makes 3 times theirs. First place takes everything that's left — after a commissioner fee that never goes above $50, however big the league is. On a $200 league that fee is $50.

97.9% of a $200 pot pays out to players
92% what Fantrax prints on their own $250 lobby row
$200 more prize money in our $250 league than Fantrax's

Open leagues

Seat counts come live from Sleeper. A league with no seat count hasn't opened yet — I don't guess at them.

League Buy-in Prizes Payout Format Draft Seats Join
TY-200-A Ten Yards $200 PPR — League A $200 $1,550$600$200 97.9% Full PPR4pt pass TDNo K / No DEF Tue Aug 25, 8:00pm ET / 12 Join
TY-100-A Ten Yards $100 PPR — League A $100 $775$300$100 97.9% Full PPR4pt pass TDNo K / No DEF Wed Aug 26, 5:30pm ET / 12 Join
TY-150-A Ten Yards $150 PPR — League A $150 $1,165$450$150 98.1% Full PPR4pt pass TDNo K / No DEF Wed Aug 26, 8:00pm ET / 12 Join

Prizes by rule in every league — 2nd 3x · 3rd your buy-in back, 1st takes the rest. Buy-in is what goes into the pot. There is no separate signup fee, no card fee, and no charge to leave.

Why not open them all

I open two leagues at a time — one at $200 and one at $50 — so there is a cheap way in and a real-stakes one, and never more than that. When one is close to full the next opens. You are not joining something half-empty and hoping, and I am not running a draft for nine people and three autopickers.

Opening next, in order:

  1. $50 Ten Yards $50 PPR — League A
  2. $250 Ten Yards $250 PPR — League A
  3. $200 Ten Yards $200 PPR — League B
  4. $250 Ten Yards $250 PPR — League B

Want one of those instead? Say so and you'll get it first when it opens.

The format, and it doesn't change

Every league at $100 and above runs this exact setup. Same roster, same scoring, every time — so once you've played one, you already know what the next one is.

Starters

  • 1 QB
  • 2 RB
  • 2 WR
  • 1 TE
  • 2 FLEX

FLEX is RB / WR / TE. 6 bench, 1 IR.

Scoring

  • Full PPR
  • 4 points per passing touchdown
  • No kicker
  • No defense

Season

  • Redraft, 12 teams
  • Snake, scheduled and live
  • FAAB $100, clearing Wednesday overnight
  • Trades close end of NFL Week 11

Every league at $100 and above runs this exact format — same roster, same scoring, every time. Leagues under $100 can vary, and any difference is shown on that league before you join.

How it works

  1. You join the league on Sleeper

    Free. Sleeper is the app the league actually runs in — drafting, lineups, waivers, trades, chat.

  2. You pay the buy-in into LeagueSafe

    Not to me. Every pot is held by LeagueSafe on majority-approval payout, which means the commissioner cannot move the money alone — the league votes to release it. I submit the exact printed figures to LeagueSafe within 48 hours of the final game — the only payout I will ever submit — and it goes out as soon as the majority approves, normally inside a week.

  3. We draft live, on a scheduled date

    Snake draft, order randomised on the call beforehand. No instant drafts — you get a real draft night with a human running it.

  4. I run the season

    FAAB $100, clearing Wednesday overnight. Trade deadline end of NFL Week 11. Weeks 15–17, top 6, top-2 byes. Disputes get a written ruling in league chat — and any dispute involving my own team is decided without me.

  5. The league votes to release the pot

    Top 3 finishers get paid the exact figures printed above. I submit that payout to LeagueSafe within 48 hours of the final game, and it goes out as soon as the league approves it.

The longer version, step by step →

What the fee actually is

Here is the whole arithmetic for a $200 league. Nothing is hidden behind it.

12 managers pay $200 each$2,400
1st place− $1,550
2nd place — 3× buy-in− $600
3rd place — your buy-in back− $200
What I keep for running it$50

That is 2.1% of the money in the league, and it is the entire fee. It is also capped: $50 is the most I take from any league at any buy-in, so on the $250 league the fee is still $50 and the extra goes to first place instead. I play in these leagues too, and I pay the same buy-in everyone else does.

See every buy-in and its prizes →

After one of the leagues above? Say which league and you'll be told when it opens and again as it fills — that's what the "Get told" button in the lobby means.

Want a buy-in that isn't listed?

Leagues run at $50, $200 and $250 and several points between — $50, $100, $125, $150, $175, $200, $250. The ones above are open now; the rest open when enough people want them. Say which and you'll be told when it fills.

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