Best Ball Rules

Entering and Leaving a Best Ball

All Best Ball contests are single entry.
You can cancel your Best Ball contest entry, and have your entry fee refunded, at any time until the contest fills.
Best Ball contests fill when they reach the selected number of participants (e.g. in a 6-person Best Ball, when the 6th person joins). At that point, the Best Ball contest is considered locked, the Best Ball contest and its entries may not be canceled, and entry fees may not be refunded.
If a Best Ball participant’s account is suspended or disabled, the Best Ball contest will continue to run, and entry fees will not be refunded.
Best Ball contests start when filled (e.g. in a 6-person Best Ball, the contest begins when the 6th person joins). After the last person joins, there is a 60-second buffer period before the first person is up to draft.
If your Best Ball contest does not fill in time to start and finish before slate lock, your entry fee is refunded.

Best Ball contests must start and finish before the slate locks.
The exact time that a Best Ball contest must start by depends on the size of the contest and the slate lock time.
The calculation is: Slate lock time - [(30 seconds) x (number of picks) + 60 seconds] = Latest possible Best Ball start time
E.g. A 3-person Best Ball for a 7 p.m. slate must begin by 6:29 p.m. (7 p.m. - [(30 seconds) x (60 picks) + 60 seconds] = 6:29 p.m.).

In a Best Ball contest, you draft your lineup in real-time against your opponents.
The pick order is random and reverses each round (e.g. If you have the first pick in Round 1, you will have the last pick in Round 2).
You have 30 seconds to make each pick. If you do not make a pick within 30 seconds, a pick will be made for you.
Once a player has been drafted, no one else may draft that player.
You and your opponents draft 20 players each. The following restrictions apply:
- You must draft at least 1 QB, 2 RBs, 3 WRs, and 1 TE
- You must draft players from at least three different teams
You cannot edit your lineup after the Best Ball draft ends. There is no adding or dropping players, no trades, and no setting lineups.

The default sort of the player list in a Best Ball draft is average draft position (ADP).
Average draft position takes into account all of the Best Ball teams drafted in the last 24 hours and is updated hourly.
E.g. If two Best Balls have been drafted in the last 24 hours, and Christian McCaffrey was drafted 1st overall in one and 2nd overall in the other, then his ADP would be 1.5.

When it is not your turn to pick, you can add players that you want to draft to your queue.
If you turn on Auto-Draft, you will not receive push notifications, and picks will be automatically made for you based on:
1
The top-ranked player in your queue, or
2
The best available player in the player list as determined by average draft position, if your queue is empty
- Auto-Draft will select no more than the maximum at each draft position: 4 QBs, 8 RBs, 10 WRs, and 4 TEs.
If you do not make a pick in your allotted time, a pick will be made for you, based on the same criteria.

Best Ball contests are the easiest way to play season-long fantasy.

Players in your Best Ball lineups accrue fantasy points through the same scoring rules as standard Salary Cap contests.

Every week, your highest-scoring players at the following positions automatically start for you and count towards your score:

NFL

FLEX

Best Ball scoring is cumulative. The person in your Best Ball contest with the highest cumulative score at the end of the season wins.

Best Ball contests are not available in Missouri.