Two minute Warning time boys and girls…just a friendly reminder to update your Gridiron Playoff Challenge roster for this weekends divisional round games. I did promise however to give you guys a quick update regarding the rules. This is the last weekend that you pick the best players available from all teams playing without future consequence. Next week, you have to have one eye on the current week and look ahead to the Super Bowl as well. What exactly do I mean? It goes like this…

Roster slots lock individually at the scheduled start time of each player’s game. The first lock is the weekend of the NFL Playoffs on Saturday, January 3, 2009 (exact time TBD) and you can change the players around as often as you like up until this time. After the Wild Card Weekend is completed, you will be able to select a new roster for the Divisional Playoffs games. After the Divisional Playoffs are completed, you will again be able to select a new roster if you wish. This is the last roster change period available as the roster you have set for the Conference Championship games is frozen for the remainder of the playoffs (i.e. the Super Bowl as well). The roster change periods are listed below:

 

Period #1 (Wild Card Weekend): Game launch (Dec. 22) until first kickoff of the Wild Card Weekend games (Jan 3 – time TBD)

Period #2 (Divisional Playoffs): Shortly after the Wild Card Weekend games are complete until first kickoff of Divisional Playoffs (Jan. 10 – time TBD)

Period #3 (Conference Championships): Shortly after the Divisional Playoff games are complete until first kickoff of Conference Championship (Jan. 17 – time TBD). This is the final roster lock.

In order to maximize your possible points for the game, you should have active players for the first 8 games of the playoffs. In other words, do not play any players from teams that have BYE’s during the Wild Card Weekend games.

Period three is specifically what I am talking about…You are going to have to be savvy about your picks, in essence you have to pick the players that will be playing in the Super Bowl. So - I wanted to put that out there as you look ahead. None of that matters this week though…just pick the best players possible under the salary cap.

Here are the current standings after wild card weekend…good luck this week.

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