| Start | End | Tour | Fantasy | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-02-28 | 2025-03-02 | DGPT | Regular Season | Discraft Supreme Flight Open | Brooksville, FL |
| 2025-03-14 | 2025-03-16 | DGPT | Regular Season | Waco Annual Charity Open | Waco,TX |
| 2025-03-20 | 2025-03-23 | DGPT + | Regular Season | The Open at Austin | Austin, TX |
| 2025-04-04 | 2025-04-06 | DGPT | Regular Season | Music City Open | Nashville, TN |
| 2025-04-18 | 2025-04-20 | DGPT | Regular Season | 43rd Kansas City Wide Open | Liberty, MO |
| 2025-05-01 | 2025-05-04 | Major | Regular Season | PDGA Champions Cup | Stockton, CA, USA |
| 2025-05-16 | 2025-05-18 | DGPT | Regular Season | Cascade Challenge | Shelton, WA |
| 2025-05-29 | 2025-06-01 | DGPT + | Regular Season | Northwest Disc Golf Championship | Portland, OR |
| 2025-06-13 | 2025-06-15 | DGPT | Regular Season | The Preserve Championships | Clearwater, MN |
| 2025-06-27 | 2025-06-29 | DGPT | Regular Season | Discmania Challenge | Indianola, IA |
| 2025-07-04 | 2025-07-06 | DGPT | Regular Season | PCS Open | Overaas, Norway |
| 2025-07-11 | 2025-07-13 | DGPT | Regular Season | Krokhol Open | Oslo, Norway |
| 2025-07-17 | 2025-07-20 | Major | Regular Season | European Disc Golf Festival | Tallinn, Estonia |
| 2025-07-30 | 2025-08-03 | Major | Regular Season | Professional Disc Golf World Championships | Nokia, Finland |
| 2025-08-14 | 2025-08-17 | DGPT + | Regular Season | Discraft’s Ledgestone Open | Peoria, IL |
| 2025-08-22 | 2025-08-24 | DGPT | Regular Season | LWS Open at Idlewild | Burlington, KY |
| 2025-09-04 | 2025-09-07 | DGPT + | Playoff Semifinals | Discraft Great Lakes Open | Milford, MI |
| 2025-09-18 | 2025-09-21 | DGPT Playoff | Playoff Semifinals | Green Mountain Championship | Jeffersonville, VT |
| 2025-09-25 | 2025-09-28 | DGPT Playoff | RWFDG Championship | MVP Open | Leicester, MA |
| 2025-10-09 | 2025-10-12 | Major | RWFDG Championship | United States Disc Golf Championship | Rock Hill, SC, USA |
The following page will explicitly lay out the rules for the RWFDG league as they pertain to scoring, drafting, and general play. Any and all official league decisions and rule changes require at minimum 4 out of 6 support.
Before getting into the details, some definitions to be used throughout these rules:
Snake Draft
Each week/tournament starts with a snake draft where each Owner selects 5 Players for their active roster and 1 additional Player for their bench. By default, you will start the first 5 Players you select on your active roster, but you have the option to swap in your bench player before any of your players start their first rounds. Make this swap by messaging the group and stating your move clearly stating their names without using nicknames or abbreviations.
Owners will redraft before each tournament (i.e. you don’t keep Players on your roster after tournaments end). The draft order will be randomly determined each week. Examples of random draft orders include, but are not limited to, random disc CTPs where one person assigns discs to the thrower (thrower doesn’t know who they are assigned to), in-person events during RWFDG League meet ups, and random number/order generators with supporting video evidence. This supporting video evidence must constitute a screen recording that contains both (i) an initial text to the league saying that your starting the randomization, as well as the (ii) sending of the screenshot of the results of the randomization. This must occur in one continuous video. Each draft’s start time will be chosen at the league’s discretion. Since we are all adults with lives, 3 days is recommended based on historical draft durations.
Drops, Pauses, and Replacements
During the draft, if a Player that has already been picked withdraws from the tournament mid-draft, then the snake draft pauses. Official Player withdrawls are determined by PDGA tournament registration or social media posts. The affected Owner may pick a replacement before the snake draft restarts. The draft then resumes as it was before.
The following paragraph will describe how drops and replacements happen in the event that more than one Owner experiences a drop within same period of time. When the league is notified of the first drop (or potentially several drops), the snake draft enters a pause period where only owners affected by drops can select players. Additional owners can continue to enter the pause period if more drops occur, leading to a situation in which more than one Owner needs to make a replacement pick. If multiple owners are in the pause period at the same time due to drops, they may replace their players on a first come first serve basis, regardless of which dropped player was picked first and regardless of the order in which the drops occurred. Essentially, it is in your best interest to beat your opponent to the replacement pick (Proposition COMPROMISE).
Executing Your Pick
During the draft for all picks except the final pick, if an Owner submits a pick via a sent text or FB messenger message, the pick is not final until the next Owner in the draft selects his Player. This means that the first Owner may change his pick for any reason so long as the next Owner has not submitted an official pick (Proposition TRICKY RICKY).
After the final bench selection of the snake draft, the rules are as follows: once the snake draft is over, Owners may drop and pick up any Players they wish on a first come, first serve basis. You may do this as long as none of the players in question have started their first round. Make your pick and drop by messaging the group and clearly stating their names without using nicknames or abbreviations.
Bench Slots
You cannot swap in a bench player after first round play has started if all players remain in the tournament. You can, however, use your bench player in the following scenarios. Say an Owner has Player A who must withdraw from the tournament, then the bench player (Player B) will be automatically brought up to the active roster for all rounds AFTER the dropped round. Here, “automatically” means that you don’t need to text the group to execute this move. Here are how we will handle the different scenarios where Players withdraw from tournaments:
Player A does not compete at all. In this event, Player B fills Player A’s spot for the remainder of the tournament. The Owner of Player A may select an additional bench player so long as that new player has not started his first round. This scenario is only possible before the first round. You cannot pick up an additional bench player if he has started play for the weekend.
Player A completes at least one full round, and withdraws between rounds. In this event, Player A’s Owner will receive hole-by-hole points for each round Player A completed. Player B will earn hole-by-hole points for the remaining rounds that Player A is unable to complete. Player B will also earn Tourney Finishing Position points.
Player A withdraws during a round. In this event, the results of a partial round by Player A will count towards the Owner’s fantasy score for that round, no matter the reason for withdrawing (Proposition ASSLICK). However, partial rounds are NOT eligible for BFR points. In all remaining rounds (if there are rounds left to be played), the Owner’s bench Player (Player B) is automatically subbed in, and he will earn hole-by-hole points for the remaining rounds. Here, “automatically” means that the Owner does not need to text the group to execute this move. The Owner will also receive TP points for Player B. If this happens while cards are teeing off during Round 1, an Owner may select another Bench Player to fill in for the old Bench Player that was just subbed in provided that the new Bench Player has not started any Round 1 play. It is up to the affected Owner to provide a PDGA Live screenshot including the Owner’s local time proving that no throw tracker has started for the newly selected Bench Player. Any late additions of this variety are not valid without supporting proof in the form of a PDGA Live screenshot. If this happens during the final round, the withdrawing player (Player A) will receive hole-by-hole points for the partial final round, but the Bench player (Player B) will receive TP (just like as above, the only difference being that there is no play left for the bench player to give points for). In this scenario, Player B (the Bench Player) only receives TP and does not count for any hole-by-hole points.
The remainder of this section details how bench slots are used when there is a tournament with a cut. Owners do not get to call up bench Players if one of their starters does not make the cut (rationale: you don’t get bailed out for a poor pick). For this reason, an Owner can have fewer than 5 starters for all post-cut rounds. If a starting Player makes the cut but then withdraws due to injury, then the bench Player can be used for all post-cut rounds (rationale: you get bailed out due to extenuating circumstances).
Additionally, Owners have the option to bench Players after a cut has been made in the tournament. However, an Owner has to still start a minimum number of Players. This minimum will be set as the number of Players that make the cut for the Owner with the fewest number of Players remaining after the cut.
Example:
Trades
There is no trading draft picks or players at any time.
An Owner’s fantasy score for each week is the sum of his active roster’s Fantasy Points. Players earn fantasy points according to the following two scoring types:
1. Hole-by-hole (HBH) Scoring:
| Description | Abbrev | HBH |
|---|---|---|
| Albatross | ALB | 18 |
| Ace | ACE | 10 |
| Eagle | EAG | 8 |
| Bogey Free Round (a.k.a. Beefer) | BFR | 5 |
| 4 birdies in a row | BAG4 | 4 |
| Birdie | BIRD | 3 |
| Bogey | BOG | -1 |
| Double bogey or worse | DBB | -2 |
2. Tournament Finishing Place (TP) Scoring:
| Place | TP |
|---|---|
| 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 20 |
| 3 | 18 |
| 4 | 16 |
| 5 | 14 |
| 6 | 12 |
| 7 | 10 |
| 8 | 9 |
| 9 | 8 |
| 10 | 7 |
| 11-15 | 6 |
| 16-20 | 5 |
| 21-25 | 4 |
| 26-30 | 3 |
| 31-40 | 2 |
| 41-50 | 1 |
Additional scoring notes:
Regular Season
Each week of the regular season (i.e. the first 16 tourneys), Owners earn Regular Season Points (RP) based on their finishing place among the other Owners. Owner’s are ranked by their weekly fantasy score, and given RPs according to the following system:
| Place | RP |
|---|---|
| 1 | 7 |
| 2 | 5 |
| 3 | 3 |
| 4 | 2 |
| 5 | 1 |
| DFL | 0 |
Regular Season Points are accumulated after each tournament ends. After the 16 regular season tournaments, the 4 Owners with the most Regular Season Points make the Playoffs. If tied in RPs at the end of the season, the first tiebreaker is total regular season fantasy points (HBH + TP). The second tiebreaker is number of individual wins during the regular season, then the number of second place finishes, then third place finishes, etc.
There are no tiebreakers in each regular season tournament. For example, if two Owners tie for second, both will receive +5 points.
Playoffs
The final regular season standings (total RPs) determine seeding for the playoffs matchups: 1 versus 4 and 2 versus 3. The semifinal matchup winners will be determined by total combined Fantasy Points across the 2 semifinal tournaments (Discraft Great Lakes Open, Green Mountain Championship). In the semifinals only, the 1 seed will start with a +10 Fantasy Point advantage over the 4 seed, and the 2 seed will start with a +5 Fantasy Point advantage over the 3 seed.
The winners of the semifinal matchups will meet in the RWFDG Championship. The Champion will be determined by total combined Fantasy Points across the 2 tournaments designated for the Finals (MVP Open, United States Disc Golf Championship). This matchup will start tied: 0-0.
The tie breaker is lowest seed for all head to head playoff matches that end in ties.
The top 4 Owners who made the playoffs are required to participate throughout all 4 tournaments designated for the playoffs to keep the existing matchups valid and competitive.
Scheduling, COVID-19, and Unforeseen Events
If regular season tournaments are canceled for any reason, we will simply ignore that week and have a regular season comprised of fewer than 16 tournaments. If any of the tournaments designated for the playoffs are canceled, we will have a league vote to determine how to handle the situation. All other changes to the schedule will be made at the league’s discretion.
League dues are $105 = $50 postseason + $55 regular season per person for the 2025 season. Here is what that money funds:
| Week | Tour | Cost | Event |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DGPT | $2.50 | Discraft Supreme Flight Open |
| 2 | DGPT | $2.50 | Waco Annual Charity Open |
| 3 | DGPT + | $5.00 | The Open at Austin |
| 4 | DGPT | $2.50 | Music City Open |
| 5 | DGPT | $2.50 | 43rd Kansas City Wide Open |
| 6 | Major | $5.00 | PDGA Champions Cup |
| 7 | DGPT | $2.50 | Cascade Challenge |
| 8 | DGPT + | $5.00 | Northwest Disc Golf Championship |
| 9 | DGPT | $2.50 | The Preserve Championships |
| 10 | DGPT | $2.50 | Discmania Challenge |
| 11 | DGPT | $2.50 | PCS Open |
| 12 | DGPT | $2.50 | Krokhol Open |
| 13 | Major | $5.00 | European Disc Golf Festival |
| 14 | Major | $5.00 | Professional Disc Golf World Championships |
| 15 | DGPT + | $5.00 | Discraft’s Ledgestone Open |
| 16 | DGPT | $2.50 | LWS Open at Idlewild |
| Total Cost: | $55.00 |