Standards& Practices.

The 2026 Preseason Board opens Tuesday, September 8, 2026 at 6:00 PM Eastern and closes Sunday, September 13, 2026 at 11:59 PM Eastern. For system purposes, submissions stop at 12:00:00 AM Eastern on September 14.

The first weekly card opens Monday, September 21, 2026 at 6:00 PM Eastern. Every weekly card opens on the Monday before that Saturday's live broadcast at 6:00 PM Eastern and locks at 3:00 PM Eastern on broadcast Saturday. The Saturday lock leaves eight and a half hours before the live show.

Weekly scores will not be posted before 2:00 AM Eastern on Sunday and will be posted no later than 12:00 noon Eastern that Sunday. Scores are provisional during the challenge window below.

A player must receive an on-screen submission confirmation before the deadline. An incomplete card or unconfirmed submission is not submitted. Once submitted, preseason selections are locked unless Fantasy SNL announces a correction or reopening that applies equally to all players.

A preseason question is voided for all players if information published before the deadline reveals or conclusively determines its answer. This includes cast departures, cast additions or promotions, announced hosts or musical guests, scheduling announcements, and similar season information.

An official announcement is information published by NBC, Saturday Night Live, or a verified official account belonging to the person or act involved. Rumors, leaks, entertainment reporting, and unverified social-media posts do not count unless an official source confirms them. The official source's original publication time controls, even if the Commissioner sees it later.

If an announcement reveals only part of a multi-part question, the entire question is voided unless the prediction card identified those parts as independently scored questions before it opened.

When several material questions are compromised while the preseason card is still open, the Commissioner may publish distinct replacement questions worth the same total points. Submitted players keep every unaffected call locked and receive one supplemental submission containing only the replacements. Original compromised selections and the ruling remain in the audit record.

Information announced after the preseason deadline resolves normally. All selections remain locked and are scored under the rules in effect when the card closed.

The original live United States broadcast is the controlling record for episode content, segment order, appearances, and performance classifications. Dress-rehearsal material, unaired material, reruns, promotional clips, and later streaming edits do not count unless a category specifically says otherwise.

Objective facts—including official announcements, broadcast order, identities, and counts—are established from the official source or broadcast record. Three scorers independently review subjective classifications. A two-of-three majority controls. A scorer with a direct conflict must abstain and be replaced. Ties remain ties unless the card published a tiebreaker before opening.

During the holiday break, Fantasy SNL will open one reshuffle window. A player may revise up to three unresolved preseason questions that the card marks as reshuffle eligible. Questions already resolved, frozen, or voided cannot be changed.

An unchanged preseason answer keeps its full point value. A reshuffled answer is capped at 75% of that question's original maximum, rounded down to a whole point. The reshuffle's exact opening and closing times will be posted before the holiday break, and a player must receive an on-screen confirmation before that window closes.

Ordinary score challenges may be submitted until the next live episode begins. Valid grounds include a factual error, calculation error, incorrect source, or inconsistent application of a published rule.

This October 6, 2026 policy amendment extends the review period for Episodes 1 and 2 as well as future episodes. It does not change their scoring rules. Scores & Rulings publishes episode decisions and deadlines. Holiday-break and season-finale calendar cutoffs will be posted when confirmed.

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A correction applies to every affected player, not only the player who reported it. The Commissioner publishes the final ruling and a short explanation. The original result and correction remain in the audit record.

Seriously egregious errors may be contested until the holiday break begins for episodes in the first half of the season, and until the season finale ends for episodes in the second half. A seriously egregious error is a clear, substantial factual, calculation, transcription, or rule-application mistake; ordinary disagreements about subjective classifications use the regular deadline. After the applicable cutoff, results are final.

Players should report submission problems before the deadline. Screenshots of completed fields do not substitute for a confirmed submission.

If a platform-wide problem prevents submissions, the Commissioner may extend the deadline equally for all players. A deadline will not be extended after the relevant answer has become public. If an announcement occurs during an outage, the affected question is voided. Any deadline change must be posted before it takes effect.

When no published rule covers a situation, the Commissioner and scoring panel apply the closest existing rule, treat all affected players equally, and publish the reasoning. A new general rule applies only to cards opened after it is published.

Each person may use only one player account. Players may not access another player's private selections, manipulate game records, exploit a known technical problem, or submit through another player's account. Report suspected vulnerabilities privately to contact@fantasysnl.com.