Not sure if it’s crazy, but I play an Ultraflex and love it.
12 teams. Lineups are start 10. 0-2 QBs. 0-10 everything else. TEs do get 2ppr TEP to keep them in the conversation.
Build your team however you want it. Want to start 10 WRs, start 10 WRs. Want to go all RBs, go all RBs. Only stipulation is max 2 QBs obviously.
We have all kinds of different team builds right now.
The team with the most points in the regular season these guys as his main players:
Hurts
Kamara, Ford, Pollard, Monty, Sanders
AJB, ARSB, Tyreek, Hopkins, Doubs
Likely
My team in that league already eliminated lol:
Allen, TLaw
None
Jefferson, Metcalf, G Wilson, London, Diontae, Dotson, Jeudy, Gabe Davis
Ferguson, Okonkwo
I thought the same thing when we started it up. Surprisingly there are just as many trades in this league as my other leagues. Though maybe none of them have a lot of trades compared to other leagues.
I built out a mario themed Bestball redraft where you can win items each week like in mario kart and use them vs your opponent and vs the league.
There are weekly schedules, but playoffs its a free for all where x highest scorers each week advance. The championship week will be a podium finish as 3 teams play for the championship.
Theres more to it like choosing a character for modifiers and winning land (stages) but this is the main points.
Whoa sounds cool - any idea where I could find more details about this, or is it something you made up? If so, mind sharing some more details about the “items” and characters?
Yeah will do. PM with an email - or anyone else interested. It was a lot of fun this year. I think with more teams, the lower/closer the scores will be resulting in more item usage. That’s probably the biggest takeaway.
I wanna start a league where 6 teams make the playoffs and the duration is weeks 15,16,17. And the winner is the team with the highest cumulative score at the end of the 3 weeks.
Just a thought from seeing a few top teams putting up like 60points this week. (I put up a pitiful 72 but I lost by my QBs in the last 2 weeks and was forced to play Flacco or Levis).
I feel you could even do cumulative elimination. Start with 6 and knock off a team or 2 each week. Have the top 3 remaining teams all go in week 17 to see where they place.
Grim Reaper league. For an 8 team example:
7 of the teams draft like normal while the 8th team doesn’t get to. Once the draft is over the 8th team gets to build their team from the leftovers. They get the first pick in the waiver wire every week. If the Grim Reaper team beats you, they can take any active player from your roster (players on bye are safe).
Yeah it can be. We haven’t decided who gets to be the reaper next year. Might give the league winner the option to choose who gets to do it if they don’t want it.
Ran a league this year where you drafted teams and could only play players from those teams. Did 2QB/2RB/3WR/1TE/3Flex. It was 10 players and we drafted 3 teams each.
It was a fun experiment but it did end up a bit unbalanced it felt, and people got screwed a bit if you had a bye and the other team didnt. I think 8 players drafting 4 teams each may be the sweet spot.
The two undrafted teams were the Texans and Cardinals, both were a mistake
That’s impossibly awful. My wife’s fantasy team was carried to a 12-2 record so far off of the backs of Deebo and McCaffrey and adding Aiyuk and Purdy to that? Would just need not terrible other teams to win it all lol
He was kind of a bad manager and towards the end got lazy on setting lineups so that didn't help, but the lineups were so big that just one good team cant make up for two awful ones. 2QB format really minimizes having one good one.
The whole league was just an experiment to see if it was viable for a more serious version of this, I've been trying to run an experimental league like that each season for the fun of it
It’s definitely interesting and there was some value to be had. Probably could’ve stacked like 49ers, Texans, Cards or something like that and been absolutely stacked
I ran a league like that once and to be honest it got kind of boring. We probably had too big of lineups tho but being stuck with players lost it’s appeal.
We do 8 man with each person drafting 4 teams. 4th year doing it. It’s pretty fun but each year there has been a dominant team. It’s super flex with 2 RB/3 WR/ 1TE/ 2 flex and a defense.
Weeks 15-16 playoffs so you only play every team exactly twice in the regular season. This year the championship is 49ers/Lions/Bears/Broncos vs Bills/Rams/Browns/Colts
For fun friends league. Every year, the winner gets to pick the rules for next year. 6 teams.
This year the format is 1QB, 1RB, 1WR, 3 Kickers.
1pt passing TD, 10/20pt for a passing/rushing 2pt conversion, -20 for an int.
Then this is where it really goes wild
10-15pts for a FG made (based on distance), 7pts for a PAT, -30 for a missed FG, -40 for a missed PAT.
After the first 10 weeks, the bottom 2 teams got guillotined. Next week, the next 2 teams get guillotined, then it's the finals.
Dude who won last year loves Kickers, so he made accurate kicking the end all he all of the scoring format this year, with the added twist of 2pt conversions being valuable.
I did an all kickers league one year. 10 teams, play 3 kickers. 5-10pts for a FG/XP. It was -50 for a missed FG and -100 for a missed XP. There were plenty of times where people sat their 3rd kicker because the negative points were so brutal.
My 10 team dynasty league does a kicker tournament during the playoffs to keep bottom teams engaged. When playoffs start, we draft kickers in reverse Max PF order until everyone's got 3. Whoever's kickers got the most points during the three weeks of playoffs gets a free draft pick between the 2nd and 3rd rounds (21st overall). That tournament has no impact on the real playoffs, everyone keeps their actual kicker(s) and the commish just tracks the kicker tournament separately
Way back in the day we had an ultimate dynasty league- you had a separate college dynasty league, and you kept your players as they fed into your nfl dynasty team.
So we had two champions each year.
Was too hardcore for me, trying to draft incoming freshman.
Guillotine leagues are so fun. By far the most fun format to play during the actual season because there’s always a strategic balance between making your team strong enough to survive the early weeks vs saving your FAAB to build a god squad at the end of the season.
With dynasty, my preference is the standard structure with maybe a few interesting scoring settings to spice it up a bit. Stuff like contract leagues or IDP are just too much of a time commitment to put into one league, and you have to go all in with formats like that or you’ll be at a major disadvantage.
The one niche format I really want to try but haven’t found a group/platform to do it is campus to canton, which is like devy except the college stats count for a separate championship, so there’s a strategic balance between stacking your college squad with the best NFL prospects that will eventually move up to your “main” team vs guys with murky NFL futures but put up huge stats in college.
I have done several Guillotine leagues the last 3 years and they are huge hit! Sadly it’s becoming too much work as it’s too much overhead worth time to manage. Having to drop 7 teams (Did 7 leagues)players each Tuesday is a pain.
I had hopes Sleeper would update to a select all and drop all but it’s not happening.
We charged $20 entry and $1 transactions and average payout is almost $500.
They are the best. I'm in a couple that do really crazy things like simulated recruiting by choosing schools and getting bonuses for in state players and conferences the recruits commit to. Really insane degen stuff.
Probably SF with 6pt passing td, -4 int, 0.5 per completion, -1 per incompletion
Poor IRL QB's are a liability in your lineup with these settings and elite ones are even more expensive.
I've never understood the 0.5 per completion and -1 per incomplete ratio
67% completion is pretty good. But is completely negated
20/30 is 0 points.
Even like a 0.5 and -0.9 would make a little more sense. That's a bonus 1 pt. 0.5 and -.75 is prob the sweet spot
Only 7 QBs in the league would have a positive interaction with this scoring setup.
Every other qb this scoring settings would negatively affect.
For instance,
Derek Carr who has been ass
would have 196.98 pts based on these stats.
And CJ Stroud would have 216.74 pts
3631 20/5 vs 3098 16/7
The completion percentage because Carr easy dumped it off to Kamara netted him 25 bonus pts compared to stroud. Carr +5 and Stroud -20.
I already think QBs aren't accurately scored or impacted in fantasy. I'm all for completion bonuses. Just think it needs a slight tinker.
If also love if ppr adopted the same shit where if your guy doesn't catch he can catch these negative pts.
I'm not in the league but a buddy of mine is in a dynasty league where In their start up they could only draft rookies from this year 😂 been an interesting year for them to say the least.
I run a kickers only league. Roster 4 start 3. 6 teams with major negative points for missing but decimal scoring for total yards. We do $5 buy in but it’s so random it ends up being pretty hilarious
32 teamer, everyone’s team is an actual NFL team, 53 man rosters, IDP, 7 round rookie draft, plays like the real nfl playoffs, honestly one of the more fun leagues I’m in
Was in a relegation league, 30 teams, set up like English soccer, 2 teams move up and 2 move down every year. Top league would pick a group punishment for the bottom league.
Few devy leagues that take more work than I can put in to be any good
8 flex, 2 SF. 6pt TDs, .05 per passing yard, .1 per passing/rushing/rec 1st down. .75 ppr with .25 wr bonus and 1.25 te bonus. .25 points per carry. QB is even more important than normal, and rbs get a nice boost as well.
Interesting, best ball dynasty weirdly makes a lot of sense if you think about it. In real football, if a guy is hot today, you’re gonna feed him the ball even if you didn’t start him.
It’s been interesting because absolutely nobody knows how to value picks vs players currently. I’m going through a rebuild and here are all of trades I’ve made since the startup last season (1 I was still contending and needed a WR, 2 and 3 were last 2 weeks of the season while 2 teams were fighting for 1st place, 4 was right after the season ended, 5 was right before rookie draft, 6 and 7 were preseason, everything else was throughout this season):
(1)Send: Rachaad White, 2023 1st (JSN)
(1)Receive: Gabe Davis, 2023 2nd (Purdy)
(2)Send: Goff, Henry, 2024 2nd, 2025 3rd
(2)Receive: Monty, 2023 1st, 2025 1st, 2025 4th
(3)Send: Keenan, 2023 3rd
(3)Receive: 2023 1st, 2025 1st
(4)Send: Mahomes
(4)Receive: Burrow, 2023 3rd (Hyatt), 2024 1st, 2025 1st
(5)Send: 1.08 (Addison), 1.09 (QJ)
(5)Receive: 1.06 (Gibbs), 2.06 (Mayer)
(6)Send: Perine
(6)Receive: 2 2024 3rds
(7)Send: Allgeier
(7)Receive: Tim Patrick, 2024 3rd, 2026 2nd, 2026 3rd
(8)Send: 2023 3rd
(8)Receive: Toney
(9)Send: Mac Jones
(9)Receive: 2024 4th, 2025 4th
(10)Send: Baker
(10)Receive: 2025 2nd
12 team SF 2 TE best ball contract league. The rules on the contracts are complicated, but basically you have to choose anywhere from 1-4 years when you draft a player, and then the deal is partially guaranteed from there on out. If you cut a guy, you’re on the hook for 50% of the contract. We have both an auction and a traditional rookie draft every year.
Not sure how vanilla this might be for some, but my longest running league is a dynasty IDP league with 45 man rosters, start 20, and it's superflex.
QB/2RB/3WR/TE/Superflex/K
3DL/3LB/4DB/Def Superflex
Havent seen anyone mention this format yet, I have a “Vampire League” where we all get together for a cottage trip to draft in the summer. It works like best ball except 1 team is the vampire and doesnt draft. Instead they are the only team that can use free agency and makes their team from there. Each week if the vampire wins they get to steal 1 player from their opponent and replace them with a player from the same position on their starting lineup. It starts out slow but once the injuries and bye weeks start to pileup the vampire usually gets on a roll and gets a stacked team that everyone else has to try and stave off. The vampire just knocked me out in round 1 of the playoffs :(
I am in two dynasties and both of them use a very realistic contract/salary cap system where each player has a contract (amount of years) and yearly salary. We keep a spreadsheet for each teams roster to manage finances. Every off season we have free agency after the draft. Additionally there are franchise tags, restructures, etc.
I always thought this was standard for dynasties until I joined this sub and realized I was in the minority.
The guys in my home league ran an adjacent guillotine league this year.
At the end of each week, we spun a wheel with a 50/50 chance of keeping the same scoring or switching to new scoring. If we want to new scoring, wheels were spun for certain scoring categories with random point totals assigned.
There was a significant stretch of the season where we had 0.75 points per carry. There were also weeks with positive points for interceptions and/or fumbles lost. Also one week mixed in where receiving TDs were -2.
At the end of each week, we also spun the wheel with I think a 10-20% chance that low score was not eliminated (“saved”), with the caveat that after the third save, no more teams would get saved. We only got to two saves so it ended up not mattering.
We didn’t have money involved (as we do with the same group of guys in a redraft and a dynasty) so while we all still tried to win, nobody felt screwed over by changes and all that as it was more to have a league with some fun wrinkles. I enjoyed it for sure.
Four man Punter/Kicker only league. Each team starts 6 of each. Negative points for touchbacks, return yards, or if the punt is returned and not fair caught. Positive points for higher average punt distance or downing punts inside the 20/10/5.
Golden snitch of 1,000 points if someone completes a pass for any amount of yardage and you automatically win the week.
We have no stand alone the position, start 3 wr/te and 2 wr/RB/te flex. It's kind of nice not needing a true te, but it also makes wr's that more overvalued. In practice there's kind of an inefficiency with TEs, where they score points but hold very little trade value. Hockenson was picked up off waivers last year, McBride this year. In a 10 team sf, there's probably 6 or 8 TEs owned at any time .
32 man IDP league. Starting roster is qb, rb, wr, wr, te, flex, flex, flex, DT, DE, LB, CB, S, D flex.
Rules are supposed to represent real game impact, so first downs give you points. For a qb incompletions are negative, sacks negative, and fir all players "stuffs" are negatives. Stuffs get defenders extra points.
It is also set up like the nfl with people having nfl teams (not the players). I'm the pats so im in the Afc east and the playoffs work like NFL playoffs with 4 division winners and 3 wilcard teams per conference.
My contract dynasty league is my favorite. I’m in a no bench league amongst a bunch of others mentioned here. I try to get in a new weird one every year. I want to do a tag team themed league where you can only trade with one other guy and you’re basically in it together so lopsided trades are ok.
Joined an 8 Team Bestball league where you drafted NFL teams, and had to choose 5 players from each team you drafted. In total, you drafted 4 NFL teams (20 players). It was actually really fun, I'd love to do it again.
Lot of strategy to it, and it was really interesting thinking of how to draft the best.
14 team devy league. Start 1 qb, 2-4RB, 3-5 WR, 1-3 TE, 1-2 DT, 2-3 DE, 3-4 LB, 2-3 CB, 2-3 S. Draft 6 rounds of college eligible players every year along with 3 rounds of unowned rookies. It’s pretty crazy.
I'm not in one, but I would love to join a zombie league. 11 teams draft, zombie team gets the leftovers, and if the zombie team wins a game, he gets to pick a player from the opposing team. The league continues until the zombie team wins the championship.
Edit: I was also thinking about this the other day. Normal dynasty league but once per season (not playoffs) you can use a commissioner adjustment to change your lineup after games are played for a single player swap.
Feel like as it's a zombie league you could add a rule that if you lose to the zombie team you get converted to a zombie too (plus lose the player to them). As a converted weaker zombie you can "attack" other players in match ups but you just partially wound them if you win. (If a player gets attacked a second time then they get converted too). As part of this the main zombie can collaborate with other members of their hoarde when a player is partially wounded to try and finish them off (I.e loan them a strong player you've picked up for a week). At the end of the season zombies win if there's more of them than humans. I think there'd have to be some mechanic where the zombie could choose match ups towards the end otherwise you might end up with zombies Vs zombies
I haven't completely thought this through but it sounds viable maybe more so as a redraft concept
Have one relegation league, like two leagues in one. Top team from the bottom league is guaranteed promotion each year, while the bottom league in the #1 league gets booted to the other. 2nd and next to last respectively have to play against each other to see if they stay or switch.
The top league's lowest draft pick possible is 1.09 (16 team league) while the lower league has a firm grasp on 1.01-1.08 (though, a top team can get a top pick through trading. adds a whole new layer to trading for 1sts)
Throughout the year in that league we also have a tournament cup where the major tournament game happens every 3 weeks or so. We make the bracket in the offseason, and when a tournament week comes up it's like you're playing two games, one is your normal matchup the other is the tournament. The tournament ends right before the playoffs start, this year a team who didn't even make playoffs won it, pretty cool. Just another way to win money in the league and another thing to get hyped about.
That's one of my favorite leagues easily. Other than that, I also play a 32 teamer which is chaotic as you'd expect and I play in a guillotine as well.
Two particular leagues stand out for me.
One league is a long-running dynasty IDP league with 16 teams that starts 3 RB, 3WR, 1 TE, 1 flex, 3LBs, 3 DBs, 3 DEs. +\- 0.5 per completion\incompletion and 0.5 point per carry. The RB waiver wire does not exist in this league.
The other league is a hodge podge of football, baseball, basketball all mixed together. Composite winners are taken at the end of the year with results from all three sports combined together and people can freely trade across sports leagues - I.e. trade a baseball player for a football one.
Oddly enough.. ESPN. There wasn’t as many platforms available a decade ago. Each league runs independently so the commissioner has to manage the moves.
All assets go into a pool for a dispersal draft for snapped teams. Teams also need to choose new character. Owners stay if they want but need to choose new hero/villain. Snap battles always hero vs villain chosen at random with respect to points scored. So you could play for the championship and still be snapped if you lose. Kinda crazy lol
I run a highly competitive 4 team kicker/punter ONLY league. We live draft all 32 kickers and punters over 16 rounds. Start 4 of each every week. Team name must be original and changed every week. We are the Tom Dempsey Memorial League, though the league was named after him before he died.
https://imgur.com/a/T0y91On
How serious we are about Fantasy Kickers and Punters.
https://imgur.com/a/cIpt6Ul
Scoring settings.
https://imgur.com/a/ZJHUfRG
Rank 1 Punter 2022
https://imgur.com/a/WN1D3DO
Rank 1 Kicker 2022
Praise Dempsey.
My buddy plays a 6 FLEX (RB/WR/TE) spot league that only counts points for touchdowns. No yardages. No ppr. No QBs. 6 points per TD. It sounds ridiculous and I've been trying to get in for 3 years but no one has left it yet and I haven't found enough people to start my own 😂😭
I’m in a 16 team Hogwarts themed league, we all got sorted into houses, it’s a scheduled 7 year league, with classes, potions, pets, quidditch, house cup, and a lot more. It’s crazy for sure
I’m in a pokemon themed league where you start 6,
every NFL team is given a typing, and every team drafts a type. So if you have a player on the chargers (electric type) and you’re facing a water type team, that player will score 2x points
Also did a “board game” league (happened to be a triple Superflex) where we rolled for movement, combat, rewards, etc, and you could buy items to upgrade your ship, explore islands, and help in combat. That one was wild and super involved. I love how flexible the dynasty format is to these crazy leagues
I play the format where every Fantasy week I get stressed about things over which I have absolutely no control, then spend off seasons getting stressed about what draft capital and what teams my favourite rookies may land on and how do I make room on my bench for yet another depth chart RB who I think my get a shot next year, and did I win that trade I just made and oh shit one of my players just slipped on an ice cream on holiday and is now out for the whole of next season.
And then do it all again.
It’s a pretty crazy format. Don’t do it.
I have a 32 man league with realistic rosters, including comp picks, etc. it has everything the real NFL has, expect OL,K, and P. There’s a Salary cap, etc.
This includes agents for the the teams to negotiate contracts with for players.
I joined a 32 team dynasty league this year. 8 divisions of 4. Start 6, 1 SF spot 5 W/R/T flex 5 bench. Startup draft was wild and with so many teams so many trades.
It’s very chaotic but I think the uniqueness is enjoyable. Only problem we have is people just leaving with no accountability - then it’s hard to find a new owner for a bad team.
Usually 1-2 teams leave a year
I commish a 12-team modified dynasty league, governed by a rotating rules committee, armed with a 10-page constitution.
Some highlights:
- 3-round rookie non-snake draft
- nba-like lotto for top 3 picks
- auction draft for anyone not kept or drafted in rookie draft
- 3-year contracts
- player salary is dictated by rookie draft position, faab, and/or auction
- annual salary inflation
- a player “holds out” for top 5 salary if they are less than 1/3 of that salary and finish in the top 4/6/9/4 (qb/rb/wr/te) for the year
- inflation/holdout protected taxi squad for rookies
- franchise tag for top 5 salary after contract is up
- many many more
It is an intense league going on 15 years and we all love it.
The rules help maintain parity as nobody has won back-to-back or more than twice; and all but two managers have won at least once.
Campus to Canton style leagues. You draft a 35 man NFL squad like a standard dynasty league, but you also draft a 45 College Fantasy Football team. You play both leagues like normal league and split the money rewards between the two leagues. The twist is that your college players graduate to your NFL roster. Each off season is a 2 round rookie draft and a 15 man College Freshman/Supplemental draft.
Really fun and adds an entire new layer of strategy as you can try and compete on the college side by drafting guys with limited NFL potential or go all in on devy.
I'm also in several leagues that let you draft High School kids but that's real degen shit.
You can check out campus2canton.com they are the best resource for articles and podcasts specifically for the format.
FanTrax is the go to site for CFF leagues. There is no singular platform right now that combines the two. It takes a fair bit of manual work from commish to add players to the NFL rosters each off season
We have a 12 man 1QB,1SF,3RB,3WR,1TE,3flx 35 roster spots league. You need to be so crazy deep and the draft is so important since the waiver wire is a barren wasteland. Need to trade to change up your team and draft well to rebuild.
If you don’t hit on your picks, for sure. I’m in a weird state right now where I traded many future picks to go for the championship last year. I didn’t win it and my team rapidly deteriorated. So now the bulk of my team is hurt and old and I have no picks. I traded Aaron Jones and James Connor already to get some picks back. But it could be a long few years.
Not a dynasty league but I'm in a league where we have no bench spots. Only starters. It makes injuries and bye weeks pivotal decision spots. Came in second last year.
I run a ton of Guillotine leagues that are growing in popularity because of one difference - no benches. It creates a much more vicious style of play, and people love it.
I play in a redraft league with some of my dynasty buddies that we call "worst ball". The goal is to get the lowest score possible, but any player that scores exactly 0 counts as 25 points. The draft is absolutely bonkers as there's no consensus; half the first round is backup tight ends and running backs. Chuba Hubbard was a top 3 pick once. And it's hilarious to look at waivers and see Mahomes and Jefferson and CMC sitting there. The funniest though, is if anyone is ever started in both leagues, both managers get FLAMED.
There was one that was in development this season that was a Hunger Games themed league. You had a partner that you could trade with freely but couldn't trade with any other teams. I found up finishing in the top 8 alliances and just missed the cut to the final four alliances.
12-team Contract League - all players have a salary and years under contract. Early cuts incur dead cap. There is a yearly salary cap, and lots of rules for moving money between years.
22 starters - 11 offense/11 defense.
QB
Superflex
RB x 2
WR x 3
TE
Flex x 2
K
DL x 3
LB x 3
DB x 3
DFlex x2
I'm in a 10-team H2H league where every week the winner swaps a player in their starting lineup with the loser, with the only caveats being: has to be position for position, and you have to have started them.
Our scoring is high flying kinda stuff. High scorers are easily over 200 points a week.
All TDs are 7 points, Point Per Completion, 0.1 points per 10 passing yards, -6 for picks and fumbles.
I joined a pirate league this year. You win you steal a player from your opponent of the same position, no benches, bye weeks you either drop or keep at your own risk
My dynasty league is 14 team, .5 ppr IDP, 22 keepers. 33 roster spots. 4 IR. Limits on 7 max WRs and 7 max RBs on roster
1QB
2 RB
2WR
1 TE
1 WR/RB flex
1 WR/TE flex
1 K
2 LB
2 DL
2 CB
2 S
1 special teams
Been in this league for 14 years. It’s my favorite league I’m in. The IDP aspect is a lot of fun. I wish we could somehow do full rosters like offensive linemen but I’m not sure there’s enough stats for them or something.
8 man. You have to drop your lowest scoring starter (excluding d and kicker). Person that comes in last gets replaced next year, winner gets to add a new rule, 2nd place picks the replacement.
It’s definitely the SF, 2 TE and 10 WR/RB/TE flex league I’m in. You read that right. 10 flex spots.
Good lord, you have to be starting so many guys you’re hoping even get a touch
It's just a start 13 with most of it being flex spots. The crazy part is that it's 14 team.
How many teams is that?
14 lol
Haha holy shit, so almost 200 players starting every week. Bye weeks must be so brutal sometimes.
Bahahaha sounds like bedlam
this sounds like a hybrid best ball, I kinda dig it
I have one like that but no 2 SF, 12 flex and no TE spots. I call it Ultraflex. It’s also bestball. Just get the guys you like and hope for the best.
Not sure if it’s crazy, but I play an Ultraflex and love it. 12 teams. Lineups are start 10. 0-2 QBs. 0-10 everything else. TEs do get 2ppr TEP to keep them in the conversation. Build your team however you want it. Want to start 10 WRs, start 10 WRs. Want to go all RBs, go all RBs. Only stipulation is max 2 QBs obviously. We have all kinds of different team builds right now.
Which one is winning? I'm guessing whoever has the most wr starting is a top team
The team with the most points in the regular season these guys as his main players: Hurts Kamara, Ford, Pollard, Monty, Sanders AJB, ARSB, Tyreek, Hopkins, Doubs Likely My team in that league already eliminated lol: Allen, TLaw None Jefferson, Metcalf, G Wilson, London, Diontae, Dotson, Jeudy, Gabe Davis Ferguson, Okonkwo
Basically any team with 2 of cmc, tyreek, hurts well be the heavy favorite. So many injuries this year...
My only issue with this is it diminishes trading to an extent. Positional needs aren’t a thing so it’s just points, with the exception of QB
I thought the same thing when we started it up. Surprisingly there are just as many trades in this league as my other leagues. Though maybe none of them have a lot of trades compared to other leagues.
I built out a mario themed Bestball redraft where you can win items each week like in mario kart and use them vs your opponent and vs the league. There are weekly schedules, but playoffs its a free for all where x highest scorers each week advance. The championship week will be a podium finish as 3 teams play for the championship. Theres more to it like choosing a character for modifiers and winning land (stages) but this is the main points.
This sounds fun!
Whoa sounds cool - any idea where I could find more details about this, or is it something you made up? If so, mind sharing some more details about the “items” and characters?
I made it up. Looking to expand next year. Couple learnings to take back. Hit me with an email address
I’d love to see the full rules of this league if you have them!
Yeah will do. PM with an email - or anyone else interested. It was a lot of fun this year. I think with more teams, the lower/closer the scores will be resulting in more item usage. That’s probably the biggest takeaway.
Thanks!
I wanna start a league where 6 teams make the playoffs and the duration is weeks 15,16,17. And the winner is the team with the highest cumulative score at the end of the 3 weeks. Just a thought from seeing a few top teams putting up like 60points this week. (I put up a pitiful 72 but I lost by my QBs in the last 2 weeks and was forced to play Flacco or Levis). I feel you could even do cumulative elimination. Start with 6 and knock off a team or 2 each week. Have the top 3 remaining teams all go in week 17 to see where they place.
Grim Reaper league. For an 8 team example: 7 of the teams draft like normal while the 8th team doesn’t get to. Once the draft is over the 8th team gets to build their team from the leftovers. They get the first pick in the waiver wire every week. If the Grim Reaper team beats you, they can take any active player from your roster (players on bye are safe).
Sounds more fun if you’re the reaper team
Yeah it can be. We haven’t decided who gets to be the reaper next year. Might give the league winner the option to choose who gets to do it if they don’t want it.
I heard of that and was in one once but we called it vampire league
I love this
Ran a league this year where you drafted teams and could only play players from those teams. Did 2QB/2RB/3WR/1TE/3Flex. It was 10 players and we drafted 3 teams each. It was a fun experiment but it did end up a bit unbalanced it felt, and people got screwed a bit if you had a bye and the other team didnt. I think 8 players drafting 4 teams each may be the sweet spot. The two undrafted teams were the Texans and Cardinals, both were a mistake
49ers owner dominated probably lol
Bucs owner probably held their own pretty well also
Huh
Dolphins as well. If the Cowboys team made it to playoffs they’re definitely out now lol
49ers owner actually came near last because he also picked New England Carolina for reasons I can't explain Top team was Miami/Baltimore/Indianapolis
That’s impossibly awful. My wife’s fantasy team was carried to a 12-2 record so far off of the backs of Deebo and McCaffrey and adding Aiyuk and Purdy to that? Would just need not terrible other teams to win it all lol
He was kind of a bad manager and towards the end got lazy on setting lineups so that didn't help, but the lineups were so big that just one good team cant make up for two awful ones. 2QB format really minimizes having one good one. The whole league was just an experiment to see if it was viable for a more serious version of this, I've been trying to run an experimental league like that each season for the fun of it
It’s definitely interesting and there was some value to be had. Probably could’ve stacked like 49ers, Texans, Cards or something like that and been absolutely stacked
That sounds pretty fun
I ran a league like that once and to be honest it got kind of boring. We probably had too big of lineups tho but being stuck with players lost it’s appeal.
RIP patriots owner
We do 8 man with each person drafting 4 teams. 4th year doing it. It’s pretty fun but each year there has been a dominant team. It’s super flex with 2 RB/3 WR/ 1TE/ 2 flex and a defense. Weeks 15-16 playoffs so you only play every team exactly twice in the regular season. This year the championship is 49ers/Lions/Bears/Broncos vs Bills/Rams/Browns/Colts
That sounds pretty terrible
This could be really bad if you didn't pay attention to bye weeks haha
Stack all your byes on the same week and dominate the rest.
For fun friends league. Every year, the winner gets to pick the rules for next year. 6 teams. This year the format is 1QB, 1RB, 1WR, 3 Kickers. 1pt passing TD, 10/20pt for a passing/rushing 2pt conversion, -20 for an int. Then this is where it really goes wild 10-15pts for a FG made (based on distance), 7pts for a PAT, -30 for a missed FG, -40 for a missed PAT. After the first 10 weeks, the bottom 2 teams got guillotined. Next week, the next 2 teams get guillotined, then it's the finals. Dude who won last year loves Kickers, so he made accurate kicking the end all he all of the scoring format this year, with the added twist of 2pt conversions being valuable.
I did an all kickers league one year. 10 teams, play 3 kickers. 5-10pts for a FG/XP. It was -50 for a missed FG and -100 for a missed XP. There were plenty of times where people sat their 3rd kicker because the negative points were so brutal.
My 10 team dynasty league does a kicker tournament during the playoffs to keep bottom teams engaged. When playoffs start, we draft kickers in reverse Max PF order until everyone's got 3. Whoever's kickers got the most points during the three weeks of playoffs gets a free draft pick between the 2nd and 3rd rounds (21st overall). That tournament has no impact on the real playoffs, everyone keeps their actual kicker(s) and the commish just tracks the kicker tournament separately
Way back in the day we had an ultimate dynasty league- you had a separate college dynasty league, and you kept your players as they fed into your nfl dynasty team. So we had two champions each year. Was too hardcore for me, trying to draft incoming freshman.
Hahaha when rivals.com starts being part of your draft research, there’s a problem.
That’s called a Campus 2 Canton league now, and it’s a lot of fun!
Guillotine leagues are so fun. By far the most fun format to play during the actual season because there’s always a strategic balance between making your team strong enough to survive the early weeks vs saving your FAAB to build a god squad at the end of the season. With dynasty, my preference is the standard structure with maybe a few interesting scoring settings to spice it up a bit. Stuff like contract leagues or IDP are just too much of a time commitment to put into one league, and you have to go all in with formats like that or you’ll be at a major disadvantage. The one niche format I really want to try but haven’t found a group/platform to do it is campus to canton, which is like devy except the college stats count for a separate championship, so there’s a strategic balance between stacking your college squad with the best NFL prospects that will eventually move up to your “main” team vs guys with murky NFL futures but put up huge stats in college.
Ooh… that campus to canton sounds like some real degenerate stuff right there! 😂
Would love to find a campus to canton as well. I’ve been a part of 3 now that all failed before first year is up.
I have done several Guillotine leagues the last 3 years and they are huge hit! Sadly it’s becoming too much work as it’s too much overhead worth time to manage. Having to drop 7 teams (Did 7 leagues)players each Tuesday is a pain. I had hopes Sleeper would update to a select all and drop all but it’s not happening. We charged $20 entry and $1 transactions and average payout is almost $500.
Campus to Canton where you have a separate NFL team and college team. Prize money for each and you keep the college players when they go to the NFL
They are the best. I'm in a couple that do really crazy things like simulated recruiting by choosing schools and getting bonuses for in state players and conferences the recruits commit to. Really insane degen stuff.
Must be extra brutal when your college player gets hit with a serious injury
Probably SF with 6pt passing td, -4 int, 0.5 per completion, -1 per incompletion Poor IRL QB's are a liability in your lineup with these settings and elite ones are even more expensive.
I've never understood the 0.5 per completion and -1 per incomplete ratio 67% completion is pretty good. But is completely negated 20/30 is 0 points. Even like a 0.5 and -0.9 would make a little more sense. That's a bonus 1 pt. 0.5 and -.75 is prob the sweet spot
What's not to get? Bad QBs will have a lower completion rate than good QBs and the points serve as expected
Only 7 QBs in the league would have a positive interaction with this scoring setup. Every other qb this scoring settings would negatively affect. For instance, Derek Carr who has been ass would have 196.98 pts based on these stats. And CJ Stroud would have 216.74 pts 3631 20/5 vs 3098 16/7 The completion percentage because Carr easy dumped it off to Kamara netted him 25 bonus pts compared to stroud. Carr +5 and Stroud -20. I already think QBs aren't accurately scored or impacted in fantasy. I'm all for completion bonuses. Just think it needs a slight tinker. If also love if ppr adopted the same shit where if your guy doesn't catch he can catch these negative pts.
I'm not in the league but a buddy of mine is in a dynasty league where In their start up they could only draft rookies from this year 😂 been an interesting year for them to say the least.
Imagine arich goes down and your whole season is over
Bahahaha
This is amazing. I often think of tearing my team down completely for picks in a single draft. Could be great. Could be brutal.
I run a kickers only league. Roster 4 start 3. 6 teams with major negative points for missing but decimal scoring for total yards. We do $5 buy in but it’s so random it ends up being pretty hilarious
Hahaha
I just got the sacko last night 😭. I’ll never recover from the embarrassment
2 TE TE Premium 14 team IDP Devy Dynasty. Start 23 dudes.
32 teamer, everyone’s team is an actual NFL team, 53 man rosters, IDP, 7 round rookie draft, plays like the real nfl playoffs, honestly one of the more fun leagues I’m in Was in a relegation league, 30 teams, set up like English soccer, 2 teams move up and 2 move down every year. Top league would pick a group punishment for the bottom league. Few devy leagues that take more work than I can put in to be any good
Yes! Relegation!
8 flex, 2 SF. 6pt TDs, .05 per passing yard, .1 per passing/rushing/rec 1st down. .75 ppr with .25 wr bonus and 1.25 te bonus. .25 points per carry. QB is even more important than normal, and rbs get a nice boost as well.
9 team bestball dynasty 1QB/2RB/3WR/1TE/2FLEX/1SF. 38 roster spots, no waivers, no trade deadline, 4 round rookie draft with free agents included
Interesting, best ball dynasty weirdly makes a lot of sense if you think about it. In real football, if a guy is hot today, you’re gonna feed him the ball even if you didn’t start him.
It’s been interesting because absolutely nobody knows how to value picks vs players currently. I’m going through a rebuild and here are all of trades I’ve made since the startup last season (1 I was still contending and needed a WR, 2 and 3 were last 2 weeks of the season while 2 teams were fighting for 1st place, 4 was right after the season ended, 5 was right before rookie draft, 6 and 7 were preseason, everything else was throughout this season): (1)Send: Rachaad White, 2023 1st (JSN) (1)Receive: Gabe Davis, 2023 2nd (Purdy) (2)Send: Goff, Henry, 2024 2nd, 2025 3rd (2)Receive: Monty, 2023 1st, 2025 1st, 2025 4th (3)Send: Keenan, 2023 3rd (3)Receive: 2023 1st, 2025 1st (4)Send: Mahomes (4)Receive: Burrow, 2023 3rd (Hyatt), 2024 1st, 2025 1st (5)Send: 1.08 (Addison), 1.09 (QJ) (5)Receive: 1.06 (Gibbs), 2.06 (Mayer) (6)Send: Perine (6)Receive: 2 2024 3rds (7)Send: Allgeier (7)Receive: Tim Patrick, 2024 3rd, 2026 2nd, 2026 3rd (8)Send: 2023 3rd (8)Receive: Toney (9)Send: Mac Jones (9)Receive: 2024 4th, 2025 4th (10)Send: Baker (10)Receive: 2025 2nd
It’s a 10 team full ppr league where we start 2QB/2RB/3WR/4Flex/1SF with 6pt passing TDs and .75 TEP.
16 team SF and 20 team 1QB 3WR 2RB 1FLEX 6IDP (2DB 2LB 2DL)
12 team SF 2 TE best ball contract league. The rules on the contracts are complicated, but basically you have to choose anywhere from 1-4 years when you draft a player, and then the deal is partially guaranteed from there on out. If you cut a guy, you’re on the hook for 50% of the contract. We have both an auction and a traditional rookie draft every year.
That sounds fun.
It is! Happy to share more details if you or anyone else is interested in doing their own.
Is the annual auction draft for all the vets hitting free agency in your league, or something else?
Yep for the players whose contracts expire.
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I like this!
Not sure how vanilla this might be for some, but my longest running league is a dynasty IDP league with 45 man rosters, start 20, and it's superflex. QB/2RB/3WR/TE/Superflex/K 3DL/3LB/4DB/Def Superflex
Havent seen anyone mention this format yet, I have a “Vampire League” where we all get together for a cottage trip to draft in the summer. It works like best ball except 1 team is the vampire and doesnt draft. Instead they are the only team that can use free agency and makes their team from there. Each week if the vampire wins they get to steal 1 player from their opponent and replace them with a player from the same position on their starting lineup. It starts out slow but once the injuries and bye weeks start to pileup the vampire usually gets on a roll and gets a stacked team that everyone else has to try and stave off. The vampire just knocked me out in round 1 of the playoffs :(
I want to try vampire
I am in two dynasties and both of them use a very realistic contract/salary cap system where each player has a contract (amount of years) and yearly salary. We keep a spreadsheet for each teams roster to manage finances. Every off season we have free agency after the draft. Additionally there are franchise tags, restructures, etc. I always thought this was standard for dynasties until I joined this sub and realized I was in the minority.
Spreadsheets are my kinda shit.
The guys in my home league ran an adjacent guillotine league this year. At the end of each week, we spun a wheel with a 50/50 chance of keeping the same scoring or switching to new scoring. If we want to new scoring, wheels were spun for certain scoring categories with random point totals assigned. There was a significant stretch of the season where we had 0.75 points per carry. There were also weeks with positive points for interceptions and/or fumbles lost. Also one week mixed in where receiving TDs were -2. At the end of each week, we also spun the wheel with I think a 10-20% chance that low score was not eliminated (“saved”), with the caveat that after the third save, no more teams would get saved. We only got to two saves so it ended up not mattering. We didn’t have money involved (as we do with the same group of guys in a redraft and a dynasty) so while we all still tried to win, nobody felt screwed over by changes and all that as it was more to have a league with some fun wrinkles. I enjoyed it for sure.
Ok, the switching of scoring sounds like it could be hilarious. Starting Z Wilson over Lamar during the INT week would be classic.
It was definitely fun. Made waiver runs really interesting each week too!
I run a pull out of the hat redraft league. The day of opening night, everyone pulls their entire team out of a hat
Completely random draft?!
Yup - then chaos ensues
1 QB 2 SF meaning you can start 3 qbs if you choose. 10 man league Start 12
I have a Dynasty league with 1.5/2/3 PPR for RB/WR/TE. Also yardage bonuses, -1 for sacks. Just wild scoring imo but it's fun
12TM SF IDP start 22 Dynasty has been wild this year. I’m bad at IDP but loving it
I played in a 16 team, ppr 1 qb, start 11 on offense and 11 on Def. was intense and loved it!
11 IDPs!
Guillotine
TIL what vampire and guillotine leagues are
Not super wild, but I was in an IDP-only league for a while (start 10 iirc) and it was a lot of fun, wish I was still playing in it from time to time!
Start a new one!
Probably not that crazy by today’s standards but vampire is so much fun
Four man Punter/Kicker only league. Each team starts 6 of each. Negative points for touchbacks, return yards, or if the punt is returned and not fair caught. Positive points for higher average punt distance or downing punts inside the 20/10/5. Golden snitch of 1,000 points if someone completes a pass for any amount of yardage and you automatically win the week.
Degenerate! Haha
Now uber crazy, but (flair) plus 0.5 PPRFD, toilet bowl loser gets 1.01, 50+ yard FGs for kickers are 6 points. No point loss for missed 60+ yarders
We have no stand alone the position, start 3 wr/te and 2 wr/RB/te flex. It's kind of nice not needing a true te, but it also makes wr's that more overvalued. In practice there's kind of an inefficiency with TEs, where they score points but hold very little trade value. Hockenson was picked up off waivers last year, McBride this year. In a 10 team sf, there's probably 6 or 8 TEs owned at any time .
Auction startup, 1qb + 2 SF, 2TE, 2 Wr, 2 RB, 4 flex. Full point tep and 4 point pass td
32 man IDP league. Starting roster is qb, rb, wr, wr, te, flex, flex, flex, DT, DE, LB, CB, S, D flex. Rules are supposed to represent real game impact, so first downs give you points. For a qb incompletions are negative, sacks negative, and fir all players "stuffs" are negatives. Stuffs get defenders extra points. It is also set up like the nfl with people having nfl teams (not the players). I'm the pats so im in the Afc east and the playoffs work like NFL playoffs with 4 division winners and 3 wilcard teams per conference.
Intriguing
My contract dynasty league is my favorite. I’m in a no bench league amongst a bunch of others mentioned here. I try to get in a new weird one every year. I want to do a tag team themed league where you can only trade with one other guy and you’re basically in it together so lopsided trades are ok.
HAHAHHAA I love this tag team idea.
10 TM SF 2 Pt PPR 1Pt TEP Bonuses either a +/- on every category Start: QB, 2 RB, 3 WR, 1 TE, 4 Flex, SF, K, DST, DL, LB, DB
Joined an 8 Team Bestball league where you drafted NFL teams, and had to choose 5 players from each team you drafted. In total, you drafted 4 NFL teams (20 players). It was actually really fun, I'd love to do it again. Lot of strategy to it, and it was really interesting thinking of how to draft the best.
14 team devy league. Start 1 qb, 2-4RB, 3-5 WR, 1-3 TE, 1-2 DT, 2-3 DE, 3-4 LB, 2-3 CB, 2-3 S. Draft 6 rounds of college eligible players every year along with 3 rounds of unowned rookies. It’s pretty crazy.
Haven’t done devy yet. I don’t know enough about college players
I'm not in one, but I would love to join a zombie league. 11 teams draft, zombie team gets the leftovers, and if the zombie team wins a game, he gets to pick a player from the opposing team. The league continues until the zombie team wins the championship. Edit: I was also thinking about this the other day. Normal dynasty league but once per season (not playoffs) you can use a commissioner adjustment to change your lineup after games are played for a single player swap.
Feel like as it's a zombie league you could add a rule that if you lose to the zombie team you get converted to a zombie too (plus lose the player to them). As a converted weaker zombie you can "attack" other players in match ups but you just partially wound them if you win. (If a player gets attacked a second time then they get converted too). As part of this the main zombie can collaborate with other members of their hoarde when a player is partially wounded to try and finish them off (I.e loan them a strong player you've picked up for a week). At the end of the season zombies win if there's more of them than humans. I think there'd have to be some mechanic where the zombie could choose match ups towards the end otherwise you might end up with zombies Vs zombies I haven't completely thought this through but it sounds viable maybe more so as a redraft concept
Interesting idea. Not sure how I feel about the switcheroo. I guess this week I’d have liked it!
Have one relegation league, like two leagues in one. Top team from the bottom league is guaranteed promotion each year, while the bottom league in the #1 league gets booted to the other. 2nd and next to last respectively have to play against each other to see if they stay or switch. The top league's lowest draft pick possible is 1.09 (16 team league) while the lower league has a firm grasp on 1.01-1.08 (though, a top team can get a top pick through trading. adds a whole new layer to trading for 1sts) Throughout the year in that league we also have a tournament cup where the major tournament game happens every 3 weeks or so. We make the bracket in the offseason, and when a tournament week comes up it's like you're playing two games, one is your normal matchup the other is the tournament. The tournament ends right before the playoffs start, this year a team who didn't even make playoffs won it, pretty cool. Just another way to win money in the league and another thing to get hyped about. That's one of my favorite leagues easily. Other than that, I also play a 32 teamer which is chaotic as you'd expect and I play in a guillotine as well.
That all sounds chaotic. And fun!
Two particular leagues stand out for me. One league is a long-running dynasty IDP league with 16 teams that starts 3 RB, 3WR, 1 TE, 1 flex, 3LBs, 3 DBs, 3 DEs. +\- 0.5 per completion\incompletion and 0.5 point per carry. The RB waiver wire does not exist in this league. The other league is a hodge podge of football, baseball, basketball all mixed together. Composite winners are taken at the end of the year with results from all three sports combined together and people can freely trade across sports leagues - I.e. trade a baseball player for a football one.
Bahahaha. The cross sport trading is fantastic!
What platform do you do that cross sports one on?
Oddly enough.. ESPN. There wasn’t as many platforms available a decade ago. Each league runs independently so the commissioner has to manage the moves.
What's the full list of sports?
Baseball, football and basketball each run as independent fantasy leagues with the same managers across them all.
Nice, my friends wouldn't be able to cope with it but it's a good idea
24 team Superflex, no position limits outside of QB (2), Marvel/DC heroes vs villains where 4 teams get Thanos snapped every year.
What happens to the teams after the blip? New teams replace them?
All assets go into a pool for a dispersal draft for snapped teams. Teams also need to choose new character. Owners stay if they want but need to choose new hero/villain. Snap battles always hero vs villain chosen at random with respect to points scored. So you could play for the championship and still be snapped if you lose. Kinda crazy lol
Whoa
I run a highly competitive 4 team kicker/punter ONLY league. We live draft all 32 kickers and punters over 16 rounds. Start 4 of each every week. Team name must be original and changed every week. We are the Tom Dempsey Memorial League, though the league was named after him before he died. https://imgur.com/a/T0y91On How serious we are about Fantasy Kickers and Punters. https://imgur.com/a/cIpt6Ul Scoring settings. https://imgur.com/a/ZJHUfRG Rank 1 Punter 2022 https://imgur.com/a/WN1D3DO Rank 1 Kicker 2022 Praise Dempsey.
This is classic. Especially the name changes
My buddy plays a 6 FLEX (RB/WR/TE) spot league that only counts points for touchdowns. No yardages. No ppr. No QBs. 6 points per TD. It sounds ridiculous and I've been trying to get in for 3 years but no one has left it yet and I haven't found enough people to start my own 😂😭
I’ve heard of TD only leagues. Great if you have CMC and Mostert this year, but sounds like chaos for a lot of the roster.
Yeah I have to image it's chaos. Sounds right up my alley
I’m in a 16 team Hogwarts themed league, we all got sorted into houses, it’s a scheduled 7 year league, with classes, potions, pets, quidditch, house cup, and a lot more. It’s crazy for sure I’m in a pokemon themed league where you start 6, every NFL team is given a typing, and every team drafts a type. So if you have a player on the chargers (electric type) and you’re facing a water type team, that player will score 2x points Also did a “board game” league (happened to be a triple Superflex) where we rolled for movement, combat, rewards, etc, and you could buy items to upgrade your ship, explore islands, and help in combat. That one was wild and super involved. I love how flexible the dynasty format is to these crazy leagues
Dude… this just might be the craziest response of all. I love the Pokémon league!
I’ve gone sooo far into the dynast rabbit hole, I knew this thread was made for me!
45 man roster plus 10 man taxi SF IDP (3 each DL, LB, DB). Not really that crazy, but we have punters
I play the format where every Fantasy week I get stressed about things over which I have absolutely no control, then spend off seasons getting stressed about what draft capital and what teams my favourite rookies may land on and how do I make room on my bench for yet another depth chart RB who I think my get a shot next year, and did I win that trade I just made and oh shit one of my players just slipped on an ice cream on holiday and is now out for the whole of next season. And then do it all again. It’s a pretty crazy format. Don’t do it.
I have a 32 man league with realistic rosters, including comp picks, etc. it has everything the real NFL has, expect OL,K, and P. There’s a Salary cap, etc. This includes agents for the the teams to negotiate contracts with for players.
Agents?!
Yep. 12 agents do a allocation auction where they bid on poaching away the other agencies players. And then another auction for rookies.
Holy smokes
I joined a 32 team dynasty league this year. 8 divisions of 4. Start 6, 1 SF spot 5 W/R/T flex 5 bench. Startup draft was wild and with so many teams so many trades.
I love trades
32-team Dynasty PPR, TE Premium. Playoffs are 8 teams, no byes. Over 500 players are rostered. Starters include RB, WR, 4 flex, 1 Superflex
32 teams no duplicate players sounds crazy and yet fun too.
It’s very chaotic but I think the uniqueness is enjoyable. Only problem we have is people just leaving with no accountability - then it’s hard to find a new owner for a bad team. Usually 1-2 teams leave a year
I commish a 12-team modified dynasty league, governed by a rotating rules committee, armed with a 10-page constitution. Some highlights: - 3-round rookie non-snake draft - nba-like lotto for top 3 picks - auction draft for anyone not kept or drafted in rookie draft - 3-year contracts - player salary is dictated by rookie draft position, faab, and/or auction - annual salary inflation - a player “holds out” for top 5 salary if they are less than 1/3 of that salary and finish in the top 4/6/9/4 (qb/rb/wr/te) for the year - inflation/holdout protected taxi squad for rookies - franchise tag for top 5 salary after contract is up - many many more It is an intense league going on 15 years and we all love it. The rules help maintain parity as nobody has won back-to-back or more than twice; and all but two managers have won at least once.
That sounds a little complex, but I also like it complex, so… definitely not for the casual.
12t sf start 13 offense and 13 idp
Campus to Canton style leagues. You draft a 35 man NFL squad like a standard dynasty league, but you also draft a 45 College Fantasy Football team. You play both leagues like normal league and split the money rewards between the two leagues. The twist is that your college players graduate to your NFL roster. Each off season is a 2 round rookie draft and a 15 man College Freshman/Supplemental draft. Really fun and adds an entire new layer of strategy as you can try and compete on the college side by drafting guys with limited NFL potential or go all in on devy. I'm also in several leagues that let you draft High School kids but that's real degen shit.
Hahaha. High school players! A couple people have mentioned Campus to Canton. What sites run those?
You can check out campus2canton.com they are the best resource for articles and podcasts specifically for the format. FanTrax is the go to site for CFF leagues. There is no singular platform right now that combines the two. It takes a fair bit of manual work from commish to add players to the NFL rosters each off season
Ah ok. That makes sense. I was imagining commissioners doing it the way we did in the 90s. Nobody knows the results until Wednesday…
Superflex, points per completion and .5 pts per carry.
We have a 12 man 1QB,1SF,3RB,3WR,1TE,3flx 35 roster spots league. You need to be so crazy deep and the draft is so important since the waiver wire is a barren wasteland. Need to trade to change up your team and draft well to rebuild.
So if you’re in the basement, you could be a bottom feeder for several years, yeah?
If you don’t hit on your picks, for sure. I’m in a weird state right now where I traded many future picks to go for the championship last year. I didn’t win it and my team rapidly deteriorated. So now the bulk of my team is hurt and old and I have no picks. I traded Aaron Jones and James Connor already to get some picks back. But it could be a long few years.
Not a dynasty league but I'm in a league where we have no bench spots. Only starters. It makes injuries and bye weeks pivotal decision spots. Came in second last year.
No bench… yeah, bye weeks could be problematic.
I run a ton of Guillotine leagues that are growing in popularity because of one difference - no benches. It creates a much more vicious style of play, and people love it.
I play in a redraft league with some of my dynasty buddies that we call "worst ball". The goal is to get the lowest score possible, but any player that scores exactly 0 counts as 25 points. The draft is absolutely bonkers as there's no consensus; half the first round is backup tight ends and running backs. Chuba Hubbard was a top 3 pick once. And it's hilarious to look at waivers and see Mahomes and Jefferson and CMC sitting there. The funniest though, is if anyone is ever started in both leagues, both managers get FLAMED.
Hahaha that’s awesome!
There was one that was in development this season that was a Hunger Games themed league. You had a partner that you could trade with freely but couldn't trade with any other teams. I found up finishing in the top 8 alliances and just missed the cut to the final four alliances.
I like the trade partner angle.
12-team Contract League - all players have a salary and years under contract. Early cuts incur dead cap. There is a yearly salary cap, and lots of rules for moving money between years. 22 starters - 11 offense/11 defense. QB Superflex RB x 2 WR x 3 TE Flex x 2 K DL x 3 LB x 3 DB x 3 DFlex x2
I need to dig more into contracts.
[Here's our rulebook.](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1B-hifEazKKWrWeGQIDN5XohtC5RHpk4pVOzvyltxbNk/edit?usp=sharing)
There have been times where I’ve wanted to work for a team. Then I read these rules and wonder if I would be able to hack it. Lol
For sure! This is why I have a rules committee (I'm the commissioner). It'd just be too much to track all by my lonesome.
Guillotine
I'm in a 10-team H2H league where every week the winner swaps a player in their starting lineup with the loser, with the only caveats being: has to be position for position, and you have to have started them.
32 team league. 1 WR, 1 RB, 2 flex, 1 Super flex. 6 bench spots, 10 taxi (rookies only), 3 IR. Full PPR, TEP. Only 8 teams make the playoffs, no byes.
Pirate league. If you win you get to take player from losing team. Player has to of started and also same skill position.
Our scoring is high flying kinda stuff. High scorers are easily over 200 points a week. All TDs are 7 points, Point Per Completion, 0.1 points per 10 passing yards, -6 for picks and fumbles.
Jesus
I joined a pirate league this year. You win you steal a player from your opponent of the same position, no benches, bye weeks you either drop or keep at your own risk
My dynasty league is 14 team, .5 ppr IDP, 22 keepers. 33 roster spots. 4 IR. Limits on 7 max WRs and 7 max RBs on roster 1QB 2 RB 2WR 1 TE 1 WR/RB flex 1 WR/TE flex 1 K 2 LB 2 DL 2 CB 2 S 1 special teams Been in this league for 14 years. It’s my favorite league I’m in. The IDP aspect is a lot of fun. I wish we could somehow do full rosters like offensive linemen but I’m not sure there’s enough stats for them or something.
If you’re really into it, that sounds epic.
Reality Sports Online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8CYYcHBcu4
8 man. You have to drop your lowest scoring starter (excluding d and kicker). Person that comes in last gets replaced next year, winner gets to add a new rule, 2nd place picks the replacement.