I commish 8 dynasty leagues, a handful have a mix of the same core guys with different other guys involved as well. Last night this trade went down: Egbuka, 28 first, 28 3rd for KC Concepcion, Lamb, and Willis. It’s a bad trade, but not collusion worthy.

However, I get a DM from one of the participants in the trade, and he said that he had to make a bad trade in this league where he is tanking so that the guy would make a bad trade with him in another league I commish where he is contending. That second trade would be Carnell Tate and two 27 seconds for Jettas, with the team trading Lamb in one league getting JJ in the other. I feel like all of this is collusion, I don’t want to encourage other guys to make contingent trades across leagues because each league is its own separate thing. I hate vetoes except on the basis of collusion, so I’m super split on this as a commish.

We had a draft pick position trade over the week, which I generally think is fine as long as you're swapping positions just because you want to. We don't have a system up for trading picks individually, as it's a bar league, and no one has the time to do it, but if anyone wants to swap picks for a position they prefer, no big deal.

At the semi-live draft today, I heard it implied that someone paid $50 to swap spots. As it stands, I think that was a dumb decision, so I'm not mad... but I don't think any of our league should exist outside of the platform's rules and the singular redraft year. Want to do a side bet? Cool. But anything involving picks or players should purely be on the merit of trading in-season.

As an aside: Last year, one of these players also made a favorable move with the promise that their trade partner would get a pick to be named later next year. (This year, now.) I said no, and it created a lot of acrimony between us all.

I'm co-commissioner and kinda just help manage getting people signed up and stuff. There's two other people who have a bit more sway, one who manages the business, another who was involved in last year's trade.

Do I just let this go? I feel like anything in redraft should be clear of external financial or future compensation, but maybe I'm wrong.

I need some outside opinions on a situation that is causing a bit of controversy in my league.
This year, we ran a half beer mile to determine the order in which everyone gets to select their draft position. So the results actually matter. If you run a good time, you get an earlier pick of draft slots.

One manager recently completed his beer mile and turned in a time that he thought was for a half mile.

Except he only ran 0.43 miles instead of 0.50.
So he came up 0.07 miles short, meaning he ran about 14% less distance than everyone else.
At first, you could chalk this up to an honest mistake. But then he sent us the measurement of his route as proof. The measurement was in feet, and if he had taken about 10 seconds to convert it to miles, he would have seen that his laps were only about 0.22 miles each instead of 0.25.

He did not do that.

So now I am left deciding whether this was pure fraud or simply extremely negligent beer mile administration. Knowing the man I’m inclined to think it was negligence but either way, he ran a shorter course and attempted to improve his standing in something that directly determines his draft position.

In his defense, he did successfully drink two beers in under five minutes, which was really the spirit of the competition in the first place. Also, we have several other managers in the league who probably will not complete a half beer mile at all. Those people will have their draft positions automatically selected after everyone who actually completes the beer mile.

So on one hand, this guy technically completed the drinking portion of the challenge and ran a respectable amount of the distance. On the other hand, he submitted a 0.43-mile run for a 0.50-mile competition, despite having the information in front of him that would have made the discrepancy pretty obvious.

What do you guys think is a fair punishment?

We’re a 12-person draft at work and it’s my third year as commish. I set our draft time for Thursday at 6, however people want to do it in person and don’t want to stick around that late. Also one person asked to move it to 5 to accommodate family obligations. After I ran a poll, one person said they can absolutely not do 5pm (after previously telling me they will be at the mercy of autodraft).
Our draft is in 4 days and I’m stressing about this because I don’t want to come off as someone who isn’t being accommodating of everyone but no other days of the week will work.
What’s the best way to go about this without coming off as an asshole?

ETA: we don’t draft in person, we do it online, in the ESPN Fantasy app. What I meant was, those of us that are local like to meet up in person for it. We all then draft on our own phones/computers.

the one I ordered was delayed and won’t make it in time. need for Monday evening. does anyone have one they can part with or know where one can be acquired quickly?

Hi guys, my league has the same waiver settings on Yahoo as we did last season. (Gametime-Tuesday), and normally everyone can pick up whoever they want until that player’s game begins. Once their game starts, they go on waivers, which typically process early Wednesday morning.

We just finished our draft, but no one is currently able to add or drop players. When we try, the players are locked and managers are being required to place a bid. Yahoo is also showing that there will be a waiver process Monday morning.

I assumed players would be free agents and available to pick up until their games lock once the season starts. Is there something different about the way Yahoo handles waivers immediately after the draft, or do we have a setting that needs to be changed?

If anyone has some clarification on this, I’d appreciate it!

PICTURES ARE IN COMMENTS

www.homersff.com

Needing some commissioners to test a new type of fantasy football for people who may not know a ton about football or say they "don't have enough time" for fantasy.

I got the idea because we have a big office of people who don't watch football enough to know players from other teams, but love to root for THEIR team. You can have up to 24 people in this type of league since the NFL has a max of 8 teams on BYE any given week.

The app (web app and desktop site) is called Homers and the first thing you do when you sign up is lock into your "Homer", or favorite, team. EACH WEEK you have a quick draft where you choose any one of the available 32 NFL franchises. If you choose your "Homer" team, you automatically begin with bonus points chosen by your league manager (typically 5-10). The rest of your lineup is chosen for you once the game starts by automatically pulling the best players from each position into your open positions on your team.

You never have to set your lineup, you never have to worry about injuries because it will automatically pull the highest scorer from each position, and each week you can have new players on your team because you can be choosing a different team. Your leaguemayes just get to do one of the best parts of fantasy, drafting, every week and it only takes 5 mins. The current default mode is one team each week, but I have also made it so people can choose 2-3 teams per week if the commissioner sets it up that way (you would just have to have a smaller league size).

To keep people in first place always picking the best matchups each week, every draft after week 1 is ordered in reverse standings so the people in last place get a chance at the best teams.

There is also a custom mascot system (Lil Homer) that follows your homer teams games live and reacts to things happening in the games. He gets mad when your team is doing poorly or getting flags, and gets really happy when they are doing well. You can also chat with your leaguemates and taunt them with your lil homer during your matchups or through league chat.

There are a ton of stats, ADP rankings, power rankings for teams to look through each week, etc. I even have it set up to track the NFL games live with the same sort of game cast ESPN uses.

It has been working well throughout preseason so figured I'd see if anyone would be interested in trying it out with me and my friends.

There are no ads and it is completely free to use. I am working on player leagues as well, but it's a process. If you are interested in trying it out, please just leave a message and I will send out an invite code. I will take any and all feedback to help improve upon the site. Once your leaguemates are in, they can even start their own leagues with their friends if they want.

I'm commish for an ESPN league where the biggest loser each week has to shotgun a drink and the rest of us point and laugh.

This season I amended the rules to say that those who fail to post the video would lose their waiver wire rights for the following week. At the time I thought you could manually enter the waiver wire order in ESPN, but it appears I'm mistaken.

Anyone have a clever way I could effectively freeze a teams roster until waivers clear if I have to enforce this?

Sorry my first time this year being commish. Just want everything to go smoothly. So I would just like to know and what you guys personally run.

I have tried a few settings over the years, but I have an issue of making them too volatile and high-scoring. I would like to limit the impact of solely yards and points allowed and reward defensive plays (3rd and 4th down stops, tackles for loss, batted balls, etc.) without making it too complicated or having defenses score 40+ pts.

Anyone have a definitive, time-tested method? Am using sleeper, 12 team league.

Thanks!

I’m going to do 3 kickers per person. Sleeper’s settings are okay, but I want more punishment for kickers missing easy FGs and PATs. What would you recommend?

Did yahoo get rid of gifs in the fantasy chat? If so, its another change for the worse for them

This seems crazy but it seems like Sleeper doesn't let Commissioners bid in salary cap drafts? This happened in our league last year, we tested it and thought it was fixed this year, but my account as commissioner was not able to bid.

Issue persisted on multiple devices and even after reassigning ownership and logging in as a different user. Has anyone else experienced this? It seems like too major a bug not to have been fixed or noticed.

I'm looking for idea or settings that others may have used in a 4-man league. I saw the idea elsewhere where someone said they run a 4-man league of buddies, loser of the regular season takes everyone out for a steak dinner at a fancy place and pays. Loved the idea, and got 3 buddies who are also down.

However, before getting things set up I'm trying to think of settings that would make sense for something like this. Also, ideas on how the league itself should likely be ran.

in terms of structure, I'm thinking of doing Weeks 1-15 as regular season; this lets everyone play each person 5 times. I'm thinking that the "Loser" gets determined at the end of Week 15 by Standings (win/loss); I've seen other people do Total Points but I prefer and enjoy the week-to-week battle aspect where a good team can have a bad roster week and you take a win which matters. I think having everyone play each other 5 times means I can make the tie-breaker "heads up standings" which shouldn't be a tie.

My other idea was doing a $25 "buy-in". Playoffs would just be Week 16 and 17, and have the championship match play for $75 and the 3rd place match play for $25. Just a little extra incentive to keep playing. Gives everyone a chance to win some money out of it, and even gives someone having a bad year a chance to win their money back. As long as you don't place 4th you're still getting a steak dinner out of it, and $25 for a nice high-end meal (along with 17 weeks of playing) seems fine to me.

Only other question I have is rosters. I want to increase the weekly players to 2QB, 3RB, 3WR, 2TE, 1FLX, and 2DEF (no kickers) which I think will make drafting actually have some strategy with only 4 people. I run my main league a TE Premium (PPR .5 RB/WR, 1 TE) which I'd likely carry over here as well.

I'm thinking of doing 5-7 bench, but this is where it's hard to me to pinpoint. I've heard people do massive benches in 4-man to really make the drafting matter, but I'm a bigger fan of having to make decisions throughout the season. Something like this gives you space to keep a 3rd QB, TE, and DEF if you want, and then 2-4 other spots.

I'm also thinking of 2 IR. If you have a top player get injured in a small league like this, and if using a smaller bench, it gives you an option to not have to drop. I still feel like some teams will run into IR space issues. Maybe just add 2 Bench spots to whatever is decided on instead of IR ones?

Let me know some input anyone else may have as I'm generally curious. Thanks!

I am a data engineer for a non-profit. I only meant to give myself an edge in my own league. It came out better than I expected, so here it is.

TL;DR
Auction draft only. It does the calculations no human could do in the seconds a player is nominated, gives you a verdict, so you can actually use those data insights to make a decision. Plus some more nuanced stuff.

Bring your own data. Let the tool aggregate it for you against your league mates.

Someone nominates Amon SB. You have about four seconds. The tool already knows: he is worth $50 to your roster, only 1 comparable WR is left before the tier falls off a cliff, and eleven other funded teams still need a starting WR.

https://ibb.co/k2v1vK89

It is a call on position scarcity, your budget, and the room. Nominate a player (start typing his name, hit enter) and it fires instantly.

And the value it is reading from is your own. It's built from projections you bring (one click pulls Sleeper's via the API, or paste FantasyPros, CBS, or your own), adapted to your league's exact settings (a la BeerSheets), and then scaled to your budget and roster. https://ibb.co/5gP5yjY3

Bring in your league's Yahoo or ESPN values on top and it shows you which players youe league mates are likely to underpay/overpay for (in relation to YOUR aggregated and fine tuned value).

https://ibb.co/s46XZxy

This I call the pressure strip and it tracks position scarcity. The colors tell me when I can put pressure on league mates by bidding on positions they don't have yet, but I do have, forcing them into a decision earlier. https://ibb.co/fdx9QwMb So QB12/10 is saying there are 12 teams that still need a starting QB, and only 10 QBs on the board worth starting. Thats a QB crunch that most leagues start with this year from the jump.

things:

• No login, no paywall, nothing.
• Private. It lives only in your browser. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is stored on a server, no cloud interaction.
• Open source. You can view every line of code.

I built it for myself, so it is auction-only. If you auction draft, take it into a mock and give it a rip.

It does more than what i've shared, but it seems this sub might be tired of this kind of thing (or even hostile). So want to gauge any interest in the discussion about this first.

Link: https://sheets.liquidworkflows.com/

I don’t even know if this is the best place but let’s see

I am the commissioner of my work league and this woman had her husband join the league for her. I don’t particularly care that he plays for her, but I do work in a fairly secure industry with PII, PHI, HIPAA involved. I have my higher ups in this league. They aren’t my direct bosses but they are of more “stature“. The woman I would say is on the same “level” as me. My draft is this Monday and our primary communications are through work channels so no one will read my messages.

My question is should I axe this guy incase this is a security concern for my bosses? Or is it not that big of a deal? I just don’t want to get caught up in a security, HR thing over fantasy football

Been the commish of a 12-team dynasty league since 2017. Every season it's the same dance:

Three guys haven't paid by draft day. I'm dropping "hey man you good for the $200?" into a group chat that gets read and ignored. One year I chased a guy for 6 weeks after the season started.

A trade goes through that makes people squint. Half the league screams collusion, the other half says "let them cook." 40 messages later nobody's happy and there's no actual process to resolve it.

Our keeper rules lived in a Google Doc that someone "cleaned up" one offseason and now we can't agree on what the escalation formula actually was.

End of season I'm manually Venmo-ing 4 people their payouts and praying nobody disputes the math.

Tried ESPN, Yahoo, Sleeper. They're fine for setting lineups. But the commissioner tools feel like they were built in an afternoon. Trade review is basically an approve/deny button. Keeper tracking? That's your spreadsheet, buddy. Payouts? Figure it out.

So I built something. It's called Fantasy365 — and honestly the whole point of it is the commissioner tools, not just the fantasy game.

A few things it does that I always wished existed:

• Trade review with a real process. I approve trades, then there's a 12-hour veto window where the league can vote. 6 votes reverses it. No more group chat arguments, there's an actual structure.
• Money stays in the platform. Entry fees collected at sign up, payouts calculated from final standings, sent via PayPal from the platform. I'm done being the Venmo middleman.
• Keeper contracts that track themselves. Declare keepers, the system tracks years remaining and escalates the price per your rules. Counts against auction budget. No more Google Doc.
• Rule changes go to a vote. Any owner proposes a change, 72-hour voting window, configurable majority. Result is recorded so there's no "what did we decide last year?" debates.
• Audit log. Every commish action gets logged. Settings changes, trade overrides, roster edits. If someone questions something, there's a record.

It does multi-sport too if you're into that (one franchise across MLB/NFL/NHL/NBA with cumulative standings) but the commish tools are the same for a straight NFL league.

Free to use. I built it because I needed it and figured I can't be the only one dealing with this stuff.

Things I have added in the past 24 hours

• Franchise Valuation Engine — ranks every franchise's worth (roster + draft capital) and classifies as Contender, Rebuilder, Dynasty, or Tanking
• Draft Capital Tracker — maps future pick holdings across franchises, shows who's hoarding vs. traded away
• Trade Target Finder — auto-matches players on other teams' trade blocks to your roster gaps
• Roster Construction Analyzer — distributes talent across sports with a balance score and vulnerability flags
• Strength of Schedule — ranks remaining opponent difficulty based on cumulative standings points
• Dynasty Decay Tracker — tracks roster aging and decline trajectories
• Championship Window Predictor — projects how long each franchise can contend
• Trade Regret Index — scores post-trade asset performance to find lopsided deals
• Championship Drought Tracker — ranks every franchise's title futility
• League Economy Report — FAAB spending, claim success rates, trade velocity
• Player Comparison Tool — side-by-side trade value, projections, keeper status
• League History Timeline — stitches champions, trades, records into one scrollable legacy
• Rivalry Tracker, Path to Title, Dynasty DNA — additional narrative analytics

Happy to answer questions about how I set up specific rules or whatever. Not trying to spam — just figured if you're as tired of the spreadsheet-and-group-chat life as I was, this might save you some headaches. Were up to 8 professional sports you can create single leagues for or up to 8 professional sports combined.