After going on hiatus from serious FF (thanks to Covid-19), I decided that I would start my league, again. These are the things that are important to me:
- The draft would have to be an auction draft with a hard salary cap.
- IDP (Individual Defensive Positions).
- 15 starters, up to a 30 man roster.
- There will be no such thing as signing full defensive teams, full special teams, full team receivers, or full team anything.
- Drafting TE’s would be separate from WR’s.
- Have a combination of formations available to owners (RB, WR, TE – 2-3, 1-3-1, 2-2-1, etc…).
- Real time scoring (or at least as close as possible).
- Punters and kickers should be signed like any other position, independent from ST.
- Take away this nonsense that the QB’s and HB’s score most, if not all your points. Defenses can win games too. For that matter, just recently, a kicker scored more points than the oppositions entire team in real life. The FF scoring should emulate that as well.
- Owners take care of their own teams; the commissioner (myself) will not submit other teams rosters for them.
- Manageable and configurable website; different views for different owners.
- Realistic scores, or as close as possible. If your team is averaging more than 50 points a game, that’s not realistic.
- Make it affordable.
- It will be a keeper league.
- And them some…
Needless to say, until very recently, this would have been a pipe dream; too many requests, no sites that could support it. As it turns out I finally found a place that can do exactly all this (myfantasyleague.com). There is so much to this site, that looking at all the options, I’m glad now that I decided to start early with this.
I didn’t just jump into this blindly. I’ve been looking around for a while and there were some close ones, like CBS Sports, Yahoo!, ESPN, Scoresheet… all of them very good in their own right. But more often than not I found that something was missing, and almost all of them are more expensive, thus taking away from the affordability thing.
I would like for working stiffs, with kids and a mortgage to be able to jump in, enjoy themselves, and not feel like they have to go 12 rounds with their better halves for play money. Ultimately it doesn’t end well for them, and I come off looking like the bad guy; like that shady “best friend” that shows up only when he needs something (i.e. Dupree).
So with that in mind I created a league site, set up a theme, and working on the configurations. As I go on I’ll be posting what I’ve selected (seeing how it’s just me right now).
Stay tuned, there is plenty more to come. This site is stacked with options.
Coach T.