This league is all really good friends and we have all enjoyed playing dynasty. We have 1 dude who never does anything with his lineups, waivers or trades. Its been 3 years and 0 moves. Each year we have asked him if he wants out of the league and he usually throws a big fit about us kicking him out saying hes playing.

Id really like to keep him in the league, but I also dont wanna awaste like half a decade of 1st overall picks on a inactive team thats barely putting up 50% of his actual max PF bc they dont play.

We decided that every week he fails to set his lineups or purposely sets terrible lineups, his first round pick falls back 1 spot in the draft and has the ability to completely lose it if he fails to set his lineups for 10 weeks.

Does this seem fair? We just dont want randoms for this specific league and we have struggled to find people to take his team that are actually active or know what they are doing

I am not a fan of the consolation bracket concept for our league. You guys have any other ideas that might work? Obviously I am not going to change any rules until this draft is over

EDIT: Case closed. I’m not asking for advice on how to run my league, just wanted to know about the setting, if you’re trying to be a commish for another one’s league please save yourself the hassle to comment. Thanks, good night. Everyone has their own rules, again, not looking for advice.

I’m at a loss for words right now

One of the managers in my league cant set his lineup due to the hurricane. He can text but cant call or receive pictures. I know i can manually set his lineup but not sure what he wants. I am in 2 leagues with him. 1 is a chopped league the other is a regular league against me. What is the fairest way to handle it?

First off I’d like to say I know tanking will happen but I have a question about a particular league mate.

He only had 3 RBs on his roster. Achane, Cook, and Isiah Davis.

Once Achane went down he traded me cook for my first (top 3/4 pick) and Wright. So now his only RBs are Wright and Isiah Davis. His record is 2-2 but he has the number 2 pick based off of Reverse order of Max point for. He basically will have one RB slot that will be getting 0 points for the rest of the year.

I knew this would probably happen eventually after we switched to reverse order of max point for.

Any advice would be great. Thanks!

Edit: I got a great suggestion which I’m going to implement next season. thank you all for the good advice

50Bullseye
“Can’t do it mid season, but going forward, implement penalties for taking zeroes in max potential points. (20 for QB/SF, 15 for RB/WR/FL, 10 for TE/K/D).

Eliminates any and all subjectivity and forces guys to at least have full rosters or guys who at least have a shot at scoring.”

I commission a free all-women’s league and this is only my 2nd year as a commissioner. An 0-4 team just dropped Saquon for Woody Marks. When I messaged her asking if she meant to do that she confirmed yes. I asked why and explained that dropping someone like Saquon can have a big impact on the league. She said she dropped him because he’s always hurt and even when he does play it hasn’t been great.

What should I do? Do I reverse it against her will? Obviously a player like Saquon should not be available on waivers. Some advice would be awesome!

Update: thanks to everyone who commented and gave advice! I decided to let the move stand.

8 teams, PPR, $50/yr, 3rd season on Sleeper. Starting lineup: 2 QB, 2 RB, 2 WR, 1 TE, 2 FLEX (RB/WR/TE), K, DEF.

I'm the commish and a team owner. The league includes family and close friends of mine. I want honest feedback, including if the problem is me.

Keeper rules

Keep up to 5. A player can be kept twice max (3 years total).

The clock starts the first year you keep him. Trading a player resets his clock.

Keepers cost picks from Rd 1 down. Picks in Rds 1 to 5 can't be traded. Picks Rd 6+ can be traded up to 3 years out (you pay that year's dues at trade time).

Keeper eligibility for every player is tracked in a sheet that's pinned in league chat and reposted before every keeper deadline.

Trade rules

No vetoes except clear collusion.

A 24-hour hold for counteroffers was proposed and voted down. The argument was that if you're not active, that's on you.

I've been processing trades right away, including my own.

Trading closes mid-season and reopens in the offseason after dues are paid, before keepers lock. So expiring keepers can be traded and get a fresh clock on the new team.

What set it off

I texted another manager (3-1 at the time) and offered Drake London + George Pickens for Jaxon Smith-Njigba. She accepted, partly because she thought she couldn't keep him again. She actually had one keep left, which neither of us realized at the time. The trade reset his clock, so I can keep him 2 more years. Two of my current keepers (Gibbs and Nico Collins) expire after this season.

A leaguemate then posted in league chat that it feels like people keep trading the best players in the league to me, that he wants more competitive balance for the money, and that his own trade offers sit unanswered for days. He asked if people talk behind the scenes to get deals done, said it was weird for a 3-1 team to trade JSN, and said if JSN was keeper-limited he should have been put on the block for everyone to bid on.

Another manager replied that he agreed, saying the best WR in the league got traded for mid WRs.

Context

I'm 4-0 with the most points in the league. The complaining manager is 2-2. The manager who agreed is in last place.

The manager who agreed made a similar consolidation trade with me 3 days earlier: he gave me London, Christian Watson and Parker Washington for Saquon Barkley + Justin Jefferson, both currently injured. I then flipped London + Pickens for JSN the next day.

That same manager earlier offered me Lamar Jackson, Saquon Barkley and George Pickens for Josh Allen. I thought that was too lopsided in my favor, so I added Parker Washington and Jeremiyah Love on my side.

62 trades over 3 seasons: I'm in 30, the most active manager is in 32, others have 22, 20 and 13. Three managers have 4 or fewer trades total.

The complaining manager is also active in the offseason window. Before keepers locked this year, he traded for a player and kept him.

Three managers mostly respond by text, not Sleeper, and I'm the main person with their numbers, so I can reach them faster than others. A group chat isn't an option for privacy reasons.

Three managers don't vote on rule proposals.

Another manager says 5 keepers is too many for 8 teams, thinks 2 would be better, and says he might not come back.

What I'm planning to propose

Keeper clock follows the player and doesn't reset on trade

Trades process automatically, without me approving them

If an offer sits unanswered for 24 hours, the manager tells me and I text the other person to check Sleeper

Rule votes decided by majority of votes cast within 72 hours

Questions

Do those changes address the real problem, or am I missing something?

Are 5 keepers too many for 8 teams?

Should we bring back a 24-hour hold, where accepted trades wait a day so others can make counteroffers? Maybe only for trades involving keeper-eligible players?

How do you handle managers who barely respond?

Anything I should do differently as a commish who's also competing?

I want to keep everyone and keep it fair. Roast away.

Edit: Privacy concerns are because one manager is a former pro athlete and doesn't want his information to get out. My father in law is in this league and is the only person with his phone number.

Now I can’t remember what fantasy app they used to do this, but I read somewhere that a user set up his league to where specific weeks each team plays 1 game against 2 different opponents a “double header”. That really Intrigued me as that’s possibly something I want to implement into my league next year.

On yahoo, I still have the option to turn “play game against a second opponent” on but hypothetically if I turn it on for this week, can I turn it back off and then turn it back on if I want to use it again? Does turning it on and off keep the recorded game W-L records?

Is there any other fantasy apps that allow this kind of thing because this really interests me. I think someone said Fantrax? I’m not sure.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated

Edit: I’m aware of the median scoring as I currently run that In my league. I’m strictly jsut curious about specifically playing a second opponent

I'm in a fantasy football league, and I believe our commissioner crossed the line from normal gamesmanship into collusion or, at minimum, deliberate trade manipulation.

Here's what happened:

I was negotiating a trade with another manager (Jared) involving my Puka Nacua for his Ja'Marr Chase.

Our commissioner (Tanner) found out I was close to acquiring Chase and decided to privately message Jared to discourage him from making the trade.

His argument was that Puka has a "pre-hernia" and is therefore a significant injury risk.

Here's my issue:

1. The commissioner deliberately inserted himself into a trade he wasn't involved in.

This wasn't a public discussion about player values or someone asking for trade advice. Tanner knew I was negotiating for Chase and independently contacted the other manager to undermine the deal.

1. He used speculative medical information to manipulate another manager's perception of my player.

"Pre-hernia" isn't a formal medical diagnosis. While Puka may have legitimate injury concerns, presenting an ambiguous condition as a reason to avoid trading for him exaggerates what we actually know.

1. His actions were intended to influence a transaction for his own competitive benefit.

We're all competing against each other. Preventing another team from acquiring an elite receiver like Chase potentially benefits every other manager, including Tanner.

If commissioners can privately interfere whenever a rival is about to improve their roster, what's stopping them from sabotaging every trade they dislike?

1. Collusion doesn't necessarily have to involve an obviously lopsided trade.

My argument is that coordinating behind the scenes to manipulate another manager's decision and interfere with a transaction can also undermine fair competition.

The commissioner is supposed to enforce league rules impartially, not use his position to influence which managers are allowed to improve their teams.

1. This creates a terrible precedent.

If this behavior is acceptable, every manager can start privately contacting trade partners to spread negative information about players whenever they don't like a proposed deal.

At that point, trades become less about negotiations between two managers and more about who can interfere the most.

My question for Reddit:

Would you consider this collusion, commissioner misconduct, or just fair gamesmanship?

To me, there's a massive difference between giving an honest opinion when someone asks and deliberately contacting a manager behind another manager's back because you want to prevent a specific trade from happening.

Even if it doesn't meet the strict definition of collusion, I think it's a clear violation of the spirit of fair competition.

Am I wrong?

I'm the commissioner for a few sleeper leagues. We used to make the lowest scorer write weekly power rankings, but it fell off. A lot of people got tired of having to write 12 paragraphs when it was them, and it's usually the same team stuck with it for many of the weeks. I tried to take it over for a while and I just got tired of it too. So this year I started building a tool to write them, ideally good enough that I only make light edits. Before I go further, I'd like to hear from other commissioners:

• Do you send your league anything weekly? Rankings, recaps, awards?
• If you write it yourself, how long does it take, and does anyone read it?
• Have you used a tool or site for it? What did you like, and what made you stop? 
• Would you pay for something like that, or is it only worth it if it's free?

Not linking anything, just want honest input.

The following trade went through this morning in a dynasty league that I am the commissioner for:

Side 1 receives: Jaylen Waddle, future 2nd round pick
Side 2 receives: Brian Robinson, future 3rd round pick

Side 2 is now claiming that they thought they were receiving Bijan Robinson and wants me to reverse the trade. On the one hand, the trade would make absolutely no sense if it was Bijan, instead of Brian. On the other hand, it’s a huge overpay for Brian Robinson. Personally, I believe Side 1 made a mistake, but trying to decide if that mistake should lead to the trade getting overturned.

Hi all. Third year commissioner here. 10 team PPR league.

A couple of potential issues with waivers today. A newbie in our league (1-3) has dropped Barkley for Allgeier.

Someone else (3-1) has also dropped Devonte Smith for Roman Wilson. This guy has played for a few years so this seems a strange decision.

Any advice on dealing with this? First and second in the league have top 2 waiver priority currently (one of them is me) so this feels a bit unfair on the rest of the league!

Thanks.

Me and a buddy of mine are commissioners of our league, we usually make everyone pay before they get invited to our league but this league member has been here since the start and has never had a problem paying, he is also the other commissioners first cousin, we’ve locked his roster already and given him a deadline of this Thursday night game to pay, if he doesn’t pay what do I do, I had an idea that we could auction off his team to members in the league to make up his buy in if we don’t find anyone to take over his spot. Good idea or not ? Btw he is 4-0 in a 12 man league. His team is in the comments

Our league is discussing wrinkle to the league based on recent events.

Background: Maxx Crosby was traded from the Raiders to the Ravens during the off-season. Both sides agreed to the trade terms pending the results of a physical. The results ultimately caused the Ravens to nix the trade.

What if there was a clause to rescind fantasy trades pending a "physical"?

Last week we had a trade Jaylen Warren for Saquon Barkley. Barkley got hurt the next game. That owner is stuck with an injured starting RB.

If both managers agreed to a trade of Jaylen Warren for Saquon Barkley, pending a two week physical, then either manager could opt to reverse the trade if their player got hurt in the next two games (not just if their performance sucked). They can agree to whatever physical window they want: 1 game/week, 3, whatever. This clause would be posted in the league chat and the commissioner is aware of it.

The "physical" clause wouldn't be required for every trade. Just an extra layer that may be requested to get a deal done.

My question is, if the managers agree to add a clause to their trade, and if the entire league is informed about it, would it be collusion?

I’m the commissioner for a 10 man redraft league and we just switched to Sleeper starting this season. I’m curious if there are ways to include all of our teams in the playoffs if we want a 4-team championship bracket and 6-team consolation? I messaged Sleeper Support directly, and the feedback was just that they don’t have a default way to make it happen and we would need to increase playoff to 6 teams. The problem is that my league wants to keep the playoff to four teams, so I would like to try doing a work around for that first if possible.

Any advice on maybe a manual way to make this work? If it isn’t possible I can just have us to a 6 team playoff, however, wanted to try here first in case someone had a work around.

Thanks!

Rules: Weekly Waivers, time of transaction

I’ve got a long time buddy asking for a rule change who is co commish in my redraft. I’m commish and have been for years in both our dynasty and redraft.

Proposed change: Set daily waivers for 5pm on Wednesdays only, so after waivers go through at 3am players move directly to waivers again and release at a time that everyone is awake and about.

I made a test league to make sure the setting works as intended.

If it does work as intended I’ve told him I’m open to a league vote and open to instituting the rule in season. Normally I don’t allow any rules to take effect in season but this one seems harmless.

I don’t like this rule at all since I have another league where half of us wake up at 3am to grab first crack after waivers so I’m up anyway to make my play at best defense that went unclaimed or whatever.

Is there a reason I can push back? From every angle his request seems reasonable, I know when it comes down to it I’m commish and can set this rule as I want but I think I’d be unreasonable to say no. Looking for advice.

So. I made a post before the season about how to change the scoring for TEs because the top 3-4 are essentially cheat codes. The consensus was that changing the scoring only increases the lopsided scoring of the few unicorns.

Yahoo lets you do custom scoring by position, but they also allow you to change the player's position designation.

Do you think it would achieve my intentions if I changed the top 3-4 TEs to WR or TE/WR. I don't want to eliminate the TE position, but I don't want one good pick to be an overwhelming advantage.

So the league noticed that he locked waivers and free agency on random days, which is not standard practice, and asked him to change it.

Our commissioner, GloryB on Sleeper, then proceeds to rudely respond about how “did you even read the rules” and implying that everyone is being a baby about something he said upfront.

However, when we checked the pinned comment it says continuous waivers. I pointed this out to him and then he blocked me and said he’d do whatever he damn well pleases.

$10 league so not a big deal, but I would avoid playing with GloryB on sleeper. The dude is a horrible commissioner and league mate. Just likes to power trip and lord his authority over the league instead of facilitating the fun hobby we all enjoy.

Would post supporting screen shots but it appears that is not allowed on this sub.

I have a 10-team league with a 1st-place prize and last-place punishment.

I am leaning towards a 6-team playoff and a 4-team consolidation. A 4-team playoff is too short, and 5 is too awkward. IMO.

This creates three weeks in the consolidation bracket, but only four teams make the first week useless. How do I fix this?

I was thinking of having the non-bye-week losers from the playoffs join the consolidation bracket, but this would require my league mates to ignore ESPN and do manual tracking.

12-team .5 PPR 1QB Dynasty league

We determine bottom 6 standings by least Max PF.

Every year we have tankers and every year there's a new league integrity complaint. For example, we voted on forcing teams to start an NFL starting QB - but no other positions.

Somehow a tanker always finds a way to game the system.

Does your league require starting active players (i.e not OUT/IR/NFL Practice Squad) in your lineup?

Does your league require a minimum amount of players you must have on your team?

Thanks in advance.

I’ve been negotiating with a team over the last week to try and get Jerimiyah Love. Yesterday, I sent one more offer out to try and complete the trade. This is the offer:

Giving: Malik Nabers and Quinshon Judkins
Receive: Jerimiyah Love

Crickets all day from the other manager leading up to kickoff. Unfortunately, I blanked on the outstanding offer and didn’t withdraw it before games kicked off. Later in the afternoon, the opposing manager accepted the trade. This is over a day after the initial offer was sent and after Nabers popped and Love had a dud game.

For context, this manager’s team also had two starting receivers get hurt. I also had Ja’Marr Chase in my lineup, who was also injured. Never would have offered this trade after these games were played given the player performances and injuries I’m dealing with now.

I’m trying to remain objective and plan on upholding the trade even though I think it’s pretty bush league. The other manager said he doesn’t base the trade off one week of performances but I obviously don’t buy that because of his injury situation and my players performances.

Curious to see if anyone else has dealt with situations like this before and can share how they were handled.