Anyone know of an old Olympic event that would have 16 finalists we could use to determine a draft order. Obviously needs a YouTube replay and every contestant gets an athlete in the 1996 long jump womens final for example.

Basically what event would be ideal with at least 16 placing and doesnt run too long. Doesn't have to be Olympics.

Im hoping this is the right place to post this but I joined a league with my friends and we’ve had a lot of issues in the first two years. So, I was hoping to get some advice as to how we can fix/resolve the issues.

I’ll try and summarize as best as I can to keep it shorter. But we started our league a 2 years ago and never started with any bylaws or really any laws at all. But initially it was established that playoffs would decide draft order for those teams and regular season standings would decide the rest. In year one, the day before playoffs started, the commissioner decided first pick goes to last place of regular season but the last place punishment would go to the loser of the toilet bowl. Which caused a bit of a stir amongst members. Fyi our punishment was just providing a keg for the rookie draft day.

However, at the rookie draft the commissioner decided to make it that for year 2 the regular season loser provides the keg and the toilet bowl loser has to spend a day in vegas with only $40. So, you could lose twice and really be in a bad position. Notably, not everyone in the league agreed but it remained. Midway through the season a few members were showing some displeasure for the double punishment possibility as it basically prevents any teams at the bottom from trading off vets and what not for future assets.

At the end of year two the same team won both years because teams didnt change at all due to minimal trades. A few members decided to quit during the year and stopped setting lineups. And now theyre wanting the last place guy to do a whole new punishment that was created after the year was over.

Is there anyway to repair this league or is it just gone and should be scrapped for good? What are the best ways to handle punishments in a dynasty league?

Fwiw I tried to suggest max points for draft order. Regular season loser for punishment. And consolation bracket winner gets $20 extra FAB. Any other suggestions help.

I run a dynasty league, pretty standard. Start 10 SF. 1 QB, 2 RB, 3WR, 2 Flex, 1 SFlex. The only major scoring change is Half Point per reception and Half point per First Down. TEP of half a point.

It’s pretty clear TEs, aside from the top 5 Tes last season TEs didn’t produce much. I’m thinking about putting up a vote to increase TEP and extra .25, .5, or none if the league doesn’t want a change.

If I change score should I wait a league year before the rule goes into place? If we increased the scoring by .5 I would definitely wait, but if I increased it by .25 should I let it wait a year before it goes into effect?

EDIT: Dispersal

Hello

Commish of a 10 team SF 1/2 ppr start 11

We have 2 orphans and I’m heavily considering throwing them into a dispersal draft. The teams are good, just finished in 2nd and 5th. The questions I have

1. How do you handle draft picks for these teams? 5th place team doesn’t have 25 1st but does have additional 2.10. Still owns all other picks. 2nd place team has additional 1.08 and 26 2nd. Has all his own picks. Would you include all 25 picks in dispersal + 26 2nd?

2. How do you determine how they pick? I’m thinking first team gets 1.01, next team gets 1.02-1.03, first team gets 1.04-1.05, etc. Or should it just alternate picks after 1.03?

3. Would you allow the two owners to trade dispersal picks for players on non dispersal owners teams? Ex. Trade 1.02 in dispersal draft for Mahomes (who’s not on 2nd or 5th place team)

4. I’m not sure how to handle this. Should other teams be allowed in dispersal? Asking because 20% of the league is in it already. Also we have 1 real bad team. He just finished 10th and doesn’t have his own 25 1st or 26 1st. Very likely bottom 3 team next year with chance to be 1.01 again. This team has Hurts and his next best asset is Worthy, Pickens, TLaw and then…Mike Evans? (Russ, Ridley, Gus Edwards, Swift, Kelce, Michael Wilson, Otton, Elijah Moore, Engram, Bateman). His bench is basically nothing after that. This team isn’t good and isn’t young. Should I allow this team in dispersal? Considering because of league health. This team will not be good for years and outside of great, great luck drafting I’m not sure how it gets better. His players have been on the block since week 5 or so. The league doesn’t have interest in many of his players and many owners (myself included) aren’t offering much because they know the market is dead. Counterpoint, dude made his shit bed and now has to lay in it….if you were to add this team to dispersal, how do you handle compensating the team that owns this team’s 26 1st? It will likely have a lesser chance at 1.01.

EDIT 4A. Clarifying, I wouldn’t be specifically only allowing the 10th place team into dispersal. I’d open it to all owners including 10th place team and its be all in or nothing. Give up your whole team for dispersal or keep whole team

Thanks for the help

I am commissioner of a 10-team Dynasty League. We set it up to hold a lottery for the 4 teams who miss the playoffs. Past few years, I just drew names out of a hat during a Video Call. I’ve done a Bingo machine before too. Any good ideas on how to actually carry out the lottery? The league is unable to get together in person. I don’t want to be responsible for carrying it out to be accused of cheating.

This year last place is getting 7 chances 9th - 5 chances 8th - 4 chances 7th - 2 chances

Hello everyone, I run two ten man leagues, one with my hometown buddies and one with my friends from college. The past 2 years I’ve been running these leagues we have done an 8 team playoff bracket with the bottom 2 facing off in the “toilet bowl” and the loser of that game does the punishment that’s voted on preseason. I’ve recently gotten some pushback in my hometown league that the guy that finishes last during the regular season should just automatically do the punishment. Then in my college league I have gotten pushback that the playoffs should only be 6 teams. Any thoughts on if I should change things up or just keep them how they are? Appreciate it in advance fellas

Hey everybody! I am looking to start a Super Bowl squares to run with my league. Is there any website or app? I can do it all online and not have to print out papers and manually add people onto the square?

Do you do it once the championship is over, once the Super Bowl is over, or later in the offseason?

This past season a member of our league (the previous commissioner) halfway through the season went Inactive as he was dealing with personal family issues as well as nursing school. During his school break over Christmas he apologized and said he doesn’t think he’ll be able to be active next season but doesn’t want to lose his spot in the dynasty league as he’s built the team (that probably could’ve competed last year had he been setting a lineup), and he just doesn’t have the time he says to focus on it. He happens to have picks 1 and 2 in the rookie draft and I’m worried he will get auto picked even with 24 hour clocks, as well as basically tanking all next season unintentionally again.

Does anyone have any suggestions for addressing an inactive player that warns you ahead of time they’ll be inactive? Should we just let him go and if a spot ever opens again he’s first in line? It’s tough as we’re a league of friends so we all get what’s going on in his life but it seems kind of ridiculous he can’t set a lineup once a week.

I want to transform my league members into characters to be use throughout next season. But I do not have the expert photoshop skills, so I am trying to turn to AI. Does anyone has any recommendations on site that could take a phot of my members then morph them into someone else.(for example, I take a photo "John" and make him look like Hulk Hogan)

Looking for all scoring ideas. I run a very large league and it’s been together for many years. It’s a high $ league and I want to do this change right.

Right now we have a 8 starter league and we are changing to a 10 starter league with the option of a extra QB

So I’m looking for ideas on how to keep the parity with scoring between the positions

I’m also looking to change our Team/Special teams scoring. I’ve had a few ideas sent my way and I like to put it together soon.

We lost our trophy of 10 years after a USPS shipping disaster. Because of this, I'm looking to secure a proper hard shipping case with our new trophy.

Any recommendations for this?

At this point, I'm thinking about just securing a case and cutting the outline myself.

Hey everyone,this is my first time doing a keeper league with my league usually doing the redraft format. I’m just curious on how this works on espn fantasy and if people will loose there picks based on who they draft like on other platforms…I’m also switching a player out of the league for someone else so idk how that’ll work as far as keeping players…

I have an owner in a league that I commish that wants to leave (and sell his team to another owner). We use LeagueSafe to collect dues. 2025 has been paid for (dynasty). Obviously, Zelle or Venmo would be best for the owner to collect his 2025 fees, but if a buyer doesn't want to use those, is there an alternative? I don't want to open up LeagueSafe (i.e., extend the deadline). Thanks for any advice!

For those that make websites/logos/graphics for teams in their league, is there a free photoshop platform that you use that is user friendly? I’m using GIMP right now and don’t love it.

Edit: I guess I’m more referring to graphic making, as I’ve had AI make some cool logos, but want to put those logos into season recap graphics and whatnot.

As the title says, when do you think that voted rule changes should take effect? I am in a dynasty league where we voted to change from a lottery based system to MaxPF. Under the current lottery system, all 10 teams are eligible for the lottery, with a 1% chance assigned to the champion and 2% assigned to the runner-up. We understand the flaw in the system and thus, voted to implement using MaxPF to determine the draft order, with the runner-up at 9 and champion at 10 by default. My questions is when should we switch to this?

We have already ran the lottery for the 2025 draft. 1st round picks have been traded for 2026 and 2027, but not for 2028. Our league is split down the middle 50/50 on switching for the 2026 draft or the 2028 draft. The 2028 supporters say that an immediate change impacts the value of the assets they acquired (2026 and 2027 1sts) because the removal of the lottery also removes the chance of that pick moving up, even if only a few spots. They also say that it impacts the moves they would have made over the course of 2024 as they would have been more likley to trade picks that are guaranteed to be late 1sts instead of having that slim chance to move up. The 2026 supporters say that it was a flawed system so we should leave it immediately no matter what. They also argue that there is not any loss in value of the exchanged picks since the outcome of that team is still unknown.

How does your league handle these situations? We previously voted down a TE Premium vote due to the unwillingness to change the value of an asset due to a rule change.

I thought I would try again. Long standing 100 member $ league. I’m changing our 8 starters with 1 QB and no Kicker / 1Def / 3 Flex (not QB) Too 10 starter / no kicker / 1Def / 5 Flex (which can be a extra QB

I’m trying to make for a more balanced scoring and seeing anyone had some examples.

Thanks 🙏

What have you learned the hard was as a dynasty commissioner that you would share to others (inexperienced) to help with their leagues?

Currently a commish of an active 12 team redraft league for the last 4 years. After discussing with a few league members, I think the league is ready to move to a dynasty league next year. Assuming the vote goes through, what are some do’s and dont’s of setting up a dynasty league?

• Any tips on initial draft?
• How many rostered players?
• How do you handle dues? My concern is a lower end team not wanting to pay for the following year.
• What are some easily overlooked rules / bylaws ?

If there are any punishments, they should be individually agreed upon by every member of the league to avoid having people leave due to the punishment. I think this makes sense.

I run all of my league buy-ins through LeagueSafe. Just easy for me so I don’t have other peoples money just sitting in my bank for a whole football season. All of my leagues I have been able to pay out except one. That one league - anytime I try and finalize payouts the screen just reloads and takes me back to where I was. It’s been doing this for a week now. Anyone else experiencing the same issues?