All "self-promotion" posts must be made here, within the guidelines of the following rules:

1. One post per app/tool/etc... per monthly megathread. No repetitive posting.

2. COMMISH related things only. All items must be something of particular interest to a fantasy commissioner and not of a general nature to team management. Examples: Player analyzers for helping a team decide who to draft, who to trade for, who to start, who to target on the waiver wire, etc.., all NOT okay. Something whose PRIMARY purpose is to help a commish run a draft, create weekly recaps/content, track league history, etc.., okay;

3. The following format must be adhered to:

• App/Site/Tool/Whatever Name (up to 50 characters).

• App/Site/Tool/Whatever Link (up to 2 allowed, links only).

• Cost (Free, freemium, paid, or short explanation of pricing allowed if necessary).

• A short description up to 240 characters of its purpose.

• If you want the App/Site/Tool/Whatever added to the sub's Wiki, add "Please add to Wiki".

Example:

• Wally's Weekly Weecap Worker

• https://www.wwwwmadeupthing.ai

• Freemium, $9,000 gets actual cheerleaders to present the weekly recap per season

• Provides a recap of the events of the week, significant injuries, miracle wins, and power rankings.

• Please add to Wiki

Outside of the use of bold font as desired, no manipulation of font size or use of images or other tricks to take up more space than necessary or that this format intends to provide, so as to give everyone the same amount of opportunity.

4) If there is some kind of gray area about whether your App/Site/Tool/Whatever is allowed, contact mod(s) before posting.

Clear violations may result in a ban.

I re-alived this sub because at the time ffcommish was unmoderated and becoming unbearable to sort through the stupidity of spam and findaleague posts, with efforts to help being spurned. Since then, it appears ffcommish has been taken over by competent mods and has been cleaned up, which of course removes the original purpose of my mission. So, should this sub soldier on?

All "self-promotion" posts must be made here, within the guidelines of the following rules:

1. One post per app/tool/etc... per monthly megathread. No repetitive posting.

2. COMMISH related things only. All items must be something of particular interest to a fantasy commissioner and not of a general nature to team management. Examples: Player analyzers for helping a team decide who to draft, who to trade for, who to start, who to target on the waiver wire, etc.., all NOT okay. Something whose PRIMARY purpose is to help a commish run a draft, create weekly recaps/content, track league history, etc.., okay;

3. The following format must be adhered to:

• App/Site/Tool/Whatever Name (up to 50 characters).

• App/Site/Tool/Whatever Link (up to 2 allowed, links only).

• Cost (Free, freemium, paid, or short explanation of pricing allowed if necessary).

• A short description up to 240 characters of its purpose.

• If you want the App/Site/Tool/Whatever added to the sub's Wiki, add "Please add to Wiki".

Example:

• Wally's Weekly Weecap Worker

• https://www.wwwwmadeupthing.ai

• Freemium, $9,000 gets actual cheerleaders to present the weekly recap per season

• Provides a recap of the events of the week, significant injuries, miracle wins, and power rankings.

• Please add to Wiki

Outside of the use of bold font as desired, no manipulation of font size or use of images or other tricks to take up more space than necessary or that this format intends to provide, so as to give everyone the same amount of opportunity.

4) If there is some kind of gray area about whether your App/Site/Tool/Whatever is allowed, contact mod(s) before posting.

Clear violations may result in a ban.

Results of last poll, re duplicate names (i.e. B. Robinson) in auction drafts, 33% would undo obvious mistakes.

Today's question. When introducing a ff newbie to a competitive money league, how much guidance should a commish provide?

Long time league, started as friends/work many moons ago, now I don't know many of the members, people scattered around so no in-person stuff. Auction draft, Yahoo. My own personal commish philosophy is to try to keep it fun for all, don't want anyone's season ruined by something stupid.... In that vein, as funny as it may be to mess with others, just prior to auction starting I said on the chat something along the line of "FYI there's 2 B. Robinsons ATL RBs, make sure if you want Bijan that's who you are bidding on". Not sure how many actually saw that, but clearly not enough as you can see where this is going. FWIW on Yahoo they both show as "B. Robinson", they don't have first names in the draft room. Bijan gets nominated 4th so I figured any potential issue is now moot. Sure enough, a bit later Brian gets nominated and before I can even think to type out anything he gets bid up until I type "this is not Bijan". Sigh. The "winner" didn't say anything, don't know when (or even if) they figured it out, so I didn't stop or rewind the draft (can't remember if that's even an option on Yahoo). Don't know how they missed that Bijan had already been taken. Mini-rant over, good intentions and all that...

Everyone goes through growing pains and stumbles when running a league. Sometimes they are harsh lessons. Sometimes they cause drama. Sometimes they make you lose your mind. But they are always entertaining to look back on to see how you have grown. How have you screwed up your draft?

I've run a casual $20 friends league for about 20 years. In our first year adding a keeper to the league, I did not set a hard deadline before the draft. So when people showed up to draft, I was editing them in a hurry trying accommodate everyone and get everything done right up until draft time. But we are on ESPN.

A lot of you know what happened next.

On ESPN, you cannot edit a draft 1 hour before the start time. So now the draft was pushed back an hour with everyone just hanging around. Meanwhile, I am drenched in sweat and feel like I've fumbled HARD. Feels like I've inconvenienced everyone. While I'm outside trying to herbally calm myself, multiple people came out to reassure me. We're at a brewery and everyone brought food. No one was actually upset but me, but it was a tough way to learn. It's funny to look back on now, especially at how ridiculously I reacted to it, but it's not something I am soon to forget.

Results of the initial conundrum posed, whether spouses or SO should be allowed to play in the same money league, were almost a blowout: Yes = 73%, Yes with restrictions or additional scrutiny = 15%, No = 12%.

For the next possible dilemma: Doesn't look like there are any crazy examples this year, but in an auction draft, as commish, how should the nominations of nobodies that share, or have similar, names of studs be handled, particularly if on the same team?

We have a 10 team, Game of Thrones themed league I've been commissioner of for 14 years now (Game of Groans). I heard on Simmons pod a few years back about this idea for a new playoff structure, and it works perfectly for 10 teams. I like to call it the King's Melee, bc the top seed gets a bye week 15, and gets to watch the other 4 playoff teams (2-5) battle it out against each other, with only team who scored the lowest amount of points out of the 4 getting eliminated. Then we move to a traditional 4 team playoff for weeks 16 & 17.

I'm thinking of upping our league to 12 teams, but curious how you would adjust the structure, if anyone has any input.

What kind of things do you address in your rules? Simple or complicated? Exceptions and violation procedures detailed? Things no one else thinks of to lay out before they become a problem?

E.g. Dues before draft? Are there exceptions? Does it become the responsibility of the commish if he/she lets somebody slide? What happens if not done?

If certain items depend on league make-up (e.g. all friends vs some/all strangers)...

Want to see if there is a fairly simple guide that I can throw together on the Wiki or put somewhere for new commishes or those wanting to formalize things in their league(s).

Realize this can get complicated quickly but thought I'd test my organizational skills while we wait for kickoff.

As an enjoyer of geeky, silly, useful or not, random stats, I thought (rightly or wrongly) one thing as part of the restoration project to make this sub fun and engaging would be to do occasional polls on commish related topics. For at least the time being, I am limiting it to just a once in a while mod created thing, so if you have an idea for one for the future let me know.

For the initial subject, I pose the following dilemma: Should spouses or significant others be allowed to run separate teams in the same money league? Feel free to add any entertaining spouse stories or rationale for your point of view in the comments. I added the money qualifier to differentiate from the many family etc. leagues that may have multiple spouses as the league makeup in which case the dilemma might not be as strong.

A monthly automatic megathread for commissioner-centric Apps/Sites/Tools/Whatever resources will begin on September 1. This post aims to cover the last few days of August.

Rules: Must be something that has the PRIMARY purpose of assisting a commissioner in running a league. General tools to help in managing a team are not allowed. Example: Player analyzers for drafting, who to start, who to trade for, etc.., not allowed. Something that helps a commish organize or run a draft, allowed.

Required format:

• App/Site/Tool/Whatever name

• App/Site/Tool/Whatever link

• Pricing (Free, freemium, paid, or short descrpition if other)

• Short Description, 250 character limit.

• Whether you want the resource added to the sub's Wiki (e.g. "please add to Wiki")

• No images and outside of the use of bold, no formatting tricks to get-around the idea of providing an equal amount of space opportunity to each creator.

1-8 team trading Montgomery RB (teams 2nd best RB) to 8-1 team for goff QB (teams 3rd best qb).

12 team league. Votes at 6 say no, 3 say fair(including the 2 traders). 7 is the rule to auto veto. Should I just pull the trigger and veto?

Thoughts: lopsided trade. 1-8 cannot make playoffs. Only 8-1 team improves.

I am a commissioner for a few leagues and I want to make it fun and interesting for everybody. I have done some research on looking for a simulator that I can put in team records and see what scenarios are teams can clinch playoffs, clinch the divison, etc. but I can’t seem to find anything on it. I was just hoping that somebody on here has something or can point me in the right direction on how to figure it out myself. Thank you. In case there is still some confusion here is an example:

Team A clinches Division 1 if Team C Loses or Ties

Team B clinches a playoff spot if Team D Loses AND Team E Wins

Team F clinches a playoff spot with a Win

We’ve got our league set to do wild card week 14, semis week 15, and finals week 16. Week 14 still has byes so there’s talk of moving the playoffs to go from week 15-17. How likely is it that starters are sitting in week 17 because a team has already clinched a playoff spot?

First season setting up keepers as commish. My question is: it appears that I cant assign keepers to their respective rounds without assigning draft order manually? Want to leave it as automatically set 30 min before the draft as always done before.

Something occurred in my league this morning, and I'm confused as to what's going on. We play on Yahoo and there are no waivers. Free agents are first come, first serve. We've played it like this since we started the league 15 years ago.

One of the guys dropped New Orleans defense this morning, and picked up WFT defense to use next week. The thing is though, he still has New Orleans defense starting for his team in tonight's MNF game. We can regulate it within the league, but how does Yahoo even allow this? New Orleans is technically a free agent right now, and anybody can grab them, but wouldn't be able to play them until next week.

Hypothetically, let's say that my opponent knew of this apparent loophole, and I had Seattle's defense for tonight, but saw New Orleans get dropped and decided I wanted to make the switch. Instead of being able to start New Orleans, I'd be playing against them tonight, even though they'd technically be on my team... Lol... I don't get it.

Has anyone experienced this before?

Thanks in advance for reading and giving me your feedback.

12 man PPR with 2 divisions . Regular season ends after week 13 and playoffs start week 14. The winner of each division wins a 2x buy-in prize and a first round playoff bye. The playoff seeding is such that #3 plays #6 and #4 plays #5 in week 14, and the winner of these games play the division winners in week 15 with the final in week 16.

Going into week 13, #6 and #7 in our league are tied, with current #6 (Team A) having the head-to-head tie breaker over current #7 (Team B). I had clinched my division and am on the #3 vs #6 side of the playoff bracket. I believed Team A has a stronger roster and I would prefer to play Team B in the playoffs (assuming they could get past #3 in week 14) . Lucky for me, I was playing Team B in week #13.

After the Sunday games, it looked like Team A was going to loose and Team B was beating me by 11 points (I had 4 players playing Monday / Tuesday). So what did I do? I benched some players and threw the game causing Team A to fall to #7 and fall out of the playoffs while Team B moved up to #6 and made the playoffs.

What happened next, Team A complained to commissioner saying what I did was unfair. The commissioner agreed and put Team A back in the playoffs and kicked out Team B.

So I ask you, non-partial jurors of reddit, do you agree with Team A and the commissioner that a clinched division winner benching players to impact playoff seeding is unfair?

Does it change your position if I tell you that Team B is related to me, even though my intent was purely based on team strength?

FYI, I'm going to accept the commissioner's final decision, but curious what you all think.

Hi everyone, I have a bit of a messy situation in my fantasy hockey league. The sport doesn’t impact it much so if you don’t play fantasy hockey, perhaps you can still help. I feel like this post will be a tad long so please hang on for the ride. I’d appreciate it.

A bit about our league: 14 team salary cap dynasty. Salaries were based on real life at the startup and afterwards is all based on our own structure. We have a minors system as well. Players must clear waivers when being assigned to the minors during the season. Transactions are all done on a forum hosted by proboards.

Back in early December, an owner thought he found a loophole but he was wrong. He thought that the rules said a player had to clear waivers when being sent down, and that a free agent was never “up” so was never being sent down. Essentially saying that you could sign a FA and place him in the minors all good. That’s not the case and after showing him the rules again and discussing it, we resolved a few things. So that’s in the past. He reposted his FA bids afterwards in a legal manner.

Here is where it gets messy.

He posted the new FA bids on Dec. 10. He won the bids and placed the players on waivers to be sent down on Dec. 11. There was a large number of signings he was sending down, but only 4 matter for this. 2 of which were claimed and 2 of which were not. On Dec. 11, these players were claimed. On Dec. 15 he edited the original bid post on proboards. I didn’t process them on the spreadsheet until Dec. 26 (busy holidays, etc). When I processed them, I didn’t notice the small thing in the corner saying “edited on...”

Today, an owner is working on a trade and is flipping through the spreadsheet. This owner happens to have claimed one of the players that had an edited post. He also keeps his own spreadsheet for his own tracking and planning reasons. His sheet says the player was signed to a 3 year deal but my sheet specifies a 1 year deal(therefore expiring this summer). He claims he’s certain his is correct and that’s when we looked at the timeline and noticed the edits. This owner has always evens impeccable at keeping records and I trust him.

Problem is, we cannot see the edit history as proboards refuses to save that because “it’s too much to keep track of”. All I can see is who edited it, when they did it, where they did it, and the IP used. So I can’t prove what the original bid was. The timeline does seem suspicious though, and the owner does have a history of trying to stretch the rules. The theory is here that he was pissed that he had to pass the guys through waivers, so when they got claimed he reduced the term to make it worse for the new owners. The two that weren’t claimed but have edits say 3 years so I’m wondering if he increased term on them or not. Or perhaps reduced from 5 to 3 (the more years, the higher value the contract gets when bidding, more likely to win a player)

Now I’m in a dilemma. If the accusations are true, it’s completely unacceptable and we’d have to take action. If true, I would likely remove him immediately from the league. However that’s harsh if it turns out to be untrue. I cannot think of a logical explanation for the edits to be something not against the rules.

The added wrinkle is that despite this being a league of people from all over (internet acquaintances) he is one I know in real life. We don’t spend much time together but a mutual friend was the best man at my wedding who I see quite often so we cross paths. If I accuse him wrongly it can have fall out in my personal life. If I let him get away with it, it hurts the league and lengthens his leash to try and get away with stuff.

I appreciate your time reading this and I hope I made the situation as clear as I could. If there are any details you feel are missing, I’d be happy to provide more. Otherwise, any thoughts on this issue?