We've recently started a dynasty league (PFL) and I wanted to find ways to drive engagement and encourage more discussion in the discord. I had the same graphic designer do everyone's logos, post a weekly power rankings, and now design player spotlight football cards!

The first templates are team specific templates that just highlight a player who performed well or did something cool. Each winner (after the first week) will get one.

The Oppenheimer "I AM BECOME DEATH" award for the offensive player who went nuclear (blatantly stolen from The Ringer Fantasy Football Show) is for the offensive player that popped off. Only one gets awarded a week.

The LOTR "YOU SHALL NOT PASS" award is the same but for IDP. Only one a week.

And then there are the rare SPECIAL EDITION cards. These are one off unique designs for if a player does something insane. Like, say, spit on someone and get ejected before the first snap...

Each player has their own channel in the discord with their cards in it titled "PLAYERSbinder"

What do you all do to encourage engagement in your leagues? Anyone else have any good weekly or not weekly card ideas?

So I changed the divisions of the league after the draft. I now realize that the schedule is kinda unbalanced because you don't face some division rivals twice. I know you can reset the schedule but obviously Week 1 passed, will it retroactively change the matchups and thus the results? Don't wanna take away anybody's wins

Edit: Its ESPN. Forgot to mention

My league wants to switch to FAAB. Obviously week 1 has been finished. I saw people had to reset their draft and manually input their teams to switch. That’s fine with me, but how would I handle week 1’s results?

I run a few dynasty leagues and have always had waivers run daily. I recently started another league with some guys from a discord server I’m in and had the same settings but have had a few complain about waivers running this morning after the Monday night game. I’m assuming they’re new to dynasty but can’t really say.

I only have experience with leagues I’ve set up. How are you guys setting up your waivers? Appreciate the insight. 🤙🏼

First year on sleeper. My league has 12 teams split into 2 divisions, playing your division rivals twice and 4 teams from the other division. Setup just like 2 “conferences” with each top division team getting 1st round bye. However, sleeper does not take the separation of divisions into account when seeding for the playoffs. So I have to manually adjust them. My thinking was I’d do this at the end of each week so it would display properly to everyone but when I go and change the teams in the settings it will not allow me to save the changes. My question is, am I only allowed to complete and save those changes once the final week of regular season is over?

Hey everyone! I’m excited to announce that I’ve joined the #SmashAccept Network as a commissioner content creator! I’ll be dropping tips and insights here on Reddit, on Twitter, and in the Smash Accept Discord.

I haven’t posted much on Reddit but plan to use all platforms, with most of my action happening on Twitter. This is just an update to let you know I’m here as a resource for fellow commissioners!

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Sleeper used to show the optimal lineups for each team after the week ended, where if everyone played their best lineup, it would show how many points they could have scored. IDK why but they removed that. I use it for the weekly power rankings to show overall roster strength.

Is there any website/tool to check that now? I tried chatGPT but it didn't understand me (not well versed in it anyway) and I can't find anything from googling. I would also prefer to avoid doing all that math manually.

Hoping someone can help. We want waivers to clear at 9 am EST instead of having people waking up at 3 am EST to add free agents after they process. That’s basically the only change. Everything else stays the same as the default sleeper settings. We thought it would be more fair if they processed in the morning when everyone should be up. Are these the correct settings? I get confused because when I place a test waiver it still says it will process at 3 am EST.

How does everyone store their future league fees if you require your members to pay when they trade future picks? We have guys that traded all the way up to 2028 but leaguesafe will only let me “overpay the current league” or rollover the league for 2026, not all the way through 2028.

The other issue is that in order to allow people to pay-in at any time of the year we have to keep the payment deadline open. If the payment deadline is open, members can request a refund with no questions asked and leaguesafe will provide it.

How do you all handle this? Thanks

This is our first year switching to sleeper, im used to the matchups switching over on Tuesday morning. Is this an glitch/should it have switched already?

So I ran into an issue with my waivers. I want them to run on Wednesday at 9AM MST. I have the sleeper settings set to “daily custom waivers” for “Waivers to FA” at 9AM on Wednesday. Tuesday is set to locked. However, for some reason, my waivers ran at around 11:30 on Monday night. I think it has something to do with the “players remain on waivers until” setting being checked off. But I don’t like the time they have set for the waivers to run at like 3AM on Wednesday morning. What should I do? Can I reset the waivers?

It’s a free league full of random people and I just saw that he benched Rome Odunze and his wr2 slot is empty.

He’s traded for a couple first right out of the start up draft and has told me that he’s trying to tank. I told him he still needs to start his best available players each week but obviously, can trade however he wants.

Former commish here asking on behalf of current commish:

We use ESPN and have been running a league on it for 10+ years. All players currently show that their waivers will clear on Saturday instead of the usual Wednesday. How do we fix this? Commish says no settings were changed. Waiver period currently says 4 days - does this need to be changed to 1 or something else to have normal Wednesday waiver periods?

It’s my first time commissioning and I want everyone in the league to have the fantasy experience I’ve always wanted

Trading market in our league is pretty dead, there is maybe like one trade per season. It’s an otherwise very engaged league. I think everyone is afraid they’re not getting good value? Not sure what the issue is.

Anyway, what’s it like in your leagues? Anything you’ve done to enhance that part of the game?

Im in a 12 man league PPR. The Commish is doing some questionable things but thats besides the point im gonna talk about. Last year we had that Trades happened instantly. This year the commissioner has to approve them. Basically he decides if they're fair or not.

Today I made a trade with another GM who offered me the trade.

I give up Burrow, Sampson, Egbuka

Team 2 Gives up CD, BTJ, Golden

The commissioner said it was unfair and canceled the request and was then influencing the decision of the GM. It's not just for me it's for everyone in the league and its getting ridiculous at this point.

So what do u guys do for your leagues? Are your Trades pending or instant.

In a keeper league with a maximum of 3 years of service (trades don’t reset years) do you think is unfair that you purposely drop your best player and select him with the first pick of the non keepers draft to extend the years of service for you?

There is a loophole on the rulebook but for me is against the purpose of the 3 years max keeper league.

In my league it is fairly high scoring with ppr and 6 point passing td, some extra points for defensive stuff. For some reason, the fumbles lost is -1 when the normal on espn is -2. Interceptions are -2. I want to change fumbles lost to be -2 to be consistent with the rest of the scoring and it just makes sense a fumble lost should be -2 maybe even -3. If I change it it would give me the win this week. Am I a dirty cheater or what should I do?

Also I believe we used to have it as -1 for a fumble and -1 for a fumble lost which is why the default is changed but now there are no points for a fumble.

I have waiver setting as continuous rolling list which should reset waiver order after every transaction. However, I have one team that already made 3 moves and is still #1. Can anyone explain?

So I've been the commissioner of my league for 4 years now but we've never really had something that makes everyone else just as involved as the three of us that are obsessed. This year, I've been looking into something to make it more like that and found fantasygenius.io, but I don't have the spare money and won't be able to get people in the league to pay for it. Does anyone know of any free alternatives that have things like fun rankings, blogs, more types of stats and just ways to get people more engaged? Or does anyone have an idea of what I could do myself to make it like that? All ideas are welcome weather its something I have to do or a software/website I can use. Oh yeah we are on ESPN if that helps. Thanks guys.

Trying to get claims to process twice/week (on Sundays and Wednesdays)

I forgot to outline how the draft will work in our league, and how we determine draft order. So I'm scrambling today to get that done. Yes yes, it's late, I know. We've had this league for over a decade, and none of us has done dynasty until this year, so it's a learning curve.

Myself and my league are all for keeping things relatively simple. And I'm thinking total points would be easier to understand for the more casual players in the league. Are there downsides to doing this instead of max pf?

Lastly, can anyone tell me where these stats can be found on Fantrax?

I recently left an IDP league and want to join another, I'm a dedicated team owner and play for fun, not money, any IDP league owners looking for an extra player please let me know.

Has anyone started a league after or during the first week? Doing a last minute league and due to schedule it's going to be tomorrow at 5pm. Anyone know how the scoring would be handled? It's on ESPN. Also we have 2 more spots if anyone is interested.

https://fantasy.espn.com/football/league/join?leagueId=1975019539&inviteId=d2e2699c-4b05-4619-bfca-67de71732b4f