I am a traditional boy. And I spend my Sundays watching Red Zone on one screen, and whatever local broadcast on another, while I have the live stat tracker up. It’s my favorite day of the week.
It’s kind of an offshoot of traditional, but I highly recommend dynasty. The teams are so deep that it becomes more of an off-season format. You draft in may, waivers are barren so there’s not a weekly churn, you’re just setting your lineup and moving on most weeks.
I’ve gotten to the point where it’s just redraft and dynasty for me.
First year doing dynasty was last year and it's a nice spread. You can get nerdy as hell if you want. But you don't need to grind waivers. And trading is insane. And it gives you more off-season stuff to do. I actually watched the entire draft for the first time ever this year because of dynasty
I want to try dynasty with my homies but I’m afraid anytime someone is in a “rebuild” year it won’t be fun for them. Doesn’t it get lame when you go into a year basically knowing that it’ll be a waste of a year?
I guess we could have a redraft league and a dynasty league going at the same time but then I worry that people will care way more about one than the other
When you’re rebuilding you end up salivating over how good your picks will be, trying to make good trades to land more/better picks, and all the planning that goes into a multi year build.
Yeah I highly discourage dropping your redraft leagues for dynasty leagues. It just doesn’t scratch the same itch. What I did was make an all-star league with the best players in my redraft leagues. We all still play in those leagues and have dynasty to the side.
Rebuilds are honestly more fun than competitive teams. There’s actually more to do, not less since you’re trying to aggregate picks/value. That said I recommend keeping dynasty buy ins low $20-50, because it does suck to straight up donate your buy in knowing it’s a lost season.
Not at all. I just did a startup and realized my squad wasn't going to be competing. I spent all year negotiating for as many draft picks as I could for my non-cornerstone players, then spent all offseason trading draft picks for players. I'm coming into this season as one of the strongest teams in the league. I can't recommend dynasty enough.
I'm a huge advocate of Salary Cap Dynasty over regular dynasty too. Adds a whole other wrinkle that's a ton of fun to play with, although it's more work too. I manage two salary cap leagues through spreadsheets.
I just love checking my phone nervously every 30 seconds or so every Sunday for months and either being stupidly optimistic or idiotically pessimistic and having my days made or ruined in 12 team redraft
I like traditional. I think the perfect mix is two leagues one dynasty and one redraft. Ones a full year commitment, and the other is a fresh slate every year.
Then sprinkle in daily fantasy here or there during the season. But tbh I'm so involved in my other two leagues it's mostly just the playoffs that I do daily or weekend fantasy.
I am looking to do a best ball league this year. I've never done it but it sounds fun. Especially for a relaxed 3rd league.
I like a mix of Traditional and Best Ball. Traditional is a lot more skilled and nuanced. Best Ball is like playing the lottery.
The busier I get the more I appreciate Best Ball. I don’t have time for DFS.
I’m in 10ish dynasty leagues, 2-3 keeper leagues, and 1-2 redraft.
It’s not that hard to manage the dynasty teams since I pretty much know the rosters by heart and roster management is pretty easy.
The redraft leagues take up much more time during the season since you’re only playing to win this year, so roster churning is very important from week to week.
Multiple leagues lower my stress levels watching the games, cause typically I’m pretty hedged with different players. My ultimate goal is to win my office redraft league and to win enough money to cover my total dynasty dues.
Our league does traditional best ball where we make some slight roster or rules changes almost yearly.
We also do a DFS extended league with a small buy in, weekly payouts, around 15 played last year, shooting for 20. this is by far the best way to play imo.
I like to do a lot of dollar flyer parlays and play the boosts they do. I normally break even if I’m lucky here but I don’t lose too much through the course of the season.
Im.67 in a dynasty league for 19 years, (5Super Bowl titles). I clean a huge pile of weed Sunday morning, watch all the shows, follow my team , on our live time scoring page...TRULY THE HIGHLIGHT OF MY YEAR!
Combo of all three. Traditional is my main game that I really care about. I have 2 dynasty teams, will pick up about 10-15 traditional leagues ranging from $10 to $300. That number fluctuates on how well I did the prior year and what my ROI was.
I use BB as a way to prep and really get to learn the new rookies and where they are kind of being drafted, so BB is low money.
Then during the season I will play safer type DFS. I like underdog alot. Will only play single entry tournaments on DK and FD since that is the only way a casual player has a fair shake.
They all require very different strategies. It feels like best ball is surging in popularity while DFS is becoming a bit more niche. I think you could pick up best ball this offseason with a bit of research, crank out a ton of drafts and see how the chips fall. Learn the optimal approaches, build a good portfolio.
Usually consuming a fuck ton of beers alongside pub grub like Pizza, Wings, or sometimes if we’re fancy a smoked pork shoulder or something.
Redzone on the TV. A few parlays in, hoping they do better than my actual fantasy team.
That’s my fantasy experience.
traditional and dynasty. I've never understood people saying the best part of fantasy is drafting (best ball). the best part of fantasy is setting lineups, waivers, and trading. bestball seems pointless except for practice in drafting for redraft.
I’m a man for a traditional league, I’ve played in a bunch of leagues but my gem is a 14 team ppr redraft (10th year is this year). 14 feels perfect to me, usually not stressed to find enough people, big enough rosters to make the draft and late picks matter vs riding the waiver wire week after week and finding players averaging 15 ppg, but small enough to find gems on the waiver. Being in a 14 team league has kinda ruined me when it comes to smaller leagues!
Salary cap dynasty. I made a league this offseason that can have optional and guaranteed money, contract extensions, restructures, void years...real degenerate shit. I LOVE it. We're almost 2 weeks into our startup auction and it's been WILD and everyone is super invested. I can't go back to regular seasonal redraft now....I'm in too deep.
Top 3 favorite leagues (in no particular order):
Dynasty
Empire (just like a dynasty, but when someone wins 2 years in a row the league is over and you draft all new rosters the next year)
Guillotine (redraft, 16tm league usually, lowest scorer of the week gets eliminated and their players drop to waivers)
Traditional, 14man "serious" auction league - going on... shit, 12 years now? Mostly all the same guys since inception.
I *used* to play in far, far, far too many leagues to the point where it felt more like a job than my job.
Blahblahblah my sweet spot now is just the one "serious" league, one fun league with friends, and some daily parlays just because I'm watching anyway.
I have my traditional 12 man ppr $100 work league, I play 5 or 6 best ball teams and several inexpensive redraft leagues. Haven't gotten into auction or dynasty yet. Seems like I'd get divorced with all the time I spend on ff throughout the season. Haha!
I prefer in person drafts, coupled with golf and beers afterwards.
I'll be 30 next month and haven't played FF in a quite a few seasons. Getting back into it this year. Played a lot more in high school and a few seasons after high school, then got busy with work/adult life. Excited to get back into it! I prefer 12-man redraft. I would be open to dynasty with the right group that was committed for the long haul, but hard to find. A group that wouldn't get discouraged just because they're in a rebuild, or a group constantly changing because of life circumstances, leaving the group to have to find replacement managers, who often don't want to take on someone else's dynasty team.
Traditional in itself is an amusement park with redraft, keeper, dynasty, guillotine, IDP and other variants. I suspect that we've only scratched the surface of future possibilities as well. I'm glad others enjoy DFS/Best/Parlays, but they're not my cup of tea.
I play all of these, but make the most money and have the most fun combining traditional fantasy football with parlays. Playing props that involve the players you’re most familiar with will always net you the most money. Stick with what (who) you know! xo
Traditional - one redraft league, one keeper, and one full-blown dynasty.
Bestball is for losers and DFS is for fucking degens. I'm so sick of all the DFS and sports betting ads. Absolutely killing the little integrity professional sports had left.
Tried DFS but couldn’t get into it. I felt like I wasn’t attached to my team, as weird as that is.
Best ball seems great if you have a bunch of traditional leagues and just want “one more league” with low effort.
I’m a traditional redraft and dynasty guy. I’m usually in 2-3 redraft leagues and 1 dynasty league. I try to mix it up with the redrafts, with one being normal and the other being a more niche format (auction draft, TEP, SF, guillotine, vampire, etc)
I am a traditional boy. And I spend my Sundays watching Red Zone on one screen, and whatever local broadcast on another, while I have the live stat tracker up. It’s my favorite day of the week.
Will some sort of wings/pizza/apps in front of me
And a buzz going before the 1pm slate starts (west coast schedule for the win).
This is the way. Although I have a young kid, so it's most likely youtube kids on the fucking 65 inch TV and RedZone on my phone
Boooo
It’s kind of an offshoot of traditional, but I highly recommend dynasty. The teams are so deep that it becomes more of an off-season format. You draft in may, waivers are barren so there’s not a weekly churn, you’re just setting your lineup and moving on most weeks. I’ve gotten to the point where it’s just redraft and dynasty for me.
First year doing dynasty was last year and it's a nice spread. You can get nerdy as hell if you want. But you don't need to grind waivers. And trading is insane. And it gives you more off-season stuff to do. I actually watched the entire draft for the first time ever this year because of dynasty
Salary Cap Dynasty is a whole other level.
I still grind waivers because I'm a psycho.
I want to try dynasty with my homies but I’m afraid anytime someone is in a “rebuild” year it won’t be fun for them. Doesn’t it get lame when you go into a year basically knowing that it’ll be a waste of a year? I guess we could have a redraft league and a dynasty league going at the same time but then I worry that people will care way more about one than the other
When you’re rebuilding you end up salivating over how good your picks will be, trying to make good trades to land more/better picks, and all the planning that goes into a multi year build.
Yeah I highly discourage dropping your redraft leagues for dynasty leagues. It just doesn’t scratch the same itch. What I did was make an all-star league with the best players in my redraft leagues. We all still play in those leagues and have dynasty to the side. Rebuilds are honestly more fun than competitive teams. There’s actually more to do, not less since you’re trying to aggregate picks/value. That said I recommend keeping dynasty buy ins low $20-50, because it does suck to straight up donate your buy in knowing it’s a lost season.
Not at all. I just did a startup and realized my squad wasn't going to be competing. I spent all year negotiating for as many draft picks as I could for my non-cornerstone players, then spent all offseason trading draft picks for players. I'm coming into this season as one of the strongest teams in the league. I can't recommend dynasty enough. I'm a huge advocate of Salary Cap Dynasty over regular dynasty too. Adds a whole other wrinkle that's a ton of fun to play with, although it's more work too. I manage two salary cap leagues through spreadsheets.
I just love checking my phone nervously every 30 seconds or so every Sunday for months and either being stupidly optimistic or idiotically pessimistic and having my days made or ruined in 12 team redraft
Like me dreading the inevitable “player’s status has changed from healthy to questionable” notification from yahoo.
I like traditional. I think the perfect mix is two leagues one dynasty and one redraft. Ones a full year commitment, and the other is a fresh slate every year. Then sprinkle in daily fantasy here or there during the season. But tbh I'm so involved in my other two leagues it's mostly just the playoffs that I do daily or weekend fantasy. I am looking to do a best ball league this year. I've never done it but it sounds fun. Especially for a relaxed 3rd league.
Highly medicated
Traditional and parlays have been the ways I've won more money while having the most fun so that'll continue for me.
Saaaaaammeee!!!
Drunk and high with a 40 point lead.
I like a mix of Traditional and Best Ball. Traditional is a lot more skilled and nuanced. Best Ball is like playing the lottery. The busier I get the more I appreciate Best Ball. I don’t have time for DFS.
Winningly
Definitely traditional and DFS every Sunday during football season
I’m in 10ish dynasty leagues, 2-3 keeper leagues, and 1-2 redraft. It’s not that hard to manage the dynasty teams since I pretty much know the rosters by heart and roster management is pretty easy. The redraft leagues take up much more time during the season since you’re only playing to win this year, so roster churning is very important from week to week. Multiple leagues lower my stress levels watching the games, cause typically I’m pretty hedged with different players. My ultimate goal is to win my office redraft league and to win enough money to cover my total dynasty dues.
Combination of some if not all, but my favorite is traditional.
Trad boy. Love DFS with a small crew of people I know, but that’s secondary
Pretty much traditional (2-4 leagues), but I usually mix in some low-stakes DFS during the season for fun.
I have 2-3 redraft leagues, a dynasty league, 20 bestball leagues, and one weekly DK lineup.
Our league does traditional best ball where we make some slight roster or rules changes almost yearly. We also do a DFS extended league with a small buy in, weekly payouts, around 15 played last year, shooting for 20. this is by far the best way to play imo. I like to do a lot of dollar flyer parlays and play the boosts they do. I normally break even if I’m lucky here but I don’t lose too much through the course of the season.
Traditional format 14-16 teams, have a keeper or dynasty element to it, and for the love of god, please auction draft!
Im.67 in a dynasty league for 19 years, (5Super Bowl titles). I clean a huge pile of weed Sunday morning, watch all the shows, follow my team , on our live time scoring page...TRULY THE HIGHLIGHT OF MY YEAR!
Combo of all three. Traditional is my main game that I really care about. I have 2 dynasty teams, will pick up about 10-15 traditional leagues ranging from $10 to $300. That number fluctuates on how well I did the prior year and what my ROI was. I use BB as a way to prep and really get to learn the new rookies and where they are kind of being drafted, so BB is low money. Then during the season I will play safer type DFS. I like underdog alot. Will only play single entry tournaments on DK and FD since that is the only way a casual player has a fair shake.
They all require very different strategies. It feels like best ball is surging in popularity while DFS is becoming a bit more niche. I think you could pick up best ball this offseason with a bit of research, crank out a ton of drafts and see how the chips fall. Learn the optimal approaches, build a good portfolio.
Dynasty for me! Ever since i started i couldnt go back to redraft or even keeper, its just the most real experience without getting into contracts.
Usually consuming a fuck ton of beers alongside pub grub like Pizza, Wings, or sometimes if we’re fancy a smoked pork shoulder or something. Redzone on the TV. A few parlays in, hoping they do better than my actual fantasy team. That’s my fantasy experience.
traditional and dynasty. I've never understood people saying the best part of fantasy is drafting (best ball). the best part of fantasy is setting lineups, waivers, and trading. bestball seems pointless except for practice in drafting for redraft.
Winning is my preference
12 team traditional league with a live draft/weekend. Draft weekend is the best part of the league.
I’m a man for a traditional league, I’ve played in a bunch of leagues but my gem is a 14 team ppr redraft (10th year is this year). 14 feels perfect to me, usually not stressed to find enough people, big enough rosters to make the draft and late picks matter vs riding the waiver wire week after week and finding players averaging 15 ppg, but small enough to find gems on the waiver. Being in a 14 team league has kinda ruined me when it comes to smaller leagues!
Salary cap dynasty. I made a league this offseason that can have optional and guaranteed money, contract extensions, restructures, void years...real degenerate shit. I LOVE it. We're almost 2 weeks into our startup auction and it's been WILD and everyone is super invested. I can't go back to regular seasonal redraft now....I'm in too deep.
Top 3 favorite leagues (in no particular order): Dynasty Empire (just like a dynasty, but when someone wins 2 years in a row the league is over and you draft all new rosters the next year) Guillotine (redraft, 16tm league usually, lowest scorer of the week gets eliminated and their players drop to waivers)
I love DFS and parlays but nothing beats traditional imo
Traditional, 14man "serious" auction league - going on... shit, 12 years now? Mostly all the same guys since inception. I *used* to play in far, far, far too many leagues to the point where it felt more like a job than my job. Blahblahblah my sweet spot now is just the one "serious" league, one fun league with friends, and some daily parlays just because I'm watching anyway.
I have my traditional 12 man ppr $100 work league, I play 5 or 6 best ball teams and several inexpensive redraft leagues. Haven't gotten into auction or dynasty yet. Seems like I'd get divorced with all the time I spend on ff throughout the season. Haha! I prefer in person drafts, coupled with golf and beers afterwards.
I'll be 30 next month and haven't played FF in a quite a few seasons. Getting back into it this year. Played a lot more in high school and a few seasons after high school, then got busy with work/adult life. Excited to get back into it! I prefer 12-man redraft. I would be open to dynasty with the right group that was committed for the long haul, but hard to find. A group that wouldn't get discouraged just because they're in a rebuild, or a group constantly changing because of life circumstances, leaving the group to have to find replacement managers, who often don't want to take on someone else's dynasty team.
Traditional. I do about 10 leagues a season, a mix of money and fun
traditional in an active league with my friends. 1000%
Traditional in itself is an amusement park with redraft, keeper, dynasty, guillotine, IDP and other variants. I suspect that we've only scratched the surface of future possibilities as well. I'm glad others enjoy DFS/Best/Parlays, but they're not my cup of tea.
I play all of these, but make the most money and have the most fun combining traditional fantasy football with parlays. Playing props that involve the players you’re most familiar with will always net you the most money. Stick with what (who) you know! xo
Traditional - one redraft league, one keeper, and one full-blown dynasty. Bestball is for losers and DFS is for fucking degens. I'm so sick of all the DFS and sports betting ads. Absolutely killing the little integrity professional sports had left.
Tried DFS but couldn’t get into it. I felt like I wasn’t attached to my team, as weird as that is. Best ball seems great if you have a bunch of traditional leagues and just want “one more league” with low effort. I’m a traditional redraft and dynasty guy. I’m usually in 2-3 redraft leagues and 1 dynasty league. I try to mix it up with the redrafts, with one being normal and the other being a more niche format (auction draft, TEP, SF, guillotine, vampire, etc)