If you’re following along, you’ve read about the newest fantasy football platform for diehard fans like you, Franchise League Football. If not, find an introduction here. In FLF, we start with a seasoned roster of 14 players . . . and their contracts. Last week, I broke down the keep/drop decisions I needed to make prior to our preseason auction. Everyone in the league must…...

Last week, Renee introduced the Franchise League Football format of dynasty fantasy football (FLF). Today she digs deeper into the strategy of managing a team. Once your league is full, the commissioner will “activate” the preseason, which means the starting 14-man rosters will be randomly assigned to each fantasy GM. We employ an algorithm that draws on one of 10 realistic contract databases to assign…...

Innovation comes slowly to fantasy football. Since I started playing, the two major, industry-wide additions to the standard format are PPR and Superflex. It’s not hard to find TE-premium scoring, and your league might employ a point-per-first-down element, penalize incompletions, or dozens of other small scoring tweaks. But you’re still playing the same essential game. Franchise League Football aims to change that. Franchise League Football…...

So, yeah. I was in the office in the 48-foot trailer (movie biz thing, hard to explain) in the middle of a lightning delay while working on a pilot for a Netflix reboot of A Different World. I paused, flicking my flip-up sunglasses upward with the back of my forefinger. No doubt, I had a glazed look in my eye, hair disheveled, reaching for and slamming…...

Of all the fantasy formats, dynasty is my favorite. It scratches a deep, childlike itch — the joy of building something all your own, like Legos or friendship bracelets or a glorious, slightly disturbing Potato Head chimera made from the mismatched limbs of various members of the Potato Head family. I’ve always loved accessorizing this impulse to create with the dramatics and ornaments of football…....