Jason Katz is a featured writer at FantasyPros. Also, you should consider setting up rules that teams can only have one college player on their team at a time, and if you pick a college player one year, you cant pick a college player the next year. And some great busts would have been Justin Blackmon, Trent Richardson and Montee Ball. If its a keeper league, make them lose one of their keeper slots! Gonos is senior editor for FNTSY.com and founder of SoCalledFantasyExperts.com. A friend of mine recently quit his fantasy football league for this very reason, and while it may not seem like a big deal, it was a league thats had the same group of close friends for decades, and his leaving upset some longtime friends. It could still be the team with the sixth-best record, but this is a way to make sure a great team with a tough schedule doesnt get screwed. For example, the highest QB score in a given week might win $5-10. Now, that second tier of tight ends really mean something, and sleeper tight ends can start being drafted. in the regular season, too. To me, the flex is a copout, and this forces owners to make decisions. ET (CBS) "Josh Allen and the high-powered Bills are the appetizer for NFL fans on Thanksgiving Day, kicking off the Week 12 three-game holiday slate when they . Split the season in two. The best week of the college football season is upon us. 66. The games haven't even started yet. For quarterbacks, the solution is easy if your starting QB goes down, you continue to accumulate points scored by his backup. Make the smaller leagues entry fees about one-quarter of what the fees are for the big league, helping keep that league stocked with potential. In the other league I run, for what is just in its second season, I do things a totally different way. Whether you use Star Wars, Game of Thrones, The Simpsons or a dozen other solid options, your fellow leaguemates will have a lot of fun coming up with creative Fantasy Football team names related to that theme. Try a starting roster that looks like this: QB, RB, WR, WR, TE, WR/TE, WR/RB, flex. Then go back into the schedule maker and input the team names into the slots that will be paired up during Rivalry . Im in a few leagues that use Week 18 as a final, and while I never mind a challenge, this is a wild card that can really throw off fantasy lineups as NFL teams rest players for the playoffs. It could even open a door to more league activiity and trades. But its such a simple solution to schedule-making that I feel it should be shared.
