The daily/weekly fantasy football leagues get the most press today, but are still FAR in the minority of desired games that fantasy football participants like to play. Long before then, most people who play fantasy football will register their private, season-long fantasy football leagues and join their public, season-long fantasy football leagues.
For those who want to take advantage of the unique features of fantasy football but don’t have enough people for a private commissioners league or prefer to play for higher stakes, there are numerous public fantasy football leagues that use these options. The 2015 public fantasy football leagues are listed below and come in a variety of entry fees/payments.
- traditional leagues (Available in Live Draft and Autodraft): 10-team head-to-head league with the most accepted positions and scoring system: 1 QB, 2 RB, 3 WR/TE, 1 TE, 1 D, 1 K.
- PPR leagues – The 10-team Heads-up Live Draft league looks like the traditional league, but an additional starting RB/WR swing position is added and the scoring system awards one point per reception and RB/WR TDs are reduced at 4 points each with bonuses awarded (additional 1 or 2 points) for longer TDs.
- TD Only leagues – Live 10-team head-to-head Draft is a huge departure from traditional fantasy leagues and harkens back to the paper-scoring days when the Commissioner made his life easy and just needed to score points to Touchdowns. TD scoring alone is what you’ll find here, so you won’t have to worry about recruiting idiotic kickers. TD points vary with the distance of the touchdown.
- League Average of leagues – The 10-team Live Draft head-to-head league resembles the traditional league, but an additional starting RB/WR swing position is added and the scoring system matches the standard, except for the ranges for defensive stats and of kicks The twist in this league is that you will receive 2 decisions per week; one against your H2H opponent and one against the league average (average score of that week’s starting lineups). This type of league rewards the highest scoring teams more than the standard H2H.
- Bye-bye week transfer leagues – The 10-team Live Draft head-to-head league resembles the traditional league, but an additional starting RB/WR swing position is added and the scoring system matches the standard, except for the ranges for defensive stats and of kicks The twist in this league is that you will be able to pick players the week before they are on bye and determine if you want your points from that week to carry over to your bye week as well, thus locking out two weeks (good or bad). .
- Changing leagues in the game – The 10-team Live Draft head-to-head league resembles the traditional league, but an additional starting RB/WR swing position is added and the scoring system matches the standard, except for the ranges for defensive stats and of kicks The twist in this league is that you will be able to change players in the middle. This helps if you have a player who is suffering or underperforming. Of course, the first half is already locked and you will only be able to replace the second half with another player’s half that is currently open (either the first or second half).
- Total Points Leagues – The 10-team Live Draft Total Point league resembles the traditional league, but an additional starting RB/WR swing position is added and the scoring system matches the standard, except for the ranges for defensive and shooting stats. kicks. The twist in this league is that the ranking is based on the total points accumulated over the course of the season by your starting lineup. This league actually rewards the team with the highest score. This league has a full season of 17 weeks and has no playoffs.
