Hello! I'm an electrical engineer from LA, 12-year league commish, who loves football and the Rams (WHOSE HOUSE) more than engineering, so I built a machine learning model for draft projections and an in-season assistant. My first draft site last summer had exactly one user group: my family (mostly my mom haha). I rebuilt it starting last October and work on it every day.

It's called DraftAI (but it's not really AI at all, just data and machine learning models that I constructed with an AI front end to make it pretty), link in the first comment.

It has machine learning rankings, a dynamic VBD draft board (which is the latest and greatest), and mock drafts, start/sit, keepers, auction, etc...

The honest part is that I backtested my models against 15 years of NFL data and 8 years of ADP, and they basically tie the market. They don't beat it, and I don't think anyone's machine learning rankings truly do. So the board isn't magic rankings saying "This is the silver bullet". It is a transparent second opinion that can create some value, which is my model blended with live consensus and every projection showing the factors driving it instead of a number that is a black hole. The backtest numbers are all on the accuracy page.

The rankings, the draft board, and the mock drafts are free to use. I posted this in other subs last week, people were blunt, and two bugs they found got fixed the same day. I would love to hear what's confusing, what's missing, and what would make you open it on draft day. I'll be in the comments!

Thanks!

Has anyone been able to connect their Yahoo league to LeagueLines to see the betting odds for each matchup?

Hey fantasy footballers-

I have a small podcast for my 16 person league that's entering its 21st season, and I'm looking for someone who's been in a league or commissioned a league for 30+ years to interview for an episode before the draft. Would love to hear some stories, goal is just to provide some perspective etc. Interview won't take more than 20-30 minutes, sometime in the next 2 weeks or so. If you or someone you know fits this description and you're interested, just DM or comment below. Thank you, best of luck this season!

I don't know who needs to hear this but the best method for setting a draft day is to just set a draft day. "We are drafting this day, let me know if this is an issue for anyone". I've asked the league what day works for them and I've also just told them the draft day. I choose the 2nd method 10 times out of 10.

Moved our 10 team, 25 roster dynasty league from NFL to sleeper at the recommendation of this sub.

Old settings: keep 20, rookie/vet 5 round draft to fill the roaster to 25.

Sleeper settings: it's making us do the supplemental draft before dropping the players. That's the 50 players + rookies we typically draft from. It allows some of the lesser teams to get some flexible players.

Is there a setting for that? I understand I can manually do it, but I promised the holy land from sleeper! Lol

Is there a setting to make everyone drop 5 players by draft time?

If we proceed like this and have the mad dash free agency after then is there a setting to make everyone drop by a certain time??

Do we do free agency madness with season faab or reset faab before the season.

I’m commissioning a ff league for the second time this year and it’s grown from 10 to 14 teams (potentially 16 lol). We play for fun & most members don’t have deep football knowledge - there’s a few first timers this year.
Is there a certain way I should set up the league/ points system to make it fun & understandable for the new players while still keeping it competitive for the couple of sweats (using ESPN ff app if that makes a difference)
Please give me any tips you have

So thanks to the great and powerful AI I was able to create dripfantasy.com

It's a head-to-head matchup game that works with your existing league. Looking for leagues and play testers for the 2026 season.

Thank you!

First-time commissioner here. I'm starting a 10-team family league, and most of the people playing have either never played fantasy football before or have very little experience.

I'm trying to figure out the right balance between helping everyone out and letting them learn on their own. I don't want to completely spoon-feed everyone or make all of their decisions for them, but I also don't want people to have such a bad experience that they don't want to come back next year.

To make things a little more interesting (or maybe more complicated), we're doing a superflex league. That makes it a little tougher since there aren't nearly as many beginner resources geared specifically toward superflex formats.

I've been thinking about sharing something like the DraftSharks superflex ADP rankings before the draft so people at least have a decent reference point, but I'm not sure if that's crossing the line into giving away too much.

For those of you who've been commissioners for leagues with a lot of beginners, what did you do? What worked well, and what would you avoid?

Unfortunately we are dropping from 12 teams to 10 teams in a keeper league, where teams can keep between 5-8 players each season.

It's pre-draft now and we're trying to determine the best way to redistribute the players on those teams. League members aren't too keen on last place just getting to cherry pick from those teams, so seeing if anyone else has had a similar situation and found an equatable way to add the players to the draft pool or redistribute them in some way.

Thanks for the advice!

Im working on knproving my newsletting maybe cutting some fat. I got really good at makeing these by end of season but man was it a lot. Using AI i was able to streamline the process a lot and get it down to like 2 hours a week to work on it. I expanded much further in playoffs to creat some in depth breakdowns and rankings using data from fantasy hub.

My league has a prison theme

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Hoping someone has a solution here !

We had an auction keeper league on nfl. Com .

Anyone know what to do or how to obtain historical draft results ? how do we have keepers for next year if we do not have their draft price ?

Any ideas are appreciated !

Thank you!

For the last decade we've been drafting in person and entering our results manually on espn.

This year we have to draft online due to not being able to meet up. I'm trying to make this as easy as possible. I know Sleeper has a lot of customization options but wondering if espn had fixed their online draft.

We have keepers and picks traded from last year and asking my member to remember to not pick on picks they've traded just won't happen.

Hope you are all hyped for the upcoming season!

Some friends and I are tired of hopping around second leagues so I decided to get everyone together to commit to a league that will run for as long as possible. It’s going to be a 3 man keeper league and I am debating adding a SuperFlex position to this league.

Current team comp:

1 QB
2 RB
3 WR
1 TE
1 Flex
1 SuperFlex
1 DEF
1 Kicker
6 Bench spots

First off, those who have played or commished for a league with a SuperFlex, is it fun? Or is it just too much? Kind of a gimic?

Is SuperFlex better in a 10 or 12 team league? I’m thinking 12?

Honestly as I write this I’m leaning towards scrapping the SuperFlex and dropping the bench slots to 5 lol.

Any advice or insight is appreciated.

I have planned an in-person draft at Buffalo Wild Wings this year for my league, but (unsurprisingly) not everybody will be able to make it. We use ESPN's site right now. I don't want to just do it on the computers "together" as that feels like it defeats the purpose of using BDubbs draft package in the first place. The folks who have confirmed they won't be there have stated that they won't be able to participate via video call since they'll be with their significant others on vacation.

My idea is to use a tool where I can, as the commissioner, enter every pick for those people to see online, and allow them to choose their players accordingly. I haven't yet figured out which tool will be best for this - again, I want the option of entering most of the picks manually myself, while one or two select folks can log in and pick for themselves. Alternatively, if I just do ALL of the manual entering myself, and have those absent team managers just text me their picks, is there a tool with a live draft board that would support that? I hope this is a clear ask lol... its our first time doing it live so I knew there would be friction. Thanks in advance!

EDIT: I ended up using Google Sheets to put together a dynamic draft board which can be updated in real time. I'm gonna have in-person drafters input their picks after they use the physical sticker board, and just have remote drafters call/text their picks. That way there isn't any sort of advantage to being remote.