A complete record of league rule change proposals and voting results throughout the years.
Reduce the size of the bench by 1 spot.
This will slightly reduce the number of fantasy-viable players being hoarded on team benches, and thus make it easier to find substitutes and promising players in the free agent pool.
Institute a punishment for losing your rivalry game. The winner of the rivalry game gets to set the loser's team name and picture until the end of the regular season (usually only a couple weeks). There are no hard rules on names/pictures but they need to be appropriate for the league.
Add some stakes to the rivalry games without affecting the season too much.
Institute a punishment for losing the toilet bowl. The league will acquire a Deshaun Watson funko pop and it will be shipped to whoever loses the toilet bowl. The loser must maintain ownership of the Funko Pop until the next Toilet Bowl King/Queen is crowned, at which point they must ship it to them (or give it to them in-person if possible). If an active holder of the Funko leaves the league then it shall be shipped to the commissioner for safe-keeping until the next Toilet Bowl King/Queen is crowned.
We have successfully contained Deshaun Watson's essence in the Funko Pop so he will no longer hurt anyone on the football field or in real life, but much like Voldemort's horcruxes it must be guarded.
Stop awarding first choice of draft pick to the league champion, and instead award first and second choice to two loser bracket managers via a lottery system. The loser bracket managers will be assigned lottery odds based on their average points scored in the loser's bracket according to the following. 1st - 8 in 33 (24%) 2nd - 7 in 33 (21%) 3rd - 6 in 33 (18%) 4th - 5 in 33 (15%) 5th - 4 in 33 (12%) 6th - 3 in 33 (9%) Teams who do not play a game the last week of the playoffs will get to decide whether or not they'd like to include the score of the last week in their average. The first team drawn in the lottery will get first choice of pick, and the second team drawn will get second choice of pick. All remaining teams will have their picks assigned randomly.
This system, in combination with Proposal 3, will raise the stakes of the loser bracket and give teams something to fight for. It will also improve parity by giving lower-finishing teams a chance at a better draft next season.
Implement a biweekly or monthly newsletter with season updates, matchups to watch, and so on. It will be sent via email to those interested.
Reduce the size of the bench by 2 spots.
Same as above but to a greater degree.
Reduce the length of the championship game to 1 week from 2 weeks. The updated playoff schedule would now start in week 15 instead of week 14. The trade deadline would also be pushed back 1 week.
Some real-life teams have Week 14 BYEs, which currently aligns with the first round of our fantasy playoffs. This change would guarantee that no manager has to plan for BYEs during playoff matchups.
Adopt a set schedule with a rivalry week and two matchups that encourage parity. The new 14-week schedule will consist of the following (not necessarily in this order): • Play every other team once (11 weeks) • Play a set rivalry team on Thanksgiving week (1 week) • Rematch your final playoff game from last season (1 week) • Not sure which to use yet, but either (1 week) • Play a second rivalry team OR • Rematch your first playoff game
Switch to rolling waivers. Waiver positions would not reset each week based on standings. Our current system puts teams higher in the standings at a continuous disadvantage when playing the waivers, and offers no incentives to teams to hold their waiver position for an exciting player. In Sleeper (and most other platforms) the default is rolling waivers rather than the Reverse Standings setting we've been using.
Replace the IR slot with a 6th roster slot. The IR slot is helpful for retaining injured players, but it's a headache to manage when it locks your roster if a non-valid player is in it. Converting the slot to a regular bench spot should give more flexibility.
Reduce the draft pick time from 2 minutes to 1.5 minutes.
Add a $5 buy-in. Managers that finish on the podium will receive $40, $15, and $5.
Officially demand the creation of a written guide and FAQ to be made available prior to the beginning of next season so that Evan will stop procrastinating on it.
Officially ban the rostering of QB Deshaun Watson due to the numerous sexual assault accusations levied against him.
Watson served an 11-game NFL suspension last season for the accusations as well as an unofficial full-season ban within our fantasy league. He exists in a much grayer area next season, as he has no further incoming discipline from the NFL and will be a starting QB for the Browns. Is it ethical to separate a player's real-life actions from the numbers generated by their game performance? Does further suspension in a single fantasy league do anything meaningful? Is it fair to reinstate him if some fantasy GMs would be unwilling to roster him? All these questions and more merit further discussion… but instead of doing that we're just gonna vote on it.
Implement a new award for the best team name of the season, to be voted on after the conclusion of the season by all managers.
Implement a new "Hospital Award" for the team that was hit the hardest by injuries. Methodology TBD.
Implement a keeper league. In a keeper league, managers can choose to retain a specific number of players from their team from the previous year by forfeiting draft picks for the next year. This allows for managers to spend multiple years with a single player, and also increases the value of rookies and other potential breakout players in the draft. Here's the specifics for this proposal: - Players cannot be kept from this past season, we will start with our 2023 rosters - You can keep anywhere from 0-2 players from season to season - You cannot keep players drafted in the 1st or 2nd round - The cost to keep a player depends on their Original Draft Value (ODV) - the round in which they were originally drafted - ODV does not change when a player is dropped to waivers or traded - Undrafted players that are picked up from the free agent pool have a 7th round ODV - To keep a player you must forfeit a draft pick 1 round higher than the player's ODV - If you already kept a player for a year, you can keep them for an additional year by forfeiting a draft pick 3 rounds higher than the player's ODV - You cannot keep a player a 3rd time As an example, let's say a manager drafts WR Art Vandelay in the 7th round of the 2023 draft and he has a great 2023 season. - Art Vandelay's ODV is the 7th round, regardless of whether or not he is dropped or traded - The manager can forfeit a 2024 6th round pick (ODV+1) to keep Art for the 2024 season - The manager can forfeit a 2025 4th round pick (ODV+3) to keep Art for the 2025 season - The manager cannot keep Art a 3rd time
Add decimal scoring for kickers
Expand playoffs to 6 teams (dependent on us remaining a 12-team league)
Make #6 seed a wildcard slot. It will go to the highest scoring non-playoff team regardless of record.
Change name of our league