Voting Record

Triple the buy-in to $15 — weekly challenges + bigger podium payouts.

Each regular season week will have a unique challenge (all announced prior to season start) in which the weekly winner receives a $5 payout. Examples: highest-scoring bench, most starting-kicker misses, highest-scoring tight end. Ties split equally between winners. Remaining funds increase podium payouts: • 1st: $40 → $65 • 2nd: $15 → $30 • 3rd: $5 → $15

Reduce 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.

Rivalry-week loser forfeits team name + picture to the winner.

The winner 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 or pictures, but they need to be appropriate for the league.

Add some stakes to the rivalry games without affecting the season too much.

Toilet-bowl loser receives — and must guard — the league's Deshaun Watson Funko Pop.

The Funko Pop is shipped to the loser, who maintains custody until the next Toilet Bowl King/Queen is crowned, then ships it to them (or hands it over in person). If an active holder leaves the league, the commissioner safe-keeps it until the next champion 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.

Award the first and second draft picks to a loser-bracket lottery; champion no longer gets pick choice.

Loser-bracket managers are assigned lottery odds based on their average points scored in the bracket: 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 don't play in the final week of the playoffs may choose whether to include that week's score in their average. The first team drawn gets first choice of pick; the second team drawn gets second. Remaining picks are 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.

Send a biweekly or monthly league newsletter via email.

Reduce the bench by 2 spots.

Same as above but to a greater degree.

Shorten the championship from 2 weeks to 1; playoffs start week 15.

The trade deadline shifts back a week as well.

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 fixed 14-week schedule with rivalry, playoff-rematch, and parity matchups.

The 14-week schedule (order TBD): • 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) • Either a second rivalry team or a rematch of your first playoff game (1 week)

Switch to rolling waivers — positions no longer reset by 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 bench spot.

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 draft pick time from 2 minutes to 1.5.

Add a $5 buy-in; podium splits $60.

Podium finishers receive $40, $15, and $5.

Demand a written guide and FAQ before next season.

So Evan will stop procrastinating on it.

Officially ban Deshaun Watson from any roster.

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.

Add a Best Team Name award, voted on at season's end.

Add a Hospital Award for the most-injured team.

Methodology TBD.

Adopt a keeper league — retain players by forfeiting future draft picks.

Players cannot be kept from the past season; we start with 2023 rosters. You can keep 0–2 players each year. Players drafted in the 1st or 2nd round can't be kept. The cost to keep a player depends on their Original Draft Value (ODV) — the round in which they were originally drafted. ODV doesn't change when a player is dropped to waivers or traded. Undrafted players picked up from free agency have a 7th-round ODV. • To keep a player, forfeit a draft pick 1 round higher than their ODV. • To keep them a second year, forfeit a pick 3 rounds higher than their ODV. • You cannot keep a player a third time. Example: Art Vandelay is drafted in the 7th round of 2023 and has a great season. His ODV is the 7th round, regardless of subsequent drops or trades. The manager can forfeit a 2024 6th-round pick (ODV+1) to keep him for 2024, or a 2025 4th-round pick (ODV+3) to keep him for 2025. He cannot be kept a third time.

Add decimal scoring for kickers.

Expand playoffs to 6 teams (12-team league only).

Make the #6 seed a wildcard — highest-scoring non-playoff team.

Rename the league.