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Being open to change can enhance your league
Welcome back, readers! Summer officially starts this weekend, and that means draft prep for season-long, redraft fantasy leagues is underway. In case you missed it, my recent fantasy columns here at Big Blue View include the safest players and riskiest players for 2025, a beginner’s guide to Fantasy Football, and burning questions for the 2025 season.
As the summer gets rolling and the 2025 NFL season gets closer, I’ll have a lot more fantasy draft prep content for you right here at Big Blue View, including player rankings and tiers, players I’m avoiding and targeting at Average Draft Position (ADP), sleepers, draft strategy pieces, and more. So please check back regularly for new content. My columns are easy reads at the beach!
If you’ll indulge me today, I’m going to climb up on my soapbox one more time. Fantasy football is a great game, but it can be even better if leagues are willing to evaluate and tweak the rules and format. Today I’m offering three quick fixes to improve your league(s). Since lots of leagues implement rule changes in June and July, hopefully this article is timely.
Readers who followed my content at my old Pigskin Papers website have heard some of this (and more) from me before. I also posted a quick fixes piece at Big Blue View last summer. I won’t call myself a crusader, but I’ve given these topics a lot of thought over the years, and my own playing experience in 30-plus years in my main league (which has implemented almost all of the changes I’ve talked about in my columns, and more) has been extremely positive and rewarding. Like all games, fantasy football can be improved.
Fantasy football has been around since the early ‘60s. It’s grown into a multi billion-dollar industry, with tens of millions of people around the globe playing across a variety of daily, dynasty, best-ball, and redraft formats. Over time, “standard” versions of each format have taken hold, and most participants just accept the rules as they are. But fantasy managers control their leagues and can change league rules and settings to suit them. Many of the big hosting websites (like My Fantasy League (MFL), for example) are very flexible when it comes to settings and scoring. I like to think of the “standard” fantasy football format as nothing more than a guideline, as opposed to something sacrosanct that was handed down on a mountain.
Resistance to change is natural. But hear me out. You’re playing a great game with some dumb rules and settings. My focus is primarily season-long redraft leagues but some of the changes I’ll discuss work for other formats as well.
Note: All season-long player rankings shown below are for Half Point PPR, are on a points per game basis, and Week 18 is excluded.
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