I decided to try something new this year. The last few years I sent out an invitation through a Daily Kos diary inviting people to participate in my yearly free Yahoo fantasy baseball league eloquently named "Cub Hater's Club '09" (or whatever year it was). There was a pretty good response rate, and the league filled fairly quickly. Usually I don't run a fantasy football league, but I had so much fun in the baseball league this year - and the competition was so fierce, I thought it might be fun to try a Daily Kos fantasy football league.
We currently have four league members, and need six more to fill out the league. So if you have any interest in participating you can read the details after the jump.
It's a free Yahoo league - so it requires nothing more from you than having a Yahoo ID. The live draft is scheduled for Wednesday, August 26th, at 7:00 pm Eastern (that will be 4:00 pm for anyone on the West Coast - everyone else can do their own time conversions). A Yahoo fantasy football draft usually lasts about 45 minutes to 1 hour.
The league id is # 539725, and the password is redsucks. (Pithy, I know!!)
To sign up, go here: Yahoo Fantasy Football Signup Page
and enter the league id and password in the appropriate places.
Anyone with an interest can join. I only ask one thing from you: be active, and participate until the bitter end. Nothing is worse than a league where half or more of the managers give up at the All-Star break.
A few more details:
1. It's a head to head points league(H2H) (that means you compete against one other manager each week - and collect points (and fractions of points depending on statistics in several different categories).
2. Here is the entire breakdown of the roster positions: QB, WR, WR, RB, TE, W/T, W/R, K, DEF, BN, BN, BN, BN, BN, BN, BN. (W/T means either WR or TE. W/R means either WR or RB.
3. Check the scoring setting here: Daily Kos FFB League Scoring and Settings as there are quite a few changes from the Yahoo defaults.
4. Trades are subject to approval/disapproval by the commissioner.
Ok, that's it. If you're interested, you're welcome to join. The league is limited to 10 managers - so once that limit has been reached we'll be out of space. Thanks for your time, and to those who are interested, I hope you join and have fun!!