Different Fantasy Format Question (1 Viewer)

[awfulawful]

I haven't see it on any sites and wanted to see what people here thought about playing in a daily fantasy sports contest with a snake draft format. It would have to be a little different than a typical daily game.

Here are a few examples.

Game 1: Head-to-head (2 player) snake drafts where you can draft players from a single game, a couple games or all the games for the week to make things interesting. Example: something you could play at a bar watching Monday Night Football.

Game 2: A weekly snake draft with 2-8 players. Only picking a starting roster, no bench, winner take all.

Game 3: Tournament style, head-to-head snake draft for an entire season. Or a week long tourney (5 head-to-head games): Thursday night, Sunday morning, Sunday Afternoon, Sunday Night, Monday Night. You could draft all at once or at designated times from your phone.

Curious to hear if people would be interested in playing a format like this.

I would like to know...

1) Does this sound like fun, something you would enjoy playing, or a totally stupid idea
2) Would you prefer to pay to play this game (like DraftKings/FanDuel/MFL10) or.... would you rather/only play if it was free.

If the idea sucks let me know. If you have any suggestions/questions/comments let me know.

 

[awfulawful]

Anyone have any thoughts on if something like this might be fun?

 

[scothawk]

Cant see any way you would keep up the momentum all season long with the required regular drafting.

People, especially those who start badly, are going to drift away or put it our of their mind. Result - ghost league.

 

[Mr. Irrelevant]

This season we started doing a weekly draft with a group of guys from our neighborhood redraft league that pretty much follows the rules of Game 2 above. It's 6 of us, picking 14-man starting rosters (2 / 3 / 4 / 2 / 1 / 1 with a flex, if you care), standard scoring, everyone throws $20 in each week and winner takes all. We usually kick it off at around 12 noon on Sunday since most of us gather up for Sunday Ticket anyway - we try to stay to a 90-second time limit so as to be done by 1 or shortly thereafter.

MFL supports set-and-forget drafts for free, at least a few weeks into the season (might actually be all season long) which means not everyone has to be there on-site ready to go at 12. I set up a league, we run the draft through it, play out the week, then the next week I just go in as commish, reset the draft to pick 1.01, rinse and repeat.

It's been a big hit - basically taking the $20 or so a week most of us would have just plunked down into FanDuel anyway and keeping it in the family, so to speak Even the guys who flamed out of playoff contention in our redraft (*raises hand*) keep coming back for the weekly drafts. Highly recommend it.

 

[awfulawful]

Cant see any way you would keep up the momentum all season long with the required regular drafting.

People, especially those who start badly, are going to drift away or put it our of their mind. Result - ghost league.

I've been thinking a lot about ghost leagues. Is it that 1) the player simply isn't interested enough to keep playing, 2) that they are losing consistently and give up, or 3) that they're mathematically out of the league at some point and don't wish to continue 4) don't have time to draft each week? Probably, could be any of those four.

Changing the payout structure to give money out weekly without the huge payout at the end could help with 3 and 2.

With 1) and 4) I think a more flexible type of league approach might be better. You don't have to play each week. Play when you want. A snake draft wouldn't work for this so you'd probably need a daily/player value format like Draftkings/FanDuel.

I could see having anywhere from 2-2000 people in a league if you wish. A hybrid football pool/fantasy league. Say a $1 to play each week. It matches you headed-to-head against someone in the league. Winner gets $1.80. .10 cents goes to the highest score for the week. $.10 goes to the pool for the highest overall score and highest win total at end of season.

Totally different format but I think something like this could allow people to jump in and play a few games in a season without the commitment of a season long league, while the people who do wish for a season long league still have a pool of money to play for at the end.

 

[awfulawful]

This season we started doing a weekly draft with a group of guys from our neighborhood redraft league that pretty much follows the rules of Game 2 above. It's 6 of us, picking 14-man starting rosters (2 / 3 / 4 / 2 / 1 / 1 with a flex, if you care), standard scoring, everyone throws $20 in each week and winner takes all. We usually kick it off at around 12 noon on Sunday since most of us gather up for Sunday Ticket anyway - we try to stay to a 90-second time limit so as to be done by 1 or shortly thereafter.

MFL supports set-and-forget drafts for free, at least a few weeks into the season (might actually be all season long) which means not everyone has to be there on-site ready to go at 12. I set up a league, we run the draft through it, play out the week, then the next week I just go in as commish, reset the draft to pick 1.01, rinse and repeat.

It's been a big hit - basically taking the $20 or so a week most of us would have just plunked down into FanDuel anyway and keeping it in the family, so to speak Even the guys who flamed out of playoff contention in our redraft (*raises hand*) keep coming back for the weekly drafts. Highly recommend it.

I like that ideas. I think a lot of people are reluctant to play FanDuel/DraftKings simply because 10% always goes to the house and if that wasn't the case they'd be more inclined to play if it went to their friends (or yourself) instead. And you get a fresh start each week. People don't quit because they're out of the playoff runnings.

How do you deal with cash? Just everyone brings $20 that day? Do you think people would still be inclined to play if the money was kept online with maybe a small deposit fee?