How many of you guys are in more than one league? (1 Viewer)

[timschochet]

I'm just curious because I keep reading posts like "I drafted him in every one of my leagues"- I figure the moderators and employees of Footballguys are going to be in a lot of leagues, but that the average schmuck like myself who reads this stuff isn't involved in more than one league. Am I wrong about this? Just being in one 10 team redraft league takes an awful lot of time for anyone who has a regular job- if you're in more than one, how much time do you spend on it a week?

(Not that I mind- I need you guys because you seem to know stuff other people don't and are willing to repeat it here, and I take great benefits from that. I'm just interested to find out.) Please describe, if you would, how many leagues you're in and roughly how many hours a week you spend at fantasy football during the season. TIA.

 

[Dragon1952]

12 dynasty's, 2 keepers and 2 redrafts. I spend about 16-24 hrs per week. It helps to be retired.

 

[timschochet]

12 dynasty's, 2 keepers and 2 redrafts. I spend about 16-24 hrs per week. It helps to be retired.

Wow. That is a lot.

 

[kevzilla]

Three leagues, plus the Survivor Contest. I probably spend a couple of hours a week during the season. That doesn't count watching NFL Live/Sportscenter, I would have been doing that anyway.

 

[Go deep]

5 dynasties

5 online redrafts

6 home redraft/keepers(first two drafts tomorrow)

I spend hours daily on FF, a little less during the summer.

 

[KentGraham10]

I feel like a punk, just in one Dynasty IDP league.

 

[Northbound Train]

5

2 Dynasty

1 Keeper

2 Redraft

 

[Todem]

11 dynasties

1 redraft (drafting tomorrow night!)

Been playing on house money for 5 years.

 

[Diamond One]

Leagues? 2. Time? Never enough. Not if you want to win that is. Oh yeah, and I love this sh** too!

 

[spider321]

How can doing more than 1 or 2 leagues be any fun at all? You never know who to pull for or against if you are in a million leagues.

p.s. - The question was rhetoical. I already know I couldn't enjoy doing more than 1 or 2 leagues at a time.

 

[Angry Beavers]

3 - all redrafts

I was upto 5 a couple of years ago, but that took too much time so i punted the ones that were least enjoyable....

 

[Zoomanji]

How can doing more than 1 or 2 leagues be any fun at all? You never know who to pull for or against if you are in a million leagues.p.s. - The question was rhetoical. I already know I couldn't enjoy doing more than 1 or 2 leagues at a time.

more teams makes it easier. It gets to the point where it doesn't matter. So you can just watch football and root for your favorite NFL team. And no crying that he threw it to Maclin instead of DJax.I'm in 9 BTW

 

[Chicago Hooligan]

4 leagues. I spend a lot of time reading about the NFL already so I don't think fantasy demands much "extra" time on top of that. However, I don't really want to estimate how much time that is. This is the only pro sport I follow closely.

I don't try to draft guys "on every single one of my teams" anymore as I realized that as long as my draft strategies are sound, I'll have a better FF season by being diversified in my player choices. I think my 1st/2nd round picks have been different in each league.

 

[slayer666]

I have finally gotten it down to 6 leagues and will probably reduce to 5 next year (one of the 12-team leagues has to go; don't really like competing in leagues with less than 14 teams).

16-team (auction) Hybrid keeper/dynasty league with contracts, IDPs and a separate rookie draft.

14-team redraft

(2) 12-team redrafts

(2) 16-team IDP leagues (no offensive players) 1 redraft, 1 dynasty

 

[netnalp]

I'm in 9 leagues. I'm not sure how much time I spend each week on the hobby, if I had to guess......hang on, wife is screaming about something in the other room.

What d'ya know, it's a boy!

...8-10 hours, not including watching games, but I wouldn't say I'm obsessed.

 

[Dinsy Ejotuz]

11 dynasties 1 redraft

Also 11 dynasties, 1 redraft.Dynasty makes it possible to play a ton of leagues and still root for 'your guys.' My rosters all overlap bigtime.

 

[Unlucky]

How can doing more than 1 or 2 leagues be any fun at all? You never know who to pull for or against if you are in a million leagues.

p.s. - The question was rhetoical. I already know I couldn't enjoy doing more than 1 or 2 leagues at a time.

more teams makes it easier.

It gets to the point where it doesn't matter. So you can just watch football and root for your favorite NFL team. And no crying that he threw it to Maclin instead of DJax.

I'm in 9 BTW

I'm in 10+, so I just root for a few guys that I have in multiple games, and enjoy watching all of the games. After Sunday Night game, then I look at scores. Monday night can be fun with multiple scenarios needed.

 

[brun]

10 total:

4 are draft expert, so there's no time required once they've been drafted

1 keeper

1 auction (1st time for me, just wanted to try it)

1 FFPC ME (Vegas draft)

3 FPC

Spending a fair amount of time now, but probably only 2-4 hours a week once the season starts.

 

[money.never.sleeps]

in the last 3 years quit all other fantasy sports but football and I've limited myself to 1 IDP $ dynasty league and a free IDP dynasty league. Also found I'm much more productive in my life without consuming so much time to research.

 

[lyon812]

6 leagues, all dynasty, though with various rulesets. Two 13-man keeper dynasties, one salary, one contract/salary, one contract, one deep dynasty. All are IDP except the contract/salary. I like the challenge of learning new styles of play. In fact, two of those are because I took over a last place/talent-poor dynasty team and wanted to see if I could turn its fortunes around.

I work and go to graduate school, so I fit in my hobbies around other priorities. Leading up to the NFL Draft, I tend to do the most research, setting aside a few hours a couple of times a week to just look at players and make ranking sheets, etc. I compile a lot of information into spreadsheets, and that takes several hours. Still, aside from that time of the year, I only really spend 1-2 hours a day on reading/analyzing. It’s pretty spread out throughout the day. You know; wake up, check the Web while I eat breakfast, go to work, maybe check if it’s really slow and I’m bored, then come home and check what’s going on before bed. It all adds up, but it's not really like I'm devoting time to it, and it doesn’t interfere with anything. It's no different than any other hobby. When you have downtime, you gravitate towards what you enjoy, whether it be fantasy sports research, gardening, working on cars, whatever. I enjoy fantasy sports (I'm also in a pair of dynasty baseball leagues which I've been in for about 15 years).

Still, I've found that knowledge really snowballs. It’s like anything else you learn; you just keep building on what you had before. In the last four years, I've seen my knowledge grow by leaps and bounds, particularly on the IDP side. Like anything else, first you learn the big generalities, like the Top 10 DL and the Top 10 Sleepers then you start learning about other tiers of players, then you learn WHY some players are sleepers or how schemes affect production, then you learn about next year's prospects, and before you know it...

I think the most important thing, though, is to learn how to NOT rely on other people’s judgments. Don’t just take people’s lists and rankings to heart. Learn the strategies and skills that underlie the analysis, and draw your own conclusions, then take the appropriate actions. Don’t let other people do your thinking for you. Weigh their analysis and opinions, yes, but make sure you have your own as well.

In general, I don't think the number of leagues you're in matters terribly much. After all, I use the same information-gathering tactics that I did when I only had a couple of leagues. I find there are only two significant "problems" with more leagues:

1. Confusing rulesets. I see this happen in a couple of them, where people forget what league has what rule on waiver pickups, bid amounts, IR usage, etc.

2. It's harder to keep track of what players are available on the waiver wire, which means some players can slip through the cracks.

 

[timschochet]

I'm amazed by the results of this poll. Damn, there are some SERIOUS FF people in here.

 

[moondog]

I'm amazed by the results of this poll. Damn, there are some SERIOUS FF people in here.

I would say a serious FF player is in only one league where every owner knows what he is doing. Why even play if you are in a dozen+ random internet leagues with with knows who. Posters on this site bragging about how great a draft they had in their guppie leagues makes me laugh. Guess what - if you play in a guppie league it makes you a guppie too.

 

[Dr. No]

2 sets of good friends, 2 leagues.

1 nfl pick 'em league (picking games against spread)

i do hate 2 teams though. I wish i either had one or 6.

When you have 2, there's always the " I have peyton, but i'm playing against peyton in the "other league" factor.

I run all three leagues.. and that takes time.

I wouldn't mind joining another league that was totally different.. like a local live auction or something.

but i'm happy with the way it is.

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[Mystery Achiever]

i do hate 2 teams though. I wish i either had one or 6.When you have 2, there's always the " I have peyton, but i'm playing against peyton in the "other league" factor.

Two teams works best for me. Once you do all of the research, I figure, you may as well have go toward a second. And if you end up with a crappy team, you still have another shot. And with only two, you have a better shot of occassionally having a life Sunday morning instead of waiting around for injury reports and game time decisions. A couple of years ago, I stopped paying attention to opponents' rosters until after the games. Stops the "I'm also playing against him" angst.

 

[Go deep]

I'm amazed by the results of this poll. Damn, there are some SERIOUS FF people in here.

I would say a serious FF player is in only one league where every owner knows what he is doing. Why even play if you are in a dozen+ random internet leagues with with knows who. Posters on this site bragging about how great a draft they had in their guppie leagues makes me laugh. Guess what - if you play in a guppie league it makes you a guppie too.

You would be wrong. The only reason it seems like everyone know what the are doing is because there are no sharks in your league. Bring in one of the guys from this thread who is in mulriple leagues, and he would feed on you fellas.Nothing wrong with being in one league though, good luck this season.

 

[benson_will_lead_the_way]

11 dynasty leagues

1 Keeper(college buddies)

Been playing on house money ever since I started dynasty

 

[Go deep]

i do hate 2 teams though. I wish i either had one or 6.

When you have 2, there's always the " I have peyton, but i'm playing against peyton in the "other league" factor.

Two teams works best for me. Once you do all of the research, I figure, you may as well have go toward a second. And if you end up with a crappy team, you still have another shot. And with only two, you have a better shot of occassionally having a life Sunday morning instead of waiting around for injury reports and game time decisions. A couple of years ago, I stopped paying attention to opponents' rosters until after the games. Stops the "I'm also playing against him" angst.

Good point, once you are in multiple leagues, you stop rooting against players, becaus its hard enough to know who to root for, much less try to figure out who to root against.

Although when you are in 10+ leagues, and someone scores a TD who is not on any of your rosters, you know it probably isnt good.

 

[moondog]

I'm amazed by the results of this poll. Damn, there are some SERIOUS FF people in here.

I would say a serious FF player is in only one league where every owner knows what he is doing. Why even play if you are in a dozen+ random internet leagues with with knows who. Posters on this site bragging about how great a draft they had in their guppie leagues makes me laugh. Guess what - if you play in a guppie league it makes you a guppie too.

You would be wrong. The only reason it seems like everyone know what the are doing is because there are no sharks in your league. Bring in one of the guys from this thread who is in mulriple leagues, and he would feed on you fellas.Nothing wrong with being in one league though, good luck this season.

LOL. And you know this how ? Typical GUPPIE response.

 

[Dinsy Ejotuz]

I'm amazed by the results of this poll. Damn, there are some SERIOUS FF people in here.

I would say a serious FF player is in only one league where every owner knows what he is doing. Why even play if you are in a dozen+ random internet leagues with with knows who. Posters on this site bragging about how great a draft they had in their guppie leagues makes me laugh. Guess what - if you play in a guppie league it makes you a guppie too.

I'd love to learn from you. Send me your e-mail and I'll be in touch when there's an opening in a Backyard Brawl, Hyperactive or MOX leagues.

 

[moondog]

I'm amazed by the results of this poll. Damn, there are some SERIOUS FF people in here.

I would say a serious FF player is in only one league where every owner knows what he is doing. Why even play if you are in a dozen+ random internet leagues with with knows who. Posters on this site bragging about how great a draft they had in their guppie leagues makes me laugh. Guess what - if you play in a guppie league it makes you a guppie too.

I'd love to learn from you. Send me your e-mail and I'll be in touch when there's an opening in a Backyard Brawl, Hyperactive or MOX leagues.

It must be great to know that no matters who scores a TD in a game you have them on your teams.

 

[Dinsy Ejotuz]

I'm amazed by the results of this poll. Damn, there are some SERIOUS FF people in here.

I would say a serious FF player is in only one league where every owner knows what he is doing. Why even play if you are in a dozen+ random internet leagues with with knows who. Posters on this site bragging about how great a draft they had in their guppie leagues makes me laugh. Guess what - if you play in a guppie league it makes you a guppie too.

I'd love to learn from you. Send me your e-mail and I'll be in touch when there's an opening in a Backyard Brawl, Hyperactive or MOX leagues.

It must be great to know that no matters who scores a TD in a game you have them on your teams.

Don't see your e-mail here. We have openings every year - step up for the easy money.

 

[Christo]

1 Dynasty Non-PPR

1 Dynasty PPR

1 Dynasty IDP

1 Redraft PPR

 

[Ministry of Pain]

A lot Tim, but the major chuncks of time devoted to FF are typically around the NFL Draft and then quite a bit in the preseason or when camps open/break. Once the season starts both college and pro I think most of us are simply fans at that point and watch the games regularly. Do you watch more than 1 game on Sunday? Do you watch college football on Sat? How about Thursday?

With the NFLN you can watch it 24/7 wall to wall almost and I am betting a good majority of folks in here watch a lot of the NFLN.

 

[moondog]

I'm amazed by the results of this poll. Damn, there are some SERIOUS FF people in here.

I would say a serious FF player is in only one league where every owner knows what he is doing. Why even play if you are in a dozen+ random internet leagues with with knows who. Posters on this site bragging about how great a draft they had in their guppie leagues makes me laugh. Guess what - if you play in a guppie league it makes you a guppie too.

I'd love to learn from you. Send me your e-mail and I'll be in touch when there's an opening in a Backyard Brawl, Hyperactive or MOX leagues.

It must be great to know that no matters who scores a TD in a game you have them on your teams.

Don't see your e-mail here. We have openings every year - step up for the easy money.

LOL I don't doubt you have openings every year.

 

[sparkky]

3 dynasty leagues here.

time spent varies too much to even guess, but I'd say average of 8-10 hours a week year round. also, like mentioned above, it helps to be retired.

 

[coolnerd]

I'm just curious because I keep reading posts like "I drafted him in every one of my leagues"- I figure the moderators and employees of Footballguys are going to be in a lot of leagues, but that the average schmuck like myself who reads this stuff isn't involved in more than one league. Am I wrong about this? Just being in one 10 team redraft league takes an awful lot of time for anyone who has a regular job- if you're in more than one, how much time do you spend on it a week?

(Not that I mind- I need you guys because you seem to know stuff other people don't and are willing to repeat it here, and I take great benefits from that. I'm just interested to find out.) Please describe, if you would, how many leagues you're in and roughly how many hours a week you spend at fantasy football during the season. TIA.

I have been in a dozen plus leagues for several years. I would guess that I spend 12-15 total hours on FF in a week (separate from watching football). The season is actually pretty easy to manage. I have one day that I set roster and do WW which about 90 minutes. I re-check for injuries/line-up changes @ some point during the week (30 minutes) and verify stuff Sunday morning (60 minutes) before going to the sports bar. Obviously, trade offers, reading and posting here and following news occur around my work, family and errands. My wife claims that I have never told her that I could not do (fill-in blank) because I have some fantasy business to handle. She is happy that I have a hobby that is largely harmless, not too expensive or dangerous

 

[broncofan13000]

14 dynasties, and 1 local keeper league. The only tough part I find with so many teams is last minute lineup changes and you're not as sharp on the waiver wire. But it's really not much different than 4 or 5 leagues.

 

[Football Critic]

My obsession goes beyond just owning teams, its part of my life...Behind god, family, and work, this is my hobby and priority.

I own 14 different teams (paid and free), and in some other pick em leagues! I work for a radio station, and the sister station is an ESPN affiliate, so I do work for them for free just as an excuse to people to be so absorbed in this thing we call fantasy football.

I have lost relationships because of FF. sad but true!

I have bought championship rings to celebrate my titles in my biggest league!

I have drove 15+ hours just to make it to my draft.

Did a draft via long distance phone call during Hurricane Katrina

I get in trouble in most my leagues, cuz I'm misunderstood and smack talk the unhardcore...I think everyone should have the passion I do, even tho they don't.

I have an obsession, I know it..... I need to go to FFA (Fantasy Football Anonymous)

 

[redBourne]

Part of the fun of fantasy football, to me, is #1) watching my team play and win. #2) watching my fantasy team play and win. Although I'm in 3 leagues, I still feel saturated by it. I have a problem keeping up with 3 different teams and knowing which players are on which team in league A,B,C. Part of #2 above is getting behind a few select players on the field and cheering them on. If I have too many leagues, I start to own every player. Further, I start to own and play against the same players across the leagues. I just don't see the fun in knowing that if ADP blows up this week, I'll win one game and lose one game. I have gotten tired of hoping that Reggie Wayne gets between 45 and 65 yds and no more than 1 td so that I win in multiple leagues.

As it stands now, I'm taking one league and making it my primary and keeping it simple. The other two I'll manage with ferocity during the week, but on game day will be in the back of my mind. I don't know how else to describe it to everyone.

Perhaps it's because the older I get, the less time I have with the family. However, that also means I've gotten more friends into FF and leagues have formed in various places. Catch 22 I guess.

 

[SSOG]

7 leagues this year. That number has been slowly but steadily rising over the last decade, and should continue to rise. I already spend 20-30 hours a week on this "hobby", and at this point, taking on another league isn't that much more effort.Edit: I actually enjoy football a lot more now that I have a half dozen leagues. I've stopped trying to figure out who I have and who I'm playing. Instead, I just watch and enjoy the NFL games on their own merits and then, at the end of the night, I'll check on my leagues and see how I did. Sundays are much more enjoyable and much less stressful ever since I stopped trying to keep up with everything in real time. It's not like the scores are going to change whether I'm watching them live or just checking at the end of the day.

I'm amazed by the results of this poll. Damn, there are some SERIOUS FF people in here.

I would say a serious FF player is in only one league where every owner knows what he is doing. Why even play if you are in a dozen+ random internet leagues with with knows who. Posters on this site bragging about how great a draft they had in their guppie leagues makes me laugh. Guess what - if you play in a guppie league it makes you a guppie too.

In my experience, pretty much nobody uses the term "guppy"... except for guppies. Once someone gets good enough at FF, it becomes far less important for them to tell everyone how good they are at FF.

 

[Dinsy Ejotuz]

14 dynasties, and 1 local keeper league. The only tough part I find with so many teams is last minute lineup changes and you're not as sharp on the waiver wire. But it's really not much different than 4 or 5 leagues.

Agree that it's not much different than four or five, except for WWs. You have to do something to organize your league rules to keep them straight, and have to come up with a good way to handle so many waivers.

 

[Raskell5]

1 FFPC Main Event team

2 FFPC 77 sats

1 FFPC Draft Experts Plus Sat

1 FFPC Big Payback Sat

1 Footballguys Players Championship Team (possibly another to be added)

FFPC Pros Vs Joes team

36 Rapid Draft teams (hey, they're free)

1 FBG Survivor

GOOD TIMES!!!!

 

[Captain Hook]

How can doing more than 1 or 2 leagues be any fun at all? You never know who to pull for or against if you are in a million leagues.p.s. - The question was rhetoical. I already know I couldn't enjoy doing more than 1 or 2 leagues at a time.

What YOU enjoy or want to do if fine - Please don't try and apply that to others.

 

[Captain Hook]

I'm amazed by the results of this poll. Damn, there are some SERIOUS FF people in here.

I would say a serious FF player is in only one league where every owner knows what he is doing. Why even play if you are in a dozen+ random internet leagues with with knows who. Posters on this site bragging about how great a draft they had in their guppie leagues makes me laugh. Guess what - if you play in a guppie league it makes you a guppie too.

Really? What about really good, serious FF players who play in many of the high stakes leagues?There are guys making a lot of money in those contests (perhaps not consistently every single year, but winning just one league probably pays the entries for four leagues.....more teams in the money are profit.....overall finishes even more profit)I do agree about "guppie" ie Free Yahoo, ESPN leagues etc - but those are generally people new to the hobby and/or people who can't afford to pay for entry fees at any level

 

[Hoart Petterson]

Remember guys, free leagues don't count. Like winning a play money poker tournament.

 

[HenryMuto]

I was in 27 leagues last year but I am cutting back to about 20 this year.

 

[renesauz]

4 Dynasties

1 auction redraft

The IBL (redraft at heart, but with 64+ teams and multiple copies of each player)

No Mercy (tiered redraft)

2 MFLADDON teams (tiered, one is auction)

Ultimate survivor

That's 10 leagues. Four are best ball, but three of those four have weekly waivers, etc.

That's not counting multiple FBG survivors (I dont normally count these draft and forget leagues).

I'll also have at least 2, and up to 4 or 5, contest leagues, like the FBG contest.

I loved when I only had one or two teams to track every week, but find it easier to enjoy a single NFL game while in many leagues.

I make money most years, although it probably equates to less then minimum wage when you account for all the time spent. August is the worst month by far for time spent on my teams. I find that in season, the extra teams don't require much more extra time then I spent when I only had a couple of squads.

It seems to me that most of the hardest core football fans generally like more leagues, since they get to talk football with other hard core guys all off-season. More casual fans who like fantasy a lot tend to play in only a couple of leagues. Some guys actually root more for their fantasy teams then their NFL teams, and for them, one or two leagues works beautifully.

 

[renesauz]

Remember guys, free leagues don't count. Like winning a play money poker tournament.

Some free leagues most certainly count. Randomly generated Fleaflicker leagues (and those like them) shouldn't count, and FBG survivors probably shouldn't count, but leagues like NO MERCY, MFLADDONS, and the IBL most certainly do. They take just as much time as the paid leagues, are by invitation only, and carry more prestige.I understand your point though. Somebody tried to count 20+ Rapid Draft leagues.....

 

[JohnnyU]

I'm in 10 leagues and I don't care about anything else in life. That includes my family, my job, and my friends.

 

[JohnnyU]

I'm amazed by the results of this poll. Damn, there are some SERIOUS FF people in here.

I would say a serious FF player is in only one league where every owner knows what he is doing. Why even play if you are in a dozen+ random internet leagues with with knows who. Posters on this site bragging about how great a draft they had in their guppie leagues makes me laugh. Guess what - if you play in a guppie league it makes you a guppie too.

LOL, that has to be one of the dumbest things I've ever read regarding FF. Lots of us play in only competitve $$$ leagues and hang out where good fantasy players like to go (like this place). Being in more than one league doesn't degrade the FF player if he/she knows what they're doing.