How many leagues is too many?

[RAB]

Out of curiosity how many different dynasty leagues are you guys and gals in? I'm in 1 dynasty league and 2 redraft leagues. My dynasty league is super active and takes up a lot of my time. I'm not complaining at all because that's the way I was hoping it would be. This is only my second year in dynasty. I find myself paying little attention to the redraft leagues even though I'm in 1st in both of them. I've seen some comments that suggest people are in 6 or more dynasty leagues. How do you have time for that if they're all active? I would consider a second dynasty league but that's my limit I think.

[WhatWouldDitkaDo]

2 dynasty, 1 auction keeper, and 1-3 redraft depending on the year. Any more and it gets to be a bit much for me to manage.

[Bot101]

1 dynasty and 2 redraft this year. The most Ive done is 1 dynasty and 5 redraft. That was way too much for me personally.

[M-Dub]

I’m the same as you. One dynasty league and two redraft leagues (one is technically a 3-keeper league). The two redraft leagues are an afterthought. I’m not sure how people play in more than 2-3 leagues. Not only would it be time-consuming, but the more leagues you’re in, the more likely you are to be starting a guy in one league and going up against him in another. At that point, you’re just reduced to watching the NFL for the pure enjoyment of it. Yuck.

[RAB]

I’m the same as you. One dynasty league and two redraft leagues (one is technically a 3-keeper league). The two redraft leagues are an afterthought. I’m not sure how people play in more than 2-3 leagues. Not only would it be time-consuming, but the more leagues you’re in, the more likely you are to be starting a guy in one league and going up against him in another. At that point, you’re just reduced to watching the NFL for the pure enjoyment of it. Yuck.

Haha Who even does that anymore?

[Tsunami]

These are the leagues I am in this year:

8 team 2 QB + 5 superflex PPR redraft points league
10 team PPR dynasty
10 team 3 QB PPR redraft
12 team standard scoring dynasty
12 team PPR dynasty
12 team PPR 5 keeper league
12 team contract league
12 team superflex dynasty
12 team 2 QB PPR 4 keeper league
12 team 2 QB standard scoring redraft
14 team 2 QB standard scoring dynasty
16 team PPR dynasty
16 team half PPR dynasty
16 team PPR superflex dynasty
18 team standard scoring 7 keeper league + IDP
20 team standard scoring dynasty
96 team x 8 copies in the IBL (redraft)

Obviously I have a lot of free time. But even for me, with this many leagues I find my interest suffers in some of the leagues. I make an effort to send out trade offers in the more active leagues every once in a while, but there are opportunities that I miss because I don't check on every league every day. I like to draft.

[npainter]

I have 5 dynasty and 3 redraft and that takes up plenty of my time.

[M-Dub]

I’m the same as you. One dynasty league and two redraft leagues (one is technically a 3-keeper league). The two redraft leagues are an afterthought. I’m not sure how people play in more than 2-3 leagues. Not only would it be time-consuming, but the more leagues you’re in, the more likely you are to be starting a guy in one league and going up against him in another. At that point, you’re just reduced to watching the NFL for the pure enjoyment of it. Yuck.

Haha Who even does that anymore?

Heh. Good question. I’m guessing just people with 5+ fantasy teams or people who enjoy watching 32 teams run basically the same offense.

[Phaded]

I think it all depends on how involved you are.

I am in two leagues - a 16 keeper in its 6th year and a superflex dynasty in its 3rd year.
I am the commish in both and thus am heavily involved. I even actively monitor how every team in every league does.

I wouldn't really have a desire for another league at this point.

[koalabear]

Three and that's enough for me. My third league is superflex, which I love. If I was starting from scratch I'd only join superflex leagues.

[Dynasty DeLorean]

Anyone want to do the math on the maximum number of leagues you could be in given you have to review each lineup and make any adjustments if necessary before the week starts.

[M-Dub]

Anyone want to do the math on the maximum number of leagues you could be in given you have to review each lineup and make any adjustments if necessary before the week starts.

Assuming you have no job or any other obligations, I would guesstimate that it’s somewhere in the 20-30 range. The main challenge would be making sure all the lineups are kosher on Sunday morning between when inactives are released and when the early games kick off. Assuming a roughly 90-minute window, if you were in 30 leagues, that’d give you three minutes per league to make sure all lineups are valid. Obviously not every team would demand that attention every week, but if your goal is to not let anything fall through the cracks, I think 30 would probably be close to the max. There’s just so many variables involved that it’d be nearly impossible to nail down a specific number.

[Tsunami]

It doesn't take much more time to set lineups in 20 leagues than it does in 5, particularly if you tend to have the same players across them all. If someone is a game-time decision I just make a note of which leagues they are in and then when the news breaks it only takes a minute to respond.

What does take a lot of time is entering waiver requests. The free agent pool is different in every league, so it takes more individual attention. Tuesdays aren't a lot of fun for me. I can easily spend 6 hours on free agency some weeks when there are a lot of players to grab. And then some weeks there's just nobody.

[whodunnit]

Anyone want to do the math on the maximum number of leagues you could be in given you have to review each lineup and make any adjustments if necessary before the week starts.

Talked to a guy this offseason (had to boot him from my league) who claimed he was in over 90 leagues... I still call bullshit

[Tvols]

90?