Dynasty League Football Forum

Over the ten plus years of this forum, I've seen various threads on interesting rules and setups, whether discussed hypothetically or currently used in a league.

Hoping to pin this thread so other threads can be linked here and future discussions put in this one thread.

Nascar- viewtopic.php?f=5&t=151739

Team Captains- viewtopic.php?f=5&t=112128

New idea for assigning draft picks- viewtopic.php?f=5&t=132956

Home field advantage- viewtopic.php?f=5&t=156105

This was the 10 thousandth thread on stopping tanking, but the idea in this specific post as interesting- viewtopic.php?p=1481562#p1481587

Unique league rules- viewtopic.php?f=5&t=152975

March Madness- viewtopic.php?f=5&t=141485

Coaches and Managers- viewtopic.php?f=5&t=134435

Pipeline Dynasty- viewtopic.php?f=5&t=162997#p1479681

Week 17 Idea (back when the regular season was only 17 games, lol)- viewtopic.php?f=5&t=153058

Home team decides scoring system- viewtopic.php?f=5&t=161767

I could've sworn I had others bookmarked, but can't find them. This'll do as a start.

Edit- Weird League Rules- viewtopic.php?f=5&t=209407

I specifically remember CoD's idea that you put up there about a league with a franchise run by 2 or 3 owners. One does the roster and the other does the lineup is how I remember it. I wonder how that played out.

I also remember another one that involved big, medium, and small markets. You could join the league for $50 or $35 or $25... something like that. Then during the startup draft the teams that paid $50 would have twice as much bidding power as the teams who paid $25. I'm going by memory, but I think that's accurate. That league was created, I wonder how that's going too.

I've been tinkering with a new league for the past three years that I still haven't started called the Dynasty Playoff Alliance. The general idea is that every week is an all-play format, and the top 4 of each week joins a 4-team play-in bracket that's played out the next two weeks. The winner of each bracket earns a spot in the actual playoff bracket starting week 12.

The purpose is to give each team a chance to make the playoffs from the first week to the last, thus disincentivizing tanking. I tested it over the last two years and it went well. The top 6 teams earned the most playoff spots -- almost all of them -- and the bottom teams earned one or two. The better teams always won in the end.