[FF]: Gauging Interest in Fantasy FiM
 

I quit playing Fantasy FIRST a few years ago when the number of drafts started getting out of control. Even with the introduction of district-wide drafting, there's simply too many teams to keep up with. I'm curious whether there would be interest in Michigan-specific Fantasy FRC.

It would run like a traditional fantasy league. Each player drafts X teams. They're matched up against another player each week and must select some number of their teams to play. The performances of the teams they played gives some number of points, and the player who get more points from their teams wins. The players with the best win/loss records at the end of a regular season match up against each other to determine who is the overall champion.

Right now, I'm thinking a 6-player league where each player drafts 10 teams and plays 2 each week (or 15 & 3).* The draft would occur in late December (so that we know which teams are playing which weeks). The first 5 weeks of competition season would be a round robin, with the top two going up against each other in week 6.** We'd use the district point system, perhaps with extra points for the RAS, EI, and Chairman's Awards. Waivers and schedule would be like a regular fantasy league.***

Would you be interested in joining such a league? Any thoughts, questions, comments, concerns, suggestions, etc. on the ruleset?

*In a well-sized fantasy league, there are good teams that are free agents.
**Not sure how well this would play out. It would probably be better to do the playoff at MSC because then the winner is determined by overall quality of their teams, not the quality of the team who happen to play week 6. Open to suggestions on how to make the scheduling work fairly.
***Dropped teams go into waivers, all FAs that play go into waivers, waivers get processed probably Tuesday mornings, players must select teams to play by Thursday evening

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Interested.

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Potentially interested. Will groups be able to enter instead of just individual people?

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Very interested. I tried setting up a league for FFIM a few years ago, I could get you the ruleset I wrote up if you want something to base it off of.

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Interesting idea. Would anyone be interested in a similar FF setup for MAR?

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Sure, why not.

Yeah, I'll take a look!

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I am definitely interested. Are we drafting each event or just a group of teams?

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I would also be interested

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It'd be a traditional fantasy league (more details in the OP), so a single draft with additional roster decisions throughout the season.

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I would also be interested as well.

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Before Chief Delphi is inundated with posts about the main Fantasy FRC league, I wanted to open up Fantasy FiM for signups. Post below if you'd like to join. I'm expecting more interest than there are spots, so (a) preference will be given to those from FiM and (b) if somebody wants to run a second league, they're perfectly welcome to.

Rule updates:
It'll be 6 players, with 5 weeks of regular season (FRC weeks 1-5). Each player will play each other player once. The top two players will face off in week 7.

Each team will draft 15 teams and will play 3 each week. That means, on average, you'll be picking between 5 teams each week. I'll provide a database with which teams play which weeks in advance of the draft so you don't have to constantly look it up.

The scoring system will be as described above. The same as the district scoring system, plus 10 points for the Chairman's Award, with rookie points split between the team's first and second event equally.

The draft will take place as late as possible. Once we have our 6 players, we'll pick the date, but I'm thinking either mid-December or the week before Kickoff.

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Ooh oooh sign me up!

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I am interested in this.

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Sign me up!

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Why only 6 players?

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Not planning to play this one, but I'd like to suggest that any Fantasy FIM threads (that aren't this one) be tagged with something. I've asked the Season Long league to use [SLFF]; thought I saw someone suggest FFIM as a shorthand here.

Just trying to make it a little easier to determine which league is talking when Season Long hits their district drafting.

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Fantasy leagues use matchups between players. 6 allows everybody to play each other once. 7 would require players to have bye weeks (because 7 is odd), 8 would mean that each player wouldn't play each other player (only 6 regular season weeks).


Threads get auto-tagged with [FF], so I'm not sure how that would be done. An additional tag? Either way, sounds good to me. Also, it'd be hellish to do this draft on CD (like the auction draft we had for IRI that one time), so mixing up drafts hopefully won't happen.

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Additional tag in the title, so the title would read "[FF]: [FFIM] ___________". Might also be possible to edit the title after posting so that the proper league tag is up.

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Count me in if you have a spot still.

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Signups so far:
1. Basel/3322*
2. PJ
3. Anthony
4. Mike



*Currently leaning towards fielding a team. Might not.

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If there's still an open spot by the end of signups, Questionable Decisionmakers (TDav540, Pratik Kunapuli, Kellen Hill, and Brian Maher) would love to field a team. However, we're also playing SLFF, so if there are people who want to play and aren't signed up for that, we're happy to give up our spot.

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If there is space I would be interested and open to playing with others if they would like to join.

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I'd encourage anybody who's interested to sign up. If there's enough interest, I may just not field a team and run a second league instead.

Signups so far:
1. Basel/3322
2. PJ
3. Anthony
4. Mike
5. Questionable Decisionmakers
6. Jack

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I would like to play if there are still spots available

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I am interested as well, if there are spots available.

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I won't take a spot away from someone not already doing SLFF, but if you need more people to fill a 2nd league sign me up. (Or if you need help running a 3rd league if it gets to that point)

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Same

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Throw my hat in for being a person as "filler" to get a league up to enough people without stealing a slot.

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While not quite as fun as a direct head to head (although more 'fair'), an All Play league may make sense. Basically, everyone plays everyone else each week and receives a win or loss for each match-up. For example, if you have ten teams, the team with the best score for the first week would be 9-0 and the worst score would be 0-9 with everyone else in between.

I don't know enough about Michigan teams to join, but I really like format of picking a team for the season and deciding who to play each week. Hopefully this works well and could be expanded to include all districts/regions in the future.

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I thought about this, and decided not to because of the fun aspect. However, your post made it occur to me that it would allow more flexibility in the number of players per league. There is a fair amount of non-CD interest as well, so it could be good.