• MFLHistory.com, which offers an amazing array of historical league reporting options.
• FantasySharks.com, who offers their “draft coach” and “lineup coach” for customized recommendations on who to draft or who to start in your fantasy football league.
• FanDraft, which allows you to have your in-person, off-line draft results automatically entered into your MyFantasyLeague.com league.

And starting this season, we’re happy to announce a new Android-based application, MyFantasyLeague.com Tracker.  This application is for Android-based cell phones, including the new Motorola Droid.  So, if you’ve got an Android phone, and want to check out this cool new application, look in the Android Market under the “Apps > Sports” section, or search Android Market for “myfantasyleague”,  or visit this web page.

And if you’re a third-party developer who would like to develop your own applications for MyFantasyLeague.com fantasy football leagues, be sure to check out our Developer’s Program for more details!

In addition, new for the 2009 season is a home page module called “Countdown To Trade Deadline“.  You can add that to your league home page via the “Home Page Modules and Tabs Setup” page, so all owners in your league can easily see how much time they have left until your trade deadline.

For now, we’re considering this a beta-level effort, which means that you may well find problems/errors with this report, or have ideas for how we can improve it.  So, if you do find problems, or have suggestions, feel free to let us know by opening a support ticket with us via your league’s “Help > Help Center” menu item.

We’re considering this a “beta” feature right now.  That means we hope that it’s almost ready for everyone to use, but there might still be some things that don’t look or work quite right yet.  If you find something that’s a little off, or have any suggestions or ideas for how we can improve this feature (or anything else on the site, for that matter!), feel free to submit a support ticket to us via the “Help > Help Center” menu item.

To enter your historical league information, you have a few options:

1. If you’d like to just enter league championship and award related items, you can do that via your “For Commissioners > Setup > History Setup > League Champions & Awards Setup” page – this is the quickest option, but only gets the most basic information into the site.
2. If you happened to have a historical league in FFLM, you can follow these instructions for importing your historical league from FFLM to MyFantasyLeague.com.
3. If you’re really motivated, and want to hand-enter detailed historical league information for a prior season, just go to the “For Commissioners > Setup > History Setup > General League History Setup” page, and you’ll see a link there allowing you to set up a historical league for any season, 1990 to present, on MyFantasyLeague.com

Hopefully you’ll find these new options useful for maintaining your full league history on MyFantasyLeague.com!

However, if you change that option to “Yes”, that will prevent owners from submitting a lineup if they have an IR violation – for example, a player whose status has been upgraded from Out to Probable may now be in violation of your IR criteria and therefore the owner has to reactivate the player before the owner can submit their lineup.

As always, let us know if you have any questions regarding this new feature, or any other suggestions for improving the site.

You can use the mid-season league to gather a bunch of your friends or co-workers and start a new league just like your old one. Or you can try a new league format if you want to experiment with other ideas for the 2nd half of the season. We offer various types of leagues:

Draft or Auction Leagues – You can conduct a draft, either live on-line or via email over the course of several days, or conduct an Ebay style auction, and then run the league as desired for the 2nd half of the season…

Head to Head – You can create your own weekly schedule, including double or triple headers if you want to squeeze more games into the shortened season.

Total Points – If the season is too short for your tastes to create a schedule, yo can just use the Total Points format to tally up the weekly points.

All Play – Another popular format is to have every team play against every other team each week. So if there are 10 teams in your league, the team with the highest weekly score will be 9-0 for that week, and the team with the 2nd highest score will be 8-1, and so on down to the worst scoring team which will be 0-9 for that week.

Best Lineup – Generally, fantasy football leagues require each owner to submit a starting lineup each week. For example, if the roster size is 16 players, they have to choose 8 of those 16 players to start. But we also have an option to automatically choose the best lineup each week. It’s a good option if you want to focus on the draft and then just let the season play out without having to worry about roster decisions and lineup changes each week.

No Draft or Rosters – You can also choose a “Tournament Style” format, where there is no draft and teams don’t have a roster. Instead, each owner selects a starting lineup from the entire pool of players each week. It’s a great option for a “no hassle” league if you don’t have time to organize a draft, and you just want to give every owner a chance to pick an awesome lineup each week. If you don’t want a totally “free-for-all” format, then there are options to make it harder and avoid duplicate lineups, such as the “Start ‘Em Once” format where each owner can select any lineup, but they can only use each player once per season. So if they start Brett Favre in Week 8, then they can’t use him at all for the remaining weeks.

The bottom line is that we have tons of options to allow you to run an exciting league for the 2nd half of the season, and it’s totally free. And of course, if you’re using a system other than MyFantasyLeague.com for your regular league, this is also a great opportunity to see what we have to offer compared to what you are currently using, with no obligation or commitment!

And while you’re viewing a player, don’t forget about the Compare Player option at the bottom of each Player Profile page.  You can click on the pull down list to bring up a comparison between any two (or more) players for some side-by-side analysis.

• Most/least wins, losses and ties in a season
• Most/least total points scored, and total points allowed, in a season

So, check out this new report today, and let us know your thoughts on this. What other historical record reporting would you like to see on MyFantasyLeague.com? Let us know!