myfantasyleague.com myfantasyleague.com: On-Line Assistant Coach

The goal of myfantasyleague.com is simple - to make playing in and being the commissioner of a Fantasy Football league as fun and easy as possible. This document will help explain myfantasyleague.com, and answer commonly asked questions about myfantasyleague.com. Once you've read this document, if you still have questions, please feel free to send email to support@myfantasyleague.com. Please make sure to include your league name and league id with all correspondence!

If you just happened to stumble upon this web page and haven't yet signed up for myfantasyleague.com, this page will tell you how.

Subscribers to myfantasyleague.com are bound by these Terms And Conditions.

This web page can (and will!) change frequently throughout the season. If you choose to print out this page, please check back here often (at least once a week) for updates.
  1. What's New?
  2. Responsibilities of a Franchise Owner
  3. A commissioner has the ability to perform all franchise owner functions listed above,
    as well as the following functions:
  4. Reports
  5. Cool Things You Can Do with myfantasyleague.com
  6. Frequently Asked Questions About myfantasyleague.com
  7. A Little Aside...

League Home Page

 Not sure what to do on the league home page? Click on an option below to find out what it does.

Step 1: Select An Option
For Owners For Commissioners
Draft
Auction Bid
Submit Lineups
Waivers
Trades
Injured Reserve
Franchise Setup
Bulletin Board
Message Board
Password Reminder
 League Setup
Transaction Setup
Home Page Msg
Set League History
League Import
Calculate Results
Set Head-To-Head
Auction Setup
Delete Transactions
Score Adjuster
Load Rosters
Accounting
Appearance
Break Ties
Draft Setup
Set Salaries
Review Trades
Process Waivers
Remember My Password

What's New?

2003 League Setup

Our 2003 leagues are now available. If you already have a 2002 league go to your league home page to find instructions on how to upgrade to a 2003 league. If you need to create a new 2003 league, you can simply click here.

Note that our FLM program for customizing your scoring rules won't be released until mid-May.

2002 Fantasy Playoffs

If your leagues is defined to use head-to-head games, then once your regular season has ended you'll need to go to the Set Head to Head option to define your playoff matchups one week at a time.

This section of myfantasyleague.com Assistant Coach will be updated most frequently to notify you of new myfantasyleague.com features, weekly statistics issues, and other topics. Please refer to this section often for updates! Note: As the NFL changes official stats, we will update our stats accordingly. Since some league do not want to use changed stats, you need to contact support@myfantasyleague.com to request that your league get's recalculated for any week in which you want to use updated stats. Make this request only after the stats have been updated for a given week and be sure to include your 5-digit league ID.

2002 Stat Changes

NFL Stats Changes for Week #15

NFL Stats Changes for Week #9

NFL Stats Changes for Week #8

NFL Stats Changes for Week #5

NFL Stats Changes for Week #2

2002 Updates:

2001 Program Updates & Stat Changes

Setting Up Your League

myfantasyleague.com easily allows you to set up your own league on-line. Simply follow the instructions that were emailed to you when you ordered your league. Once you complete these four steps below, you'll have your own league web page in minutes! Now you have completed your league setup! Wasn't that painless? Seriously, there are a few more things to consider here:
  1. On-Line Drafting - If this is the first time that you have gone through the league setup steps for your league, myfantasyleague.com will automatically set up your league for on-line drafting. It randomly assigns each team a first round pick order. Each round after the first round will be in reverse order of the previous round. The total number of rounds in the draft will be number of roster spots that you entered in step 1. This type of draft is typically called a serpentine or S draft. If you'd like to use the on-line draft feature, but don't want to do it the default way that myfantasyleague.com has set up for you, select the set draft order option on your league home page to see more draft options.

    2. If you choose to hold your draft on-line, you may choose to do it one of two ways.

  2. On-line auction - myfantasyleague.com is proud to be the first and only customized league management system that allows on-line fantasy football auctions! Compete with other francise owners to bid on fantasy players in order to populate your team's roster. The entire process is handled via the Internet in real-time!
  3. Off-Line Drafting - If your league has already conducted its draft, or just chooses to not conduct it's draft on-line, it is the responsibility of the league commissioner to set up initial league rosters.  The commissioner does this by choosing the load rosters option for a franchise, and selecting all of the players and teams that are on that franchise. This process should then be repeated for all franchises. If you're not sure how to pick multiple players or teams from the free agent list, the FAQ will tell you how.
  4. League Scoring System - To have your customized scoring system for your league, we'd prefer that you use our PC-based setup tool (found on our main page) to define your league's scoring rules. If you are upgrading from last season and only have a few changes, you can send an email to support@myfantasyleague.com describing only the specific changes needed. Please be as specific as possible and send this email message as plain text rather than in a word processing file format. Make sure to include your league name in this email message! Please, save our time and yours - only do this if you have actually registered for myfantasyleague.com. Registration information is available at http://www.myfantasyleague.com/purchase.html.
  5. Franchise Setup - You should now proceed to your league home page and then onto the franchise setup step.

Defining League Transaction Rules

The "Transaction Setup" page allows you to further clarify your league rules regarding it's lineup submission deadline, waiver options, trade options and injury reserve options. Note that these options will only be displayed if you have chosen the appropriate "Allow Franchise Owners With Password Access To" option on league setup step 2. For example, if you did not check the "Submit Lineups" option on league setup step 2, there will be no lineup submission deadline options displayed on the Transaction Setup page.

To define your league transaction rules, follow these steps:

  1. From the league home page, select the Transactions Setup Option under the For Commissioners heading.
  2. Type in the commissioner password.
  3. Press the Go! button.
  4. Choose the appropriate options below:
  5. Press the "Save Transaction Setup" button at the bottom of the page.
  6. You will then see a confirmation page confirming your transaction setup options.

Update League Home Page Message

Your league home page can be customized with a message. That message can say anything that you'd like it to say, and can include HTML. Some suggestions for a home page message: To update the league home page message, follow these steps:
  1. From the league home page, select the Home Page Msg Option under the For Commissioners heading.
  2. Type in the commissioner password.
  3. Press the Go! button.
  4. Type in whatever message you'd like to appear on the home page. This message can contain HTML.
  5. Press the Update Message button.
Important! Do not use the league home page message to notify owners of their passwords! Anyone (not just people in your league) can read this message, and take control of a team in your league if you post passwords here. Instead, you should consider using the password reminder function to automatically email all owners in your league their passwords.

Defining League History

Importing League Information From FLM

Set Up Head-to-Head Matchups

If your league has weekly head to head match ups, and myfantasyleague.com did not have an automatic schedule for your league, the commissioner can set them up for each week by following these steps:
  1. From the league home page, select the Set Head-to-Head Option under the For Commissioners heading.
  2. Type in the commissioner password.
  3. Press the Go! button.
  4. Select the week of the NFL season that you're setting head-to-head match ups for.
  5. Select each pair of head-to-head match ups.
  6. Press the Save Matchups button.
During your league's playoffs, myfantasyleague.com can accommodate teams the are no longer playing by selecting the -- Bye Week -- option from the team list for each team that does not play in a given week.

Some leagues choose to have head-to-head matchups with an odd number of franchises, which leaves an extra franchise each week without an opponent. This extra franchise can either have a bye, by selecting the -- Bye Week -- option, or by competing against the average score of all teams by selecting the -- Average -- option.

If you'd like, you can set up all of the weekly head-to-head match ups all at once at the beginning of the season, and not have to return to this page until playoff time.

If you're at a loss for how to set up your league head-to-head schedule, Brenden Schaaf has created some really helpful web pages at http://www.visi.com/~bschaaf/schedules/index.html that show some head-to-head schedules for many common league sizes.

Calculating Weekly Results

Calculating weekly results for a league involves the following steps.
  1. From the league home page, select the Calculate Results Option under the For Commissioners heading.
  2. Type in the commissioner password.
  3. Press the Go! button.
  4. Select the week of the NFL season that you're calculating results for
  5. If not all league members have submitted starting lineups for the week in question, you may want to check the Use previous week's starters for teams with no starting lineup option.
  6. Press the Calculate Results button.
You should calculate weekly results under the following circumstances: A message will appear on the Calculate Results page indicating the time that stats were made available each week.

When you press the "Calculate Results" button for a given week, the head-to-head wins and losses are updated on your league home page. These results should be considered preliminary until the Monday night game statistics are issued. Some franchise owners might find this confusing that they are awarded a win or a loss even before the week is over.

You can avoid this by simply not pressing the "Calculate Results" button. Even before pressing the "Calculate Results" button, your "Weekly Results" (as well as the "Top Performers" report) will show the points of all players that have already played, as well as a preliminary point total for each franchise. Then, on Monday night or Tuesday morning, you can press the "Calculate Results" button and have league standings on your home page updated appropriately.

Note that the "Weekly Results" and the "Top Performers" report are typically updated sometime between 12:30 and 2:00AM EST on Sunday nights and Monday nights.

Delete Transactions

Both the Transactions and the Franchise Info reports contain a log of all transactions performed over the course of the season. A commissioner may want to remove these transactions for one of the following reasons:
  1. Any associated league specified transactions fees have been paid or just don't apply, and you'd like to exclude these transactions from the fees due.
  2. The list is simply getting too long and you don't need to know the history of all transactions.
Note that deleting transactions will only delete the transactions from the above two reports, it will not "undo" the associated transactions.

To delete transactions, follow these steps:

  1. From the league home page, select the Delete Transactions Option under the For Commissioners heading.
  2. Type in the commissioner password.
  3. Press the Go! button.
  4. On the next page, check the transactions that you'd like to delete.
  5. Press the Delete Transactions button.
  6. On the next page, you will receive a confirmation of the number of transactions you've deleted.

Score Adjuster

myfantasyleague.com can automatically and accurately score the vast majority of leagues. Occasionally, a league might award points for an obscure event that myfantasyleague.com does not know how to award points for.

If your league scoring rules cannot be fully implemented in myfantasyleague.com, you may still accurately record weekly scores by manually adjusting them. You may do this by the following steps:

  1. From the league home page, select the Score Adjuster Option under the For Commissioners heading.
  2. Type in the commissioner password.
  3. Press the Go! button.
  4. From the Score Adjuster page, type in the the number of points you would like to adjust the score by. Make sure to enter a minus (-) sign before the score if you need to subtract points.
  5. Select the week that the score adjustment should apply to.
  6. Type in an explanation as to why the adjustment was necessary.
  7. Repeat the above three steps for all teams that need to have their score adjusted.
  8. Press the Adjust Scores button to save these score adjustments.
  9. On the next screen you will receive a confirmation of the saved score adjustments.
  10. The standings report and the weekly report will now reflect this adjusted score.
Some Important Notes Regarding the Score Adjuster
The Score Adjuster should only be used if your scoring system has aspects to it that you've explicitly been told by us that myfantasyleague.com cannot handle. For example, myfantasyleague.com cannot currently award points based on home field advantage - therefore, you will need to use the Score Adjuster to manually add points for home field advantage. You should not use the Score Adjuster to:
  1. account for myfantasyleague.com generating what you think is incorrect scoring for your league rules
  2. a missing/incorrect statistic such as the wrong number of missed field goals.
  3. account for a missing scoring rule that you have not been told cannot be handled by myfantasyleague.com.
  4. Any reason other than myfantasyleague.com not being able to handle your scoring system.
If you do use the Score Adjuster for the wrong reasons, you are only masking the problem. If you have any doubts, please send us email and we'll help you decide if the Score Adjuster is what you need to use or not.

Load Rosters

If your league chooses to conduct it's draft or auction off-line, this option will allow you to load the initial rosters for all franchises at the beginning of the season. To load rosters:
  1. From the league home page, select the Load Rosters Option under the For Commissioners heading.
  2. Select the franchise you are loading rosters for.
  3. Type in the commissioner password.
  4. Press the Go! button.
  5. In the section titled Select Players/Teams To Add, select the players and teams that you would like to add to your roster. If you're having trouble figuring out how to select multiple players from the free agent list, a little help is available below. If you're running Microsoft Internet Explorer, and you can't figure out how to have the first team or player not selected, some help is available here.
  6. Press the Load Rosters button.
  7. On the next page you will receive a confirmation of the players added to the roster.

Processing Waivers

If during league setup step 2 you allowed franchises the ability to perform waviers, you'll see the Transactions Setup option under the 'For Commissioners' heading. From this option, if you specified that waivers have a weekly deadline, the Process Waivers option will be present on your league home page. This option allows you to automatically process all waiver picks franchise owners in your league have previously submitted.

To process the weekly waiver wire, follow these steps:

  1. From the league home page, select the Process Waivers Option under the For Commissioners heading.
  2. Type in the commissioner password.
  3. Press the Go! button.
  4. From the Process Waivers page, the teams will be listed in reverse order of year-to-date points. Every team that has made a selection will have their selected drop and add listed. You may adjust the default selections, or leave them alone.
  5. Press the Process Waivers button.
  6. On the next web page, you will receive a confirmation of all waiver moves.
  7. All franchise owners in your league who have registered to receive email will automatically get a message indicating all moves made.
  8. The transactions report will be updated to include these waiver moves.

Accounting

This option allows you to track league fees. For example, if your league charges an entry fee at the beginning of the season, and then additional money throughout the season, you can use this option to track the amount of money each owner has paid, and how much they still owe.

To track league fees:

  1. From the league home page, select the Accounting Option under the For Commissioners heading.
  2. Type in the commissioner password.
  3. Press the Go! button.
  4. League Fee Per Player Acquired In Waiver - If your league charges franchise owners for each waiver move they do, enter the cost per player acquired via a waiver move here. You can enter it in the format $1.00. If your league does not charge per waiver, leave this field blank.
  5. League Fee Per Player Acquired In Trade - If your league charges franchise owners for each trade they do, enter the cost per player acquired via trade here. You can enter it in the format $1.00. If your league does not charge per trade, leave this field blank.
  6. League Fee Per Injured Reserve Move - If your league charges franchise owners for each IR move they do, enter the cost per move here. You can enter it in the format $1.00. If your league does not charge per IR, leave this field blank.
  7. For each franchise, you may enter one debit or credit, as well as an explanation for that debit/credit. For example, you could enter a debit of $50.00 for each owner at the beginning of the season to reflect a $50.00 league fee due, and then as each owner pays their league fee, you can return to the Accounting page to enter a $50.00 credit for that owner.
  8. Next press the Update Accounting option to save this information.
  9. The franchise information report will be updated to reflect these new fees owed or paid.

Appearance

The appearance option allows you to control things like page colors, some footer section items, banner ads, and other display items on your league pages.

To set the various appearance options, do the following:

  1. From the league home page, select the Appearance Option under the For Commissioners heading.
  2. Type in the commissioner password.
  3. Press the Go! button.
  4. From the Appearance page you can:
    1. Specify web site addresses for various things on your pages, like:
      1. A league home page you might have on another web site. This will create a link from the title of all myfantasyleague.com pages to any web site you specify.
      2. League logo URL will allow you to specify the URL of your league logo to be included at the top of all league web pages. You can specify a logo on another web server, or you can use on of our logos displayed on this page. Alternatively, if your league logo is less than 30 kilobytes in size, you may upload it to our web server via the "Upload Logo File:" option following these instructions:
        1. Create the logo, and save it in GIF or JPEG format. The logo must be less than 30 kilobytes in size to be uploaded.
        2. Press the Browse... button to the right of the "Upload Logo File" type-in box. If you do not see the Browse... button, that means you are running a web browser incapable of uploading a logo file. You should consider upgrading to a newer browser that supports file uploading.
        3. Find the logo on your hard drive.
        4. Press the OK or Open button once you've located the file.
        5. This will upload your logo to our web server.
      3. You can give all of your league pages a common background by specifying a URL for a background image. Again, you can choose from one of our backgrounds at this page. All backgrounds must be in JPG or GIF format.
      4. Your league home page can even have a custom audio clip on it! To activate this feature, just specify the URL for a wav file, and each time an owner visits your league home page, this wav file will play. Please note that the audio file MUST be in the wav format!
      5. Include a banner ad on all league pages by specifying the image URL and click-through destination URL (make sure to include the entire URL for each). This banner ad will appear on the top of all league pages. You might want to include a banner from LinkExchange, for example, to get credits for all league page views you have.
    2. Eliminate the Fantasy and/or NFL sections from the bottom of all league pages. Some commissioners feel that this information just makes things too easy for lazy owners!
    3. Eliminate the NFL Injury Status and/or Upcoming NFL schedule information from the Top Performers and Submit Lineups pages. Again, this information just makes things too easy for lazy owners!
    4. Eliminate the Top Performers report altogether - only if you're a die-hard league!
    5. Specify the number of decimal places for league scoring - 0 if you only score down to whole numbers, 1 if you score down to 1/10th of a point, and 2 if you score down to 1/100th of a point.
    6. Indicate what time zone your league is in, and all times mentioned on all league pages will be displayed in your local time zone.
    7. Include (or exclude) things like league standings, last week's results, next weeks games, last update time for the league message board, draft status, and other league news.
    8. Specify the number of days that the "new" icon should be displayed next to new messages on the message board.
    9. Set document colors. You have control over nine document characteristics, and each characteristic can be set to one of 24 different colors.
    10. Set document fonts. You can choose from 9 different fonts, and 9 different font sizes, for a total of 81 different page appearances!

      The document characteristics are: background color, text color, header text color, injury status color, table header color, every other table row color, active link color, un-visited link color, and visited link color.

      Keep in mind that certain color combinations will make myfantasyleague.com pages unreadable, or nearly so. For example, a dark colored background with dark colored text will always be a bad idea!

    11. A text applet can be included on all league pages, or just the league home page. Several options for how the text is scrolled are available, and you can type in any text you would like to appear in the applet.
    12. One of 20 icons can be associated with any team on the league standings report.

    Once you set all of the appearance settings on this page, press the Save Appearance Information button at the bottom of the page to be sure that all appearance settings are saved!

Break Ties

If your league is set up to allow the commissioner to manually break ties, this option needs to be selected to actually break any ties that may occur. To accomplish this:
  1. From the league home page, select the Break Ties Option under the For Commissioners heading.
  2. Type in the commissioner password.
  3. Press the Go! button.
  4. All tie games will be displayed for you to review. You can then select the winner of the tie game, along with an explanation of why that team was declared the winner.
  5. Press the Break Ties button. You will then receive confirmation of the broken ties on the following page.
  6. The weekly results report will be updated to reflect this new result.

Draft Setup

If you choose to draft on-line, but do not want to use the default draft order myfantasyleague.com generated for you, you can over-ride it by the following steps:
  1. From the league home page, select the Draft Setup Option under the For Commissioners heading.
  2. Type in the commissioner password.
  3. Press the Go! button.
  4. You will then be able to manually set the order of the first round of the draft, and then select the number of total rounds in your draft, as well as the draft type (S-draft, or random for each round).
  5. Press the Set Draft Order button. You will then get confirmation on the following screen of your draft order.
  6. If you want to set a draft order other than one of the above ways, please send email to support@myfantasyleague.com describing how you would like to conduct your draft, and we'll try to accommodate your needs.
In addition, the Draft Setup option also allows you to back your draft up to any prior pick that you'd like in case an incorrect pick is made during the course of the draft.

Once your draft has started, the Set Draft Order section will be removed, and in it's place will be a Revert Draft section. This Revert Draft option will allow the league commissioner to "back up" the draft to any round/pick he would like to. This feature is useful for leagues who want to start with a little "test" draft, or if any owner makes an incorrect pick that you would like to fix.

The bottom of this page has a section titled Draft Timer which allows you to set a timer on each draft pick. If the time has been exceeded myfantasyleague.com will automatically skip that person's draft pick.

Auction Setup

If 'On-line auction' has been enabled from page #2 of League Setup, the Auction Setup option will appear under the commissioner options. This screen will allow the commissioner to define initial auction parameters and remove existing/competed auctions.
  1. From the league home page, select the Auction Setup Option under the For Commissioners heading.
  2. Type in the commissioner password.
  3. Press the Go! button.
  4. From the Auction Setup page you can:
    1. Specify various auction Setup parameters such as:
      1. The Minimum Opening Bid amount required to place any player up for auction.
      2. The Mimimum Bid Raise or the increase between bids for any auctioned player.
      3. The Auction Funds Available to Each Franchise to use to bid on all auctioned players.
      4. The time that the auction for a player will end (xx days after the last bid was made or the auction started for a player)
    2. Remove any auction currently in process or completed. Just click on the checkbox adjacent to the auctioned player.
  5. Click on the Save Auction Setup button.

Defining Player Salaries

If 'Track Player Salaries' has been enabled from page #1 of League Setup, the Set Salaries option will appear.
  1. From the league home page, select the Set Salaries Option under the For Commissioners heading.
  2. Type in the commissioner password.
  3. Press the Go! button.
  4. From the Set Salaries page you can define a salary (without commas) for each player.
  5. Click on the Save Salary Information button when you have finished entering all your salary information.

Review Trades

If during league setup step #3 you indicated that all trades need to be approved by the commissioner, complete the following steps:
  1. From the league home page, select the Review Trades Option under the For Commissioners heading.
  2. Type in the commissioner password.
  3. Press the Go! button.
  4. You will then be displayed a list of trades that are pending. Mark the trades you would like to approve or reject, and then press the Approve or Reject trade button at the bottom of the page.
  5. You will then be shown a confirmation of all trades approved or rejected on the following screen, email notifcations will be sent out, and the transaction history report will be updated.

Drafting

If your league chooses to conduct its draft on-line, the draft is the first step after you have set up your league and franchises. As explained in step 4 of the league setup, the default draft is a serpentine or S draft.

A draft may be set up to run over several days or weeks, or, it may be set up to run "live" in a chat room type environment.

If your league is set up to draft over several days or weeks, each owner can perform the following steps to make a pick:

  1. From the league home page, select the Draft Option under the For Owners heading.
  2. Select the franchise you are drafting for.
  3. Type in the franchise or commissioner password.
  4. Press the Go! button.
  5. If it's your turn to pick, you will see a message indicating that. Otherwise, you will see a message indicating that you may pre-draft for future rounds.
  6. Select a player or team from the list of available players or teams. If you're running Microsoft Internet Explorer, and you can't figure out how to have the first team or player not selected, some help is available here.
  7. Press the Make Selection button.
  8. You will receive a confirmation on the next web page of the pick that you just made.
  9. If the owners following you in the draft have used the pre-draft option, their picks will automatically be made for them.
  10. All franchise owners who are registered to receive email will receive a notification of your pick, as well as whose turn it is to pick next. Also, any pre-draft picks that were made will be included in this email message.
If your league is set up to for live drafting in a chat room type environment, executing following steps will put you into live draft mode.
  1. From the league home page, select the Draft Option under the For Owners heading.
  2. Select the franchise you are drafting for.
  3. Type in the franchise or commissioner password.
  4. Press the Go! button.
  5. From the next page, press the Live Draft button.
  6. The next page will be divided up into three sections:
    1. The top section will indicate your league and franchise name.
    2. The middle section will list the most recent picks made in the draft, as well as any messages people have posted during the draft.
    3. The bottom section allows you to make picks, and allows you to type in messages that all people drafting will be able to read.
  7. To make a pick, select a player from the player list, or a team from the team list, then press the Pick button.
  8. To post a message to everyone participating in the live draft, type your message into the message box, and then press the Post Message button. Your message can include HTML.
  9. When picks are made, the list of available players is not automatically updated. You should periodically update your list of available players by pressing the Update Lists button.
  10. If you need to step away from your computer for a little while during a live draft, but don't want to hold up the draft while you're away, you can use the pre-draft feature to make picks for you while you're away.
If you're using myfantasyleague.com's "Live Draft" feature, but have multiple franchise owners at one computer, here's one suggestion on how to make this work.
  1. Go to the Live Draft page for one owner.
  2. Open a new browser window. Depending on what version of what browser you're running, this may be done via the "File" menu. There should be an option named something like "New Window" or "New Browser Window". Go to the Live Draft page for the next owner. Repeat this step for all owners that will be using this computer.
  3. To cycle between owner live draft pages, there is typically a menu item named "Window" in your browser. Select the appropriate live draft window for the owner that wants to draft, or post a message.

Pre-Drafting For Future Rounds

An on-line draft can be a very time consuming process. Thanks to some excellent suggestions from a subscriber (thanks, Steve!), we have implemented a pre-draft system. This pre-draft system allows each franchise owner to select players for future rounds even if it is not yet their turn to pick. Unlike a blind draft, this pre-draft system is strictly voluntary, and leaves it up to the individual franchise owner to decide what rounds they would like to pre-draft for, and how many picks they would like to make in each round. Best of all, no other franchise owner can find out the pre-draft picks you have made.

To pre-draft, follow these steps:

  1. From the league home page, select the Draft Option under the For Owners heading.
  2. Select the franchise you are pre-drafting for.
  3. Type in the franchise or commissioner password.
  4. Press the Go! button.
  5. If it's your turn to pick, you will see a message indicating that, and you may draft normally. Otherwise, you will see a message indicating that you may pre-draft for future rounds.
  6. Select several players and team from the list of available players or teams. The more you pick, the better chance you will have of actually getting one of them. If you're having a hard time figuring out how to select multiple players from the pre-draft list, the FAQ will tell you how. If you're running Microsoft Internet Explorer, and you can't figure out how to have the first team or player not selected, some help is available here.
  7. Select the round that you are pre-drafting for.
  8. Press the Make Selection button.
  9. From the next web page, you will see a list of your pre-draft picks, and a column titled Order. Prioritize your picks by having the number 1 in the Order column next to your first preference, 2 next to your second preference, and so on.
  10. Press the Submit Pre-Draft button.
  11. You will receive a confirmation on the next web page of the pre-draft picks that you just made.
  12. Once the person in front of you has picked (or their pre-draft pick has been made for them), your highest priority available pick will be made for you, and everyone in your league will receive an email confirmation of this.
If you later change your mind and decide to remove your pre-draft picks for a certain round (before drafting for that round, of course!), you can follow all of the steps above, except don't select any players or teams from the list of available players and teams. This will make myfantasyleague.com forget your pre-draft picks for that round.

Auctioning Players

Performing Waivers

Waivers are a means of picking up "free-agent" players or teams, in exchange for dropping players and teams off your rosters. If during league setup your commissioner specified that waivers are done First Come, First Served, follow these steps:
  1. From the league home page, select the Waivers Option under the For Owners heading.
  2. Select the franchise you are doing waivers for.
  3. Type in the franchise or commissioner password.
  4. Press the Go! button.
  5. In the section titled Select Players/Teams To Drop, select the players and teams that you are dropping from your roster.
  6. In the section titled Select Players/Teams To Add, select the players and teams that you would like to add to your roster. If you're having trouble figuring out how to select multiple players from the free agent list, a little help is available below. If you're running Microsoft Internet Explorer, and you can't figure out how to have the first team or player not selected, some help is available here.
  7. Press the Perform Waivers button.
  8. On the next web page, you will receive a confirmation of your waiver moves.
  9. All franchise owners in your league who have registered to receive email will automatically get a message indicating the move made.
  10. The transactions report will be updated to include this waiver move.
If during league setup your commissioner specified that waivers have a weekly deadline, follow these steps:
  1. From the league home page, select the Waivers Option under the For Owners heading.
  2. Select the franchise you are doing waivers for.
  3. Type in the franchise or commissioner password.
  4. Press the Go! button.
  5. Select the Waiver Round that you would like to perform waivers for.
  6. Select the Waiver Week that you would like to perform waivers for.
  7. In the section titled Select Player/Team To Drop, select the one player or team that you would like to drop from your roster for the selected round.
  8. In the section titled Select Players/Teams To Add select one or more players or teams that you'd like to pick up in exchange for the player or team you'd like to drop. If you're having trouble figuring out how to select multiple players from the free agent list, a little help is available below. If you're running Microsoft Internet Explorer, and you can't figure out how to have the first team or player not selected, some help is available here.
  9. Press the Register Waivers button.
  10. From the next web page, you will see a list of your waiver picks, and a column titled Order. Prioritize your picks by having the number 1 in the Order column next to your first preference, 2 next to your second preference, and so on.
  11. Press the Register Waivers button.
  12. On the next web page, you will receive a confirmation of your selections.
  13. You may repeat steps 5 through 11 for other rounds if you would like to make more than one waiver move for the week in question.
  14. Once the commissioner completes the process waivers step, you (and all other franchise owners in your league who have registered to receive email) will automatically get a message indicating all waiver moves made, and the transactions report will be updated to include this waiver move.
Important Point! Using the commissioner password on your league home page allows you to immediately add/drop any player you wish, without going through the normal queueing of picks described above. If you wish to act as an owner, and queue up your picks, use your franchise password on the league home page rather than the commissioner password.

Posting/Reading From The Message Board

The league message board allows for each franchise owner to post multiple messages, and to reply to other messages.
  1. From the league home page, select the Message Board Option under the For Commissioners heading.
  2. Select your franchise.
  3. Type in the franchise or commissioner password.
  4. Press the Go! button.
  5. Read other franchise messages, or,
  6. Post a new message. You may include HTML in your message.
  7. Press the Post Message button.
  8. You will receive a confirmation of your new message on the next screen.

Posting/Reading From The Bulletin Board

Unlike the Message Board described above, the Bulletin Board allows each franchise owner to post only one message.
  1. From the league home page, select the Bulletin Board Option under the For Commissioners heading.
  2. Select your franchise.
  3. Type in the franchise or commissioner password.
  4. Press the Go! button.
  5. Read other franchise messages, or,
  6. Post a new message. You may include HTML in your message.
  7. Press the Post Message button.
  8. You will receive a confirmation of your new message on the next screen.

Trading Between Owners

Trading allows for two franchises to exchange one or more players. Trades in myfantasyleague.com can be done in one of two ways.
  1. The commissioner can execute a trade immediately.
    1. From the league home page, select the Trades Option under the For Owners heading.
    2. If you are the commissioner and would like to execute a trade immediately, select the two franchises involved in the trade.
    3. Type in the commissioner password.
    4. Press the Go! button.
    5. From the next page, select the players that each team is going to trade to the other.
    6. Press the Perform Trade button.
    7. On the next web page, you will receive a confirmation of the trade.
    8. All franchise owners in the league who are registered to receive email will automatically get a message notifying them of the trade.
    9. The transactions report will be updated to include this trade.
  2. A franchise owner can propose a trade to another franchise owner.
    1. From the league home page, select the Trades Option under the For Owners heading.
    2. If you are a franchise owner and would like to propose a trade with another franchise owner, select your franchise and the franchise that you would like to trade with.
    3. Type in the franchise password.
    4. Press the Go! button.
    5. From the next page, select the players that you would like to trade.
    6. If the other franchise owner that you are proposing a trade to is set up to receive email, you will be given the opportunity to type in a message to include with your trade proposal, such as a justification for the trade offer, or an alternate trade proposal.
    7. Press the Propose Trade button.
    8. On the next web page, you will receive a confirmation of the trade proposal.
    9. If the franchise owner that you have proposed the trade to is set up to receive email, he will automatically receive an email notification of this trade proposal.
    10. If you later change your mind and decide to revoke this trade offer, follow these instructions below.

Revoking a Proposed Trade

Under certain circumstances, a franchise owner may decide to change his mind after making a trade offer. To revoke a trade, follow these steps:
  1. From the league home page, select the Trades Option under the For Owners heading.
  2. Select your franchise.
  3. Type in the franchise password.
  4. Press the Go! button.
  5. On the next web page, select the trade offer that you would like to revoke.
  6. Press the Revoke Trade Offer(s) button.
  7. On the next web page, you will receive a confirmation of this trade offer being revoked.

Accept or Rejecting a Trade Proposed By Another Owner

If another franchise owner has proposed a trade to you, you may either accept or reject his trade offer by following these steps:
  1. From the league home page, select the Trades Option under the For Owners heading.
  2. Select your franchise.
  3. Type in the franchise password.
  4. Press the Go! button.
  5. On the next web page, select the trade offer that you would like to accept or reject.
  6. If you would like to accept the trade, press the Accept Trade Offer(s) button.
  7. If you would like to reject the trade, press the Reject Trade Offer(s) button.
  8. On the next web page, you will receive a confirmation of this trade offer being accepted or rejected.
  9. If you accepted the trade offer, all franchise owners in your league who have registered to receive email will automatically get a message indicating the trade has been completed.
  10. If you rejected the trade offer, and the owner who proposed the trade is set up to receive email, he will receive an email message indicating your rejection of his offer.
  11. If you accepted the trade offer, the transactions report will be updated to include this trade.

Injured Reserve

For leagues that are set up to allow injured reserve, a franchise owner can activate and deactivate players by following these steps:
  1. From the league home page, select the Injured Reserve Option under the For Owners heading.
  2. Select the franchises that you would like to perform injured reserve moves for.
  3. Enter the franchise or commissioner password.
  4. Press the Go! button.
  5. On the next web page, you will see a list of all active and inactive players for the franchise selected.
  6. To deactivate a player, check the box next to the player's name in the Select Players/Teams To Deactivate section
  7. To activate a player, check the box next to the player's name in the Select Players/Teams To Activate section.
  8. Press the Perform Injured Reserve button.
  9. On the next screen you will receive a confirmation of your IR moves.
  10. The transactions report will be updated to include this injured reserve move.

Submitting Weekly Lineups

Each week, a franchise owner should have a starting lineup. Starting lineups can be submitted by:
  1. From the league home page, select the Submit Lineups Option under the For Owners heading.
  2. Select the franchises that you would like to submit lineups for. If submitting lineups for more than one franchise, you must be the commissioner.
  3. Enter the franchise or commissioner password.
  4. Press the Go! button.
  5. On the next web page, you will see a list of all players on the rosters for each franchise selected.
  6. Select the week of the NFL season that you are submitting lineups for. Franchise owners may only submit lineups for a given week up until kickoff of the first game that week. Commissioners may submit lineups at any time. Note: Kickoff for a given week is determined by the time our Web server computer thinks it is, not by the time that you or your computer thinks it is. To be safe, you should never wait until just five minutes or so before kickoff to submit lineups.
  7. Select the appropriate number of starters for each category of starters.
  8. Press the Submit Lineups button.
  9. On the next web page, you will receive a confirmation of your starting lineup for that week.

myfantasyleague.com will not allow a franchise owner to trade or waiver a player that is on their starting lineup for the upcoming week. If you have already submitted a lineup for a week, but then later decide to trade or waiver one of your players on your starting lineup, you need to "un-submit" your starting lineup for that week. To do that, follow the steps above, but make sure to select no players and teams to start. You will then get confirmation of your lineup being "un-submitted".

If you need to make lineup changes after kickoff of a given week, you'll need to email those changes to your league commissioner, as he is the only person who may use myfantasyleague.com to submit lineups after kickoff of a given week.

Setting Up Franchises

Once the commissioner completed the league setup step, individual franchises can be set up. Initially, franchises must be set up by the commissioner. Once the franchise has been set up by the commissioner, franchise owners can modify their own franchise as long as the commissioner has given them their franchise password. Or, they can use the password reminder function if their commissioner has previously set up their franchise with their email address.

Important note: All information entered on the franchise setup page is viewable by people in your league. Specifically, owner email addresses, phone/fax numbers, and other owner contact information is only displayed to people who have checked the "remember my password" option on the league home page. Keep this in mind if your privacy is important to you.

Setting up a franchise involves setting the following attributes:

Reports

myfantasyleague.com offers several reports. All reports are available in both of the "Quicklink" sections of all league pages - one time at the top of the page, the other time at the bottom of the page. These reports include:

Cool Things You Can Do With myfantasyleague.com

Figuring out your league ID
Most of these things require that you know your league ID. Your league ID is a five digit number that you can figure out by:
  1. Going to your league home page.
  2. Looking at the Location: line in your browser's window.
  3. This should contain an address in the following format: 
    http://fflnet.myfantasyleague.com/fflnet2002/home/xxxxx
    The xxxxx is your league ID.
  4. Whenever you see xxxxx listed below, simply insert your own 5-digit league ID for xxxxx. Note that leagues prior to 2002 used a 4-digit league ID.
Want to make a hyperlink directly to your league roster?
The URL will be http://fflnet.myfantasyleague.com/fflnet2002/options?L=xxxxx&O=07
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Want to make a hyperlink directly to your league starting lineups?
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Want to make a hyperlink directly to your league draft report?
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To put this myfantasyleague.com logo with a link to your league home page on any web page that you own, simply insert this HTML snippet into the page: 
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A Little Aside...

Wow, you read the whole thing? Impressive! If this document doesn't answer a question you have about using our myfantasyleague.com service, please feel free to send e-mail to support@myfantasyleague.com. Please make sure to include your league name on all correspondence!

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