Playoff Gridiron Challenge

[RFDA2000]

This ESPN staple seems to have gone the way of the dodo. Any good alternatives?

 

[Hendu for Kutch]

This looks interesting:

http://www.myfantasyleague.com/nfl_playoff_league.php?blog

Like a regular season fantasy football league, the first step is to recruit a group of friends, co-workers, relatives, etc. - the more, the better! You can have up to 200 teams in your playoff league.

Particularly this option:

Most post-season fantasy football leagues are "contest-style" lineups, where you don't maintain a roster, but instead, can start any player once, and only once, throughout the NFL playoffs. The winner of the league is simply the franchise with the most total points after the Super Bowl. So, there's strategy in who you start when. If you think the Patriots will lose in the first week of the playoffs, you could start Brady in the first playoff week. But, if you think they'll make it all of the way to the Super Bowl, you could hold off, and not start him until later in the post-season.

 

[Hendu for Kutch]

This looks interesting:

http://www.myfantasyleague.com/nfl_playoff_league.php?blog

Just an FYI, I went through the process of setting a league up and it's not particularly user friendly. Flexible as all hell, but not anywhere near as easy to use or intuitive as the ESPN site was.

 

[RedOctober3829]

NFL.com runs one.
http://playoffchallenge.fantasy.nfl.com/entry?icampaign=fantasy_myfantasyteams_playoff_checklist

 

[Hendu for Kutch]

NFL.com runs one.
http://playoffchallenge.fantasy.nfl.com/entry?icampaign=fantasy_myfantasyteams_playoff_checklist

I looked into that one, but it looks like you only set your lineup once at the beginning of the playoffs and that's it, if I'm understanding it correctly. Neat concept, but a contest you're effectively done participating in by Saturday is kind of a drag.

 

[RFDA2000]

I don't think so. I think it's a new lineup each week, but if you do pick a player multiple weeks in a row you get a multiplier. So if you think someone with a bye will crush it in the divisional round, picking them in round one would be a good strategy since they'd then get double their points in week two, and potentially triple in week three if they are still playing.

 

[Hendu for Kutch]

I don't think so. I think it's a new lineup each week, but if you do pick a player multiple weeks in a row you get a multiplier. So if you think someone with a bye will crush it in the divisional round, picking them in round one would be a good strategy since they'd then get double their points in week two, and potentially triple in week three if they are still playing.

I see, I misunderstood that aspect. You're right and that certainly makes it much more appealing.