So you ve got a few of your friends and relatives and you have decided to organize a football fantasy league. Perhaps you downloaded some information off the Internet or purchased fantasy football magazines and software. But even with these resources, you still need to make a few decisions about your league that could have a profound effect on the outcome. Here are a few rules you may want to have a league vote on to reduce the amount of controversy among team owners. For example, some leagues like to lessen the effect of kickers, increase the effect of team defenses, or add a head coach to change the level of points awarded.
Most leagues have their Super Bowl in one of the final two weeks of the regular season.
With a 17-week schedule in the NFL, you may want to consider having your Super Bowl in Week 16 or even 15, because many playoff teams sit some of their star players the last two weeks of the season if a playoff berth or divisional title has already been wrapped up. This happened to me a few years ago when Brett Favre played one quarter of his final regular season game causing me to be the league runner-up. Once your league gains some consistency over a couple years, many leagues choose to keep 1 or more franchise players from year to year or even sign multi-year contracts. Salary caps seem to be a little too complicated for me, but again it is up to league owners. Of course not all league owners live in the same area.