Interboard League

[Dan C]

Gentlemen -

Your esteemed leader from last year indicated that you guys were still interested in fielding a team, though finding a new commissioner for this year was going to be imperative.

I wanted to find out where you guys were at, and what progress had been made in putting a team together. Everything is a little behind, I know, in light of the up-and-down negotiations of the CBA, but we are trying to be ready for when they do make their decision.

We're hoping to hear from you shortly. Please e-mail me when you decide on your commissioner, and get registered at the Forum. If possible, someone from last year should be encouraged to take the post. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact me.

[WaCougMBS]

Dan, we're kind of stuck in the middle, but working to have a team in place in time to participate this year so we can improve upon last year's initial campaign

I think we're currently sitting at 7-8 guys who are more or less good to go, and Cowboys4Life and I plan on beating the bushes in the coming week to see how we're doing. What kind of a deadline are we dealing with if, say, the CBA is ratified and good to go by Monday?

[Dan C]

The deadline is so very dependent on the CBA, but the sooner the better, obviously. I think once they get their heads out of their collective rear ends, they will move quickly, so we will have to as well.

[WaCougMBS]

How are the rest of the boards looking? We gonna have a shot at 96 teams again, or will it be a smaller endeavor?

[Guru13]

We gonna have a shot at 96 teams again

96 teams?

[Dan C]

We're still aiming at having the same 8 boards from last year . . . and that would be 96 teams. We have one board that has not announced significant progress to this point, but I'm confident we'll get them on board.

[WaCougMBS]

We gonna have a shot at 96 teams again

96 teams?

Oh yeah. Hard to encapsulate in a short space, but basically you have 8 rival boards (It's a team competition, though individual standings are kept as well and a 1-96 order is achieved at the end of the playoffs) with 12 members each (with one member taking a draft slot from 1-12 so each board gets a No. 1, No.2, No. 3 pick and so on with no duplicates; then the draft order is randomized and you're placed in a draft A-H) - There are 8 drafts running almost concurrently, and any member can trade into any spot in any draft (as long as the deals meet certain guidelines for fairness/evenness). In the end, you end up with a pretty average looking PPR team (though there are some creative flex spots so you can start as few as 1 RB if you want to load up on WR/TE, or vice versus to a certain extent)...

Each week, you play seven or eight opponents and are H2H with each and every one of them individually - so, the final records are out of 95 games (you play each "pod" of draft slot numbers once, so eight games 11 times and 7 games once when you play your "cohort"). Then, after 12 weeks there are four tiers of playoff ladders, and over the next four weeks you play the other 23 teams in your pod, ultimately earning more points towards a team placing (regular season wins are worth 1 point each, and then in the playoffs the higher your tier the more wins/points you earn for your board).

The biggest catch is there are 8 copies of EVERY player out there, and the only stipulation really is you can't own multiple copies of the same player. Waivers are a weekly reset of first-to-worst and you put in claims for players in order as usual, they're just fulfilled a bit differently since there can be 1-8 copies of a guy on the wire. This is the only part that isn't near perfection, as ideally I'd like to see a FAAB-type format, but who am I to complain?

Is your head spinning with the mind-blowing awesomeness of this concept yet?

[TexasBornCowboysFan]

Sounds challenging. So you could wind up playing opponents with an almost identical starting roster several times throughout the year

[Cowboys 4 life]

Sounds challenging. So you could wind up playing opponents with an almost identical starting roster several times throughout the year

Technically yes but last year I only once ran into a team where I had 3 of the same players.

[Calyxes]

Cool conept! Who won it last year?