One-Timer Leagues
Hey all!
It’s been a little while. With a whole bunch of people jumping into the fantasy fray during the month of August, I thought now would be a good time to send out a newsletter on some fun formats. Detailing and describing ones that are easy to set up, simple to understand, and fun.
This is a format you don’t need to draft before the season. You don’t even need to start it week 1. You can start it any time and have it end any time.
One Timer leagues have existed for a very long time. They have mostly been utilized as playoff leagues. As you read this, you are pretty likely to think “Oh yeah! I’ve done that as a playoff league before!” as it is one of the most common playoff formats. However, I started running them during the regular season as well in the late 2000s when I noticed it was an available setting on MyFantasyLeague (probably there for playoff leagues, but why not do it during the season!).
The Basics:
There is no draft, you simply set a lineup each week.
The catch is that you only get to start that player once for the year. Meaning if you start Patrick Mahomes in Week 1, you can not start him again in Weeks 2-17.
All teams in the league have the same player pool. So more than one team in the league can start the same player. Meaning you and your buddy may both have Christian McCaffrey in your lineup in Week 1.
It is run as a total points league. There are no head to head matchups. You simply total the points from each week.
The winners are determined as most total points in the designated time frame, usually weeks 1-17.
The scoring can be whatever you want
The starting lineup generally remains small. Making them too large makes the end of the season really rough. The most common starting lineup is 6 players consisting of 1 QB, 1 RB, 1 WR, 1 TE, 2 FLEX. A lot of leagues will comine the TE spot with WR and have people start 2 WR/TE instead of 1 of each. That does help the drop at TE. That limit of 6 starters seems to work out best to be challenging, yet not troublesome late in the season.
Variations
The limit is obviously adjustable, for instance you can set the league to allow a player to be started twice during the year, for example.
I run a style on SafeLeagues that is called the 500. Much like the game we play as kids, you only get points for the receiving fantasy points. So it starts 4 players and the first team to get to 500 total points wins. If multiple do it in the same week, the pot is split.
Mostly, it’s such a fluid format that you can have a lot of fun with it and make it your own. There are other variations I have done and seen, but I just wanted to give you the most basics and you can have fun with it yourself.
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