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| 1. | How do I set up a keeper/dynasty league draft on MyFantasyLeague.com?
Answer: If you have a keeper or dynasty league where some or all players on rosters are carried over from year to year, there is a certain sequence of events that you will need to go through to prepare for your league for the new season on MyFantasyLeague.com. This How To guide will walk you through those steps.
IF YOU HAD A LEAGUE WITH US IN 2011
1. From your 2011 league home page, log in as the league commissioner, and click on the commissioner home page message link to upgrade your league to a 2010 league. Log into this new 2010 league as Commissioner.
2. Go to the For Commissioners > Setup > Players and Rosters - Transfer Rosters screen and check the checkbox next to each player that should be transferred from the 2011 end-of-season rosters. This will move those players onto each owner's active roster for your 2011 league, and make those players un-draftable for your 2010 league.
If your League Chooses to Run an Online Draft:
3. Go to your 2010 league is set up to hold an on-line draft by going to your For Commissioner > General League Setup
page and make sure that the “At the start of the season, rosters are determined by:” option is set to one of the first two"On-line draft”; settings (email or live).
4. Use the For Commissioners > Setup > Draft Order Setup - All Rounds
and Draft Order Setup - One Round
to define your overall 2010 draft order.
Do not use the Draft Order Setup - One Round option to manually account for future draft pick trades as these will be automatically accounted for when importing your traded picks.
5. If you had a 2011 league with us, and allowed owners to trade future year draft picks in 2011, go to the For Commissioners > Setup > Draft Setup - Import Future Draft Pick Trades option to have the system automatically update your 2010 draft order based on the actual 2011 draft pick trades. Note that it is important that you do this step BEFORE letting owners actively trade on the site, as otherwise there will be confusion due what looks like duplicate listings of draft picks on your For Owners > Trades.
6. Selecting Keepers:
Once your rosters are transferred and you have enabled an option on the For Commissioner > General League Setup to determine your rosters you will then select your keepers.
To allow owners to select their keepers for your league you will need to do the following.
- Go to the Setup > Keepers Setup screen and define your minimum and maximum values for your keepers.
- Once you've set up keeper requirements, you will need to go to the Setup > League Calendar Setup page to set up a “Select Keepers” system event in which owners can select their keepers. You will need both a start and end date for this event.
- During this time, owners may go to the Reports > Franchise > Keepers page to declare their keepers. At the end of the Keeper event, owners will be able to see all selected keepers by all owners on this page.
- Then, as commissioner, you will need to process these keepers once the event is complete by going to the Setup Select Keepers . The screen will display the players selected by each owner. As commissioner you will simply process these keeper requests for your owners. Any players not selected will be dropped from the roster.
You will have the option to place these players “in lieu of” a draft pick if you choose to run an online draft and have your Draft Order defined. For example, if your league rules dictate that an owner can keep up to three players, in lieu of their first 3 rounds of draft picks, when the commissioner loads the keepers onto the rosters at the beginning of the season, he may indicate what draft pick the owner has given up for that keeper player. Once the commissioner has completed the “select keepers” step, the system will automatically update the draft report to indicate the keeper players in their appropriate slot, and also automatically skip over that pick when it comes up in your draft.
To have the Commissioner select keepers for the league:
- Go to the For Commissioners > Setup > Players and Rosters - Select Keepers screen to specify which players should be retained on each franchise roster. Any players not selected will be dropped from the roster. If the 2010 draft has been defined, you can optionally define the specific draft pick taken by each keeper player. For example, if your league rules dictate that an owner can keep up to three players, in lieu of their first 3 rounds of draft picks, when the commissioner loads the keepers onto the rosters at the beginning of the season, he may indicate what draft pick the owner has given up for that keeper player. Once the commissioner has completed the “select keepers” step, the system will automatically update the draft report to indicate the keeper players in their appropriate slot, and also automatically skip over that pick when it comes up in your draft.
7. Finally, make sure that all of your other draft settings in the For Commissioners > Setup - Draft Setup screens are correct for your league draft, and then you'll be all ready to start your draft.
IF YOU ARE NEW TO MFL IN 2010
1. Go to the For Commissioners > Setup > Players and Rosters > Load/Unload Rosters page, and indicate what players initially should be put on what rosters for each franchise. This will make those players un-draftable for your 2010 league.
If your League Chooses to Run an Online Draft:
2. Go to your 2010 league is set up to hold an on-line draft by going to your For Commissioner > General League Setup
page and make sure that the “At the start of the season, rosters are determined by:” option is set to one of the first two "On-line draft”; settings (email or live).
3. Use the For Commissioners > Setup > Draft Order Setup - All Rounds
and Draft Order Setup - One Round
to define your overall 2010 draft order.
If you had traded draft picks in your previous site you can use the For Commissioners > Setup >
Draft Order Setup - One Round
to edit the individual picks/rounds to account for these traded picks.
4. Selecting Keepers:
Once your rosters are transferred and you have enabled an option on the For Commissioner > General League Setup to determine your rosters you will then select your keepers.
To allow owners to select their keepers for your league you will need to do the following.
- Go to the Setup > Keepers Setup screen and define your minimum and maximum values for your keepers.
- Once you've set up keeper requirements, you will need to go to the Setup > League Calendar Setup page to set up a “Select Keepers” system event in which owners can select their keepers. You will need both a start and end date for this event.
- During this time, owners may go to the Reports > Franchise > Keepers page to declare their keepers. At the end of the Keeper event, owners will be able to see all selected keepers by all owners on this page.
- Then, as commissioner, you will need to process these keepers once the event is complete by going to the Setup Select Keepers . The screen will display the players selected by each owner. As commissioner you will simply process these keeper requests for your owners. Any players not selected will be dropped from the roster.
You will have the option to place these players “in lieu of” a draft pick if you choose to run an online draft and have your Draft Order defined. For example, if your league rules dictate that an owner can keep up to three players, in lieu of their first 3 rounds of draft picks, when the commissioner loads the keepers onto the rosters at the beginning of the season, he may indicate what draft pick the owner has given up for that keeper player. Once the commissioner has completed the “select keepers” step, the system will automatically update the draft report to indicate the keeper players in their appropriate slot, and also automatically skip over that pick when it comes up in your draft.
To have the Commissioner select keepers for the league:
- Go to the For Commissioners > Setup > Players and Rosters - Select Keepers screen to specify which players should be retained on each franchise roster. Any players not selected will be dropped from the roster. If the 2010 draft has been defined, you can optionally define the specific draft pick taken by each keeper player. For example, if your league rules dictate that an owner can keep up to three players, in lieu of their first 3 rounds of draft picks, when the commissioner loads the keepers onto the rosters at the beginning of the season, he may indicate what draft pick the owner has given up for that keeper player. Once the commissioner has completed the “select keepers” step, the system will automatically update the draft report to indicate the keeper players in their appropriate slot, and also automatically skip over that pick when it comes up in your draft.
5. Finally, make sure that all of your other draft settings in the For Commissioners > Setup - Draft Setup screens are correct for your league draft, and then you'll be all ready to start your draft.
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| 2. | How do I Upgrade my 2011 league to a new 2012 league?
Answer: Go to your league and log in as commissioner. Once logged in go to your home page where a message should appear with a link to upgrade your league to 2012. Follow these instructions and you will create your 2012 league.
Note: Once you upgrade to 2012 you should not use your 2011 league for transactions, but instead use only as a historical reference.
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| 3. | What information gets transferred over when I upgrade my 2011 league to 2012?
Answer: In general, things that are specific to a season do not get carried over, and things that might be common across all seasons for a league do get carried over. To give specific examples of things that are not carried over from season-to-season:
• Message board posts. If you'd like to carry over a message board post from year to year, you'll need to copy/paste the post from your 2011 league message board into your 2012 league message board.
• Accounting balances. If your league allows owners to carry over accounting balances from year to year, you'll need to use the "Edit Accounting Records" page on your 2012 league to manually give franchises the appropriate start of the season debits/credits.
• Polls, articles, standings, transactions.
To give specific examples of things that are carried over from season-to-season:
• All league rules, including league scoring rules.
• All league calendar events. The system attempts to automatically adjust dates for all calendar events for the new year, but you must review your 2012 league calendar to make sure it is correct for the new year.
• All franchise names and other franchise information entered on the franchise setup pages.
• League appearance/colors/skins/fonts/etc.
• League rosters (however, these require an extra step and for keeper/dynasty leagues via the Transfer Rosters screen). Also see the Keeper/Dynasty League How To page for additional, related information.
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| 4. | Can I enter my league history from a prior season that I ran on another league management site into MyFantasyLeague.com?
Answer: Yes, definitely. To do this, start by setting up a league as you normally would. To set up league corresponding to one of the following seasons, click on a link below:
Once you've completed the basic league setup, if your league was hosted on CBS, ESPN, Yahoo or Fleaflicker in the past, see this FAQ for additional detailed instructions. Otherwise, you'll need these do the following steps, in order:
- From the historic league, use the "For Commissioners > Setup > Adjust Scores and Standings > Franchise Score Adjuster" option to manually assign the correct scores for to the correct franchises for each week of the season. Or, you may use the "For Commissioners > Setup > Adjust Scores and Standings > Import Franchise Score Adjustments" option to do more of a "batch import" of weekly scores.
- If your league is a head-to-head league, use the "For Commissioners > Setup > Fantasy Schedule Setup > Weekly Schedule Setup" option to re-create the fantasy schedule for that season.
- Use the "For Commissioners > Recalculate Standings" option, which should update your league standings report so it shows accurate standings.
- Then (and only then, after your historical season standings are correct), go to your current season league, and using the "For Commissioners > Setup > League History Setup > General League History Setup" page, and enter your historical league home page URLs.
- Wait up to 24 hours, and the system will automatically import your historical league results and franchises into your current season's records reports.
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| 5. | How do I set up a league on MyFantasyLeague.com?
Answer: While there are countless ways to define a fantasy league using MyFantasyLeague.com, there are a number of basic steps that all new commissioners should take. The following should be used as a guideline to help you to define much of your league's setup in a short amount of time.
1. Define the initial 2012 league parameters using the For Commissioners > Setup > General League Setup
screen.
At a minimum, you'll need to define a league name, league email, password, and the number of franchises and roster spots for your league. If you plan on holding an online draft, be sure to select this (final) option. Go to our Draft How To
to determine which type of draft is right for your league.
Once you click on the Save League Setup button, the system will generate a new league for you. There's absolutely no purchase obligation for setting up a league.
NOTE: Upon completion of this step, you will be taken back to your home page. The "League Setup - Next Steps" message will appear only for the commissioner account. At the top It will include your 5-digit league ID which corresponds to the last 5 characters of your home page web address (URL). Please use this number with all correspondence to MyFantasyLeague.com support.
2. Define your franchise (team) information using the For Owners > Franchise Setup
menu item.
The first time you access this (or any other setup menu item), you will be prompted for your league password. Use the password you had defined in the General League Setup above (in step #1).
At a minimum it's a good idea to define the email addresses for all the owners in your league as soon as you can. If you don't have all the addresses now, this isn't a problem as you can always come back to this screen in the future. You might also want to define a team name for each franchise. Notice that each team will already have a system-generated password defined. You can either keep these initial random passwords or overwrite them with new passwords. Click on the Save Franchise Setup button to store all your changes.
3. Define your league's scoring rules using the For Commissioners > Setup > Scoring Setup screens.
There are a variety of ways to accomplish this task as detailed in the Scoring Setup How To
topic.
4. Define your league's fantasy schedule using the For Commissioners > Fantasy Schedule Setup screens.
Either choose a canned, system schedule from Select A Packaged Schedule
, manually define a schedule one week at a time via Weekly Schedule Setup
, re-order the weeks in an existing schedule with the Randomize Fantasy Schedule
, or swap two weeks of an existing schedule via the Switch Schedule Weeks
screen.
5. Define your league's starting lineups using the For Commissioners > Setup > Transactions Setup > Weekly Lineup Setup screen.
6. Define your league's waivers (player adds & drops) using the For Commissioners > Setup > League Calendar Setup screen.
7. Additional Setup using the many For Commissioners > Setup > Appearance Setup screens.
At this point your league is fully defined and ready to use. However, we've spent a lot of time to give you some extra bells and whistles. The majority of items used to customize the appearance of your menu are found in the Appearance Setup screens. Go to our overview on home page setup
topic to learn more.
8. Invite franchise owners to your league.
Finally, use the For Commissioners > Setup > Invite Franchise Owners screen to invite owners to your newly-created league. At this point, you can simply allow all the owners go continue their team setup individually.
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| 6. | I want to join a league - how to join a league on your site?
Answer: We currently don't offer public leagues. However, you can contact one of our corporate affiliates:
http://www.myfantasyleague.com/fantasy-football-community/fantasy-football-mfl-partners.php and/or check out/post on our "Leagues looking for owners, owners looking for leagues" message forum at http://forums.myfantasyleague.com/forums/index.php?showforum=29.
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| 7. | How do I set up a Deluxe League?
Answer: First, determine if you need a deluxe league. If you truly need multiple player pools AND these player pools are separated by conference or division, the the answer is yes. Otherwise, you do not need a deluxe league.
To setup a deluxe league, go to the For Commissioner > Setup > General League Setup screen and specify "Each player can be on xx rosters per *CONFERENCE* (or) *DIVISION*. Note that once you've purchased your league, this setting can only be changed by MyFantasyLeague.com sales support. Please use our MFL Support Form and choose the "Sales/Ordering" category.
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| 8. | How do I Change my Email Address?
Answer: Commissioner: To change your email address go to the For Commissioner > Setup > General League Setup and you can define your new email address here. Be sure to click Save League Setup when complete.
Owners: To change your email address go to the For Owners > Franchise Setup and you can change your email address here. Be sure to click Save Franchise Setup when complete.
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| 9. | How do I Change the Commissioner for our league?
Answer: Once your league has been upgraded to a new 2010 league, have your old commissioner change the league commissioner email address to your email address on the For Commissioners > Setup > General League Setup screen.
Next, he will want to update the commissioner password by going to the For Commissioners > Setup > Change Commissioner Password screen to something temporary for you. Now you can log in as the commissioner with this temporary password and change it to something unique and secure.
Finally, make sure the correct franchise is selected on the For Commissioners > Setup > Select Commissioner's Franchise page.
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| 10. | How do I take my league home page customization to the next level?
Answer: We pride ourselves on having what we think is not only the most customizable on-line fantasy football league management service on the web, but also the most "open", too. What that "open-ness" means to you, if you're someone with some computer programming and/or web design skills, is that you can extend and customize your MyFantasyLeague.com league a great deal.
Advanced customization options include:
- Writing custom CSS to completely control all aspects of your league appearance.
- Getting access to "raw" MyFantasyLeague.com league data in industry-standard XML format.
- Using Your Own Domain For MyFantasyLeague.com Leagues and Content and Embedding league home page modules in other web pages.
Writing custom CSS to completely control all aspects of your league appearance
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is the industry-standard way of controlling all appearance-related items on web pages. MyFantasyLeague.com uses CSS to control league page appearance (including our skins), and also allows our customers to write their own CSS to completely control any/all page appearance options that you'd like to.
If you'd like to learn more about CSS, you might want to consider some on-line CSS tutorials, or visit your local or on-line bookstore for books on CSS - Eric Meyer seems to write especially good books on this topic.
Once you've learned CSS, next you'll have to learn a bit about the classes and IDs we use on the site. You can do that by setting up a free trial league on our site, and then doing a "View Source" to see our current CSS files, including the CSS files used for each of our skins, to get a better idea of how to write CSS for your MyFantasyLeague.com league pages.
Alternatively, here is another approach that might be easier, allowing you to see exactly what classes and IDs we use on your league pages:
- Download and install the Firefox web browser.
- Download and install the Web Developer Extension for Firefox.
- Go to the league page you're looking to customize.
- From the custom toolbar that gets installed, choose the "Information > Display ID And Class Details" option, and you can see exactly what IDs and classes are used on any/all pages on the site.
- Where this gets really cool is that you can edit the CSS right on the page, allowing you to immediately see the effects of your CSS changes right away. It will take a bit of time to play around with the web developer extension and learn about all of it's features and options, but this time will be very well spent if you're interested in really taking your design to the next level.
Finally, once you've written your custom CSS, you can go to the For Commissioners > Setup > Appearance Setup > Images & Other URLs page and upload your custom CSS to our site (or, simply enter the URL for the CSS file on your own server).
Getting access to "raw" MyFantasyLeague.com league data in industry-standard XML format
If you're a computer programmer, we offer the MyFantasyLeague.com Developer's Program whereby you can easily get access to raw MyFantasyLeague.com data in XML format. This will allow you to quickly and easily get that data into whatever programming environment you're most comfortable, be it PHP, ASP, Excel, Java, Perl, or any other programming language that's capable of reading XML files. This page
offers details of exactly what XML documents we offer via this service. For some examples of what others have done using our XML feed, see this FAQ
Using Your Own Domain For MyFantasyLeague.com Leagues and Content
All home page modules are "embeddable" - meaning, you can place "live" MyFantasyLeague.com content inside web pages on another web site, your "My Google" customized home page, or inside arbitrary HTML on your MyFantasyLeague.com-hosted pages. Check out the "Reports > League > Embed League Data" page available from all league pages to see how this option works. For examples of what some of our more creative customers have done with this feature, see http://uffle.com/
Some customers have set up a "framed" web sites to give their leagues a personalized home page URL - see http://www.milfleague.com/ for an example of this.
If you'd like to have your own custom domain name, but not have any actual content on your site, you can do what http://www.returnofthechampions.com/ has done, which issues an HTTP "redirect" to their real league home page on MyFantasyLeague.com.
If you have any suggestions, questions or comments about any of the programs mentioned here, we'd love to hear your feedback on via your "Help > Help Center" page.
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