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Schedule to be posted after the draft election results are completed.

Possible return in Spring 2026. See classifieds for full details.

Previous seasons also viewable if you change the drop down option to All in theme leagues (arrow back and change to All).

5 people interested so far. We will keep it open until it fills. Slow burn or fast progression. Soonest start would be early to mid March. We can talk about the restart rules and what we did or didn’t like from the first 4 seasons.

Tomhanrahan might be wanting to defend the title of season 4. Antonio Gates took a screen pass 65 yards to the house to beat my Legion of Boom Seahawks in the last minute!

Proposed a simultaneous LIVE round 1 of drafting and banning. This would also condense the draft to 7 days total.

See the forum classifieds thread for details and examples.

Definitely interested, iirc wasnt there talk of this one not having the bans or something like that way back when?

Fantastico. I went back to season 4 and this was the last vote that we had on the subject:

2) In lieu of a formal banned round--

3 YES- 1 ban to be used for each owner by end of 3rd round. No banning same position as your selection. Max of four bans per position per round.
1 YES- 2 bans to be used for each owner by end of 3rd round (limit of 1 ban per round). No banning same position as your selection. Max of six bans per position per round.
6 NO- remain with the formal banned round as-is
1 undeclared

Remaining votes: roadhouse, riverratk, specsman, rjk, kaniac

I proposed a moving ban during the draft to make it more interesting. People did not like the idea! I just felt the banned round was really stale and uninteresting in year 2 of it. Mostly the same bans that would always keep them off a team every season. People mailing it in and dumping it on something not worthy of ban. Not how you want the first day to go after all the work put in for a live draft.

If people aren't fond of the simultaneous banning and drafting on day one, then we could consider a ballot of bans sort of like some of the NBA sim theme leagues do. They use it to land players unique to their wish list.

Here's a new idea on the topic:

We could have everyone provide a list of 20 bans. This is actually really interesting.... You could ban whoever you want at the 9 spots- QB, RB, WR, TE, OL, Def. ST, K. P. No limits or caps per the spots. Do whatever you want. We gather up and tally the bans. Say if we have 15 owners times 20 bans, you have 300 votes to get the top 24 players or units to be banned. This would be pretty neat to see the results.

You could be serious with it and ban all studs. You could be by design-- ban people that you don't want, but others do. Ban those cheap kickers, punters or Special Teams options to make others spend more. Pick all QBs. Pick no QBs. Use the bans any way you choose. And that makes the live draft far more interesting in my opinion. And each year people come back with a different ban plan and draft strategy based off that. Additionally, we will not have a boring ban of the same thing and people might get a shot at having the elite players. Perhaps a Beta test could be done to see if we like the idea.

Jeff Spicoli helping to promote the NFL Live Draft League: Spring revival in the classifieds. Hey, I know that dude!



For you laptop types like me: Right click on the image and open in a new tab for...... Alright Hamilton!

I say we give the banned list idea a try. I have the sequence written out in the SF theme league classifieds forum.

You would just sitemail your 20 bans. Anything you want to ban. No rules on your list. Easy.

We count everyone’s bans and post/remove the top 24 bans based on votes. Maybe post the top 50 or 100. Or have a minimum ban amount required to be posted. Example: 5 votes minimum needed to be on the list posted. Anything less is not posted as I would be typing 500 entries possibly on listing every ban.

We could have the draft election a few days after OR prior to the ban list start. I'm leaning to after the ban list reveal right now. It makes the draft election far more interesting with the possibilities of an elite player or unit slipping out of the top 24 bans (and being available). I'm always a middle or bottom of the draft preference, I hate waiting for snake/loop around and its at the beginning or end of the day, but that's just my preference.

We have the live draft a few days after (within a week).

Rules are updated in the theme league classifieds for the NFL Live Draft league--with the personalized banned list as mentioned above. To avoid confusion, we are moving ahead with the personalized banned list of 20 for each owner via sitemail. Also of note:

Divisions are set before the banned list period starts.

Draft election will be after the top 24 compiled bans are posted.

Draft schedule is then posted and we enjoy the live draft for 7 consecutive days on the lock (30 min slots from 10am ET to 930pm ET).

See classifieds listing. Considering a NFL franchise league separately with no live drafting.

Franchise dreams theme league is back up.

You pick 1 NFL team exclusive to you! You fill the 23 roster spots using the history of that franchise-- equally with each decade. 70 mil cap. No clones. Many teams have a great run here and there, but who is the best All-time franchise for the money. Lets find out!

Live Draft league is open for business as well. Only 5-6 more people needed to get it started.

Shifting the focus to the Franchise dreams theme for now. Check it out. Teams are getting claimed. No live draft in that theme and less of a time demand.

If others want in on this, we will proceed.