We'll be opening up registration for postseason fantasy football leagues in the next few weeks. If you've never played, it's a great way to keep playing fantasy throughout the NFL playoffs. We support traditional survivor player pools (with live drafts and offline entry), start only once leagues, and box pools. If you may be interested in creating a league but have questions feel free to reach out to us at admin@fantasypostseason.com . 

We're holding a playoff fantasy baseball contest this year.  It's free to join and you can win prizes such as an Apple TV 4k and RotoWire subscriptions.

For details, check out the contest registration page.

We've opened up fantasy league registration for the MLB playoffs!  Use early bird offer code EB_MLB_2019 by 9/20 for a 15% discount off your league costs.

RotoWire has also sponsored a free contest with prizes for the top finishers. See here for details.

We've wrapped up another summer of new features and enhancements at FantasyPostseason.com.

Here's a list of the updates and new features:

• Box Pools: Added an option to limit the max players allowed per team. Changed default configurations to allow for more players to be selected.
• Commissioner Options:  Added the ability to assign a co-commissioner.  Added an 'End Draft' option to terminate a draft quickly.  Added an option to clear the draft order.  Added 'Update Player Pool' option.  Added a league option to prevent managers from sending emails.  Changed the 'Exclude Players' sort to Team/Player.  Added Yardage Allowed and Missed Field Goal scoring options for NFL.  Added GIDP for MLB.
• General Enhancements: Enhanced the display of the 'My Team' and 'Edit My Fantasy Leagues' pages.  Added players involved to 'Trade Request' emails.  Added the...

Looking for help in preparing for your regular season fantasy football draft? Check out the RotoWire Draft Kit to gain an advantage over your fellow league members! You'll find cheat sheets, info on top rookies and sleepers, and a plethora of other valuable information.

We're running a free fantasy contest for the NBA playoffs that involves picking a different player for each game day. Prizes include an Apple TV 4k, RotoWire subscriptions, and authentic Fantasy Postseason gear (hats, shirts).

Details can be found here:

https://www.fantasypostseason.com/league/contest_signup/67892

It's NCAA basketball tournament time, and The Fake Basketball is once again providing cheat sheets:

From The Fake Basketball team:  "Much like last season, we are bringing you a wide array of tools and information to help you with any of your NCAA Tournament Fantasy needs. Our Customizable Bracket and Rankings Excel has no peer on the market for your March Madness draft needs, but there's so much more: brackets, bracket analysis, individual player rankings, draft strategy, sleepers, locks, injuries, play-in round analysis, you name it, we have it in our comprehensive Tourney Package."

Registration is now open for our college basketball tournament fantasy leagues.  Our offering provides a means to play fantasy sports during the classic March NCAA tournament and is one of our more popular fantasy games.  We offer a number of different formats for this game but the most popular is the standard player pool approach where the further your players advance, the more points your fantasy tournament team scores.  Some leagues make things more interesting by limiting the number of players that you can select from a given team.  Others put restrictions on the number of players that can be drafted from each seed.  Create your league now and enjoy the tournament like never before!

Over the years, we've received a number of requests from commissioners to be able to view email addresses from users in their leagues.  Due to our privacy policy, we've avoided providing direct access - however, we did create custom league pages where new users were warned that joining that league would expose their email address to the commissioner (and they could choose to either join the league or not).

To simplify the process, we've added a new league setting called 'Require Managers To Share Email Addresses' that commissioners can set to 'Yes' when they create their league.  Once set, potential league members will be prompted with the following warning:  'The commissioner for this league requires that they can see the email address associated with each league member. Please confirm that you still want to join this league?'.  At that time, users can choose to 'Join' or 'Leave' the league.

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Following a number of user requests, we've enhanced our salary cap add/drop process by adding a shadow interface where players can be added and dropped without impacting moves.  As changes are made, a running total of 'Pending Moves' (player adds) is shown, along with a warning that pending changes must be saved.  Once player changes are made that fit under the salary cap and contain your desired players, select the 'Save' button - only then will new player additions count against your total number of moves.  If you wish to cancel all player changes, select the 'Discard' button (no moves will be counted).

Please note the following:
- This change will only be made available for salary cap leagues that limit the number of free agent moves and allow unlimited player selection.
- This change will be made active starting with the college basketball tournament in March.

We're running a free fantasy contest for the NFL playoffs.  Prizes include an Apple TV 4k, RotoWire subscriptions, and authentic Fantasy Postseason gear (hats, shirts).

Details can be found here:

https://www.fantasypostseason.com/league/contest_signup/65608

Fantasy Postseason is pleased to announce a new partnership with RotoWire (a leading provider of premium fantasy sports resources). RotoWire will be providing our player injury status and notes for the upcoming NFL, NBA, NHL, and MLB postseasons.  They will be sponsoring site-wide contests during the postseason, with winners receiving free RotoWire subscription services.  We will also be cross-promoting our sites in a number of different ways, so look forward to seeing us more prominently on each other’s sites!

We've opened up registration for our 2018-19 playoff fantasy football leagues!  Drafts begin on New Year’s Eve.

Use the early bird offer code EB_NFL_2018 by 12/15 to save 15% off your league costs. 

“There are no sites out there that support short term or playoff rotos - so I was thinking, why not create our own?” – and with that simple email in March 2008, the initial concept of what would become Fantasy Postseason was born. 

We were just a few guys who had been friends for years, loved sports, and loved fantasy sports.  Unfortunately for us, there were no fantasy sites out there that did anything for the postseason (our favorite time of year to play it).  To make things worse, the time and effort involved to track everything manually was growing exponentially by the year, and was putting one of our favorite pastimes in serious jeopardy.  In lieu of scrapping it forever, we decided at that critical moment to automate it, and wound up creating a site of our own. 

The months that followed were intense, but by September 2008, FantasyPostseason.com was somehow up and running, and ready to roll for the MLB Playoffs.  Our first users...

We've opened up fantasy league registration for the MLB playoffs!  Use early bird offer code EB_MLB_2018 by 9/21 for a 15% discount off your league costs.

We've wrapped up another summer of new features and enhancements at FantasyPostseason.com.

Here's a list of the updates and new features:

• Box Pools: This newly added format involves grouping similar players into boxes. Managers select one player from each box to build their fantasy team.  This simple pool type is great for all skill levels.
• Slow Drafts: Can't agree on a live draft time for your buddies? This approach allows you to engage in a live draft without a timer over several hours or days.
• Draft Room Enhancements: We've redesigned visual aspects of the draft room and have also added a number of minor features including Auto Pick support, and a Draft Board.
• Team QBs: We've included the option to add Team QBs to your NFL postseason fantasy football player pool, instead of having individual QBs. 
• NFL Start Once Usability: We've made it easier to identify players to start in the Start Once format by hiding players that are on bye...

Note that we've made updates to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy in response to the GDPR regulation.  Please review.

We're running a free fantasy contest for the NBA playoffs with prizes for the top finishers.  See here for rules, prize information and other details.

We've opened up registration for the NBA & NHL playoffs!

Fantasy Postseason is holding a free challenge contest for the NCAA Tournament.  Win prizes including an Amazon Echo! See here for details.

Also, our friends over at The Fake Basketball are running a similar contest hosted on Fantasy Postseason as well.  See here for detalis.

Added the following support:

• Added an RB/WR/TE slot for NFL fantasy leagues.
• Added ability to set a max per position (QB, DEF, K) if utilizing UTIL or BENCH slots for NFL fantasy leagues.
• Added ability to set a max per position (Goalie) if utilizing UTIL or BENCH slots for NHL fantasy leagues.
• Added the ability to be notified via email when new managers join your fantasy league.
• Added DEF points bonus scoring category for NHL fantasy leagues.
• Added a 'Rosters by Seed' export file on the Rosters page.
• Added additional info to the 'Ownership Stats' page.
• Added a new 'Roster Comparison' page (which shows roster comparisons between a fantasy team with others in the league).

Our friends over at The Fake Basketball are providing cheat sheets for the upcoming Men's NCAA basketball tournament.  Check them out.

From the Fake Basketball Team:  "Much like last season, we are bringing you a wide array of tools and information to help you with any of your NCAA Tournament Fantasy needs. Our Customizable Bracket and Rankings Excel has no peer on the market for your March Madness draft needs, but there's so much more: brackets, bracket analysis, individual player rankings, draft strategy, sleepers, locks, injuries, play-in round analysis, you name it, we have it in our comprehensive Tourney Package."

We've opened up registration for NCAA College Basketball Tournament fantasy leagues. Draft players from teams that you think will go deep into the tournament. These leagues are growing in popularity and a good way to supplement your NCAA brackets pools.  Create your fantasy league now!

We're through three rounds of postseason fantasy football (PFF) and there are some surprising names at the top of the leading scorers list (using standard scoring).   Of course, by the end of the Superbowl we expect to see some more Patriots and Eagles scattered throughout this list. 

Here are the Fantasy Postseason staff rankings of the Top 10 WRs for postseason long leagues:

1. Brandin Cooks - NE - Up and down throughout the year, but is the WR1 on the team favored to win the Superbowl.

2. Michael Thomas - NO - Over 100 catches on the year and dominated the Panthers this year in their regular season matchup.

3. Antonio Brown - PIT - He would be the top ranked receiver, but he's coming off a calf tear and who knows what he'll be able to do on the field.

4. Stefon Diggs - MIN - Receiving touchdowns in last three games for the Vikings.   Their WR1 on a team that could be playing the Superbowl at home.

5. Adam Thielen - MIN - He's had some monster games this year - expect another in the posteason. 91 catches on the year with a ridiculous 14 YPC average. 

6. Juju Smith-Schuster - PIT - If Brown can't return, Smith-Schuster will put up big numers.  He finished the Week 17 win over the Browns with 143 yards and a...

Here are the Fantasy Postseason staff rankings of the Top 12 RBs for postseason long leagues:

1. Le'Veon Bell - PIT - Bell's YPG averages are down in both the pass and run game.  But he's been a stud in the playoffs and we expect him to play at least 2 games. 

2. Dion Lewis - NE - We all know that we can't trust a Patriots RB in fantasy right?  Lewis has bucked the trend and has been consistently getting touches. With over 30 touches per game in the last two games, Lewis is primed to hold down the backfield during the Pats postseason run.

3. Todd Gurley - LAR - Breakout season for this Georgia back. Problem is they have a tough first round matchup vs the defending NFC champs and they could only play 1 game.

4. Jay Ajayi - PHI - Expect Foles to hand the ball off a lot to Ajayi. The Eagles lost their offensive leader when Wentz went down but they still have home field throughout the NFC playoffs.

5. Latavius Murray - MIN - Murray is...

Here are the Fantasy Postseason staff rankings of the Top 12 QBs for the postseason:

1. Tom Brady - NE - Brady's output has slumped a bit towards the end of the season, but he leads the team with the best chance to win the Superbowl (again).

2. Ben Roethlisberger  - PIT - Pittsburgh should play 2 games.  The question is whether or not PIT can break the curse and beat NE in Foxborough.

3. Case Keenum - MIN - FiveThirtyEight.com gives the Vikings a 33% chance of playing at home for the Superbowl and Keenum has been efficient this season with 22 TD against 7 INTs.

4. Drew Brees - NO - Brees had a strong run game to lean upon this year and that is evidenced by his 270 YPG passing average (lowest since 2005). The Saints are a solid team, with a twin rushing attack of Kamara and Ingram, but will need to win a few games on the road to get to the Superbowl.

5. Alex Smith - KC - The Chiefs should play 2 games and Alex Smith is having a strong year. While they lost...

Looking for a different type of fantasy league format for the NFL Playoffs?  Try a 'Pick One From All Teams' format in which only one player is selected from each of the 12 teams that qualified for the playoffs.  Instead of having players get scavenged from a team everyone expects to make the Super Bowl (i.e. Patriots), you can force managers to expand their horizons and pick a player from every team, even ones with zero hope of reaching the promised land. 

In your Fantasy Postseason league setup, switch 'Limit Players Per Postseason Team' to Yes, and set the value equal to 1.  Set your positions (QB, RB, WR, TE, K, DEF, etc.) to total 12.  If there are a large number of managers in your league, adjust '# Of Managers That Can Own Each Player' to a number greater than one.  When drafting, each manager must satisfy all of your league's position requirements, but can only do so with one player from each playoff...

Here's a review of the top 20 ranked players by average draft position (ADP).  No surprises near the top, but you'll see Philadelphia (#1 NFC seed) and Minnesota (#2 NFC seed) are getting no respect. Losing Wentz is certainly a real issue for the Eagles - but according to FiveThirtyEight, the Vikings are favored to come out of the NFC and have a 19% chance of winning the Superbowl.   The Saints players are probably getting more love than they deserved too; per FiveThirtyEight's projections, they only have a 11% chance to make the Superbowl.

1. Tom Brady QB NE (ADP: 1.60)

2. Todd Gurley RB LAR (ADP: 2.51)

3. Le'Veon Bell RB PIT (ADP:3.84)

4. Ben Roethlisberger QB PIT (ADP: 5.48)

5. Alvin Kamara RB NO (ADP: 7.10)

6. Drew Brees QB NO (ADP: 9.47)

7. Kareem Hunt RB KC (ADP: 10.25)

8. Rob Gronkowski TE NO (ADP: 10.43)

9. Jared Goff QB LAR (ADP: 11.75)

10. Mark Ingram RB NO (ADP: 13.60)

11. Alex Smith QB KC (ADP: 14.17)

12. Leonard Fournette RB...

There are a number of ways you can set up your postseason fantasy football league. This blog post will introduce you to the most popular formats, and also guide you through the required setup. As a reminder, our leagues are fully customizable, so commissioners are encouraged to review the league setup options to determine the best setup for their particular league. For questions, feel free to reach out to admin@fantasypostseason.com, as we're always available to review league setup questions.

Elimination Player Pool

This traditional survivor pool format is probably the simplest way to play postseason fantasy football. Managers enter their own teams and their team is frozen throughout the postseason. This is a 'set it and forget it' type of league. No trades or free agency is allowed. As teams are eliminated, the players on those fantasy teams are eliminated as well. In order to implement this league format, use the following...