New Custom League Options

Custom Schedules

Fully customize your league's schedule with the new manage tool available to custom League Managers.

- Set up the schedule to your specific preferences
- Customize divisional matchups
- Create rivalry weeks
- Control week-by-week matchups throughout the entire regular season
- Allow teams vying for a playoff birth to face off in pivotal matchups

League History and Record Book

With League History and Record Book, NFL.com automatically tracks league champions and important statistics from previous seasons to keep bragging rights alive.

- Easily look back and see how your team did in past seasons
- Access an auto-generated league almanac with weekly and seasonal records
- View the regular season standings as well as playoff brackets
- Prepare for draft day with access to past drafts
- Track the best weekly and seasonal performances throughout your league's history

Full Keepers League Customization

With all of the tools that League Managers have at their finger tips, setting up a keeper league has never been easier.

- Utilize our one-of-a-kind Custom Draft Board
- Determine the exact date you would like keeper selections to lock
- Choose to keep up to 40 players on your team for the upcoming season
- Leave notes for owners in your league letting them know important information and dates
- Edit or select keepers for each team in your league

Individual Defensive Players (IDP)

Play fantasy football with your favorite defensive players on NFL.com.

- Draft defensive players to compete for your fantasy team
- View weekly projections for all defensive players
- Design your own custom IDP scoring settings based on official NFL statistics

Custom Draft Board and Draft Pick Trades

With the new Custom Draft Board, League Managers have the ability to fully customize their draft to their league's specific preferences

- Choose a standard snake or linear draft order or fully customize each pick in each round
- Cater to the your own specific keeper settings
- Easily trade or swap draft picks
- All in user-friendly interface

Expanded League and Roster Settings

We have expanded available custom league and roster settings to better suit the individual league preferences.

- Addition of Reserve Player Slot
- New draft features including a linear draft setting and fully customized draft board
- More flex position options
- Select the a custom start date for your fantasy season
- More waiver options to choose from
- Activate your league from the previous season to use the same settings and options

Waivers Acquisition Budget (WAB)

Use Waivers Acquistion Budget to create a more customized waivers experience for your league.

- Allot each team a seasonal budget for waiver acquistions
- Create a bidding war for the top players on the waiver wire each week
- Spend as much or as little of your budget as you want in an attempt to bid for a player
- Feel like a real General Manager trying to obtain the best players

Positional Limits

Optional positional Limits allow League Managers to restrict the number of players per NFL position each team can own.

- Restrict teams from stocking up on a certain position to create a more even league
- Limit owners to as little as one player or allow them as many as ten players per position
- Positional limits are a custom setting that can be turned on pre- or post-draft

Polls and League Story

Further customize your league with user-generated polls and league stories to create a more personalized league and encourage activity among owners.

- The league story feature has been upgraded for 2011 with archiving and full text editing
- League stories feature an NFL-provided or user-uploaded image on the league home page
- Create your own poll to see how league members feel on certain topics
- All Polls and League Stories are archived and can be viewed at all times
- Comment on any Polls or League Stories

10-Team and 12-Team Playoff Brackets

Now you can choose to include even more teams than ever before in your league's playoffs. Choose from playoffs of 4, 6, 8, 10 or 12 teams.

- Have your playoffs start a week earlier to encompass more teams
- Keep more owners active with more available playoff spots
- Create the opportunity for low seeds to make a great playoff run
- Give up to 12 teams a chance to be the League Champion
- Leagues can also choose to crown a league champion based on regular season standings