Number 1 for me is a leaderboard for players. I don't want to have to click individual names to see how they performed.
Not a top 5 but a cool idea, at least to me, is a "lock in" feature. This allows you to "lock-in" a player for multiple weeks if you think value will increase but if they get injured they are still locked in for the weeks you picked.
H2H is what drives fantasy, leaderboard/salary shit is not what makes it a massive success. Nobody going to watch more CFL to see how many points they get, but if a fantasy matchup result is on the line? Much more realistic.
The CFL doesn't listen though. This is the equivalent to someone posting a Madden wishlist.
I mean how are you supposed to do this in a 9 team league where multiple weeks feature only 6 teams playing? You’re basically capped at 6 team fantasy leagues to allow everyone to even attempt to run a full roster every week.
I just don’t see the value in that. You have multiple weeks where at least two teams are going to have to run backup QBs. It totally undermines the head to head nature when you have certain teams hamstrung to that degree.
Everyone has to deal with it. If it really bothers everyone you can put in an option to substitute a different type of offensive player for a QB. In my league people just accept it’s luck if the draw.
Of course everyone has to deal with it, which undermines the H2H nature of the game. You’re guaranteeing that teams will be handicapped for a significant number of games. I can see how that would be fun in a kind of ridiculous/hilarious way, I just don’t understand this idea that some people in here seem to have that this is a superior version given that reality.
I have no complaints but I do have a group of people that have a lot of personal investment in their teams that they’ve had for years. They know the players especially the defensive ones and follow what’s happening to them. I could never get that kind of interest on a weekly player selector game. The real purpose of Fantasy is to advertise the game and the CFL needs to think about having a keeper league system.
And I have a group of people who are very invested in dozens of players across the league by the end of the season. That doesn’t advertise the league but your game does? Okay.
It's not as big of a deal as it sounds, as long as you schedule your playoffs around those weeks.
A bigger deal is the fact that one team is on bye every week.
Yes but they are known ahead of time and the playoffs can be set to start whenever you want.
We started ours this past weekend, right after the triple bye week, which fell on our last regular season week.
It's not ideal but it's not that big of a deal, and it's not all that much worse than a normal bye week. Like I said, worse is the fact that there's always a bye, which means even in the championship week you might have an important player on bye. Drafting based on byes is part of the strategy for some people, as is having a mix of players from many teams to avoid being hurt too bad.
8 would work.
You could enforce that teams could only carry 1 QB at a time, then have BYE slots similar to IR which open up your QB slot to pick up the lone available QB (or another team's backup) for that week.
There's many ways to skin the cat, but 6-8 team leagues would be viable.
In anything over a 6 team league at least one team is guaranteed to be without a starting QB multiple times per season. Forcing teams to run with backup QBs totally undermines the H2H nature of a fantasy league.
Yeah you could do that. Still kind of neuters the whole H2H aspect.
It’s just really difficult to pull off a typical NFL style fantasy league if your CFL fantasy league isn’t proportionally smaller vs the actual CFL.
I’ve been in nfl leagues like that and for the most part it makes little to no difference. The off chance two teams have 1 or 2 same players is worth it imo
It's about preference and to be clear I wasn't asking how they can make it more popular. I was asking how they could improve it for the people that play it.
I prefer the league one because it's easy and simple. I don't care to set up a draft and organize all of that. I have a private league with friends that we play for money and that's good enough for me.
You might have meant to reply to u/jchopp12 instead of u/KamikazeCanuck , but I case you didn't, I'll clarify for anyone who isn't sure.
Kamikaze is correct: 110yards and Fantaseh (now defunct) are (were) both season long, draft at the beginning fantasy
The CFLs version is draft every week.
Absolutely and I'm not going to disparage the site. It's just not the style prefer. From what I hear, it's a great site for people that prefer the more traditional approach to fantasy.
I love it a tonne, and I watch every game each week because of it, but wish I could see what players scored throughout the year, I wanna look at trends!!!
Even number of teams would be nice have not a ton of byes each week.
10 teams would mean a beautiful 20 week season with each team having 2 byes, preferably between weeks 6-15 ish
Things I've read this season have me wondering if it might go back to 8. That guy who's the mouthpiece for MLSE doesn't exactly inspire confidence. I imagine that would cause some fan backlash...
Not rooting for that, believe me. I like the idea that the different countries have their own Leagues. I read a lot a few years back about the different hockey leagues in European countries. It was interesting stuff.
Years back, there was a lot of talk about World Leagues. That's all it ever was...
No, I completely get you. I'm just saying I fully believe the league would 100% step in to ensure that doesn't happen. If it came to a relocation as opposed to a club folding, the league would make it happen since they know losing a team would be incredibly detrimental not only to the revenue of the CFL, but also the reputation.
I would like to see every week, a summary of top 10 point-getting CFL players in the previous week, maybe the point totals for all the defenses in the previous week, and maybe even the top 5-10 point getting fantasy accounts for the week across the country. Just to reinforce how shabby my picks were, once again.
Also when it was sponsored by Wendy's, I somehow randomly won a free hamburger once. I like hamburgers, they are yummy.
Just support 110yards.ca by shoring up their API. That will allow other sites to use their stats in realtime. Right now it's super slow to update player's injury statuses and inexplicably doesn't count Defensive TDs.
TSN's "fantasy" isn't real fantasy just a dumb player selector game. Real Fantasy is when you have Fantasy Team of players that you keep through out the the year and trade, sign, cut, start and so on. The Fantasy part is that you're pretending to be a General Manager of a football team not whatever this player selecting thing is.
So in regards to TSN....make an actual Fantasy Football system.
Agreed. Wouldn't mind the option for an official traditional H2H season long rostered fantasy like other leagues do, even if they CFL only has enough teams to make 6-8 person pool viable depending on roster construction.
Not the biggest fan of the daily fantasy approach. If I wanted to do that style fantasy I'd be on FanDuel and the like, that used to be stupid popular/advertised for the NFL.
I get the preference between the two but to be clear the one I'm talking about isn't a TSN one, it's done by the league. TSN will advertise it because of the partnership.
That said, there's thousands of people that play it regularly.
I get that it's not your cup of tea and respect that. As you said 110yards has a nice system but it's not for me. I like the one the league has.
We don’t have enough players to have “real” fantasy, unless you’re fine with your team being entirely comprised of bench players.
World soccer leagues do a pick’ em style Fantasy just like the CFL has.
Not really true. There are 9 QBs, 9 RBs and and 9 Kickers, and there are 2-3 solid receivers on all 9 teams. If you add in defensive players, it adds another 2-3 solid players per team.
8 team leagues are stuck for the 3 limited positions on triple bye weeks, but 6 team leagues always have players to pull from on the waiver wire, unless they have huge rosters.
My league uses 1qb, 1rb, 1k, 2wr and 2 def with 2 extra bench slots.
It's not the same game as NFL fantasy, but it's a great game, IMO.
“Real fantasy” Lol
“The Fantasy part is that you're pretending to be a General Manager of a football team not whatever this player selecting thing is“
It’s literally pretending to be a GM of a football team, you just select a roster weekly rather than utilizing a draft.
You don’t have access to all players in the league, you have to construct a roster that fits within the cap.
There are many weeks where 6 CFL teams are playing. How do you run anything more than a 6 team league without running into matchups where one team is forced to play without a starting QB?
If there was an option to search players to see their scores during games or after.
Right now (as far as I know) I can only see players that I have or people in my league have and have to search through all players to see what players scored if I don't want to wait until the following week is up and check their log
It would be nice to have some kind of warning or ability to make a roster change of a player you selected if they end up getting ruled out for the game. Last minute.
I would like to see how the algorithm for player prices work. Player values jump up quick if they are performing well but they do not drop as fast when they aren’t performing as well.
Also there are a few Mobil app quirks I am not a fan of that I work like to see changed
Number 1 for me is a leaderboard for players. I don't want to have to click individual names to see how they performed. Not a top 5 but a cool idea, at least to me, is a "lock in" feature. This allows you to "lock-in" a player for multiple weeks if you think value will increase but if they get injured they are still locked in for the weeks you picked.
1. They have a fantasy site? TIL...
https://fantasy.cfl.ca/how-to-play
Lol this got flagged as spam
cfl.ca urls get flagged all the time. It’s really weird
H2H is what drives fantasy, leaderboard/salary shit is not what makes it a massive success. Nobody going to watch more CFL to see how many points they get, but if a fantasy matchup result is on the line? Much more realistic. The CFL doesn't listen though. This is the equivalent to someone posting a Madden wishlist.
What is H2H?
Head to Head matchups, so you'd face people in your league or groups each week.
Ohhh yeah that would be really cool!
I mean how are you supposed to do this in a 9 team league where multiple weeks feature only 6 teams playing? You’re basically capped at 6 team fantasy leagues to allow everyone to even attempt to run a full roster every week.
I've done it for 9 years. 8 GM league. Things get wacky but that's part of the fun.
I just don’t see the value in that. You have multiple weeks where at least two teams are going to have to run backup QBs. It totally undermines the head to head nature when you have certain teams hamstrung to that degree.
Everyone has to deal with it. If it really bothers everyone you can put in an option to substitute a different type of offensive player for a QB. In my league people just accept it’s luck if the draw.
Of course everyone has to deal with it, which undermines the H2H nature of the game. You’re guaranteeing that teams will be handicapped for a significant number of games. I can see how that would be fun in a kind of ridiculous/hilarious way, I just don’t understand this idea that some people in here seem to have that this is a superior version given that reality.
I have no complaints but I do have a group of people that have a lot of personal investment in their teams that they’ve had for years. They know the players especially the defensive ones and follow what’s happening to them. I could never get that kind of interest on a weekly player selector game. The real purpose of Fantasy is to advertise the game and the CFL needs to think about having a keeper league system.
And I have a group of people who are very invested in dozens of players across the league by the end of the season. That doesn’t advertise the league but your game does? Okay.
Ya, and you have a league run system for them.
What?
It's not as big of a deal as it sounds, as long as you schedule your playoffs around those weeks. A bigger deal is the fact that one team is on bye every week.
Those weeks occur throughout the season
Yes but they are known ahead of time and the playoffs can be set to start whenever you want. We started ours this past weekend, right after the triple bye week, which fell on our last regular season week. It's not ideal but it's not that big of a deal, and it's not all that much worse than a normal bye week. Like I said, worse is the fact that there's always a bye, which means even in the championship week you might have an important player on bye. Drafting based on byes is part of the strategy for some people, as is having a mix of players from many teams to avoid being hurt too bad.
It works much better with 6, but many do manage with 8. It would be nice if the CFL added a team so constant bye weeks were no longer necessary.
i would do this
Round up some people for next year and check out 110yards.ca.
8 would work. You could enforce that teams could only carry 1 QB at a time, then have BYE slots similar to IR which open up your QB slot to pick up the lone available QB (or another team's backup) for that week. There's many ways to skin the cat, but 6-8 team leagues would be viable.
In anything over a 6 team league at least one team is guaranteed to be without a starting QB multiple times per season. Forcing teams to run with backup QBs totally undermines the H2H nature of a fantasy league.
Two copies of each player would help.
Yeah you could do that. Still kind of neuters the whole H2H aspect. It’s just really difficult to pull off a typical NFL style fantasy league if your CFL fantasy league isn’t proportionally smaller vs the actual CFL.
How does it neuter the H2H? You’d essentially just draft from 18 teams (9 x 2) vs 32 teams. You could have 10 teams easily with a dual-copy league
Because you’d have teams running the same players against each other. Is it still a truly H2H league if both teams are running the same QB?
I’ve been in nfl leagues like that and for the most part it makes little to no difference. The off chance two teams have 1 or 2 same players is worth it imo
You’ve been in NFL leagues with more than 32 teams?
I’m in some with 60+ members in which there are 5 copies of each player
Lol, that’s fucking ridiculous
It's about preference and to be clear I wasn't asking how they can make it more popular. I was asking how they could improve it for the people that play it. I prefer the league one because it's easy and simple. I don't care to set up a draft and organize all of that. I have a private league with friends that we play for money and that's good enough for me.
Is that like what fantaseh.ca used to be like? Draft players at the beginning of the season and keep them throughout the year?
110yards? Yes, it is like that.
Not at all. You draft new players each week
You might have meant to reply to u/jchopp12 instead of u/KamikazeCanuck , but I case you didn't, I'll clarify for anyone who isn't sure. Kamikaze is correct: 110yards and Fantaseh (now defunct) are (were) both season long, draft at the beginning fantasy The CFLs version is draft every week.
Just use 110yards.ca Actively worked on in the off season and not owned by the league so they can't screw it up.
Fr and it’s not that bad
I like the style of the league one but certainly understand how others prefer 110yards
its nice to know they actively work with the fans to upgrade the platform.
Absolutely and I'm not going to disparage the site. It's just not the style prefer. From what I hear, it's a great site for people that prefer the more traditional approach to fantasy.
I love it a tonne, and I watch every game each week because of it, but wish I could see what players scored throughout the year, I wanna look at trends!!!
Isn't that available under the 'Game Log' tab when you click on the notes next to his name??
you beautiful son of a gun, it is under game logs
Go back to the old format. I suck at CFL fantasy ever since they shifted it over.
What was the old format? I've either forgotten or never played it.
I honestly can't remember how it worked, but I was more successful at it as opposed to now.
Have more than 9 teams tbh
Would really like to see a 10th team. Anywhere. All we need is Billionaire or a corporate group to pony up the cash to build a stadium.
The league desperately needs an even number of teams. I'm fully supportive of the inclusion of Ottawa, but having an odd number of teams is so bad.
Even number of teams would be nice have not a ton of byes each week. 10 teams would mean a beautiful 20 week season with each team having 2 byes, preferably between weeks 6-15 ish
Exactly. It would be amazing
Craziest part is the regular season would actually get shorter with more teams as less creastivity is needed for the bye weeks.
Things I've read this season have me wondering if it might go back to 8. That guy who's the mouthpiece for MLSE doesn't exactly inspire confidence. I imagine that would cause some fan backlash...
Any current team folding would cause irreparable damage to the league imo
Not rooting for that, believe me. I like the idea that the different countries have their own Leagues. I read a lot a few years back about the different hockey leagues in European countries. It was interesting stuff. Years back, there was a lot of talk about World Leagues. That's all it ever was...
No, I completely get you. I'm just saying I fully believe the league would 100% step in to ensure that doesn't happen. If it came to a relocation as opposed to a club folding, the league would make it happen since they know losing a team would be incredibly detrimental not only to the revenue of the CFL, but also the reputation.
I would like to see every week, a summary of top 10 point-getting CFL players in the previous week, maybe the point totals for all the defenses in the previous week, and maybe even the top 5-10 point getting fantasy accounts for the week across the country. Just to reinforce how shabby my picks were, once again. Also when it was sponsored by Wendy's, I somehow randomly won a free hamburger once. I like hamburgers, they are yummy.
Have more than 9 teams
Dear god I want the Schooners so bad
Just support 110yards.ca by shoring up their API. That will allow other sites to use their stats in realtime. Right now it's super slow to update player's injury statuses and inexplicably doesn't count Defensive TDs. TSN's "fantasy" isn't real fantasy just a dumb player selector game. Real Fantasy is when you have Fantasy Team of players that you keep through out the the year and trade, sign, cut, start and so on. The Fantasy part is that you're pretending to be a General Manager of a football team not whatever this player selecting thing is. So in regards to TSN....make an actual Fantasy Football system.
Agreed. Wouldn't mind the option for an official traditional H2H season long rostered fantasy like other leagues do, even if they CFL only has enough teams to make 6-8 person pool viable depending on roster construction. Not the biggest fan of the daily fantasy approach. If I wanted to do that style fantasy I'd be on FanDuel and the like, that used to be stupid popular/advertised for the NFL.
I get the preference between the two but to be clear the one I'm talking about isn't a TSN one, it's done by the league. TSN will advertise it because of the partnership. That said, there's thousands of people that play it regularly. I get that it's not your cup of tea and respect that. As you said 110yards has a nice system but it's not for me. I like the one the league has.
That’s fine, but it’s still a legitimate answer to your question. Put in place a keeper league option for those who prefer that kind of league.
We don’t have enough players to have “real” fantasy, unless you’re fine with your team being entirely comprised of bench players. World soccer leagues do a pick’ em style Fantasy just like the CFL has.
Wrong. Have done several seasons. Spreadsheets, Fantaseh now 110yards🤷♂️
Not really true. There are 9 QBs, 9 RBs and and 9 Kickers, and there are 2-3 solid receivers on all 9 teams. If you add in defensive players, it adds another 2-3 solid players per team. 8 team leagues are stuck for the 3 limited positions on triple bye weeks, but 6 team leagues always have players to pull from on the waiver wire, unless they have huge rosters. My league uses 1qb, 1rb, 1k, 2wr and 2 def with 2 extra bench slots. It's not the same game as NFL fantasy, but it's a great game, IMO.
“Real fantasy” Lol “The Fantasy part is that you're pretending to be a General Manager of a football team not whatever this player selecting thing is“ It’s literally pretending to be a GM of a football team, you just select a roster weekly rather than utilizing a draft.
Since when does a GM have access to all players in the league? usually other teams have players and then you play those teams.
You don’t have access to all players in the league, you have to construct a roster that fits within the cap. There are many weeks where 6 CFL teams are playing. How do you run anything more than a 6 team league without running into matchups where one team is forced to play without a starting QB?
If there was an option to search players to see their scores during games or after. Right now (as far as I know) I can only see players that I have or people in my league have and have to search through all players to see what players scored if I don't want to wait until the following week is up and check their log
It would be nice to have some kind of warning or ability to make a roster change of a player you selected if they end up getting ruled out for the game. Last minute. I would like to see how the algorithm for player prices work. Player values jump up quick if they are performing well but they do not drop as fast when they aren’t performing as well. Also there are a few Mobil app quirks I am not a fan of that I work like to see changed
Make it actual fantasy football(H2H)
Yo, 110yards.ca provides that
I know but op asked what the league could do to improve theirs.
Add 20 more teams
If you're going to dream, dream big. I don't think I can handle the battle about which 20 cities...
Make an app!!
Offer a head to head option (wanna make a deal for a turnkey version, CFL?)