Fantasy College Football
Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2014 3:31 pm
I know I brought it up a couple months ago on the old forum, but with the season close to starting, I wanted to gauge the interest in anyone here that wanted to join a league that Cyrisnyte and I are in. It is called Recruiting Nation. The premise is that you represent a major college football program (I am the Texas Longhorns). Your roster starts off to include every player on your program, so I own the rights to all Texas Longhorn players. From there, we have a recruiting period that starts August 1st every year and lasts about two weeks. You get a recruiting budget and bid on all players that haven't previously been recruited. If you recruit a freshman, you keep him on your team until he graduates, leaves early for the NFL or, unfortunately, is dismissed from school and never signs on elsewhere. This league is a TON of fun and though the recruiting portion of the season can be pretty hectic, once that is over the heavy lifting is basically completed.
As far as the recruiting aspect of the league, I mentioned you do get a budget to work with but from there you get recruiting discounts. Again, since I am Texas, I get a discount on all Texas-born players meaning any player who was born in the state of Texas, I can get at a discount. I also get a discount for all adjacent states like New Mexico, Oklahoma, etc. Further discounts are given for winning your division, bowl games or the Recruiting Nation championship at the end of the season. We are gearing up for the start of the season now and have a few teams open (Wisconsin, Alabama, Florida, LSU, Florida State, Tennessee and Oklahoma). These teams, as you could imagine, come equipped with some legitimate talent already, so you wouldn't be too far behind in the game.
If you are at all interested, hop over to the forums and check it out: http://www.profsl.com/smf/index.php?board=1465.0.
I tell this to everyone I talk to about this league, but this is BY FAR the BEST fantasy league I've ever played in other than my personal fantasy football league with friends that I've been running for 12 years now. I don't personally know anyone in this league but the fun factor is off the charts! Do yourself a favor and read up on this league and grab a team!
As far as the recruiting aspect of the league, I mentioned you do get a budget to work with but from there you get recruiting discounts. Again, since I am Texas, I get a discount on all Texas-born players meaning any player who was born in the state of Texas, I can get at a discount. I also get a discount for all adjacent states like New Mexico, Oklahoma, etc. Further discounts are given for winning your division, bowl games or the Recruiting Nation championship at the end of the season. We are gearing up for the start of the season now and have a few teams open (Wisconsin, Alabama, Florida, LSU, Florida State, Tennessee and Oklahoma). These teams, as you could imagine, come equipped with some legitimate talent already, so you wouldn't be too far behind in the game.
If you are at all interested, hop over to the forums and check it out: http://www.profsl.com/smf/index.php?board=1465.0.
I tell this to everyone I talk to about this league, but this is BY FAR the BEST fantasy league I've ever played in other than my personal fantasy football league with friends that I've been running for 12 years now. I don't personally know anyone in this league but the fun factor is off the charts! Do yourself a favor and read up on this league and grab a team!