Innovation comes slowly to fantasy football. Since I started playing, the two major, industry-wide additions to the standard format are PPR and Superflex. It’s not hard to find TE-premium scoring, and your league might employ a point-per-first-down element, penalize incompletions, or dozens of other small scoring tweaks. But you’re still playing the same essential game. Franchise League Football aims to change that. Franchise League Football…...

So, yeah. I was in the office in the 48-foot trailer (movie biz thing, hard to explain) in the middle of a lightning delay while working on a pilot for a Netflix reboot of A Different World. I paused, flicking my flip-up sunglasses upward with the back of my forefinger. No doubt, I had a glazed look in my eye, hair disheveled, reaching for and slamming…...

Of all the fantasy formats, dynasty is my favorite. It scratches a deep, childlike itch — the joy of building something all your own, like Legos or friendship bracelets or a glorious, slightly disturbing Potato Head chimera made from the mismatched limbs of various members of the Potato Head family. I’ve always loved accessorizing this impulse to create with the dramatics and ornaments of football…....