A guillotine League with a twist (17 spots open)
League rules before the fun stuff: league is a guillotine league hosted on sleeper, PPR scoring, kicking is .1 points a yard, defense is standard but .02 points per sack yard (to even out intentional grounding) and 2 point conversion returns are worth 4 points. Waivers and free agency do not lock and use FAAB, no trade deadline, trades approved by me, but if >50% of league that is still alive disagrees, it is vetoed
So in a traditional guillotine league, the lowest scoring team each week gets out and all their players hit waivers.
In this league all of that still happens, but with a vampire losers bracket. Each week after the loser gets out, all of their players go to waivers. And the loser is moved to another league, while having a benchless roster made up of their choice of players from their team. (This person will also be the only one to be able to edit teams)
Once week 2 comes along, the loser of week 2 can get a second life, in this other league if they beat week 1’s loser (the vampire). If they don’t they are permanently out of the league (until next season)
If week 1’s vampire beats week 2’s loser in week 2, they get to keep playing, but also, they get to pick 1 person on team 2’s roster to steal. If week 2’s loser beats the vampire, they become the vampire, but they cannot steal from week 1’s team
This continues for the rest of the season. So for example if it’s week 13 and week 7’s loser is our vampire and they beat week 13’s loser they get to steal one player from their team.
If week 13 beats week’s 7’s vampire then they are now the vampire, but they can not steal any of week 7’s vampire players.
In the championship week (week 17) there will be 3 teams left. The 2 championship contenders, and the vampire. From here teams 1-2 can continue to edit their teams using waivers and free agency how they please, the vampire may not. 1st place this week gets 68% of the money 2nd gets 32% 3rd place gets nothing.
Since this is still experimental, I was thinking a 15-20 dollar buy in, I am going to open league safe sometime in July probably, as the draft will be in August. (I picked a date in sleeper, it is not confirmed)
If you are interested please DM me and if you have any suggestions or questions please comment. I am open to feedback.