Welcome to Fantrax, the home of fantasy sports and the official partner of Faceoff Sports Network. Is this your first time using Fantrax? Great. You’ve come to the right place to learn how to start your next fantasy league! Whether you’re looking for fantasy football, baseball, basketball, or something else, they’ve got you covered.
When it comes to fantasy leagues, no website out there has more customization capabilities than Fantrax. You can check out all of the features Fantrax offers on the Feature Comparison page. Today, we’ll be learning how to create your very own custom fantasy football league on Fantrax.
How Do I Sign Up For A New Fantrax Account?
Before you can dig into Fantrax’s features, you must first sign up for a new account. You can begin the registration process by clicking on the “SIGN UP” button located in the upper right-hand corner of the home screen. After you enter all of your basic information, you will see a box that says, “How did you hear about us?” Be sure to let Fantrax know that your Faceoff friends sent you!
Don’t forget to check the box stating “I have read the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy and agree to their terms and conditions”, then click “Create Account”.
How Do I Create A New League On Fantrax?
Fantax has updated its site this year with new and exciting features to give you a 360-degree of leagues to create. To start, click on the “Pick Your Sport” tab in the bottom middle of the home page. There are many season-long fantasy games to choose from but today we’re here to create a fantasy football team. Click the” NFL” icon which will bring you to the NFL fantasy football lobby.
From here, click the “Play Now” icon which will bring you to the NFL fantasy football lobby. It may look confusing here as there are Commissioner, Classic Draft, Best Ball, and Mock Draft to choose from.
We’re here to create a simple redraft league so click the “Commissioner” tab on the left. Now, this is when all the fun begins! We are here to what I like to call ground zero. Unlike some sites, Fantrax makes it very simple to create a league.
The create league gives you three different tabs to choose from. “Use a Fantrax Default Setup”, “Moving from Another Site” and “Copy League”. Moving from another site only allows you to bring in a Yahoo! or ESPN league. Copy league takes a current or previous league and gives you the option to carry over scoring from another league. Thus, many options to choose from, and very simple to bring over a league.
Let’s get back on track here with creating our league! We’ll keep it basic and start with a fresh slate. Step 1 will be “What do you want to do?” By clicking on the “Use a Fantrax Default Setup”, we are moving onto Step 2, known as “Choose league type.”
You will have 12 different types of leagues to create your league from. Choose the one that best fits your standard. Don’t know which one to use? That’s what’s great about Fantrax. If you move your mouse over each square, it will give you a description of what each type of league scoring means.
Honestly, that’s what makes Fantrax great as they answer your questions before you can even ask with the mouse over the square feature.
To conclude with the last step, “Step 3: Enter basic settings”. First, you will choose a league name, followed by your team’s name, league type, draft type (be sure to select re-draft), promotion code, and league description. If you have any issues, there is a purple question mark in each box of what you are to do in each box. Once you have put all your league’s information in, click the submit button. This may take a few seconds to get to this part of the screen, but don’t fret, your league is being created!
It should be noted that under the “draft type” tab, you will see a calendar on the right side here. Now if you don’t know the date of your draft, no problem! Go ahead and click the “submit” tab. However, if you do know your draft date and time, go ahead and choose a date along with a time based on the Eastern Time Zone.
League Settings
Congratulations! Your league has now been created. In this area, you have many options for the league that you just created. The first thing to do is invite friends and/or family members to get your league going!
There are five ways to invite people too! You can share it on Twitter or Facebook. Send an invite through email. You can also copy the invite link and share it via Twitter or text message (if you create it over your phone).
Finally, you can “invite friends from past leagues” that were previously used via Fantrax.
Commissioner
As the creator of the league, you are known as the commissioner. You can customize the league or head to the league home once you’ve sent out invites. Although you are able to click the “customize league” tab, we’re going to keep it simple here and go to “league home”. Here you have the same options as you did when you created the league! If you thought you missed something in the setup, you can fix it all here!
You’ll be able to invite friends, set your draft date, and change things (scoring, league name, draft date, etc.) on the fly. The site is very user-friendly. If you think hitting the back arrow on your browser will mess things up, it won’t! It’s easy to flow through. Fantrax has made this stress free to set up and use.
Customization
Want to change your league name, or add a league logo or wall logo? Go back to the general tab and make these changes. You can also change the scoring to something different, it’s that simple.
So, your league doesn’t want to use the current scoring? No problem. As commissioner, you just click under the commissioner tab “league setup”. There are many blue tabs to work from general to miscellaneous.
You set the league to how you want to fit it! Build teams and schedules, have a roster pool of all NFL teams, or even do what some fantasy baseball teams do and create an AFC or NFC only and even go a little more into Devy and add them to the player pool! How fun is that?
Roster Setup
We’ll continue with the “Rosters” tab, which gives you the ability to set up roster positions and the number of starters and bench players. You even have the option to set an injured reserve, a taxi squad (dynasty teams), and a min/max if you want to for a position you want to play (rotisserie) and count the best players (best ball). Many different scoring options.
Finally, at the bottom, you can select positions. Max number of starters, along with removing positions. If you remove positions, a popup box will appear to tell you that certain scoring will be removed with the position.
Here, you can set up your league however you want! This tab can look very confusing, yet is very simple to use, so don’t stress! On the “positions” tab of the roster setup, you will see an “add” tab next to “use the tab below to set restrictions for each position your league uses.” Although this may look misleading, it’s not.
Some of these features are known as ‘premium features’. Depending on what additions you make, you will have a league fee to pay. Additional to your league setup, there are some features that have a gold diamond next to them. Those are also premium features you are able to add to your leagues. its full of endless possibilities!
Now, premium features come at a cost. The total cost is $129.95, which is cheaper than most sites that offer premium features. Most sites make you pay before your league can start playing. The benefit with Fantrax is you have till September 28, 2023, to pay, or the league will be downgraded to a Standard/ Free League.
Don’t forget to click the “Save & Continue” tab at the bottom.
Scoring
Next, we’re going to head over to the scoring tab. Here you can set your scoring to your preferences. Want to give tight ends an advantage to balance the rosters out? Select the “Score Positions Differently” box and the positions pop up. Unfortunately, we all can’t have Travis Kelce, but you get the point.
If you don’t see the scoring category you’re looking for, click the “include advanced categories“. You can click default, and change it back to how it was if you don’t want any changes. However, you will have to click “Receptions” for the tight end position.
Now a box will pop up below and you assign what additional points you want to have. Be sure to add the additional points for tight ends here. This is very important, especially if you want to score tight ends differently! However, this position is only allowed to be added to that position only. If a manager places a tight end in the flex, the additional points accumulate.
As soon as you’re done, be sure to click the “Save” button or nothing will be saved. You can change the scoring of any position, offense, and defense to get the scoring settings to your league’s preference.
Transactions & Periods
In the “Transactions & Periods” tab, you will select what you want your league to do: lineups, trades, and claims/drops. The data here is already auto-filled in, but you can change it to whatever your league agrees upon. Line-up lock means what player is in your lineup “locks” five minutes before kickoff. So if the kickoff is at 1 PM EST, that means the lineup locks at 12:55. The rest is pretty self-explanatory, and you can run it for a season as is and change it the following year.
Salaries & Contracts
From here we go into our salaries and contracts tab. If you are doing a salary cap league (also known as an auction) you can set a set value for the league ($200 is a good start) and have free agents, be the minimum price ($1 is standard). Contacts look like a fun part of the game here as it looks like you are a true general manager of your team. You can have it automated or custom.
Above all, the great thing is with questions on all these, there’s a question mark you can click on to give you a better understanding of what it means. This is a great feature, but is under the premium feature which like other sites, you will have to pay for.
The Draft
The next part of our tabs is the draft tab. The draft is the most fun part of your whole fantasy football league. Just like when you first created your league, you can now make scheduling changes. You’ll need to decide how you’re going to run your draft.
You can do your draft online as a standard snake draft or auction league, an automated one (which doesn’t sound fun), or an offline one where it looks like you will add the roster yourself. Here you will also set your league’s draft date and time, along with the total rounds and what to do with the undrafted players.
Furthermore, Fantrax added a draft reversal round. What entails here is you can do what all Scott Fish Bowl draft has which is a third-round reversal. Say you hold the 1.12 and the 2.01. From here, the team that has the 1.01 will get the 2.12, and instead of them kicking off the third round, you get to! A fun aspect to add to your league’s draft!
Fantrax recently updated their draft room making it easier to use and more visually appealing.
Fees and Prizes
Next, we are up to the Fees and Prizes tab. Here Fantrax offers Treasurer to use for the site! Since you are already paying for a premium, this is added in at no additional cost if you like. Who doesn’t like FREE add-ons? In the fees section, you can set a value for your league when they do waiver wire pickups, trades, and anything else that you would like to help make that pot grow.
Finally, the prize tab is where you can add a prize to the winner. Something like a jersey, helmet, or whatever you want to give away to the winner of the league. You can even have a trophy along with place winners winning something. Just add it all in!
Miscellaneous
Last but not least, we have come to the end of our tabs as this is the miscellaneous tab or “Misc.” Here you can select if it’s a redraft, keeper, Devy, college, or dynasty league. There is also a tiebreaker tab to help with teams that have the same record, and tiebreakers can be many to choose from, so there should be no grief when it comes to standings, matchup ties (if you choose to), and playoff ties.
Then the final tab is a bylaws tab. You can put rules and other league standards that aren’t spelled out anywhere else. League issues? Bylaws should fix it.
Lastly, I hope this helped you out. I like the layout of Fantrax and will be trying many different kinds of leagues out here. As I stated earlier, if you have any questions, feel free to DM me on Twitter @RyanMiner_FFB! I’m happy to help walk you through any of this.
Now let’s go play some fantasy football!
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