# He Hate Me Fantasy Football 2026 - Year 24 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** football-nfl\ **Created:** [July 28, 2026, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-hate-me-fantasy-football-2026-year-24/1031985 "2026-07-28T21:31:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Wilson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@Wilson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wilson)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2026, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-hate-me-fantasy-football-2026-year-24/1031985/1 "2026-07-28T21:31:20Z")
And here we are again, year 24 of this Fantasy Football League on the SDMB. As I’ve done for the last few years, I renewed the league without automatic team renewals and then sent invites out, so that team owners could actively indicate they planned to return. As of today, nine owners have renewed. Still got plenty of time to work on the other five. Keeper Rules 1. You can only keep a maximum of 3 players. 2. You can only keep players drafted after the second round (third rounders or later only.) 3. A player can only be kept a maximum of twice. (Making 3 total roster years.) 4. A kept player incurs a two round penalty (e.g: drafted in the 6th, kept in the 4th.) **Hall of Fame** [2003 - Year 1](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-he-hate-me-he-hate-me-not-football-league/189924)Winner: mouthbreather [2004 - Year 2](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/upcoming-sdmb-fantasy-football-league/240522)Winner: Spiritus Mundi [2005 - Year 3](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-fantasy-football-signup-now-open/311152) Winner: Spiritus Mundi ([thread #2](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-hate-me-keeper-league-mid-season-draft-review-2006/329270)) [2006 - Year 4](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-hate-me-ff-keeper-league/359113) Winner: The Mad Hermit [2007 - Year 5](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-hate-me-so-bad-ff-keeper-league/406801) Winner: Nurse Carmen [2008 - Year 6](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-hate-me-some-me-ff-keeper-league/447318) Winner: Weirddave [2009 - Year 7](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-hate-me-ff-keeper-league-yr-7/504074) Winner: VarlosZ [2010 - Year 8](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-hate-me-ff-keeper-league-year-8/548576) Winner: Weirddave [2011 - Year 9](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-hate-me-ff-keeper-league-year-9/591413) Winner: Really Not All That Bright [2012 - Year 10](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-hate-me-ff-keeper-league-year-10/625142) Winner: Really Not All That Bright [2013 - Year 11](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-hate-me-ff-keeper-league-year-11/659712) Winner: VarlosZ [2014 - Year 12](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-hate-me-ff-keeper-league-year-12/690989)Winner: Ottoerotic [2015 - Year 13](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-hate-me-ff-keeper-league-year-13/728013)Winner: Weirddave [2016 - Year 14](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-hate-me-ff-keeper-league-year-14/762435) Winner: motu [2017 - Year 15](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-hate-me-ff-keeper-league-year-15/792572)Winner: Johnny Ace [2018 - Year 16](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-hate-me-keeper-league-year-16/818242)Winner: dalej42 [2019 - Year 17](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-hate-me-keeper-leage-2019-year-17/838974)Winner: Weirddave [2020 - Year 18](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-hate-me-keeper-league-2020-year-18/917277)Winner: Weirddave [2021 - Year 19](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-hate-me-keeper-league-2021-year-19/948348)Winner: AlsoNamedBort [2022 - Year 20](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-hate-me-keeper-league-2022-year-20/970337)Winner: Damar Hamlin (dalej42 and Wilson) [2023 - Year 21](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-hate-me-keeper-league-2023-year-21/986733)Winner: dalej42 [2024 - Year 22](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-hate-me-keeper-league-2024-year-22/1005297)Winner: Senor Beef [2025 - Year 23](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-hate-me-fantasy-football-2025-year-23/1021743) Winner: Senor Beef This year let’s all cut red meat from our diets and overthrow @SenorBeef! Eligible Keepers to be posted shortly. ---
**Author:** ![Wilson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@Wilson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wilson)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2026, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-hate-me-fantasy-football-2026-year-24/1031985/2 "2026-07-28T21:35:03Z")
First topic for conversation - toward the end of last year’s thread, there was discussion about changing the # of games in the schedule, to avoid having the championship in week 17. I think these were the proposals - please let me know if there are others, and we’ll vote on a possible rule change. 1 - As is - 14 regular season games (play one other team twice); 6 team playoff brackets; championship in week 17 2 - 13 regular season games (play each other team once); 6 team playoff brackets; championship in week 16 3 - 14 regular season games (play one other team twice); 4 team playoff brackets; championship in week 16 ---
**Author:** ![Wilson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@Wilson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wilson)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2026, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-hate-me-fantasy-football-2026-year-24/1031985/3 "2026-07-28T21:35:47Z")
Players who can’t be kept this year because they’ve been kept in the last two years: | Team | Player | | --- | --- | | Omnipotents | Chase Brown | | Spiritus Mundane | Jordan Love | | Big Mack Attack | Rashee Rice | | Disgruntled Goats | Puka Nacua | | Exploding Pancakes | De’Von Achane | ---
**Author:** ![Wilson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@Wilson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wilson)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2026, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-hate-me-fantasy-football-2026-year-24/1031985/4 "2026-07-28T21:38:24Z")
Eligible Keepers - please check my work. No trades last year made my job easier! Round listed here is the round the player was drafted last year - please account for the 2 round penalty. | Team/Rd | Name | Notes | | --- | --- | --- | | Chicago Cardinals | | | | 3 | TreVeyon Henderson | | | 4 | Jaylen Warren | | | 5 | Travis Hunter | | | 6 | Ladd McConkey  | Kept 2025 | | 7 | Bucky Irving  | Kept 2025 | | 9 | Cooper Kupp | | | 10 | Keenan Allen | | | 11 | Matthew Stafford | | | 12 | Cam Ward | | | 13 | Will Shipley | | | 14 | Xavier Legette | | | Jayden Daniel’s Fanboy | | | | 3 | Lamar Jackson | | | 4 | Calvin Ridley | | | 5 | Courtland Sutton  | Kept 2025 | | 7 | Tyler Warren | | | 8 | Josh Downs | | | 9 | Dallas Goedert | | | 10 | Jayden Higgins | | | Go Sports Gang 🏈 | | | | 3 | Jalen Hurts | | | 4 | Jaylen Waddle | | | 5 | DJ Moore | | | 6 | Jakobi Meyers | | | 7 | Javonte Williams | | | 8 | Khalil Shakir | | | 9 | Jake Ferguson | | | 10 | Ray Davis | | | 12 | Michael Penix Jr. | | | 13 | Sam Darnold | | | (Frosty’s) Post Mahomes | | | | 3 | Marvin Harrison Jr. | | | 4 | Davante Adams | | | 5 | Aaron Jones Sr. | | | 7 | Jordan Addison | | | 9 | Jayden Reed | | | 10 | Rachaad White | | | 11 | Bo Nix  | Kept 2025 | | 15 | Cameron Dicker | | | Omnipotents | | | | 4 | Isiah Pacheco | | | 5 | Emeka Egbuka | | | 6 | Matthew Golden | | | 9 | Ollie Gordon II | | | 11 | Woody Marks | | | 12 | Luther Burden III | | | 15 | Isaac TeSlaa | | | Spiritus Mundane | | | | 3 | Breece Hall | | | 4 | Brian Thomas Jr.  | Kept 2025 | | 5 | Jacory Croskey-Merritt | | | 6 | Kaleb Johnson | | | 8 | Michael Pittman Jr. | | | 11 | Broncos | | | 12 | Tre’ Harris | | | 13 | Kyle Monangai | | | 14 | J.J. McCarthy  | Kept 2025 | | 15 | Jake Bates | | | 16 | Christian Watson | | | Baltimore Weirdos | | | | 3 | Tee Higgins  | Kept 2025 | | 4 | Zay Flowers | | | 5 | J.K. Dobbins | | | 6 | Tucker Kraft | | | 7 | Baker Mayfield | | | 9 | Christian Kirk | | | 10 | C.J. Stroud | | | 11 | Marvin Mims Jr. | | | 15 | Chris Boswell | | | 16 | Isaiah Likely | | | Carcosa Yellow Kings | | | | 3 | Tony Pollard | | | 4 | Xavier Worthy  | Kept 2025 | | 5 | Ricky Pearsall | | | 6 | Brock Bowers  | Kept 2025 | | 8 | Bhayshul Tuten | | | 9 | Nick Chubb | | | 11 | Tyjae Spears | | | Big Mack Attack | | | | 4 | D’Andre Swift | | | 5 | Chris Olave | | | 6 | Travis Kelce | | | 7 | Cam Skattebo | | | 8 | Keon Coleman | | | 11 | Tyrone Tracy Jr.  | Kept 2025 | | 12 | Trevor Lawrence | | | 13 | Kyle Williams | | | 15 | Elic Ayomanor | | | Moridwon (Hamlet) | | | | 3 | Tetairoa McMillan | | | 4 | Jameson Williams | | | 6 | Dak Prescott | | | 8 | Justin Herbert  | Kept 2025 | | 9 | Quinshon Judkins | | | 10 | Zach Charbonnet  | Kept 2025 | | 11 | Brenton Strange | | | 12 | Chris Rodriguez Jr. | | | 13 | Packers | | | 14 | Pat Bryant | | | Fourth & Nineteen | | | | 3 | Garrett Wilson | | | 5 | Rome Odunze | | | 6 | Deebo Samuel | | | 7 | Rhamondre Stevenson | | | 8 | Kyle Pitts Sr. | | | 10 | Jordan Mason  | Kept 2025 | | 12 | Blake Corum | | | 14 | Texans | | | 15 | Harold Fannin Jr. | | | 16 | Jaxson Dart | | | Disgruntled Goats | | | | 3 | RJ Harvey | | | 4 | David Montgomery | | | 6 | Stefon Diggs | | | 9 | Caleb Williams | | | Nine Inch Neils | | | | 3 | George Pickens | | | 4 | DeVonta Smith | | | 6 | Travis Etienne Jr. | | | 7 | Eagles | | | 8 | Chris Godwin Jr. | | | 9 | Tyler Allgeier | | | 10 | Brandon Aiyuk | | | 11 | Jared Goff | | | 12 | Drake Maye  | Kept 2025 | | Exploding Pancakes | | | | 4 | DK Metcalf | | | 5 | Jaxon Smith-Njigba  | Kept 2025 | | 6 | Brock Purdy | | | 9 | Colston Loveland | | | 10 | Trey Benson | | | 13 | Jaylin Noel | | | 14 | Brandon Aubrey | | | 16 | Trevor Etienne | | ---
**Author:** ![Wilson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@Wilson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wilson)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2026, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-hate-me-fantasy-football-2026-year-24/1031985/5 "2026-07-28T21:47:33Z")
We also need to think about draft date. We’ve usually done the Tuesday the day after labor day, which does create some issues with trying to get waiver claims in before Thursday night’s game. However this year we of course now have Wednesday night games - the season opens on Wednesday the 9th. Do we want to move the draft up? Or leave it as Tuesday the 8th, and owners will have to plan around the Wednesday night and Thursday night games? ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2026, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-hate-me-fantasy-football-2026-year-24/1031985/6 "2026-07-29T01:01:31Z")
5 players who went through the whole draft-kept-kept cycle seems crazy low to me, as it does most years. It seems like valuable 3 year keepers should be more common. The loss of Achane is going to hurt, he was a significant part of my two championship runs. It’s hard to get a running back drafting at the end of the first. You can post polls in this forum now, so if you’d rather turn your second post into a poll, I’d do that now before most people weigh in, but my preference is #2 – that’s our current system, right? Playing each other team once feels elegant, and I prefer the 6 team playoffs in a 14 man league. I think trying to sneak an extra game in there risks having the championship having too many resting players and the only upside is one more game of regular season time and I personally think 13 games is enough. I’m flexible on draft date, we don’t have to compete with other SDMB league drafts like we used to, but I wouldn’t worry too much about the wednesday and thursday night games. Not that many people use post-draft waivers, and I think it would only affect players playing in those games in particular but I may be misremembering how the early games affect the post-draft waivers. It may be that it prevents you from getting a waiver from one of those games before they play - if that happens, they get rolled up into the normal post game waiver system. We’ve been drafting the Tuesday after labor day that I bet a bunch of people deliberately clear their calendars ahead of it and I think that’s easier. But I don’t feel very strongly about this one. ---
**Author:** ![Wilson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@Wilson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wilson)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2026, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-hate-me-fantasy-football-2026-year-24/1031985/7 "2026-07-29T15:33:25Z")
#1 is our current setting - 14 week regular season; three weeks of playoffs (#1 and #2 seeds get byes in week 15); championship game week 17, nothing in week 18. I agree that only 5 players who can’t be kept again seems low, it was 9 last year. I checked, and there were only 7 players kept in 2025 that were also kept in 2024. One was Chuba Hubbard, who was kept in the second round last year so is doubly ineligible; and another was Sam LaPorta, who wasn’t on Omni’s final roster. The other five are the ones who I listed as not eligible to be kept again. Not sure what the low # means - are we all valuing potential keepers too high when drafting, and therefore they can’t be kept twice? Or do we just suck at identifying sleepers? ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2026, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-hate-me-fantasy-football-2026-year-24/1031985/8 "2026-08-01T03:09:58Z")
For some reason, I’m not finding an invite in my email or a renewal on my fantasy page. If you get a chance, please send me a link or whatever is easiest to get me back into this God forsaken horrorshow. This is the only league that, in my 25+ years of fantasy football, I have never won. It’s my white whale. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2026, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-hate-me-fantasy-football-2026-year-24/1031985/9 "2026-08-01T11:24:49Z")
“Call me Ishamlet.” ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2026, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-hate-me-fantasy-football-2026-year-24/1031985/10 "2026-08-01T14:40:09Z")
10/10. No notes. ---
**Author:** ![Wilson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@Wilson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wilson)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2026, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-hate-me-fantasy-football-2026-year-24/1031985/11 "2026-08-03T17:02:35Z")
@Hamlet , your email is [DaBears4EvaILoveDitka@aol.com](mailto:DaBears4EvaILoveDitka@aol.com), right? ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2026, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-hate-me-fantasy-football-2026-year-24/1031985/12 "2026-08-03T17:04:57Z")
That’s my spare. My real email is WilsonsmomishotAFamiright@nokarmaplease.edu ---
**Author:** ![Gosportsgang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/fbc32d/32.png) [@Gosportsgang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gosportsgang)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2026, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-hate-me-fantasy-football-2026-year-24/1031985/13 "2026-08-18T05:13:22Z")
Hi. I’m Weird Dave’s friend that he brought into the league a few years ago. He can’t post here, so he asked me to. Neither of us have received an invite to the league, could you please resend the link to both of us? Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Wilson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@Wilson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wilson)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2026, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-hate-me-fantasy-football-2026-year-24/1031985/14 "2026-08-18T17:36:41Z")
I’ve re-set the invites for both you and Dave. If you don’t get them, email me directly at paulm17 at yahoo dot com please! ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2026, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-hate-me-fantasy-football-2026-year-24/1031985/15 "2026-08-19T19:12:14Z")
Tentative Keepers: Chris Olave - 3rd Cam Skettebo - 5th Trevor Lawrence - 10th What’s the draft order again? ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2026, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-hate-me-fantasy-football-2026-year-24/1031985/16 "2026-08-20T03:23:18Z")
I’ll be keeping Jaxon Smith-Njigba in the 3rd Colston Loveland in the 7th I see 13/14 - who are we missing? ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2026, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-hate-me-fantasy-football-2026-year-24/1031985/17 "2026-08-20T14:00:53Z")
I’ll be keeping: Brock Bowers (4) Bhayshul Tuten (6) ---
**Author:** ![Spiritus\_Mundi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Spiritus\_Mundi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiritus_Mundi)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2026, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-hate-me-fantasy-football-2026-year-24/1031985/18 "2026-08-21T13:20:56Z")
Keepers: - Kyle Monangai (11) - Christian Watson (14) ---
**Author:** ![Frosted\_Glass](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frosted_glass/32/3926_2.png) [@Frosted\_Glass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frosted_Glass)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2026, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-hate-me-fantasy-football-2026-year-24/1031985/19 "2026-08-21T14:12:02Z")
Keepers: Bo Nix (9) Cameron Dicker (13) ---
**Author:** ![motu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/motu/32/259_2.png) [@motu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/motu)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2026, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-hate-me-fantasy-football-2026-year-24/1031985/20 "2026-08-21T14:25:54Z")
Keeping Caleb Williams (7th) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-hate-me-fantasy-football-2026-year-24/1031985.md?page=2)