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THE RULEBOOK

Everything a commissioner or manager runs into on Sleeper: trades and vetoes, waivers and formats, running side games, juggling multiple leagues, and how we handle your data.

Getting Started

What fantasy platforms does Armchair Commish support?

Armchair Commish supports Sleeper league imports. Connect using your Sleeper username to bring in rosters, matchups, and weekly scores. ESPN and Yahoo imports are not available. Your league stays on Sleeper, while Armchair Commish adds side games and league views. Participants create Armchair Commish accounts to access the connected league and submit picks.

Pro Tip

You only need your Sleeper username to start. No app install and no password.

How do I connect my Sleeper league?

You connect by entering your Sleeper username. There's no password and no app to install. Sleeper exposes league data through a public, read-only connection, so linking is a lookup, not a login handoff. You then choose which of your Sleeper leagues to bring in, and standings, matchups, and side games populate from that league's real data. Armchair Commish only ever reads your league; it never posts, trades, or edits anything on your behalf.

Do I have to invite my league before I can try it?

No. Sign up, link your Sleeper league, and look around on your own first. Standings, matchups, power rankings, and head-to-head history fill in for every team in the league straight from Sleeper, so nobody else has to sign up before you can see it running on your real league. Invite your leaguemates from Settings when you're ready for them to make picks. Pick'em and Survivor are the only parts that need other people, and only once you want a real contest rather than a preview.

Pro Tip

Not ready to sign up at all? The demo league at /demo needs no account.

Do you store my Sleeper password?

No. Armchair Commish never asks for or stores your Sleeper password. Sleeper makes league data readable through a public connection keyed to your username, so there is no credential to hand over and nothing on your account we could change. We read rosters, matchups, and scores to build your dashboards; we never write back to your league. That read-only design is deliberate: even if your Armchair Commish login were compromised, there is no path from it to changing your Sleeper roster, submitting a waiver, or accepting a trade, because those actions simply are not something the connection can perform.

How much does Armchair Commish cost?

Nothing. Armchair Commish is free for every league, with every feature, through the end of the 2026 season. There is no card to enter and nothing to cancel. The founding cohort is closed; new leagues can still join and use the 2026 offer. If we ever introduce paid tiers, we will say so well ahead of time, founding leagues get the better rate, and nothing will ever start charging you automatically.

Will my league need to download another app or switch platforms?

No. Your league stays exactly where it is. Armchair Commish sits on top of your existing Sleeper league rather than replacing it. Your leaguemates open one invite link in the browser and sign in; there is nothing to install and nothing to configure, because the commissioner is the only person who ever sets anything up. Rosters, matchups, and standings flow in from the league you already run, so nobody re-enters a thing, and if you stop using Armchair Commish tomorrow, your Sleeper league is untouched.

Can I connect more than one league?

Yes. Link as many leagues as you want and switch between them from the top navigation. Each league keeps its own standings, Pick'em, Survivor, and records, scoped per league rather than merged into one table, so switching leagues swaps the whole context to that league's data. It puts every league you play in or commission behind a single login.

Side Games in Your League

Can I run a survivor pool inside my Sleeper league?

Yes. Armchair Commish Survivor uses your league's fantasy matchups. Pick one fantasy team each week; an unsuccessful pick costs a strike. Pools support single or double elimination, and new pools default to double elimination. Team reuse, ties, missed picks, and the title tiebreak follow the chosen pool rules. League members can start a pool, and results are processed from the linked league.

Can I run a Pick'em pool alongside my Sleeper league?

Yes. Armchair Commish's Pick'em asks members to predict the winner of each head-to-head matchup in your league every week, laid out as a consensus matrix that shows where the league agrees and where opinions split. It runs alongside the normal season as a second game with its own bragging rights, and it scores itself automatically from your league's real fantasy results. The matrix is the part managers actually argue over: seeing that most of the league picked against you is its own motivation, and the running tally of who forecasts best becomes a season-long subplot separate from the standings.

What is Ghost League?

Think of Ghost League as a best ball-style replay of your Sleeper league: it freezes Week 1 rosters and automatically counts each team's best eligible lineup every week, with no separate draft or start/sit decisions. Later trades and waiver moves do not change those rosters. Compare the replay with your real results to see the combined effect of roster changes and lineup decisions. A league member can activate it for the league; scoring depends on available historical data.

Can I run Guillotine alongside my existing Sleeper league?

Yes. Armchair Commish Guillotine uses your existing fantasy lineups and weekly scores for a separate elimination contest. Lower-scoring surviving teams receive strikes according to an adaptive cut schedule. Single elimination removes a team on its first strike; double elimination on its second. No separate weekly picks are needed, and elimination does not remove your team or its players from Sleeper.

How is this different from Sleeper's own Survivor and Pick'em?

Sleeper's native Survivor and Pick'em games are about the NFL. You pick NFL teams to survive or NFL game winners. Armchair Commish's Survivor and Pick'em run over your fantasy league itself: you pick your league's fantasy teams and predict your league's fantasy matchups. They're a different competition layered on the league you already play in, tied to your leaguemates' weekly results rather than to the NFL slate.

Do side games keep eliminated managers interested?

Side games give managers another competition to follow when their main fantasy team is out of playoff contention. Pick'em offers weekly predictions and its own standings. Survivor gives participants a separate run until they reach the pool's strike limit. These games can add reasons to return, but they do not guarantee engagement or keep eliminated Survivor participants in that pool.

Does Armchair Commish handle the money for side pots?

No. Armchair Commish runs and scores the side games, Survivor and Pick'em, but it doesn't collect dues or move payouts. The money side of any pot stays between managers and their commissioner. What you get is the automation: pools are created, tracked, and scored for you, so you're not maintaining a spreadsheet of who's still alive or who owes what.

Commissioner Toolkit

Can a Sleeper commissioner undo a trade?

Yes. On Sleeper the commissioner has full control over trades: they can veto a trade during the review window, force one through immediately, and even reverse a trade after it has already processed if they judge it a violation. Because that power is discretionary, the healthier setup is to agree the standard in advance. Most leagues reverse only for collusion or a clear error, so a ruling isn't just one competitor overruling another. Trade review itself can be set to process instantly, require commissioner approval, or require a league vote.

Pro Tip

Write your trade-review standard into the constitution before a disputed trade forces the call: "reverse only for collusion or a clear error."

How do I handle a team that gets abandoned mid-season?

An abandoned roster is called an orphan team, and the usual fix is for the commissioner to recruit a replacement manager who takes over the existing roster as-is. The league keeps running; only that one franchise changes hands. Handling it quickly matters because a neglected team stops making waiver and lineup moves, which quietly distorts the standings for everyone still competing for a playoff spot.

Can I fix a lineup a manager forgot to set?

On Sleeper, no, not before kickoff. Only a team's own owner can set their starting lineup during the live week, so a commissioner cannot rescue a manager who forgot to start an active player. After the NFL week finishes a commissioner can retroactively move a bench player into a starting slot, but that tool is meant for correcting scoring errors, not for undoing a missed lineup. The practical takeaway: lineup deadlines are real, so the fix is a reminder before kickoff, not a bail-out after, and whether any retroactive relief is allowed belongs in the constitution.

What can I do about a trade I think is collusion?

Collusion, where two managers conspire to strengthen one roster, is handled through your league's trade-review setting. Leagues generally pick one of three postures: no review, so trades process instantly; commissioner review, where the commissioner can block a trade for collusion or a clear error; or a league vote. The key is agreeing the standard in advance, because vetoing a fair trade just because a rival improved is its own kind of problem.

Where should my league's rules actually live?

Your rules belong in a written league constitution: one document covering scoring, waivers, trade and veto rules, the playoff format, payouts, and penalties. The value is that it turns arguments into lookups: when two managers disagree, you point at a rule everyone accepted before the season instead of ruling as a fellow competitor. Most platforms have nowhere to store this, so it usually lives in a pinned chat message that drifts out of date.

Formats & Settings

What is FAAB, and does Sleeper support it?

FAAB, or Free Agent Acquisition Budget, is a fake-money budget each manager spends to bid on free agents, where the highest blind bid wins the player. Sleeper supports FAAB natively and defaults the budget to $100 per team, which the commissioner can adjust; $0 bids are allowed and unused budget can even be traded. It replaces first-come waiver priority with an auction, so a patient manager can still win a mid-season breakout from the back of the order.

What waiver systems can I choose on Sleeper?

Sleeper offers three waiver systems and the commissioner picks one. Rolling waivers drop you to the bottom of the priority order each time you win a claim. Reverse-standings waivers reset weekly so the lowest-ranked teams get first crack. FAAB replaces priority entirely with blind budget bidding. Each rewards a different behavior, so the choice shapes how aggressively your league chases the wire.

What is a superflex league?

A superflex is a roster slot that can start a quarterback, which in practice means most managers start two QBs each week. That one setting sharply raises quarterback value: with up to twice as many QB starting spots against a shallow supply, passers who go undrafted in standard leagues become weekly starters and the elite ones fly off the board early. It's the highest-leverage way to make quarterbacks matter without touching your scoring system.

What's the difference between a keeper and a dynasty league?

In a keeper league you retain a small, fixed number of players, often two to five, and redraft everyone else in a full draft each year. In a dynasty league you keep your entire roster and only draft rookies and free agents after the initial startup. The practical difference is the offseason: keeper leagues still hold a full draft every year, while dynasty leagues never redraft the veteran pool again.

Does Sleeper support salary-cap or contract leagues?

Not natively. Sleeper's built-in formats cover redraft, keeper, dynasty, superflex, best ball, and auction drafts, but there's no salary-cap or multi-year contract system. Leagues that want that format typically track contracts in a spreadsheet or a third-party tool and treat that as the source of truth alongside their Sleeper rosters. If cap management is central to how your league runs, plan for that external step from the start.

Multiple Leagues & Records

How do I manage multiple Sleeper leagues from one place?

You link each league to Armchair Commish and switch between them from the top navigation. To be clear about what that is and isn't: each league keeps its own standings, side games, and records, and you move between them rather than seeing one merged table. If you play in or commission several leagues, it puts them behind one login instead of separate apps, with each league's full feature set a click away.

Does Armchair Commish keep records across seasons?

Yes. Rather than treating each year as a disconnected league, Armchair Commish groups a league's seasons under one persistent identity, so multi-season standings, head-to-head records, and career reports carry forward. Concretely, a manager's all-time win-loss record, championship count, and rivalry history against each opponent persist year over year instead of resetting every September. That's the difference from most platforms, where starting a new season hands you a fresh league with no memory of who won two years ago or how the rivalry records stand.

What is a parent league?

A parent league is the persistent container that ties your league's individual seasons together under one identity. It owns the league's members and their roles, points at each season's underlying fantasy league, a Sleeper league for example, and is where multi-year records and side games are stored. It's what lets a commissioner run one durable league across years instead of a disconnected pile of yearly ones.

Can I see all-time standings and head-to-head history?

Yes. Because seasons are linked under a parent league, Armchair Commish can show career records, all-time standings, and the head-to-head history between any two managers, plus offseason career reports. The career report, for instance, pulls a manager's best and worst seasons, longest win streaks, and title history onto one page. That's the kind of long-view record that only exists once seasons are stitched together. These are built from your league's real results across every season you've linked, so the deeper your league's history runs, the richer the records get.

Is there a single dashboard across all my leagues at once?

Not today. Armchair Commish shows each league on its own terms and has you switch between them rather than flattening everything into one combined table. Most platforms are similar. Sleeper, for instance, can show a single player's ownership across your leagues, but not a merged dashboard of standings and rosters. A unified cross-league dashboard is the kind of thing that belongs on a roadmap, and we'd rather say so plainly than imply a view that doesn't exist yet.

Account, Data & Privacy

How do you use my fantasy data?

We use your league data to power the features you see and nothing else: standings, matchups, Pick'em, Survivor, and records. We never sell personal data, and rosters are never shared outside your league. Because the connection to Sleeper is read-only, the data flows one way: into your dashboards, never back out as changes to your league. We also don't run ads against your data or assemble a profile of you to sell. The data exists to render your league's own pages and nothing beyond that.

Do you sell my personal data?

No. We do not sell personal data, and we do not share your rosters or league activity outside your own league. Your information is used to run Armchair Commish for you and your leaguemates. If that ever changed it would be a clearly disclosed policy change, not a quiet default. The privacy policy holds the current terms.

How do I delete my account?

Go to Settings and choose “Request account deletion.” A person handles deletions right now, so this records a request rather than removing your account on the spot. We remove your profile and your league memberships. Aggregated league standings stay in place so your league's historical records aren't broken for everyone else. If you change your mind, contact us before the request is actioned. If you'd rather not delete outright, simply leaving a league removes you from it without touching your account, and you can re-link a Sleeper league again at any time.

What happens to my league's history if I leave?

Your personal profile and memberships are removed when you delete your account, but the league's aggregated standings and records remain so the rest of your league keeps its history intact. One person leaving shouldn't erase seasons of shared results. The league's story survives even though your individual account doesn't. If you rejoin later or re-link the same Sleeper league, that shared history is still there waiting, because it was never tied to your individual account in the first place.

Do you handle league dues or payouts?

Not today. Armchair Commish is a companion app, so your league dues stay between you and your commissioner. Built-in payouts are on the roadmap for a future season, but for now the money side of your league runs exactly as it does on Sleeper, and Armchair Commish handles the standings, side games, and records around it.

Still have questions?

Our crew is happy to help you get set up or sort out any league snags.

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