My favorite league format for many years now is Deep Dynasty/Legacy formats. 10 team, start 2QB, 2RB, 3WR, 2TE, 2Flex, 2K, 2Def, 15Bench. I play these online at DataForce FF and don't know anyone in the leagues personally, though I do see some of the same team owners appear in multiple leagues that I'm in so there appears to be a group of regulars that I am apart of. Some are best ball and some are weekly lineups. Depending on which of those it is will alter the draft strategy a bit. At any rate, all positions have value and some positions are really scarce like QB to the point that even some back up QBs in the NFL are rostered in this format. Also, QB and TE get a bigger boost in value in this format and the waiver wire is also usually pretty bare. If you want to fill holes, you're probably going to have to trade and I do usually see a lot of trades in this format through out the year, but not always.

I find the overall dynamics in this format more fun than standard formats. With deep rosters leading to more trades, the ability (or rather, necessity) to roster deep sleepers you might not otherwise bother with, added draft strategy variations and complexity, player and positional values entering more of a gray area or at least being more situational at times in their trade values, depth being as important if not more so than starter strength, etc. I still play in a few friends and family leagues that are of the standard redraft variety and I find them quite boring by comparison and I contemplate dropping out of them every year and probably will at some point. I've always wanted to start a local league of hardcore FF friends with a live, local draft using my preferred deep format, and I've posed it to a few people in years past, but have never gotten around to actually doing it. I'd ideally like to have my annual rookie drafts occur the week prior to the NFL draft to make things really interesting and force people to do their research and watch highlights on their own and form their own opinions and then see some rookie player values change dramatically after the NFL draft.

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