Fantasy Football 2026

Running the contest — Mike's guide

Everything you need is on the Mike Admin tab. Nothing you do there is published to participants until you press Publish reviewed games.

Every Monday — the weekly routine

The site pulls the finished week automatically at 6:00 AM Eastern every Monday. You do not need to fetch anything. Open Mike Admin and you should see a panel like “Week of Sept 7 — 72 relevant games found, 72 scores loaded, 18 involving AP-ranked teams, Ready for review.”

1. Click “Review week N.” The game list loads showing only games involving one of your 138 contest teams — not the several hundred CFBD returns.
2. Check the AP ranks. They are filled in for you from the AP poll that was in effect that week. Change any box if you disagree; blank means unranked. Only games with a ranked team affect the AP bonus, and the AP-ranked games only filter shows just those.
3. Click “Publish reviewed games.” Scores, AP ranks and standings all update at once.
4. Spot-check the Standings tab. Set Team pts: this week and confirm the week looks sane before you tell anyone.

If the Monday pull did not run, or you want a week early, use Fetch week (type the week number first) or Stage week now. Both are safe — neither publishes.

Fixing a score that was wrong

Re-fetch the week, correct the number, and publish again. The system replaces that game's points rather than adding them a second time, so republishing the same week as many times as you like will never double anyone's score. Every change is written to the audit log.

Postponed, canceled and unplayed games

Games that have not finished are held out automatically and listed under “Pending / postponed — not scored.” They score nothing until they are actually played, which is what you want — a postponed game is not a 0–0.

If a game is called off for good and your rules say it counts as an unplayed 0–0, that has to be set deliberately. Ask Bryce — there is no button for it yet.

AP rankings

Once a week is published its AP ranks are frozen. A later poll can never reach back and change a score you already published. If you genuinely need to change a published rank, that is a forced correction — ask Bryce, and it will be recorded in the audit log.

If the ranking feed is ever unavailable you will see a warning and the boxes will be blank. Do not publish in that state unless you enter the ranks by hand, or the AP bonuses for that week will be missing.

The 11 ownership items

Mike Admin → 2026 Entry Ownership Review. These are entries the import was not certain about: a missing email address, a best-guess name match, or a shared entry. Nothing is broken — the entries score normally either way. For each one:

• Assign — set the real person and email for the entry.
• Co-owner — give a second person access to the same entry (Brett Vann / Matt Clair).
• Correct — the current setup is already right; clear the flag.

Resolving one never rebuilds or rescores the roster, and every resolution is logged. The count in the tab label goes down as you work through them.

Inviting participants

Do this only once the scoring has been checked against your spreadsheet.

• Generate setup links for all inactive entrants — one link per person, shown on screen.
• Download setup-link CSV — the same thing as a spreadsheet for a mail merge.
• Generate setup/reset link — one person who lost their password. Put your own email in here to reset your own.

Setup links expire 7 days after you create them, and generating new ones invalidates any you sent earlier. Create them the day you actually send the invitations, not before.

Checking the numbers against your spreadsheet

On Standings: Export standings CSV gives rank, Aug/Sep, October, November, season and points behind. Export scoring detail CSV gives one row per game per entry — every win/loss adjustment, point differential, shutout and AP bonus.

To chase a single disagreement, click any team name anywhere in the site. It shows every game that team played for that entry and how each one scored, adding up to exactly the number in the column you clicked.

Safe to do any time

• Fetch or stage a week, and look at anything — none of it is visible to participants.
• Publish the same week again after a correction.
• Recalculate week — rebuilds that week from the stored games; cannot duplicate points.
• Generate a reset link for anyone, including yourself.

Be deliberate about these

• Lock week — blocks further changes to that week. Use it once you are happy.
• Generate setup links — invalidates links you already sent.
• Load 2026 entries if needed — only for a rebuild from scratch. The entries are already loaded; it does nothing while they exist, but there is no reason to press it.

Ask Bryce for

• Finalizing a canceled game as an unplayed 0–0.
• Changing an AP rank on an already-published week.
• Correcting a roster or a trade after the fact.
• Archiving the season at the end of the year.
• Anything that looks wrong in a way this guide does not cover — the audit log records everything, so mistakes are traceable and fixable.

One thing worth knowing

A “week” here is Monday to Sunday Eastern, your contest week. The college football data feed numbers its weeks differently — its “week 1” for 2026 covers Aug 27 through Sep 7, which is three of your weeks. Every week selector on this site uses your weeks, with the dates shown next to them, so what you see should line up with your spreadsheet.