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The full rundown on Offseason: League HQ for your Yahoo fantasy league, and the best part of fantasy football. If it's not covered here, email support@offseason.org and we'll answer that too.

Section 01

Getting started

What is Offseason?

A free League HQ for your Yahoo fantasy league. You follows your team and weekly matchup. The League holds standings, every matchup, searchable history, the Record Book, Almanac, Wire, and Charter. Trade handles deals. The Historian gives your questions their own home.

Why is it called Offseason?

Because the best part of fantasy football is the offseason. The season itself is mostly injuries, bye weeks, and the points you left on your bench. Offseason keeps all of it on the record: the lowest scores, the most points in a loss, the last-place finishes, the draft busts. Years of bad decisions, finally organized. And when the season ends, the Offseason begins.

Is this gambling?

No. There is no money anywhere in Offseason: nothing to deposit, nothing to wager, and no payouts. The only currency here is league context and receipts.

What do I need to get started?

An Offseason account and access to a league already in the product. Members can join from one commish invite without connecting Yahoo themselves. New Yahoo imports are temporarily limited while access is being restored.

What does it cost?

Nothing. Offseason is free, with no premium tier. Every member of your league gets the whole toolkit. It's a passion project from a league commissioner, for people who'd rather settle the debate than just argue about it.

How long does setup take?

Creating an account is quick. Joining an existing league takes one invite link. A first league import depends on how much history the platform makes available and is temporarily limited while Yahoo access is being restored.

Do I need an account?

You can read public shared results and try a practice mock draft without an account. To access your league and keep your work across devices, sign in with an email and password. You do not need to connect Yahoo personally to join an existing league.

What platforms is Offseason on?

The web at offseason.org works on phone, tablet, and desktop. The iPhone and iPad app is in active development but is not publicly distributed yet. Android has not started, so we do not advertise it as available.

Section 02

The toolkit

How does the mock draft know my leaguemates?

Every seat is a persona built from what that manager actually did in your league's real drafts: which positions they take early, how far past a player's draft slot they'll reach, and how they treat keepers. The more completed draft history a league has, the more evidence its personas can use. Your keepers are pre-applied and traded picks are honored, so the board looks like your board. Everyone in the league sees the same personas, including their own, and every persona is built only from real stored facts.

How does the Trade Machine actually work?

Two data planes feed a seven-layer engine: your league's own scoring and roster rules, your actual waiver pool, trade-derived market values, and 500 paired season simulations by default when enough data is available. It also models the counterparty from your league's real transaction history, so it tells you whether they're likely to say yes. Historical scoring was validated in July 2026 at 0% median error across 3,401 player-weeks from the reference league's completed 2025 season. That is a scoring reconstruction check, not a prediction accuracy claim. The full method is in the whitepaper.

What does the Keeper Advisor tell me?

Whether each keeper beats its round cost, priced against your league's own settings and draft board rather than a generic ranking. It shows the eligible list, the cost, and the honest verdict before the deadline, so the decision is math instead of vibes.

How deep does the record book go?

As deep as the imported data allows. Standings and champions from every synced season, all-time head-to-head records, the highest and lowest scores, last-place finishes, keeper history, and a draft report card for every manager, every available year.

Which fantasy platforms work? What about ESPN?

Imported Yahoo league data is the supported production path today. New Yahoo imports are temporarily limited while access is being restored. Sleeper and ESPN are not publicly supported yet, and we will not claim they are until their complete import and identity paths are ready.

Is my league data safe?

The Yahoo connection is read-only. Offseason reads your league and never writes anything back to Yahoo: no lineup changes, no trades, no roster moves. Your league's data stays inside your league here, we never sell or rent it, and unlinking Yahoo cuts the connection. The full breakdown is in the privacy policy.

Can my leaguemates see what the tools tell me?

Only when you post or share it. Mocks, trade verdicts, and Historian answers are yours until you choose to share them. Selected results can become public links or receipts for your group chat. The exception is the stuff that was already public in your league: the record book, The Wire's waiver history, and mock personas are built from facts everyone can see, so everyone sees the same version.

Is every tool free?

There is no premium tier or per-tool purchase. Member tools are available to the whole league; administrative controls appear only for the commish.

Section 03

Leagues & commish

How do I create a league?

New public league imports are temporarily limited while Yahoo access is being restored. For a league already in Offseason, the commish can open league settings, copy an invite link, and share it with the group. Invitees do not need their own Yahoo connection.

How many people can join? Can I be in several leagues?

Leagues support up to 100 members, and you can join as many leagues as you want: the fantasy league, the office league, the family league. Each league keeps its own week, tools, and history.

What does the commissioner actually do?

Not much, by design. The commish connects the league, shares the invite link, manages members, and can turn on the optional extras like The Gazette. The tools run themselves, and every member gets the same access.

Does Offseason replace my fantasy platform?

No. Your league keeps running where it runs. Offseason sits alongside it as the league's HQ: the record book, the tools, and the artifacts you post into it. We read from Yahoo and never write back.

Can I leave a league?

Ask your commish to remove you, or, if you linked your own Yahoo account, unlinking it removes you from every Yahoo league at once. Your history stays in the record book for the league you leave. A one-league leave option is on the list.

How much work is it for the commish?

Almost none, and that's the point. One connection, one invite link, and the toolkit is live for everybody. If you can run a group chat, you can run an Offseason league.

Section 04

Account & privacy

I forgot my password. What now?

Use "Forgot password?" on the sign-in page and we'll email you a reset link. Standard stuff, no special recovery dance required.

Can I change my username?

Not in-app yet. If you need to change your username (say it has personal info you want removed), email support@offseason.org and we'll take care of it.

What data do you collect? Do you sell it?

Just what we need to run your account and league: email, a hashed password, your username, imported league data, and the content or tool artifacts you choose to create. We never sell, rent, or license it. League data is visible within that league, and anything you deliberately publish by share link is visible to people with the link. Service providers that keep the platform running are covered in the privacy policy.

Are there ads?

No. Offseason is funded by the people who built it. If that ever changes, we'll be upfront about it here first.

Section 05

Technical

My league didn't sync.

Make sure you're signed in to Yahoo as a manager in that league, then retry from league settings. If the app says syncing is paused, retrying cannot restore Yahoo access; your imported history remains safe. Otherwise give a first sync time to finish, then email us the league name so we can inspect it.

My league's history looks incomplete.

Offseason pulls every season Yahoo still exposes for your league. If a year is missing, it's usually one Yahoo no longer serves through the API, or a season that ran on a different platform. Email us the league and the missing year and we'll tell you which it is.

A number from one of the tools looks wrong.

Tell us. Every number traces back to the data that produced it, so send the tool, the league, and what you expected to support@offseason.org and we'll trace it. The scoring engine self-calibrates against your league's own settled results, so a real mismatch is a bug worth finding.

Will I get reminders (keeper deadlines, draft day)?

Not yet. There is no notification system today, so nothing is sent by push or email. Deadlines show in the app. Reminders are on the roadmap.

Found a bug. How do I report it?

Email support@offseason.org with the steps to reproduce and a screenshot if you can. We read every report and usually respond within a day or two.

Section 06

Current focus

What are you building now?

A reliable fantasy league HQ: your current team and matchup, leaguewide standings and scores, searchable history, roster and keeper planning, trade analysis, the Wire, Almanac, and Charter.

Why keep the product focused?

Your league's live data has to be correct before anything else matters. We are improving sync coverage and the core tools before adding another game.

Will old league history remain?

Yes. Fantasy seasons, champions, matchups, drafts, records, and manager history are core league data and remain available under The League.

Will Offseason eventually go beyond fantasy football?

That is still the long-term direction: optional year-round competitions a league chooses for itself, with shared standings and receipts. It is not part of today's product promise and will stay labeled as future until ready.

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