I've been commissioning the same league for 6 years and our group chat dies every year by week 7 and nobody sets their lineup - so me and a dev built something to try to fix it.
I've been commissioning the same league with my high school friends for 6 years. Same story every year. September hits, everyone's talking trash, the draft gets people fired up, and then somewhere around Week 7 it just dies. Half the guys stop setting their lineups. Nobody talks in the group chat. I'm texting people to remind them to make moves like I'm their babysitter.
Me and my dev friend started building League Desk. Every week it drops a front page story, committee power rankings, and manager specific stories written specifically about your league. Calls out managers by name, tracks rivalries, remembers bad decisions going back years. You can set how cruel the coverage gets.
Example story and full details at leaguedesk.io — first 50 commissioners get the first year completely free. Launching late July for preseason and draft coverage.
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