Home League Show - Ep.2 - How to Keep Your Fantasy Football League Engaged All Year!
The Audible
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4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to Episode 2 of the Footballguys Home League Show—your weekly guide to building fun, competitive, and connected fantasy football home leagues. In this episode, hosts Kevin Murray and Joey Wright dive into one of the biggest challenges commissioners and league members face each year: midseason apathy. When the excitement of draft day fades and the standings start to settle, engagement naturally dips. But great leagues—and great commissioners—find ways to keep everyone invested.
In this episode, you'll learn actionable league engagement strategies you can apply right now to bring energy back to your league, strengthen culture, and help every manager feel connected to the season. League of the Week: Greenskeeper Fantasy Football League (Papa Staskiel) We spotlight the Greenskeeper Fantasy Football League, led by FFU Commissioner of the Year Papa Staskiel—a league that has mastered creativity and connection. From destination drafts and driving-range Tin Cup themes to live waiver-wire auction streams, rule-roulette systems, and a 400-rule submission tradition, this league has built a legacy grounded in chaos, fun, and unforgettable memories. A perfect example of what home leagues can become when creativity and community take the lead.
Home League Huddle: Engagement Strategies That Work Kevin and Joey break down the core elements that keep a league thriving during the season of apathy, including:
• The commissioner as leader
• Creating bonding events and shared experiences
• Bringing entertainment into league culture
• Maintaining strong communication
• Enhancing league stories, rivalries, and narrative hooks
• Adding awards, achievements, and things to compete for beyond wins and losses Through newsletters, podcasts, league websites, social channels, and group chats, your league can build a communication ecosystem that fosters connection week after week. Communication Channels That Elevate Your League
• League chat strategies (engagement prompts, polls, reactions, threads)
• Social media channels for league branding and hype
• Newsletters to recap big moments, rivalries, and weekly awards
• Podcasts to highlight league culture and manager personalities
• League websites to archive history, trophies, stats, and traditions When communication flows, engagement follows.
Last Place Lounge This week, Kevin and Joey discuss listener-submitted last-place punishments and ask: "What are your favorite last-place punishments you've ever seen?"
A full deep-dive episode on punishments is coming soon—but here we get a fun preview.
Commish Hotline + Mailbag Have a question, story, idea, or league dilemma? Send it in! Kevin and Joey invite commissioners and league members to submit questions, voice messages, and stories for future episodes.
Your league could be featured next. Email: [email protected]
The Culture of Fantasy | Commissioner's Call to Action Kevin and Joey close the episode with a reflection on the deeper meaning of fantasy football and challenge you to take one actionable step this week to improve your league's engagement and connection. "Our goal is simple: help you raise the bar, one tradition, one idea, one connection at a time."
If you enjoy the show, hit subscribe, leave a review, and share the episode with your league.
This is The Home League Show—your guide to elevating your league and keeping the heart of fantasy football beating strong.
Links & Resources:
Footballguys Website https://www.footballguys.com
The Commissioner's Playbook (by Kevin Murray) https://amzn.to/4nT7AvC
The Audible https://www.footballguys.com/podcasts/show/theaudible
The FBG Fantasy Football Show https://www.footballguys.com/podcasts/show/fbgffshow
The FBG Dynasty Show https://www.footballguys.com/podcasts/show/dynastyshow
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the football guys home league show episode two. I am Joey. Kevin is here with us as well as he will be for every episode going forth. |
| 0:10.0 | We're so excited to be doing the show together. If you didn't get to check out our first episode, please hop over to the home league show YouTube channel, like and subscribe over there. |
| 0:18.9 | We go through everything. We lay out our mission |
| 0:21.8 | statement for the show, what we're planning on doing. Super important. You watch that first |
| 0:25.1 | episode so you know what's going on here today. This show is about commissioning. It's also about |
| 0:29.9 | community. One of the best ways to get involved in the community with football guys. Hop over to the |
| 0:35.3 | Discord. Hop over to the, and we will put those links |
| 0:38.3 | in the video description. Kevin, how are you doing today? Can you lay out? What are we going to be |
| 0:44.2 | going through today? Well, I'm doing great, first of all. And yes, if people want to get involved, |
| 0:49.0 | you know, again, pick up that phone, send us some audio files. Send us some mail. |
| 0:54.5 | This mailbox is empty right now. |
| 0:56.1 | I'm holding the mailbox. It's a football guy's mailbox. It's empty because we haven't had any mail yet because we haven't asked for it. But it's here. We're asking for it. We want you to send us questions, concerns for your league. We want to send, we want us, we want you to send us inspiration, |
| 1:12.6 | like videos, things you're doing to make your league special. Because again, that's what this |
| 1:16.6 | show is about. It's about, you know, elevating the fantasy experience, making every home league |
| 1:21.3 | out there that we can find better through inspiration, through fun ideas, creative ideas. |
| 1:26.5 | We want to share those ideas so that |
| 1:28.1 | that we can make this game better. We can grow this game because we want more people playing |
| 1:33.4 | this fantasy football game because it's so much fun, right? And the culture, the community of |
| 1:38.5 | a fantasy football league, it's special in a world where we need connection. Fantasy football |
| 1:43.4 | brings so much of that so we're going to |
| 1:45.2 | talk today about league engagement right this is a topic that we can we can talk about it forever and |
| 1:51.5 | we will continue to talk about it you know throughout the rest of the season through the off |
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