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Long Branch, NJ

Developing a live franchise-style fantasy football platform and using this round to expand marketing and product capabilities for the next season.

• GM-style franchise gameplay: The platform simulates an NFL general manager, with users managing contracts, salary caps, and roster decisions across seasons.
• Live franchise leagues since 2025: A live product launched in 2025 supports active franchise leagues with year-round participation.
• Strategy embedded in season mechanics: Key systems include multi-year contracts, keeper mechanics, pre-season auctions, and keep or drop and extend or drop decisions.
• Game-day automation and fair playoffs: Automated injury substitutions and round-robin playoffs are designed to reward sustained performance.
• College football draft pipeline: A college football draft workflow lets leagues build talent pipelines before players transition to the NFL.

Franchise League Football is raising a community round to expand marketing, enhance the product, and prepare for a major second season. The company runs a live fantasy sports platform that simulates an NFL general manager, shifting play from annual resets to multi-year franchise management. Users make long-term roster decisions by managing contracts, salary caps, and player moves across multiple seasons. The platform launched in 2025 and supports active franchise leagues. The funding is meant to scale acquisition and retention by improving league onboarding, strengthening live operations, and building tooling for year-round gameplay. The approach brings entire leagues into the system to sustain multi-season engagement.

Built over more than two decades by MIT-trained fantasy football players, the format was stress-tested through live league play before software development. Renee Miller, PhD and David Sukoff shaped the platform around multi-year contracts, keeper mechanics, and salary constraints that reward planning over time. The product keeps a familiar game-day flow while focusing strategy on year-round actions, including pre-season auctions, keep and drop decisions, extend and drop roster moves, automated injury substitutions, and round-robin playoffs meant to reward sustained performance. It also supports college football via a draft workflow that helps leagues build talent pipelines ahead of player transitions to the NFL. The second season build uses these mechanics to strengthen onboarding and retention and to expand league-format iterations.

Company Info

Franchise League Football provides a live, franchise-style fantasy sports platform with multi-year contracts, salary caps, and GM-like roster decisions.

Franchise League Football operates a live fantasy sports platform that simulates the role of an NFL general manager. League managers manage multi-year contracts, salary caps, and roster decisions without seasonal resets, carrying cap constraints and player outcomes forward. Gameplay keeps a familiar game-day feel while adding structured decision points such as keep and drop actions and automatic injury substitutions.

A proprietary format developed over more than 20 years by MIT-trained fantasy players underpins the system. Players are acquired through preseason blind auctions using contract values, supported by keeper mechanics and extend or release workflows. The platform also offers a college football draft to build long-term talent pipelines and uses round-robin playoffs to reward sustained performance across weeks.