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How to Make a Midseason Switch to Sleeper
How to Make a Midseason Switch to Sleeper

How to move to Sleeper from other platforms (Fantrax, FPL, etc)

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Written by Sleeper HQ
Updated over 4 months ago

So you've heard that Sleeper is pretty awesome and you want to make the switch midseason. You've had enough of wasting your time on another platform.

We don't blame you! There's no need to wait until the offseason to make the switch.

Transitioning your fantasy league to Sleeper could take a little time to get everything moved over and set up, but it's completely worth it !

Here is a step-by-step process on how to make the switch:

Download Sleeper

Yes, as obvious as it sound, this is the first step needed : https://sleeper.com/download

Create A League

Once you have signed up and logged in to your Sleeper account, you'll want to create a brand new league. Give your league a name, and choose your League Size (number of participants) the but hold off on inviting any of your league mates just yet.

Settings

Customize and update the league settings, scoring settings, and roster settings by tapping on the settings icon top right of the screen.

You will still be able to edit your league settings at any time during the season.

Once you are done with your settings, you're ready for the next step.

View Your Draftboard

Tap the Mock button to enter your mock draftboard!

Even though you're not about to have an actual draft, you're going to mimic one in order to get your players entered.

Make sure you do not actually begin the draft.

You will need to use each column for a specific team, so you'll have to keep track of which team is which.

Ready ? You can start manually assigning players to each team:
- Click on an individual draft pick tile

- Choose the Manually Set Player option

- Search for a player and tap Draft button

Once you're done with all the draft picks, your draftboard will look complete, something like this:

Once you have entered all of the players, you'll want to go to the settings icon in the top right and tap Convert to League. This will validate the mock draft teams, and you're now ready to invite your friends !

Invite Your Friends

Now that you have all of the teams entered, you'll want to get all of your leaguemates into the league.

You can use the invite link to invite them.

Your league's custom invite URL can be accessed via your league General Settings, through the Invite option.

You can share this link with your friends through whichever means most convenient (i.e., email, text, social media), and the recipient of the link will automatically get dropped into the league!

Assign Users to Teams

At this point, you have all of your teams ready to go, and all of your leaguemates in the league. Now, you just have to attach them to the proper team.

Go to your league settings and tap on Members settings.

You'll see each of the teams listed with an option to add on the right of each. Tap on that and assign the appropriate user to each team.

Once all of the teams are matched with their respective owners, your league is officially set up!

The next step is optional.

If you would like to have all scores & records updated from the start of the regular season until the current week, read on to the next step. Otherwise, your league's scoring will start from this point on.

Updating Scores & Records

The commissioner can use their powers to retroactively score any week of the season, including prior to the league creation.

To do this, go to your league settings, and then find Edit Matchup Scores option. From here you can then create scores for the past weeks.

When you are done making changes, tap the Recalculate All Matchup Scores for Week button and the scores will be refreshed.

It's possible that your league records may not reflect this change immediately. The records will update on their own when they re-sync automatically overnight.

Enjoy!

That's it! You can now start playing fantasy football on Sleeper. We're thrilled to have you and your leaguemates on board, and we want to thank you for trying us out.

If you have any questions about anything, please feel free to check out our Support Center or send us an email at any time to [email protected].

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