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2026 Week 2 Awards 🏆

Ah week 2. The week where we start questioning our draft choices, contemplating trades & waiver wire pickups and just praying that we made the right sit/start decisions. Week 2 this year was a doozy when it came to injury. Multiple players went down, significantly in the QB category. Congrats if you survived with a win, and if you didn’t it’s early enough in the season to say “there’s always next week!” Below are our Week 2 Awards:

🏆 Brining MaHome the Bacon Award (Highest Score of the week and Biggest Blowout): Beauty & the Beast Mode (Coral)

🏆 Quarterback Scramble Award (When your QB goes out with noodle arm but you still secure the W): Anakin’s Challenge Flags (Chrisie)

🏆 Just Scrambled (Honorable Effort Award when your highest point players are injured or out): Nacua Matata (Megan Moore)

🏆 Green Eggs and Ham-String you along Award (When your QB is carted off the field with a minor hamstring injury and you still pull off a W): Hakuna Ma-Touchdown (Emily “I’m absolutely dejected over my team’s performance Scheuer)

🏆 Big Sack of Pancakes Award (When your defense is your highest scoring player but you still get the W): To Infinity and Bijan – formerly known as What Teams Are Made Of (Ashley)

Ashley Mazur September 24, 2026 No Comments

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2026 Week 1 Awards 🏆

Week 1 of our 2026 Draft Queens Fantasy Football Season is in the books! That mean’s it’s time for the league’s weekly awards. If you’re new here or need a reminder, these awards are just fun little call outs for teams/managers that had a notable week in some way, shape or form. Think of it like “Who’s Line is it Anyway?” where Ashley makes them up an the trophies don’t matter! Without further ado, here are your Week 1 Draft Queen Awards:

🏆 Rookie Rumble Award (Winning their first ever matchup in the Draft Queens League): Zero to hero (Anna)

🏆 Waddle you mean I lost!? (Honorable Effort Award when your WR basically goose-eggs your 99% chance to win): GoffsPride (Abby)

🏆 Pedal to the Medal Awards (Comeback team of the week from 1% going into MNF to 100% for the W): The Emperor’s New McCrew (Brandy)

🏆 Victory Formation (Battle of the Commish Bishes Winner): Saltana JaSmiNe (Taylor)

🏆 Pessimistic Princess Awards (Highest points and biggest blowout of the week): Hakuna Ma-Touchdown (Emily “I’m absolutely dejected over my team’s performance” Scheuer)

Ashley Mazur September 23, 2026 No Comments

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Draft Strategy Guide

We are less than a week away from the Draft so we thought it would be helpful to share some resources on draft strategy for those that may be more fantasy football-challenged. We’ve also included some articles specific to the 2026 season as every NFL season varies with player status’, offensive schemes (how players are utilized on each team), as well as the overall pool of players in each position. For example: Typical draft strategy 101 would have you thinking that drafting two RBs in the first few rounds is the way to go, but trends may point to the WR pool being more vast than RBs for this season. That fact can completely change how you want to go about drafting players, especially depending on where you’re at in the draft order. There are a lot of factors to think about, but don’t forget that it’s also totally fine to just draft someone based on ~vibes~ alone.

We also wanted to give a friendly reminder that you can do mock drafts through the sleeper app to practice different scenarios. Once you have an idea of your strategy and knowledge of available players, it’s a great idea to test it out via a mock draft. This can help you more easily pivot on draft day if a player you want goes before you have a chance to snag him. Here are a few things to keep in mind when putting together your strategy: be mindful of when bye weeks are (no one wants to open the app to see half their team on a bye that week); it’s a snake draft which means your fist pick and your next pick can be far apart, close together or spaced out depending on where you sit in the draft order; players OUT or on IR can still be picked up during the draft but you may want to do some research on their history and when they are expected to get playing time. With that, take a look at the links we’ve included below for more tips, tricks and strategies for the 2026 season!

2026 Draft Strategy Articles:

https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/49473842/2026-fantasy-football-draft-strategy-how-draft

https://www.fantasypros.com/2026/08/2026-fantasy-football-draft-strategy-guide-expert-advice

https://www.draftsharks.com/kb/best-way-to-draft-fantasy-football

2026 Player Articles

Running Back Rankings

Wide Receiver Rankings

Tight End Rankings

Quarterback Rankings

Ashley Mazur August 10, 2026 No Comments

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League Rules & Voting for 2026

Let’s talk about League Rules and Voting for 2026! As commissioners we feel it’s important for everyone to have a say in how the league is set up. This year we thought it would be a great idea to have members vote on varying league rule changes from last season. There are a couple of things we made an executive decision on based on last season, as well as league growth in 2026. You can find all of the information for new rules and voting items below. We’ve decided to send out polls to the text group instead of voting on Draft Day to streamline things. We ask that all votes be in by 8/7/26 so we can close the poll and post the official rules for the 2026 season before Draft Day. If you fail to cast your vote in time then your vote is considered forfeit. Any voting ties will have a coin flip tie-breaker, NFL style. If any questions pop up please reach out to Ashley or Taylor.

What’s Staying the Same

Waiver Wire transactions complete at 3am Wednesday Mornings for the upcoming week.
The top 6 teams will go to the playoffs while the bottom 6 teams will compete in the toilet bowl. We’ve decided to forgo divisions for the 2026 season and will revisit in 2027.

What’s New

Set Your Lineup Rule: Any league member that fails to set their lineup resulting in an empty slot or 0 points (bye, out etc.) 3 weeks or more throughout the 2026 season will not be permitted to come back to the league for 2027. Last year we had a couple of issues with members not setting their line up in time for the week. This skews the results for the entire league when matchups aren’t even due to poor team management. We understand that life gets busy and we want this league to be fun but also competitive! So set those reminders so you can make sure your team is good to go by game time. We are usually good about reaching out with reminders as well if we notice a team has someone out.
Flex Position Update: There will only be 1 Flex (WR/RB/TE) position per team. Last year we had 2 Flex (WR/RB/TE) per team because we had less teams. With adding two additional teams this year, we decided to take one flex position off the roster. This will result in a better player pool for Draft Day, as well as players on the waiver wire.

What We’re Voting On

Free to Play vs Pay to Play: Last year the league was free to play. Pay to play would require members to pay a fee to participate in the league. Fees go into a pot that gets dispersed between 1st, 2nd and 3rd place teams. Example: Pay to Play is $30 so $360 would be collected total since there are 12 teams. The payout would be $230 for First Place, $100 for 2nd place and $30 (make your money back) for 3rd place. The voting options will be 1. Pay to Play at $30 a person 2. Pay to Play at $20 a person 3. Free to Play (no fee)
OUT players can only go on bench vs OUT players can go to IR (injured reserve): Last year the league only allowed OUT players to sit on your bench and IR was used only for players on IR. Allowing OUT players to go on IR frees up bench space for teams to pick up additional players to compensate for players that are ruled out by their team for the week. The voting options will be 1. OUT players can only go to bench 2. OUT players can go to IR
Waiver Wire: Worst Record Priority vs Rolling List vs Bidding System: Last year the league was set up with the worst record team having priority on their waiver wire targets. The voting options will be: 1. Worse Record Prioirty 2. Rolling List 3. Bidding System. Below is a description of the three different systems for waiver wire we are looking to vote on.
- Worse Record Prioirty: Team managers with the worse record would get priority when picking up a player from the waiver wire over a team with a better record. For example: Two managers are going for the same player. Manager A has a 3-5 record while Manager B has a 5-3 record. This means that Manager A would get the player over Manager B because their record is not as good.
- Rolling List: Team managers are on a rolling list so every week a different manager would get the top priority. This just randomizes who gets priority for waiver wire targets. For example: Week 2, Manager A gets top prioirty with Manager B getting second, Manager C getting third and so on. Week 3, Manager A moves to the bottom of the prioirty list and Manager B would get first priority with Manager C getting second and so on.
- Bidding System: Each team would be allotted $100 of fake “sleeper money” for the season to bid on players. The player would go to whoever bid the most and there is a cap on the amount of money a manager can spend for the season. Multiple people can bid on players so it brings more strategy to the waiver wire. Managers can also bid $0 on players if they don’t have the cap space to spend. Example: Manager A bids $10 on one player 1, $7 on player 2, and $5 on player 3. Manager B also bid $12 on player 1 and manager C bid $10 on player 2 but no one else bid on player 3. Therefore, Manager A would get player 3 since she was outbid on the other players.

Again, please feel free to reach out to Ashley or Taylor with any questions regarding rules, rule changes or rule voting. Keep an eye out for polls in the group chat and make sure to vote before the deadline so your voice is heard!

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Ashley Mazur July 30, 2026 No Comments

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Welcome to Draft Queens Fantasy Football 2026!

Hello Queens!

We are super excited to be back for our second year of Fantasy Football! Last year was super fun and we can’t wait to kick the season off with our first annual Draft Day Brunch on August 15th. We are also adding two new members to the league: Sara and Anna (Welcome!) This will round out the league to 12 teams which will give us the option to add divisions as well as a more competitive player pool. We are happy to report that every single team from last year will be back for 2026! One change that will be implemented this season is the removal of one flex position. This will help keep a healthy list of players to draft/on the waiver wire since we are adding two teams this year. With Draft Day only a few weeks away, we wanted to share some information, reminders and things to expect.

Please arrive at Taylor’s house at 11am (address information below). Draft Day will start promptly at 11:30am with awards for the 2025 season. Stay tuned for a post on new league rules once league voting is over so you can be prepared and educated on how these changes may affect league play and your draft strategy.

Team names this year need to have a Disney theme (can be classic Disney, Disney movies, Disney channel etc.) If there are duplicates, the team member who had the higher placement last year will get priority (new league members will get last priority since they did not have placement in 2025.) Team names have to be updated in the Sleeper system by the start of the season (9/9/26).

It is important to note for those returning, and our new members, that we are not to receive or solicit any help whatsoever from our male counterparts, including children, on draft strategy. It’s an honors system but just keep in mind that we are all strong independent women who can draft players for whatever reason we see fit (he’s hot, he’s married to Taylor Swift, he’s actually good at playing football etc.) We have posted a youtube video going over draft strategy on the Draft Queens homepage and plan on sharing other helpful resources throughout the season for those of us who are a little fantasy-football-challenged.

Bagels, Donuts, and a Mimosa bar will be provided by the commissioners but we ask that everyone bring a side to share. Anyone who is traveling in from afar please contact Ashley or Taylor if any issues arise with brining food. We will work something out with you! We are expecting around 6-8 people. The draft will start at 12pm and has a hard time cap of 4pm. There will be a two-minute-timer for draft picks this year to speed up the process but if we don’t finish by 4 we pause for the day and finish on Sunday 8/16/26. If any questions pop up about Draft Day/Brunch please contact Taylor or Ashley. I’ve included our information at the bottom of this post! As always, may the odds be ever in your favor!

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Ashley Mazur: (440)724-6334

Taylor Ramm: (419)410-3258

Draft Day: 8/15/26 @ 11am (Draft starts at 12pm)

Where: Taylor’s House – 7805 Haralson Ct, Holland OH 43528

Ashley Mazur July 25, 2026 No Comments