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Free public leagues are a way to play fantasy football without having to shell out a dime. Anyone can sign up online and create a team. The draft and the gameplay are the same, but the coaches tend to be strangers. If you’re new to fantasy football, a free public league is a good place to start playing or just to play casually. In fact, most fantasy players first got hooked on fantasy football in a free public league due to the casual style and ease of use. If you want to practice, doing it in a free, public league also makes sense.

Despite how easy and fun it is to play in free public leagues, the coaches may not play out the season because they’re not tied to the leagues by their friends or their money. When coaches don’t pay to play and don’t know the rest of the coaches, they’re more likely to get bored and quit. Leagues may be decided by these no-shows. If you’re eager to chat and talk smack, but not many of the coaches want to rant football with you, you may soon realize that this league is a bad fit for you. Furthermore, most free public leagues don’t have a commissioner (although some do allow one of its coaches to act as commissioner). Not having a commissioner means having to live with default settings, public trade votes, and obnoxious coaches. An acting commish/coach can be reasoned with when there are disputes and can help make a league run more smoothly.

Anyone can sign up for a free public league. Just surf to the fantasy pages of the league provider and click fantasy football. Either you’ll be randomly assigned to a public league or you can choose from a list of public leagues based on league size and the time of the league’s live or auto draft.