Free Online Football Sim Leagues

Welcome to pennantchase.com, where the philosophy is to offer easy, accessible, fun and free football simulation. This isn’t fantasy football, but fans of fantasy football will surely dig it. Be the football manager of your own team in this great online football sim game!

  1. Sign up and join an available league.
  2. Real players, real historic stats determine the results of the games!
  3. Rank players for the draft (no salary cap restrictions and no duplicate players on multiple teams!)
  4. Wait for the league to fill, draft your roster over the course of a few days, and let the games begin!
  5. Read daily box scores and track your team's progress.
  6. Juggle your depth chart, make trades, manage your squad as you fight for a title.
  7. Play in a variety of leagues featuring every era of football history.

PennantChase.com started as a baseball website, so all users can play in BOTH football and baseball leagues! The developer of this site has over a decade experience running his league online, inspired by the great simulators of the past like MicroLeague and Earl Weaver.

If you’ve paid to play in other online leagues, you’ll be amazed at what is offered here for free. Obviously, we can’t possibly offer everything the big corporate sites can, but we come pretty close, and actually exceed the competition in some areas. So jump in!

For more details, check out our football FAQ.

Testimonials

This is by far the best fantasy football site I've ever been to. It took me weeks to find a good one. When I found pennantchase, I was hooked immediately. I would definitely recommend this site to any football lover.
gr33nappleboy
I know it must take a whole lot of time to put this together and keep it updated. Really is awesome and the fact that it is free is beyond comprehension. Thanks for making one soul happy for a few minutes each day!
biggcommish
I first joined PennantChase during the delayed 2020 season, as I figured it would be a good holdover for fantasy sports. It has far exceeded any expectations I had. It has been great fun to take part in custom leagues, and I even joined one with three of my friends that I recommended Pennant Chase to. Great job making this site so accessible and the leagues so customizable.
TemporaryPizza

Features of PennantChase.com Football Sim Leagues

Most users play in automated public leagues. These leagues are easy to jump in and play.

  • Pick from a variety of leagues, featuring All-Time Greats to modern stats
  • Enjoy one sim every day, with the ability for users to sim games every 24 hours
  • Regular season game schedule and playoffs
  • Modify team name, stadium name and logo
  • Offer, approve, reject trades
  • View Box scores with detailed Play-by-Play of every game
  • Track team power rankings
  • View MVP & Defensive Player of the Year candidates throughout season
  • Adjust on-field strategy
  • Weekly gameplan specific to your opponent
  • Train a specific player between games for stat boosts
  • Modify depth chart, rotations and subs
  • Drop players and sign free agents
  • Ten seasons of historic stats kept for every league!
The really dedicated users can start private leagues with friends and use tools to customize the league in many ways:
  • Structure your league with as many teams as you want in up to 8 different divisions
  • Create, delete, modify players as you wish
  • Choose a batch of players to start with or build from scratch
  • Import any player or team from the history of football
  • Create fictional rookie players with the click of a button
  • Utilize your league’s draft room at any time – before, during, or after a season
  • Create your own schedule
  • Simulate games at your own pace, any time, day or night
  • Archive seasons and award post-season trophies
  • Automate player aging and retiring between season
  • Create team budgets and player contracts
Most importantly, the site is simple and easy to use. The simulations are based off real, tangible stats – not arbitrary ratings. And the stats are basic so that the sim results make sense. The philosophy is to keep it simple and fun. Obviously, the more time you invest, the better you will become at building a winning team. But you don’t necessarily have to spend hours and hours to be successful. And remember, it's about having some fun. In the end, plenty of "luck" is involved, so don't take it too seriously!

For even more info, check out the FAQ.