Look, we can fill the ones we have or continue to start new ones without grassroots recruiting and ***** about leagues that die.
Pick one.
One helps.
I've been holding a league for 18 months so far - because I do not want to dilute other leagues with abandonment.
Thanks for swiping your CC and all, but we can not fill the leagues that already exist.

Leagues that are less than 3/4 full are a hard sell as people want to beat people. IF you want to fill a league and keep players interested in it, it takes time and effort. In the Leagues I run I like people to know about the players not only on their team, but the players on other teams as well.

I like people to identify with the team they own, have a say in team name, location, stadium, team colours etc in my 2nd league I renamed around 500 players after the initial draft with links to the teams, the Arkansas Buzzwagons with their Wacky Races theme are a fun team to play against. The Guinea Pigs have players like Kevin Bacon, Porkchop Hill, Piggly Wiggly, Boss Hogg, 'Babe' Ruth.

The Kandy Canes are all about Christmas, where else can you play against Rudolph Rednose, Kris Kringle, Buddy Elf, Black Peete, Saint Nicholas, Donner Blitzen and more.

A league is what you make it, if you want to fill it and keep it full there needs to be a reason why people want to be part of it. Yes, I'm recruiting for a 3rd league and I'll wait until I have 32 owners on board before I create it. That gives it the best chance of survival.

Sometimes the best thing to do for something that's dying is to let it go. Maybe half of the remaining owners will move to other leagues, maybe they'll walk off into the sunset.

i'm in 2 leagues now on teams that i have taken over. until corona hit; in leagues that i have started from the ground up ive played 8-10 seasons. i only left wjen i realized i was not running them optimally on a financial basis. i wasn't ever running them as a liability in that department not just as well as i could have. if you do not want to start a new league crazy don't but i like the leagues that admiral runs and am willing to wait for it to be filled up with people. if it isnt for you it isnt for you. in the two teams i have taken over i'm trying to improve them but first year in both and half the players i got to get rid of because they dont fit my play style. one the leagues is in playoffs and the other game 13 midweek. cant wait for the offseason.

then again i have a novel idea.EVERYONE quit ALL leagues and start new ones with players YOU know are gonna stick around. :)