What I'll probably end up doing is making the league private (you have to actually) and then just sending out email invites. So once I get enough signups for the league, I'll ask for everyone's email and send them invitations. That would be fairly easy I hope. If you guys don't have accounts on ESPN, just make one once the league is up and if you don't want to send out your email just make the account using a bugmenot.com temporary email and it should be easy enough.

Again...if anyone has a better idea then let me know. Or if you want to send me your email ahead of time that's cool to. Either way doesn't matter really. The search on ESPN pretty much sucks though so that's the only reason I think it's best to do it that way and I don't think you can be directly linked either.