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I think to a point, but there's always a place where the value is worth it. I agree very much so that youth is a big deciding factor on value. But I'd rather have Brady in the 12th than Bortles in the 7th. You get a top QB for 2-4 years and can trade or draft at another date for another QB. I've heard that you typically want to play with the next 3 years in mind because after that time, who knows what will happen. If you play with the view of getting a team that will dominate 4-5 years from now, your league could be disbanded by then or your young player who should have developed can get injured.
I appreciate all the advice. This is a $500 FFPC dynasty. I'm not as worried about it disbanding as I would be if it was local league. That was one of the biggest stumbling blocks of starting a local league is having dedicated owners. I was looking at that, but opted for entering one of the FFPC start ups. I love the format.
One of the things that makes this league unique is the short benches. You only have 20 players during the season, and have to cut to 16 at the end of February. That leaves little room to draft players that have to sit for a couple of years and develop. You just don't have the roster space to do that. It is TE premium, but how often do you see a TE come in to the league and immediately produce? Gronk had 10 TDs his rookie year, but only 548 yards receiving. Eifert is more prototypical. He had two underwhelming years, then really stepped up last year. Many WRs have the same career trajectory. RBs can step in and immediately be productive.mikel2014 said:
Due to the short rosters I would play this more like a redraft league than a dynasty. The quality of replacement level players is very high and draft picks not worth much because of that.
I don't agree here. At some point people pay too much for youth, and therefore the implied value of an older veteran drops below their actual value. While everyone's clamoring to get the Devante Parker's and TJ Yeldon's of the world because they're young, the 1-3 years of top 10 performance remaining from guys like Brady and Jordy gets cheaper and cheaper. I'm not suggesting you go all-in for a bunch of veterans, but I think a nice blend of youth and veterans allows you to compete now and in the future.
Maybe I wasn't clear. I'm not saying take unproven youth to the exclusion of everything else, but if you have a choice of Gurley or AP, you take Gurley. Robinson or Jordy, you take Robinson. Palmer or Bortles, you take Bortles. Nothing is worse than getting stuck with aging vets in a dynasty league. Only a fool will trade you anything for them, and you'll end up getting pennies on the dollar for r them. A good dynasty team is a combo of vets in their prime along with a developing Corp of young players.
A roster size of 20 is certainly less than some that I've seen, but I wouldn't consider that a short roster. It is big enough to carry developing players (just a limited number) It certainly isn't short enough to change your focus toward redraft. That is BAD advice. Even when you cut to 16, that is almost 200 kept players for a 12 team league. Even in IDP, the quality of replacement players is marginal at best.
Well, yeah. It's kind of assumed that he'd draft the guy with ADP of 5 over the guy with ADP of 34.
this is the best advice here. I play FFPC, do you normal ppr ranks, skip a guy if he is on his last legs but otherwise you can draft as normal. Don't follow the dynasty sites and look for the next big thing because you can't afford to hold them. Also do you really want to spend $500 say year 1,2,3 also try and win in year 4? Not smart from a ROI perspective. If you want to go young trade for future 1sts but don't pay more than a late 5th value at worst. When evaluating trades for future 1sts just use Dodd's calculator here and plug in what you'll pay for the future 1st. With the 2017 hype I've been willing to go up to 58 but normally the price is a mid to late 6th
could not disagree more, do you play FFPC? you are giving bad advice here. He doesn't have to take people at the very end of their career, skip those but don't gamble on all the unproven players at where people have them in the dynasty ranks, that is the kiss of death in these
What is so special about FFPC that I would play dynasty like redraft?
it is not just that roster size is 20 and cuts to 16 in offseason (including you have to keep a Def and K) so you really keep 14, it is also dual flex so you need a deep roster to cover byes if you want to compete, you can't keep more than 2 future gambles at most and compete.
Do the math. 16 roster spots per team are short rosters. Draft and hold strategies are fine in most dynasty leagues but not as effective in this format.
