Dynasty Auctions...how do you handle salaries (1 Viewer)

[Sabertooth]

We are having an initial auction for a dynasty league. One of the things we are having trouble with is whether a player just stays on your roster forever at the price (say you got Brady at his 2005 price of $10 for instance). Or do you have some type of formula built in to escalate his salary and force owners to make some tougher choices?

I've never been in a dynasty before and neither have any of the other members in this league. What is the ideal way to handle this? None of the rules are in stone yet so if you had it to do from scratch, how would you handle the auction aspect of the dynasty league?

 

[LaneOfSteel™]

We do 3 year contracts and increase kept players salaries by 10% (rounded up). $21 * .10 = $2.10, rounded up to $3.00. New salary is $24.

 

[Sabertooth]

We do 3 year contracts and increase kept players salaries by 10% (rounded up). $21 * .10 = $2.10, rounded up to $3.00. New salary is $24.

So is that an increase of 10% per year and a player can't be kept more than 3 years?

 

[Pack43]

We assign contracts to our players ranging from 1-5 years with a max of 40 years for our 17-man rosters + 2 Taxi Squad positions. Salaries stay the same for the length of the contract with salary cap penalties for releasing a player under contract. The exception is there is no penalty for releasing a player with 1 year left on the contract as long as it is after the FA auction.

I think this works pretty well. There seems to be a good balance between bargains and bad contracts.

 

[LaneOfSteel™]

After 3 years, the owner can franchise one player at the average salary of the top 7 salaries at each position, or they become a restricted free agent, meaning the owner chooses to let him go back into the auction, then he has to rights to that player and can match the winning bid + 10%.

 

[Liquid Tension]

We assign contracts to our players ranging from 1-5 years with a max of 40 years for our 17-man rosters + 2 Taxi Squad positions. Salaries stay the same for the length of the contract with salary cap penalties for releasing a player under contract. The exception is there is no penalty for releasing a player with 1 year left on the contract as long as it is after the FA auction.I think this works pretty well. There seems to be a good balance between bargains and bad contracts.

How do you handle the cap penalty?

 

[Pack43]

We assign contracts to our players ranging from 1-5 years with a max of 40 years for our 17-man rosters + 2 Taxi Squad positions. Salaries stay the same for the length of the contract with salary cap penalties for releasing a player under contract. The exception is there is no penalty for releasing a player with 1 year left on the contract as long as it is after the FA auction.I think this works pretty well. There seems to be a good balance between bargains and bad contracts.

How do you handle the cap penalty?

Cap penalties are based on the salary level. The chart below shows the per year penalty for the remaining years left on the contract:$1 - $50 the penalty is $15 per year of contract$51 - $100 the penalty is $25 per year of contract$101 - $150 the penalty is $35 per year of contract$151 + the penalty is $45 per year of contractThe penalties were originally more severe but we agreed to scale them back. This is based on a $500 cap.

 

[Ack88]

We try and keep it basic. We add $4 per year that a player is kept. Tom Brady was $14 in 2007 and will cost his owner $18 in 2008.