Dynasty League Haves and Have Nots (1 Viewer)

[fsufan]

I'm new to dynasty leagues myself, this being my first year in one. We have to pay two years in advance to make sure teams stay in it. So if a team wants to drop out, he's already paid for the next year. I'm hoping this plan works.

i like this idea

 

[fsufan]

I'm new to dynasty leagues myself, this being my first year in one. We have to pay two years in advance to make sure teams stay in it. So if a team wants to drop out, he's already paid for the next year. I'm hoping this plan works.

Also, it's probably a good idea to bar people from trading draft picks more than one year out so that bad owners can't ruin a team's ability to rebuild on top of ruining the team itself.

my 2 dynasty leagues only allows trading pick 1 year in advance. will laso have this ruleTrades will be voided if the following happens. Two owners agree on a trade during the off-season and then one of those owners does not participate in the up coming season.

 

[Topes]

And also, Rookie Drafts are more important than you're leading yourself to believe.

Absolutely, the value of the rookie picks matter.However, I've found one of two things often happens with poorer team managers and those picks.

1) They lose patience with the players they drafted if they aren't productive in their first year, and that 1st round pick is thrown to the WW before the player gets his opportunity. This happens with QBs and WRs especially. Sadly, often the player they drop him for is some one-week wonder that is also dropped within a few weeks. These owners constantly churn the WW without any real long-term plan.

If that's happening, the dysnasty league simply isn't deep enough. Your typical redraft league is about 200 players deep. In order for a dynasty league to be good, it's simply got to be at least 250 players deep at the cutdown before the rookie draft. A lot of dynasty leagues are just too shallow. One oughtn't be able to pick up viable players/prospects off the wire with regularity. Just my 2¢

 

[fsufan]

And also, Rookie Drafts are more important than you're leading yourself to believe.

Absolutely, the value of the rookie picks matter.However, I've found one of two things often happens with poorer team managers and those picks.

1) They lose patience with the players they drafted if they aren't productive in their first year, and that 1st round pick is thrown to the WW before the player gets his opportunity. This happens with QBs and WRs especially. Sadly, often the player they drop him for is some one-week wonder that is also dropped within a few weeks. These owners constantly churn the WW without any real long-term plan.

If that's happening, the dysnasty league simply isn't deep enough. Your typical redraft league is about 200 players deep. In order for a dynasty league to be good, it's simply got to be at least 250 players deep at the cutdown before the rookie draft. A lot of dynasty leagues are just too shallow. One oughtn't be able to pick up viable players/prospects off the wire with regularity. Just my 2¢

my two 10 team dynasty leagues are 220 players deep. That has worked out. I would like to up it to 24 players.

 

[Idiot Savant]

And also, Rookie Drafts are more important than you're leading yourself to believe.

Absolutely, the value of the rookie picks matter.However, I've found one of two things often happens with poorer team managers and those picks.

1) They lose patience with the players they drafted if they aren't productive in their first year, and that 1st round pick is thrown to the WW before the player gets his opportunity. This happens with QBs and WRs especially. Sadly, often the player they drop him for is some one-week wonder that is also dropped within a few weeks. These owners constantly churn the WW without any real long-term plan.

If that's happening, the dysnasty league simply isn't deep enough. Your typical redraft league is about 200 players deep. In order for a dynasty league to be good, it's simply got to be at least 250 players deep at the cutdown before the rookie draft. A lot of dynasty leagues are just too shallow. One oughtn't be able to pick up viable players/prospects off the wire with regularity. Just my 2¢

You'd think that would be the reason, but these are 14x20=280 player leagues. It's really a matter of some owners not being very astute but still wanting to feel like they are managing something, so they have no patience and constantly play the WW for last week's good stat players.It's amazing to see a guy like Santonio Holmes get drafted with the 1.09 rookie pick in July and see him dropped in early October for someone like Mike Furrey. Short-term, poorly thought out approach.

 

[cstu]

This is why the more I play in a dynasty format, the more I think it sucks. No sense of urgency (wai 'til next year attitude), dominance by a handful of teams, and in other words,

B-O-R-I-N-G.

I thought it could be made in an exciting and competitive format but I now beleive this is wrong. Totally off base.

Back to Re-draft.

Translation: You've failed at dynasty so you're going back to redraft. Cool.

No pinhead, didn't fail. Just bored. Cool?

Nightshift is the high scorer in a dynasty league made of entirely FBGs (24 in 2 divisions), so I will vouch for his general abilities and that he is constantly looking for more activity.Shift,

Our league is well above average in activity and owner interest, so I honestly, don't know what to tell ya. There are points where an owner should not be making a ton of trades and waiver activity with his team. To quote Herm, "you play the game to win"

Nightshift also made the conscious decision to win now - drafting older guys who might retire soon like Barber, Toomer, Rod Smith and Moulds and trading his 1st and 2nd round picks next year. That's one way to do it but quite a few us drafted younger guys to stay competitive in future years. To each their own, but I don't find it boring or competitive as long as you have good owners who are trying and not making a bunch of stupid decisions.

I made a serious decision to WIN. Now & later. I traded my 1st & 2nd to get better players in the intitial draft like LJ & Santana Moss. Toomer in the the late second is a steal and is the only one out of the group you listed that is a starter. Rod Smith was a late acquistion. Actually, it's 5 old guys out of 26 (you forgot Brunell) with plenty of youth to carry me for years to come.Johnny, Johnny... whether it's 13 or 130, you still have the same view as the rest of the sled dogs. I lead, get used to it!

No question you've got some good young players as well (Brady, Alex Smith, LJ, Parker, RoyW, and S. Moss). Definitely good drafting for now and the future, but without your picks you will be comparatively weaker next year to some other teams (like the one with 6 1st round picks ).

 

[higgins]

Out superbowl champ las season was the worst team in the league like 6 years ago and was starting Rodney Peete for gods sake. It all works out.

He must have done a helluva rebuilding job.

 

[Lauryn]

And also, Rookie Drafts are more important than you're leading yourself to believe.

Absolutely, the value of the rookie picks matter.However, I've found one of two things often happens with poorer team managers and those picks.

1) They lose patience with the players they drafted if they aren't productive in their first year, and that 1st round pick is thrown to the WW before the player gets his opportunity. This happens with QBs and WRs especially. Sadly, often the player they drop him for is some one-week wonder that is also dropped within a few weeks. These owners constantly churn the WW without any real long-term plan.

If that's happening, the dysnasty league simply isn't deep enough. Your typical redraft league is about 200 players deep. In order for a dynasty league to be good, it's simply got to be at least 250 players deep at the cutdown before the rookie draft. A lot of dynasty leagues are just too shallow. One oughtn't be able to pick up viable players/prospects off the wire with regularity. Just my 2¢

You'd think that would be the reason, but these are 14x20=280 player leagues. It's really a matter of some owners not being very astute but still wanting to feel like they are managing something, so they have no patience and constantly play the WW for last week's good stat players.It's amazing to see a guy like Santonio Holmes get drafted with the 1.09 rookie pick in July and see him dropped in early October for someone like Mike Furrey. Short-term, poorly thought out approach.

yep this happens all the time... this is why i try not to draft rookie WR... i realize that they'll be on the waiver wire soon when their owner becomes impatient.

 

[Warpig]

I'm new to dynasty leagues myself, this being my first year in one. We have to pay two years in advance to make sure teams stay in it. So if a team wants to drop out, he's already paid for the next year. I'm hoping this plan works.

i like this idea

We have something similar to this in our 32 team dynasty. If you make any trades involving future draft picks, you have to pay for the next year in advance before the trade will be allowed by the commish.