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hahaha yeah it is. Sorry, there was a lot of moving parts in the league so had to give some context lol

When you say picks counting against the cap, do you mean that they have a dollar value that gets added along with the player contracts? If so, no, they don't count against the cap but my proposal is asking that they do have a dollar value (not counting against the cap) but a value that we can now burn/forfeit in order to receive cap dollars instead of drafting a pick. So say a 2nd rd pick is valued at $8, I can now forefeit that pick and receive $8 in cap back and they'll skip my pick in the draft order. I'm hoping this gets approved bc it's not always easy to get a trade done for extra cap or for players due to their contracts. Which is in a way to force you to make cuts so more players go back in the pool. But at least there will be an option now. And as a result you would then have to draft from 6rd+ in order to fill the rest of your roster, so it's a risk to burn picks.

Yeah, so it's based on EOS rankings 1-5 = $25, 6-10 = $24, 11-15 = $23, etc. At 120+ = $1. Lol yeah, I drafted BTJ, Bowers, and held Brown from last season but he had a "breakout" season which is when a player moves up 75 spots (rankings) from their original contract price (he was $1). This is to mimic a player "holding out" for a new contract. I also drafted Goff who was put back into the FA pool this past season. So this offseason I just got hit with $91 in cap, which is 60% of my entire salary cap for those 4 guys lol

I'm hoping someone can make a deal once I put my trading block out there but if not, I have to hope this pick burning propsal gets approved. If it does, I could burn pick 2nd rd - 7th rd and have $40. That would allow me to keep everyone I want except Kirk. But then I only have my 1st rd pick and the remaining spots will have to come from Rd 8+, which is going to be scraps lol

Or, I still cut (Scary, Kirk, Olave) and only burn $12 worth of picks and that would leave me with picks 1.02, 2.04, 2.08, 3.01, 3.11.

Or I keep Olave, burn $25 in picks and have 1.02, 2.02, 2.08.

So there are some options, I'm just not sure what the best would be. Cutting the 3 guys still leaves me with 5 picks that I can potentially replace them with in the draft as there will be rookies and vets that have been cut/dropped. 2nd option allows me to keep a young WR and I still have 3 strong early picks.

I apologize if its in these posts somewhere, I'd need to know the schedule of what draft picks cost. And what that leads to is, the cost versus replacement. For example, I don't understand why you would keep Goff. Why he's not an automatic release. The cost of his replacement seems highly likely to be much cheaper. Or is it, that you are forced to keep Goff? But I can't think of a good reason why the league would have that rule.
 
He just moved in my league (14 team standard) in the current deal.

KWIII - 3.11

for

Etienne - 27 4th - 27 1st (from leagues current champion)

Felt quite cheap for Walker to me.
Is that a 2027 4th and 1st? Do people trade that far out?
It's reddit, so take it with heaps of salt, but the past month has been a flame turning into a wild fire that "2026 is currently projecting as one of the worst draft classes ever". It is backed up by some numbers/sound minded projection. Eg. Apparently, a popular metric among DEVY WR scouting projections are for early declare WRs to break 800 receiving yards. Next years class had 0 do that. I haven't looked myself, but apparently HS/college testing numbers also show 0 "physical specimens/freaks". So even if some WRs do show out this year in college, they won't check the early breakout box and likely won't test with stellar numbers, so it hurts their analytical profile overall.

And while the QB class looks like it could be better than this year (which isn't a very high bar to get over); none of them were among the top 10 Heisman finalists like previous early QB classes (Young/Stroud/Williams/Maye as an example). Also the popular belief is that Arch will start at least two years at Texas before coming out, putting him in the 2027 class. This was strongly insinuated from his family/camp as well.

So yeah, especially people already looking ahead to 26 and 27 draft classes, it's becoming very popular to focus on acquiring picks in 2027 if possible.
 
hahaha yeah it is. Sorry, there was a lot of moving parts in the league so had to give some context lol

When you say picks counting against the cap, do you mean that they have a dollar value that gets added along with the player contracts? If so, no, they don't count against the cap but my proposal is asking that they do have a dollar value (not counting against the cap) but a value that we can now burn/forfeit in order to receive cap dollars instead of drafting a pick. So say a 2nd rd pick is valued at $8, I can now forefeit that pick and receive $8 in cap back and they'll skip my pick in the draft order. I'm hoping this gets approved bc it's not always easy to get a trade done for extra cap or for players due to their contracts. Which is in a way to force you to make cuts so more players go back in the pool. But at least there will be an option now. And as a result you would then have to draft from 6rd+ in order to fill the rest of your roster, so it's a risk to burn picks.

Yeah, so it's based on EOS rankings 1-5 = $25, 6-10 = $24, 11-15 = $23, etc. At 120+ = $1. Lol yeah, I drafted BTJ, Bowers, and held Brown from last season but he had a "breakout" season which is when a player moves up 75 spots (rankings) from their original contract price (he was $1). This is to mimic a player "holding out" for a new contract. I also drafted Goff who was put back into the FA pool this past season. So this offseason I just got hit with $91 in cap, which is 60% of my entire salary cap for those 4 guys lol

I'm hoping someone can make a deal once I put my trading block out there but if not, I have to hope this pick burning propsal gets approved. If it does, I could burn pick 2nd rd - 7th rd and have $40. That would allow me to keep everyone I want except Kirk. But then I only have my 1st rd pick and the remaining spots will have to come from Rd 8+, which is going to be scraps lol

Or, I still cut (Scary, Kirk, Olave) and only burn $12 worth of picks and that would leave me with picks 1.02, 2.04, 2.08, 3.01, 3.11.

Or I keep Olave, burn $25 in picks and have 1.02, 2.02, 2.08.

So there are some options, I'm just not sure what the best would be. Cutting the 3 guys still leaves me with 5 picks that I can potentially replace them with in the draft as there will be rookies and vets that have been cut/dropped. 2nd option allows me to keep a young WR and I still have 3 strong early picks.

I apologize if its in these posts somewhere, I'd need to know the schedule of what draft picks cost. And what that leads to is, the cost versus replacement. For example, I don't understand why you would keep Goff. Why he's not an automatic release. The cost of his replacement seems highly likely to be much cheaper. Or is it, that you are forced to keep Goff? But I can't think of a good reason why the league would have that rule.
It's a superflex league where QBs rule the SF position. If you don't have a 2nd QB, you don't really compete.
 
hahaha yeah it is. Sorry, there was a lot of moving parts in the league so had to give some context lol

When you say picks counting against the cap, do you mean that they have a dollar value that gets added along with the player contracts? If so, no, they don't count against the cap but my proposal is asking that they do have a dollar value (not counting against the cap) but a value that we can now burn/forfeit in order to receive cap dollars instead of drafting a pick. So say a 2nd rd pick is valued at $8, I can now forefeit that pick and receive $8 in cap back and they'll skip my pick in the draft order. I'm hoping this gets approved bc it's not always easy to get a trade done for extra cap or for players due to their contracts. Which is in a way to force you to make cuts so more players go back in the pool. But at least there will be an option now. And as a result you would then have to draft from 6rd+ in order to fill the rest of your roster, so it's a risk to burn picks.

Yeah, so it's based on EOS rankings 1-5 = $25, 6-10 = $24, 11-15 = $23, etc. At 120+ = $1. Lol yeah, I drafted BTJ, Bowers, and held Brown from last season but he had a "breakout" season which is when a player moves up 75 spots (rankings) from their original contract price (he was $1). This is to mimic a player "holding out" for a new contract. I also drafted Goff who was put back into the FA pool this past season. So this offseason I just got hit with $91 in cap, which is 60% of my entire salary cap for those 4 guys lol

I'm hoping someone can make a deal once I put my trading block out there but if not, I have to hope this pick burning propsal gets approved. If it does, I could burn pick 2nd rd - 7th rd and have $40. That would allow me to keep everyone I want except Kirk. But then I only have my 1st rd pick and the remaining spots will have to come from Rd 8+, which is going to be scraps lol

Or, I still cut (Scary, Kirk, Olave) and only burn $12 worth of picks and that would leave me with picks 1.02, 2.04, 2.08, 3.01, 3.11.

Or I keep Olave, burn $25 in picks and have 1.02, 2.02, 2.08.

So there are some options, I'm just not sure what the best would be. Cutting the 3 guys still leaves me with 5 picks that I can potentially replace them with in the draft as there will be rookies and vets that have been cut/dropped. 2nd option allows me to keep a young WR and I still have 3 strong early picks.

I apologize if its in these posts somewhere, I'd need to know the schedule of what draft picks cost. And what that leads to is, the cost versus replacement. For example, I don't understand why you would keep Goff. Why he's not an automatic release. The cost of his replacement seems highly likely to be much cheaper. Or is it, that you are forced to keep Goff? But I can't think of a good reason why the league would have that rule.
As @InDitkaWeTrust stated, this is a superflex league and I've been burned too many times come playoffs where I did not have a 2nd quality starting QB.

I'm not sure what you mean by the schedule of the cost of draft picks. As of now you receive a pick for each round and there is no dollar value associated with the picks and they do not count towards our salary cap. What I'm trying to propose is that there is a $ value for each pick (still not counting towards our cap), for example a 1st = $10, 2nd = $8, 3rd = $6, 4th = $4, 5th = $2, 6th+ = $1. And this would now give us the ability to forfeit our picks and in return we receive the dollar value which will go towards our salary cap so we can keep/cut/trade as it is some times difficult to do.

To the Goff question again, I had just drafted him in 2024 as he was cut and put back into the FA pool. So his performance in 2024 determined what his contract will be for the next 3 seasons, which due to his run towards the end of the season, pushed him up the ranks of QBs and he will now cost me $23 to keep for the next 3yrs. I can cut him without any penalty but to find a replacement will be difficult, especially in a SF league and where everyone hoards QBs in general.
 
If @JohnnyU needed cliff notes of the earlier post, I’ll need a post-it note version of these most recent posts ;)
hahahh the tl;dr is that I need to choose who to keep and who to cut of the following players (Tyreek Hill, Scary Terry, Christian Kirk, Olave) while staying under a salary cap or if I'm over, i will have to try and trade to acquire additional cap $.

As of now, I'm leaning towards only keeping Hill ($12 over cap) which leaves me with 5 draft picks if my proposal passes and I can forfeit picks for cap $ or I can maybe pull off Hill + Olave ($25 over cap) and leaves me with 3 draft picks if my proposal passes.

I will still try and see if I can get a trade done with any of these guys but everyone in the league is significantly over budget and all 4 of these players have high contracts prices, although they are on the last yr of their contract so how they rank eos in 2025, will determine their contract price for the next 3yrs. So if any of them have a down yr, you could be getting them for cheap. It's just going to cost you this yr to keep them.
 
hahaha yeah it is. Sorry, there was a lot of moving parts in the league so had to give some context lol

When you say picks counting against the cap, do you mean that they have a dollar value that gets added along with the player contracts? If so, no, they don't count against the cap but my proposal is asking that they do have a dollar value (not counting against the cap) but a value that we can now burn/forfeit in order to receive cap dollars instead of drafting a pick. So say a 2nd rd pick is valued at $8, I can now forefeit that pick and receive $8 in cap back and they'll skip my pick in the draft order. I'm hoping this gets approved bc it's not always easy to get a trade done for extra cap or for players due to their contracts. Which is in a way to force you to make cuts so more players go back in the pool. But at least there will be an option now. And as a result you would then have to draft from 6rd+ in order to fill the rest of your roster, so it's a risk to burn picks.

Yeah, so it's based on EOS rankings 1-5 = $25, 6-10 = $24, 11-15 = $23, etc. At 120+ = $1. Lol yeah, I drafted BTJ, Bowers, and held Brown from last season but he had a "breakout" season which is when a player moves up 75 spots (rankings) from their original contract price (he was $1). This is to mimic a player "holding out" for a new contract. I also drafted Goff who was put back into the FA pool this past season. So this offseason I just got hit with $91 in cap, which is 60% of my entire salary cap for those 4 guys lol

I'm hoping someone can make a deal once I put my trading block out there but if not, I have to hope this pick burning propsal gets approved. If it does, I could burn pick 2nd rd - 7th rd and have $40. That would allow me to keep everyone I want except Kirk. But then I only have my 1st rd pick and the remaining spots will have to come from Rd 8+, which is going to be scraps lol

Or, I still cut (Scary, Kirk, Olave) and only burn $12 worth of picks and that would leave me with picks 1.02, 2.04, 2.08, 3.01, 3.11.

Or I keep Olave, burn $25 in picks and have 1.02, 2.02, 2.08.

So there are some options, I'm just not sure what the best would be. Cutting the 3 guys still leaves me with 5 picks that I can potentially replace them with in the draft as there will be rookies and vets that have been cut/dropped. 2nd option allows me to keep a young WR and I still have 3 strong early picks.

I apologize if its in these posts somewhere, I'd need to know the schedule of what draft picks cost. And what that leads to is, the cost versus replacement. For example, I don't understand why you would keep Goff. Why he's not an automatic release. The cost of his replacement seems highly likely to be much cheaper. Or is it, that you are forced to keep Goff? But I can't think of a good reason why the league would have that rule.
As @InDitkaWeTrust stated, this is a superflex league and I've been burned too many times come playoffs where I did not have a 2nd quality starting QB.

I'm not sure what you mean by the schedule of the cost of draft picks. As of now you receive a pick for each round and there is no dollar value associated with the picks and they do not count towards our salary cap. What I'm trying to propose is that there is a $ value for each pick (still not counting towards our cap), for example a 1st = $10, 2nd = $8, 3rd = $6, 4th = $4, 5th = $2, 6th+ = $1. And this would now give us the ability to forfeit our picks and in return we receive the dollar value which will go towards our salary cap so we can keep/cut/trade as it is some times difficult to do.

To the Goff question again, I had just drafted him in 2024 as he was cut and put back into the FA pool. So his performance in 2024 determined what his contract will be for the next 3 seasons, which due to his run towards the end of the season, pushed him up the ranks of QBs and he will now cost me $23 to keep for the next 3yrs. I can cut him without any penalty but to find a replacement will be difficult, especially in a SF league and where everyone hoards QBs in general.
Ok, so drafting a player costs $0 versus the cap, but you can sell/sacrafice a pick for cap relief. Got it.

Yeah, i missed super-flex.

As you said, almost everyone is over the cap, they are going to have to make tough cuts too. I need to review your first post when i have more time but the general idea is if you can get the guy back at a reasonable cost (draft pick), then he is not worth keeping at the high salary even if you have to take a hit.

Its going to be hard to give more specific answers because we dont know your league dynamics. I've been in an auction contract dynasty/keeper league for 25 years. Love it and love these type of discussions but i dont bring those discussions here, despite the wealth of knowledge, because its too hard to describe the league dynamics to get highly insightful advice.

The veteran versus rookie draft dynamics should be interesting here. All but the top rookies should be severely discounted.
 
Off-topic, but when I lived in the Netherlands as a young man, I worked at a rose company called T.C. Van Kleef

Any relation @leevancleef?
haha nah. if youve ever watched the movie the good, the bad and the ugly triology, lee van cleef is one of the actors and he's in a bunch of the old spaghetti western movies. It was my handle on the old rotoworld forums before NBC sold it off. A lot people came over here and one of the guys who owns a betting site created a mirrored site of the forums and even though there's a good amount of people still active, it's unfortuantely just not the same.
 
Off-topic, but when I lived in the Netherlands as a young man, I worked at a rose company called T.C. Van Kleef

Any relation @leevancleef?
haha nah. if youve ever watched the movie the good, the bad and the ugly triology, lee van cleef is one of the actors and he's in a bunch of the old spaghetti western movies. It was my handle on the old rotoworld forums before NBC sold it off. A lot people came over here and one of the guys who owns a betting site created a mirrored site of the forums and even though there's a good amount of people still active, it's unfortuantely just not the same.
Never heard of him, but Lee van Cleef sounds a lot like the Biblical phrase "leave and cleave".
 
hahaha yeah it is. Sorry, there was a lot of moving parts in the league so had to give some context lol

When you say picks counting against the cap, do you mean that they have a dollar value that gets added along with the player contracts? If so, no, they don't count against the cap but my proposal is asking that they do have a dollar value (not counting against the cap) but a value that we can now burn/forfeit in order to receive cap dollars instead of drafting a pick. So say a 2nd rd pick is valued at $8, I can now forefeit that pick and receive $8 in cap back and they'll skip my pick in the draft order. I'm hoping this gets approved bc it's not always easy to get a trade done for extra cap or for players due to their contracts. Which is in a way to force you to make cuts so more players go back in the pool. But at least there will be an option now. And as a result you would then have to draft from 6rd+ in order to fill the rest of your roster, so it's a risk to burn picks.

Yeah, so it's based on EOS rankings 1-5 = $25, 6-10 = $24, 11-15 = $23, etc. At 120+ = $1. Lol yeah, I drafted BTJ, Bowers, and held Brown from last season but he had a "breakout" season which is when a player moves up 75 spots (rankings) from their original contract price (he was $1). This is to mimic a player "holding out" for a new contract. I also drafted Goff who was put back into the FA pool this past season. So this offseason I just got hit with $91 in cap, which is 60% of my entire salary cap for those 4 guys lol

I'm hoping someone can make a deal once I put my trading block out there but if not, I have to hope this pick burning propsal gets approved. If it does, I could burn pick 2nd rd - 7th rd and have $40. That would allow me to keep everyone I want except Kirk. But then I only have my 1st rd pick and the remaining spots will have to come from Rd 8+, which is going to be scraps lol

Or, I still cut (Scary, Kirk, Olave) and only burn $12 worth of picks and that would leave me with picks 1.02, 2.04, 2.08, 3.01, 3.11.

Or I keep Olave, burn $25 in picks and have 1.02, 2.02, 2.08.

So there are some options, I'm just not sure what the best would be. Cutting the 3 guys still leaves me with 5 picks that I can potentially replace them with in the draft as there will be rookies and vets that have been cut/dropped. 2nd option allows me to keep a young WR and I still have 3 strong early picks.

I apologize if its in these posts somewhere, I'd need to know the schedule of what draft picks cost. And what that leads to is, the cost versus replacement. For example, I don't understand why you would keep Goff. Why he's not an automatic release. The cost of his replacement seems highly likely to be much cheaper. Or is it, that you are forced to keep Goff? But I can't think of a good reason why the league would have that rule.
As @InDitkaWeTrust stated, this is a superflex league and I've been burned too many times come playoffs where I did not have a 2nd quality starting QB.

I'm not sure what you mean by the schedule of the cost of draft picks. As of now you receive a pick for each round and there is no dollar value associated with the picks and they do not count towards our salary cap. What I'm trying to propose is that there is a $ value for each pick (still not counting towards our cap), for example a 1st = $10, 2nd = $8, 3rd = $6, 4th = $4, 5th = $2, 6th+ = $1. And this would now give us the ability to forfeit our picks and in return we receive the dollar value which will go towards our salary cap so we can keep/cut/trade as it is some times difficult to do.

To the Goff question again, I had just drafted him in 2024 as he was cut and put back into the FA pool. So his performance in 2024 determined what his contract will be for the next 3 seasons, which due to his run towards the end of the season, pushed him up the ranks of QBs and he will now cost me $23 to keep for the next 3yrs. I can cut him without any penalty but to find a replacement will be difficult, especially in a SF league and where everyone hoards QBs in general.
Ok, so drafting a player costs $0 versus the cap, but you can sell/sacrafice a pick for cap relief. Got it.

Yeah, i missed super-flex.

As you said, almost everyone is over the cap, they are going to have to make tough cuts too. I need to review your first post when i have more time but the general idea is if you can get the guy back at a reasonable cost (draft pick), then he is not worth keeping at the high salary even if you have to take a hit.

Its going to be hard to give more specific answers because we dont know your league dynamics. I've been in an auction contract dynasty/keeper league for 25 years. Love it and love these type of discussions but i dont bring those discussions here, despite the wealth of knowledge, because its too hard to describe the league dynamics to get highly insightful advice.

The veteran versus rookie draft dynamics should be interesting here. All but the top rookies should be severely discounted.
First part yes, 2nd part no...at least not yet. You can trade picks and if someone has the extra cap they can trade that to you for that pick or they can add the cap along with a player in the deal or w/e. But I just proposed the ability to sacrifice a pick for cap relief to the commish so I'm waiting to talk with him more about it. Hopefully we can figure something out.

Yeah the tough cuts are to help have more players get added back into the pool, so everyone is technically in the same boat but if we can sell our picks for cap relief, it can create even more strategies and trading opportunities. Bc if you burn picks in the early rounds, you won't be picking again until the 6th+ rd to fill the remaining spots in your roster, so it's a risk.

In my OP I tried to give as much details as I could without writing even more about the league/situation but it should be enough to cover what's going on (at least I think) but let me know if you have any questions. That's the thing, we don't submit our keepers until a night or 2 before our draft so we don't find out the FA pool until around then, so you can only really try and make educated gueses as to who a team would keep/cut to get under budget and then you can take the chance on cutting a guy in hopes you can draft a cut player as a replacement. As far as rookies, it's def much harder to replace the productivity of a quality vet, but with the contracts, sometimes you just gotta bite the bullet.

Yeah, I've been in this league for over 10yrs and it's now the only one I'm in bc I love the dynasty aspect more than redraft, which I feel is becoming more and more of a crap shoot every season. And yup, it's a balancing act with rostering a team of vets and rookies and it's fun to speculate and try and anticipate future moves and rises and falls of players. Are there any other forums where you do discuss these types of leagues? Even in the old roto forums there wasn't a designated dynasty section which was annoying.
 
Just got offered Chase Brown for my Ken Walker, straight up. Brown is a year older, but has less wear -n- tear. I have Brown in the tier before Walker mostly because of competition for touches. Not sure why I got this offer. Could the owner be concerned with the Bengals picking up another back to compete? Thoughts?!
 
Just got offered Chase Brown for my Ken Walker, straight up. Brown is a year older, but has less wear -n- tear. I have Brown in the tier before Walker mostly because of competition for touches. Not sure why I got this offer. Could the owner be concerned with the Bengals picking up another back to compete? Thoughts?!
Both of these guys are no doubt going to be in a RBBC. My preference is Walker, but I can understand preferring Brown.
 
Just got offered Chase Brown for my Ken Walker, straight up. Brown is a year older, but has less wear -n- tear. I have Brown in the tier before Walker mostly because of competition for touches. Not sure why I got this offer. Could the owner be concerned with the Bengals picking up another back to compete? Thoughts?!
I have something similar in that I can only keep one of the two in my keeper league. Close call either way, but in these cases my tiebreaker is usually who is in the more potent offense. So I'll probably keep Brown.
 
I own 1.03 and 1.08 in a SF league (QB, RB, RB, WR, WR, WR, TE, Flex, Flex, Flex, SF). Large rosters and benches. Current best RB on my roster is Najee, but strong at QB, WR, and TE.

Got offered JT for my 1.03 this afternoon. I think it's close, but objectively it doesn't make my team one of the top 3 in the league so I think I need to take BPA at 1.03 (likely Sanders/Hampton/Tet) and then a RB at 1.08. Would you take the offer knowing it will put you in the upper half of the league, but as of right now, wouldn't put you in the top 2-3?
 
I own 1.03 and 1.08 in a SF league (QB, RB, RB, WR, WR, WR, TE, Flex, Flex, Flex, SF). Large rosters and benches. Current best RB on my roster is Najee, but strong at QB, WR, and TE.

Got offered JT for my 1.03 this afternoon. I think it's close, but objectively it doesn't make my team one of the top 3 in the league so I think I need to take BPA at 1.03 (likely Sanders/Hampton/Tet) and then a RB at 1.08. Would you take the offer knowing it will put you in the upper half of the league, but as of right now, wouldn't put you in the top 2-3?

I think if you sit on the pick for now, better offers will come.
 
I own 1.03 and 1.08 in a SF league (QB, RB, RB, WR, WR, WR, TE, Flex, Flex, Flex, SF). Large rosters and benches. Current best RB on my roster is Najee, but strong at QB, WR, and TE.

Got offered JT for my 1.03 this afternoon. I think it's close, but objectively it doesn't make my team one of the top 3 in the league so I think I need to take BPA at 1.03 (likely Sanders/Hampton/Tet) and then a RB at 1.08. Would you take the offer knowing it will put you in the upper half of the league, but as of right now, wouldn't put you in the top 2-3?

I think if you sit on the pick for now, better offers will come.

I would rather have Hampton than JT but JT probably over the others. Can those 3 flexes all be RBs?
 
I own 1.03 and 1.08 in a SF league (QB, RB, RB, WR, WR, WR, TE, Flex, Flex, Flex, SF). Large rosters and benches. Current best RB on my roster is Najee, but strong at QB, WR, and TE.

Got offered JT for my 1.03 this afternoon. I think it's close, but objectively it doesn't make my team one of the top 3 in the league so I think I need to take BPA at 1.03 (likely Sanders/Hampton/Tet) and then a RB at 1.08. Would you take the offer knowing it will put you in the upper half of the league, but as of right now, wouldn't put you in the top 2-3?

I think if you sit on the pick for now, better offers will come.

I would rather have Hampton than JT but JT probably over the others. Can those 3 flexes all be RBs?
Yes, rb, wr, or te. Usually makes more sense to load the flex spots up with wrs, though because rb scarcity is a thing in this league.
 
I own 1.03 and 1.08 in a SF league (QB, RB, RB, WR, WR, WR, TE, Flex, Flex, Flex, SF). Large rosters and benches. Current best RB on my roster is Najee, but strong at QB, WR, and TE.

Got offered JT for my 1.03 this afternoon. I think it's close, but objectively it doesn't make my team one of the top 3 in the league so I think I need to take BPA at 1.03 (likely Sanders/Hampton/Tet) and then a RB at 1.08. Would you take the offer knowing it will put you in the upper half of the league, but as of right now, wouldn't put you in the top 2-3?

I think if you sit on the pick for now, better offers will come.

I would rather have Hampton than JT but JT probably over the others. Can those 3 flexes all be RBs?
Agreed to sit on the 1.03 pick and likely take Hampton at your pick.
 
Just got offered Chase Brown for my Ken Walker, straight up. Brown is a year older, but has less wear -n- tear. I have Brown in the tier before Walker mostly because of competition for touches. Not sure why I got this offer. Could the owner be concerned with the Bengals picking up another back to compete? Thoughts?!
Walker>Brown for me.
I don't think the Bengals will add anyone significant after signing Perine. They might use a late pick on a back, but I do not feel that will threaten Brown's role. The Bengals should be going defensive-heavy in the draft. I suppose this could be a bait trade offer. He could be thinking you will counter. He is most likely willing to give up more for Walker. Perhaps he is thinking that, in a Klint Kubiak offense, Walker will outplay expectations. If you like Brown and want to acquire him, I would at least like a little more. Nothing crazy, but something needs to be added, in my opinion.
 
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Just got offered Chase Brown for my Ken Walker, straight up. Brown is a year older, but has less wear -n- tear. I have Brown in the tier before Walker mostly because of competition for touches. Not sure why I got this offer. Could the owner be concerned with the Bengals picking up another back to compete? Thoughts?!
Walker>Brown for me.
I have two teams with both Walker and Brown. Right now, for next season, I do prefer Brown. But I've never even considered preferring Brown over Walker in a longer term dynasty outlook.
 
Sorry for the long post but I need some help...

I'm in a 12 team SF salary cap league where players are on 3 year contracts priced from $25 to $1 and this price is determined by their rank at the end of the season (rookies and free agents). On the last year of their contract, how they finish the season based on the W/R/T rankings, a new contract price is reestablished. QBs have their own separate ranking.

We have to roster a team of 20 (start 10) at $150 or less. You can obtain more cap dollars via trade and player cuts but there is a penalty for cutting contracted guys (2nd yr is 50% cap penalty and 3rd year is 25%). Example: Player is $20. It's his 2nd yr. You cut him and clear his $20 from your books but now you have to roster a team for $140.

My team and everyone else's in the league (except for 1 team) is way over budget and will have to make some drastic cuts and/or not signing guys to a contract. In a best case scenario I can trade some picks and players to get under budget but the majority of my players have the highest priced contracts, so finding a trade partner will be difficult. So I'm most likely going to be left with making some very tough decisions and I need to prepare for the worst and determine who should be cut while still maintaining a solid/balanced team (I desparately need RBs lol).

Below is my current team:

QB:
Herbert ($16)
Goff ($23) - New Contract price for next 3 yrs...his end of the season performance pushed him from mid teens price to top of the market

RB:
Chase Brown ($22) - New Contract - can cut without penalty
Ekeler ($5) - New Contract - can cut without penalty
Jaylen Wright ($1) - New Contract - can cut without penalty
Johnathan Brooks ($1) - New Contract - can cut without penalty

Khalil Herbert ($1) - New Contract - can cut without penalty
Jaleel McLaughlin ($1) - 2nd yr
Sione Vaki ($1) - New Contract - can cut without penalty
Roschon Johnson ($1) - New Contract - can cut without penalty
Tyler Badie ($1) - New Contract - can cut without penalty

WR:
Tyreek Hill ($25) - Last yr of contract - can cut for 25% cap penalty
Scary Terry ($20) - Last yr of contract - can cut for 25% cap penalty
Christian Kirk ($21) - Last yr of contract - can cut for 25% cap penalty
Chris Olave ($17) - Last yr of contract - can cut for 25% cap penalty
BTJ ($24) - New Contract - can cut without penalty
Demario Douglas ($1) - 2nd yr contract
Jalen McMillan ($5) - New Contract - can cut without penalty
Jalen Coker ($1) - New Contract - can cut without penalty
Mike Williams ($1) - New Contract - can cut without penalty
JuJu ($1) - New Contract - can cut without penalty

TE:
Bowers ($22) - New Contract - can cut without penalty
Hunter Henry ($4) - 2nd yr contract (50% penalty if cut)
Stone Smartt ($1) - New Contract - can cut without penalty

As you can see by my main WRs, it would've been amazing if their last yr of contract was this past season as they would all have much lower contract prices ($1-$18) which would be much lower except for maybe Scary who would be ($23). And anyone acquiring them will be getting a new contracts for them based on how the finish this season. But like I said, with the high price tag it'll be hard to move them so they'll need to be moved and/or cut.

The team that actually has extra cap dollars owns Diggs, so I tried packaging Hill, Kirk, Douglas, BMW, my 3.11, and my 4.08 to him for his late 1st rd pick (1.10) (he has 3 firsts - 1.04, 1.10, 1.12), we swap my 2.08 for his 2.04, and $12 in cap dollars. His team is rebuilding and he has no one really.

He had no interest and said he didn't want old players. I then went back and forth and he basically trash talked Hill saying he's too old. I argued that he played with an injured wrist (which he got surgery for after the season) and ran 22.01mph, which was 3rd fastest time in 2024. I then offered to give him trade insurance that if he didnt get over 1k yards I would take him back for a 2nd rd pick. Again he declined and basically stopped responding.

I tried to engage again with a bunch of different offers (doing only swap picks so he didn't technically lose a pick) but we eventually ended up getting into a heated argument bc he wouldn't even negotiate in good faith with a counter or even respond. My last play will be to ask if he has any interest in Olave before completely giving up on working out a deal with him. I legit tried to do everything in his favor but he's being an *******.

I haven't reached out to any other owners or sent an email to the league with the players/picks I'm putting on the block yet so maybe there's something I'm overlooking and a team can maybe work out a deal but I'm not holding my breathe. I have also made a proposal to the commish that would enable us to acquire more cap dollars at the expense of our draft picks. This is currently being discussed so there could be some hope and if that comes to fruition, I'll provide an update here bc that could change who I keep/cut.

In a perfect world, if I could keep who I want it would cost a total of $204, which is $54 over the cap.

This is who I'm thinking of cutting:

All RBs below Brooks
Scary Terry ($20) - Last yr of contract - can cut for 25% cap penalty
Christian Kirk ($21) - Last yr of contract - can cut for 25% cap penalty
Chris Olave ($17) - Last yr of contract - can cut for 25% cap penalty
Mike Williams ($1) - New Contract
JuJu ($1) - New Contract
Hunter Henry ($4) - 2nd yr contract (50% penalty if cut)
Stone Smartt ($1) - New Contract

Total cap penalties is $16, so I have to roster my team for $134 instead of $150.

The new total of my keepers is $146, which puts me $12 over the cap.

Keepers:
Herbert ($16)
Goff ($23) - New Contract

Chase Brown ($22) - New Contract
Ekeler ($5) - New Contract
Jaylen Wright ($1) - New Contract
Johnathan Brooks ($1) - New Contract

Tyreek Hill ($25) - Last yr of contract - can cut for 25% cap penalty
BTJ ($24) - New Contract
Demario Douglas ($1) - 2nd yr contract
Jalen McMillan ($5) - New Contract
Jalen Coker ($1) - New Contract

TE:
Bowers ($22) - New Contract

I have 8 picks: 1.02, 2.02, 2.08, 3.01, 3.11, 4.02, 4.08, 5.11...then we have later rd picks to fill out the roster

If going with the above cuts/keeps, it may be easier to work out a deal with that dickhead owner for $12 cap instead of some of the higher amounts I asked for in a few previous offers.

So based on my roster and current plans, who would you keep and cut? I can provide more insight into why I'm keeping or cutting specific players but this post was getting really long, so just ask if you need me to.

Thanks for taking the time to read and help!
Quick update:

The commish is going to send my proposal of the pick burning for cap $ to the league and he's also going to propose increasing the salary cap by $10. Both will more than likely get approved.

The other manager I had been trying to work a deal with finally presented an offer. He wants Tyreek, Ekeler, and swap my 2.08 for his 2.04 and he'll give me $13 in cap.

I'm going to ask for $14 in cap and to swap his 2.04 for my 3.01 instead + 2 of his 5th round picks. If I'm able to get this done, I can keep Scary, Olave, and Kirk at WR and have ALL my draft picks, plus I can then burn all 3 5th rd picks I'll have for $6 in cap and try and get a 4th rd pick in return.

So the question is, which WRs and picks would you rather have in dynasty? All 4 of these WRs are in their last yr of contract so how they finish the season will determine their new contract price.

Option 1: Tyreek + Olave + Picks (1.02, 2.02, 2.08, 3.01, 5.11)

Option 2: Tyreek + Olave + Scary + Picks (1.02, 2.02)

Option 3: Olave + Scary + Kirk + Picks (1.02, 2.02, 2.08, 3.01, 3.11, 4.02, 4.08, 5.11)
 
Cade Otton value check....

I have McBride and Kmet. Offered Otton for my 3.09. I plan on using that pick for an RB (old room: Conner; CMC; Mixon; Warren). Is that worth taking?
 
Cade Otton value check....

I have McBride and Kmet. Offered Otton for my 3.09. I plan on using that pick for an RB (old room: Conner; CMC; Mixon; Warren). Is that worth taking?
IMO no, not even if it's TEP.

Really only did anything in the first few games immediately after Evans and Godwin went down. I mean if you want to take a positive outlook that showed if they need him he can be a reliable piece, but he's probably going to be competing with a RB for 4th in team targets.
 
Cade Otton value check....

I have McBride and Kmet. Offered Otton for my 3.09. I plan on using that pick for an RB (old room: Conner; CMC; Mixon; Warren). Is that worth taking?
IMO no, not even if it's TEP.

Really only did anything in the first few games immediately after Evans and Godwin went down. I mean if you want to take a positive outlook that showed if they need him he can be a reliable piece, but he's probably going to be competing with a RB for 4th in team targets.
Agree here. As an Otton owner, his value is dropping due to the depth of rookie TE in this class. Otton lost his OC and became an afterthought to the run game as an extra blocker. Pass
 
I have Estime and Jv Williams as a pick one for my final cuts for FFPC league. Both DAL and DEN are said to be in the RB draft sweepstakes, with either possibly taking Jeanty.
Who should I keep? Neither did much last year. Estime is younger. Williams should be better, but hasnt shown it.
I can probably trade Williams and get a mid rd pick, doubt I can get anything for Big 'Dric.
 
I have Estime and Jv Williams as a pick one for my final cuts for FFPC league. Both DAL and DEN are said to be in the RB draft sweepstakes, with either possibly taking Jeanty.
Who should I keep? Neither did much last year. Estime is younger. Williams should be better, but hasnt shown it.
I can probably trade Williams and get a mid rd pick, doubt I can get anything for Big 'Dric.
I’m facing this in a couple of leagues and I’m keeping Javonte….because I flipped a coin ;)
 
Superflex question - I have the 1.04, and am incredibly set at WR/TE right now, two questions:

a) What level of RB or QB would you give up to trade into that spot straight up
b) If you held the pick, what would you be looking for in addition to something like the 1.07/1.08 to move down a few spots?

This may change if either of the OSU backs get an elite landing spot in the real draft, I'm just incredibly scared of our draft starting Jeanty/Ward/Hampton in some order given I have really no interest in Tet and close to the same interest in Burden at that spot, so trying to gauge what I should be looking for as a cash out if it comes to that
 
Superflex question - I have the 1.04, and am incredibly set at WR/TE right now, two questions:

a) What level of RB or QB would you give up to trade into that spot straight up
b) If you held the pick, what would you be looking for in addition to something like the 1.07/1.08 to move down a few spots?

This may change if either of the OSU backs get an elite landing spot in the real draft, I'm just incredibly scared of our draft starting Jeanty/Ward/Hampton in some order given I have really no interest in Tet and close to the same interest in Burden at that spot, so trying to gauge what I should be looking for as a cash out if it comes to that
Now for you readers out there, pay attention, this is how you phrase an asst coach post in the shark pool.

If you don’t want TET, I wouldn’t have any problem drafting Henderson or Judkins at 1.04, in that order, if the scenario you mentioned plays out.
 
Superflex question - I have the 1.04, and am incredibly set at WR/TE right now, two questions:

a) What level of RB or QB would you give up to trade into that spot straight up
b) If you held the pick, what would you be looking for in addition to something like the 1.07/1.08 to move down a few spots?

This may change if either of the OSU backs get an elite landing spot in the real draft, I'm just incredibly scared of our draft starting Jeanty/Ward/Hampton in some order given I have really no interest in Tet and close to the same interest in Burden at that spot, so trying to gauge what I should be looking for as a cash out if it comes to that
I'm not sure you'll get a ton of traction trading out of the 1.04 spot because teams that are QB needy will want to move up higher and teams that are WR/RB/TE needy will likely stay put because of perceived rookie depth in the 1st. 1.04 is a classic "take BPA" slot and then worry about roster build in-season.
 
Devy question:

Any sites that rank 2025-2027 classes together for dynasty? Trying to get an idea of value of 2025 vs 2026-2027. Plenty of rankings for 2025 and for 2026-2027 Devy, but nothing that shows them all matched up.

Thanks in advance,
 
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Anyone trading for Chris Olave as a high risk high reward kind of target? Considering lobbing up the 2.04 (superflex TEP) to the current owner to see where he stands.
 
Anyone trading for Chris Olave as a high risk high reward kind of target? Considering lobbing up the 2.04 (superflex TEP) to the current owner to see where he stands.
I have him in 3 leagues (1 SF, 2 not. All FFPC) and I think it depends on your WR strength and depth.
In all my leagues where I roster him, I don’t feel deep enough at WR to sell and take a 2nd. I’d rather just roll the dice and hold on for his upside and hope he stays healthy.
 
Are you willing to overpay for a player (via trade) if you believe that player is on the verge of breaking out? Or should you only overpay for a player that has already broken out? The degree of overpay needs to be discussed. You overpay, but not to the degree of overpaying for a player already broken out. The concept is that you overpay to a smaller degree for a non-broken-out player. This is not something I do often, but I have done it now and then in the past. I'm curious about how other dynasty managers approached this concept.

For instance, take a tight end like Isaiah Likely. He is in a contract year. He is clearly talented, and Mark Andrews is also on a contract year( Chalire Kolar as well ). I see Isaiah Likley as a breakout this season or next. There is plenty of slip between a cup and lip that can go wrong for Likley, but I just overpaid for him after a back-and-forth with another manager, which took about a month to complete the deal. The main part of the negotiations took four days. We had been lightly talking for at least a month. His value, according to charts, was lower. I don't like looking at trade charts too extensively because of the lack of control of the parameters of such charts and analyzers, and it takes the fun out of it for me. I always look after. I did look at a few during the conversations, and I was clearly overpaying. I did notice, though, that the price was going up over 30 days in completed trades.

What are your views and ideas on this concept?
 
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Are you willing to overpay for a player (via trade) if you believe that player is on the verge of breaking out? Or should you only overpay for a player that has already broken out? The degree of overpay needs to be discussed. You overpay but not to the degree of overpay for a player that has already broken out. The concept being you overpay to a smaller degree for a non-broken out player. This is not something I do often but I have done now and then in the past. I'm curious how other dynasty managers approach this concept.

For instance, take a tight end like Isaiah Likely. He is in a contract year. He is clearly talented and Mark Andrews is also on a contract year( Chalire Koler as well ). I see Isaiah Likley as a breakout this season or next. There is plenty of slip between a cup and lip so plenty can go wrong for Likley, but I just overpaid for him after a back and forth with another manager which took about a month to complete the deal. The main part of the negotiations took four days. We had been lightly talking for at least a month. His value according to charts was lower. I don't like looking at trade charts to extensively because lack of control of the parameters of such charts and analyzers., and it takes the fun out of it for me. I always look after. I did look at a few during the conversations and I was clearly overpaying. I did notice though in completed trades the price was going up over a 30 day period.

What are your views and ideas on this concept?
#1. Get your guy. The joy brought by getting "your guy" and him doing well completely outshines the sadness of him busting. You'll forget about that bust much more quickly than the guy you hand picked to break out.
#2. Overpayment is relative. For a guy like Likely, I assume that the overpay was probably the difference between a low first and a high second. In the grand scheme of things, that's not a ton.
#3 Aside from analyzing your own trade habits to better understand weaknesses, I don't tend to go back and evaluate trades after the fact. Sure, use the body of work to help figure out any weaknesses you may have in playing this fake sport. Otherwise, comparison is the thief of joy.
#4 Thanks for using a new idiom that I've never heard! I had to look up the meaning of "plenty of slip between cup and lip".
 
Anyone trading for Chris Olave as a high risk high reward kind of target? Considering lobbing up the 2.04 (superflex TEP) to the current owner to see where he stands.
I love Olave and have followed him since his Ohio State days, but he is a player I'm avoiding. The concussions and Carr maybe have taken his last snap in New Orleans is just too much for me. Breaking in a rookie QB or some bridge QB, then the rookie, is just more than my tolerance can bear. I think his price should come down, but managers might be reluctant to do deals for lesser prices right now with everything in the air. I'm avoiding him 100%.
 
Are you willing to overpay for a player (via trade) if you believe that player is on the verge of breaking out? Or should you only overpay for a player that has already broken out? The degree of overpay needs to be discussed. You overpay but not to the degree of overpay for a player that has already broken out. The concept being you overpay to a smaller degree for a non-broken out player. This is not something I do often but I have done now and then in the past. I'm curious how other dynasty managers approach this concept.

For instance, take a tight end like Isaiah Likely. He is in a contract year. He is clearly talented and Mark Andrews is also on a contract year( Chalire Koler as well ). I see Isaiah Likley as a breakout this season or next. There is plenty of slip between a cup and lip so plenty can go wrong for Likley, but I just overpaid for him after a back and forth with another manager which took about a month to complete the deal. The main part of the negotiations took four days. We had been lightly talking for at least a month. His value according to charts was lower. I don't like looking at trade charts to extensively because lack of control of the parameters of such charts and analyzers., and it takes the fun out of it for me. I always look after. I did look at a few during the conversations and I was clearly overpaying. I did notice though in completed trades the price was going up over a 30 day period.

What are your views and ideas on this concept?
#1. Get your guy. The joy brought by getting "your guy" and him doing well completely outshines the sadness of him busting. You'll forget about that bust much more quickly than the guy you hand picked to break out.
#2. Overpayment is relative. For a guy like Likely, I assume that the overpay was probably the difference between a low first and a high second. In the grand scheme of things, that's not a ton.
#3 Aside from analyzing your own trade habits to better understand weaknesses, I don't tend to go back and evaluate trades after the fact. Sure, use the body of work to help figure out any weaknesses you may have in playing this fake sport. Otherwise, comparison is the thief of joy.
#4 Thanks for using a new idiom that I've never heard! I had to look up the meaning of "plenty of slip between cup and lip".
I assume that the overpay was probably the difference between a low first and a high second.
2025 2.11, 2025 3.7, and 2026 2nd.
 
Are you willing to overpay for a player (via trade) if you believe that player is on the verge of breaking out? Or should you only overpay for a player that has already broken out? The degree of overpay needs to be discussed. You overpay but not to the degree of overpay for a player that has already broken out. The concept being you overpay to a smaller degree for a non-broken out player. This is not something I do often but I have done now and then in the past. I'm curious how other dynasty managers approach this concept.

For instance, take a tight end like Isaiah Likely. He is in a contract year. He is clearly talented and Mark Andrews is also on a contract year( Chalire Koler as well ). I see Isaiah Likley as a breakout this season or next. There is plenty of slip between a cup and lip so plenty can go wrong for Likley, but I just overpaid for him after a back and forth with another manager which took about a month to complete the deal. The main part of the negotiations took four days. We had been lightly talking for at least a month. His value according to charts was lower. I don't like looking at trade charts to extensively because lack of control of the parameters of such charts and analyzers., and it takes the fun out of it for me. I always look after. I did look at a few during the conversations and I was clearly overpaying. I did notice though in completed trades the price was going up over a 30 day period.

What are your views and ideas on this concept?
#1. Get your guy. The joy brought by getting "your guy" and him doing well completely outshines the sadness of him busting. You'll forget about that bust much more quickly than the guy you hand picked to break out.
#2. Overpayment is relative. For a guy like Likely, I assume that the overpay was probably the difference between a low first and a high second. In the grand scheme of things, that's not a ton.
#3 Aside from analyzing your own trade habits to better understand weaknesses, I don't tend to go back and evaluate trades after the fact. Sure, use the body of work to help figure out any weaknesses you may have in playing this fake sport. Otherwise, comparison is the thief of joy.
#4 Thanks for using a new idiom that I've never heard! I had to look up the meaning of "plenty of slip between cup and lip".
I assume that the overpay was probably the difference between a low first and a high second.
2025 2.11, 2025 3.7, and 2026 2nd.
Yeah, I don't consider that an overpay. Likely is clearly talented and there will be some change in the TE situation in Baltimore in 25 or 26. I think it's a smart gamble.
 

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