Most Realistic Dynasty League Experience (1 Viewer)

[TheMathNinja]

Hey Sharks,

What factors have you found necessary in creating a dynasty league with the most realistic NFL GM experience? Post links to leagues and their bylaws that you have found to be "The real GM experience" and what about the league makes you feel exactly like an NFL GM.

 

[Eminence]

Contact Dynasty League. After the initial draft, you must give your player a contract length between 1 - 4 years. This allows you to use a "Franchise Tag" once a year to protect a single player and makes the annual "Free Agent" draft a blast.

If anyone wants to start one of these, I'll gladly be commissioner. They're a lot of fun, especially if buy-ins are about $50 and we use leaguesafe.

EDIT: Without contracts, the smarter teams will hoard all the good players leaving little competitive balance.

 

[FUBAR]

Contact Dynasty League. After the initial draft, you must give your player a contract length between 1 - 4 years. This allows you to use a "Franchise Tag" once a year to protect a single player and makes the annual "Free Agent" draft a blast.

If anyone wants to start one of these, I'll gladly be commissioner. They're a lot of fun, especially if buy-ins are about $50 and we use leaguesafe.

EDIT: Without contracts, the smarter teams will hoard all the good players leaving little competitive balance.

Draft?

Auction, large league, contacts

 

[Tool]

If someone's caught with weed, they can't play in the league for a year. It's a lot of fun breaking into people's houses and going through stuff trying to catch them.

 

[FreeBaGeL]

Agreed on contract leagues, though we put a cap on total contract years rather than individual contracts. It adds a lot to the offseason as well with restricted free agency and whatnot. It also gives the bad teams a better chance at a rebuild.

Been running for about 9 years now and everyone loves it. By-laws: http://www.clan-loh.com/dynasty/rules.php

 

[BroadwayG]

32 team auction-contract IDP

 

[fruity pebbles]

32 team auction-contract IDP

yep

 

[SelenaCat]

Auction and contracts that escalate based on performance, with cap penalties if you drop them before completing their contract.

Deep rosters and IDP are a must.

And the dynasty league I'm in has no waiver wire (although you may replace an injured player with player in the same position on the same team), which adds an interesting element if you don't want the super-deep rosters that makes WW truly the wasteland it should be.

 

[WagesOfZin]

i participate in a deep dynasty league that uses salary cap, contracts (along with cap penalties for cutting players before their contract is up), a rookie draft, an offseason FA auction, transition tags, contract extensions, franchise tags, "protected" rights to players in their first 4 years in the league, IDP, PKs and PNs. it's the closest i've come to "the real thing" in FF.

EDIT: there are also in-season blind bid waivers.

2ND EDIT: 12 teams, 34 player active rosters, 7 player taxi squads (players with 1 or 2 yrs in the league are eligible as long as they've never been on your active roster during a regular season game), rookie draft is straight in reverse order of previous year's final standings.

 

[Amused to Death]

Agreed on contract leagues, though we put a cap on total contract years rather than individual contracts. It adds a lot to the offseason as well with restricted free agency and whatnot. It also gives the bad teams a better chance at a rebuild.

Been running for about 9 years now and everyone loves it. By-laws: http://www.clan-loh.com/dynasty/rules.php

We do both actually. We have a max number of contract years you can assign with a max per player. We can't just give max contracts to every player. Rookies are less than veteran FAs.

Salary cap, auction with contract limits. Awesome league entering our 12th year with only 1 owner change.

 

[Khy]

I'd like to see one that was very realistic vs NFL standards.

16-32 team, IDP, 45 man rosters

Salary Cap

Snake 7 Round Rookie Draft

Franchise Tag

Escalating signings - Feel like you should be able to resign a player before they become a UFA. But you need to pay the massive premium for them. Some form of tiered salary system here would work, if they just finished say #1 should be it's own tier, Top 10 at their position another and so on. So if you can make the cap room work and sign them to a new longer deal then you should be able too.

Auction FA Draft - Similar to the NFL. Everyone gets to bid one the FA's available.

Practice Squad - 1-2 slots, players to stash... cannot be activated mid-season. Does not use up contract time. And can't be a pro for more than... 2 seasons? So essentially, this would be for guys like say Blake Bortles or Donte Moncrief. Someone to stash and not harm your roster slots and not harm their contracts. But if they happen to blow up a lot sooner than you thought, you'd screwed and have to watch them make tons of points on your bench. Also something where another team can offer them more than their contract, say double? And you can either match it or let them go? So say you have Bortles on a $6/5 year contract on your Practice Squad. If someone wants they can offer him $12/5 year contract and take him from you if you don't wanna match it. Think this would add a lot of interesting interactions to the league.

Starting Lineup - QB, RB, WR, WR, RB/WR, WR/TE,TE, K, DE, DE, DT, DT/LB, LB, LB, LB, CB, CB, S, S, CB/S - You should be forced to start legitimate styled teams. You can run a 4-3 defense if you want, a 3-4 if you want, base 3 Wide Set, or a 2 wide Iso Set, 2 TE set etc. Obviously scoring would have to be worked out a little to provide some level of incentive for actually running a 4-3 instead of a 3-4 base.

So yeah, I'd love to see something with these kinds of rules. If I had the time I'd try to setup and commish a league like this but I simply don't have that type of time on my hands.

 

[Noah Davis]

If you want the real GM experience as close as you can get then the answer is simple. Reality Sports Online. They've done all the heavy lifting for you - everything is handled by their software. 2-5 round rookie draft. Free agent auction with up to 4 year deals. Salary cap is 133Million (it was just adjusted this year). It was started by two NFL back-office guys so it is quite realistic.

I started a league there last year and I've included a copy of our bylaws. League of Ordinary Gentlemen constitution.

I've not found anything else on the market that is even relatively close.

 

[Khy]

If you want the real GM experience as close as you can get then the answer is simple. Reality Sports Online. They've done all the heavy lifting for you - everything is handled by their software. 2-5 round rookie draft. Free agent auction with up to 4 year deals. Salary cap is 133Million (it was just adjusted this year). It was started by two NFL back-office guys so it is quite realistic.

I started a league there last year and I've included a copy of our bylaws. League of Ordinary Gentlemen constitution.

I've not found anything else on the market that is even relatively close.

May want to make a copy of that and remove your guys personal contact info, just a thought.

 

[Noah Davis]

If you want the real GM experience as close as you can get then the answer is simple. Reality Sports Online. They've done all the heavy lifting for you - everything is handled by their software. 2-5 round rookie draft. Free agent auction with up to 4 year deals. Salary cap is 133Million (it was just adjusted this year). It was started by two NFL back-office guys so it is quite realistic.

I started a league there last year and I've included a copy of our bylaws. League of Ordinary Gentlemen constitution.

I've not found anything else on the market that is even relatively close.

May want to make a copy of that and remove your guys personal contact info, just a thought.

totally missed that.

 

[Holy Schneikes]

I was in a league with contracts, auctions, player cap years, total caps years, IDP, 32 team NFL divisions, etc. Great management and great group of guys, but I didn't like it. Just too much day to day management for my taste. Every day there were FAs in an auction and there were a lot of things that needed to be kept track of. I THOUGHT I would love it. But for me, it just didn't add much over the average dynasty league experience.

My point is, be careful what you wish for. By all means give it a shot if you want, but my feeling is that a lot of the things being used to "mimic" the NFL don't really quite do it, and you are left with a lot of micro-management with not a lot of bang for your buck. Some may love it though, and to each his own - just giving my perspective.

 

[Craig_MiamiFL]

If you want the real GM experience as close as you can get then the answer is simple. Reality Sports Online. They've done all the heavy lifting for you - everything is handled by their software. 2-5 round rookie draft. Free agent auction with up to 4 year deals. Salary cap is 133Million (it was just adjusted this year). It was started by two NFL back-office guys so it is quite realistic.

I started a league there last year and I've included a copy of our bylaws. League of Ordinary Gentlemen constitution.

I've not found anything else on the market that is even relatively close.

Looks like great site. I'd be interested in doing a league like this.

I'd prefer just joining one, but wouldn't mind setting one up/commishing one. (I would ask for deposit with everything held on LeagueSafe if setting up -- I assume that's the case across most dynasty/keeper types)

 

[Fariq]

I was in a league with contracts, auctions, player cap years, total caps years, IDP, 32 team NFL divisions, etc. Great management and great group of guys, but I didn't like it. Just too much day to day management for my taste. Every day there were FAs in an auction and there were a lot of things that needed to be kept track of. I THOUGHT I would love it. But for me, it just didn't add much over the average dynasty league experience.

My point is, be careful what you wish for. By all means give it a shot if you want, but my feeling is that a lot of the things being used to "mimic" the NFL don't really quite do it, and you are left with a lot of micro-management with not a lot of bang for your buck. Some may love it though, and to each his own - just giving my perspective.

I agree with you. Those leagues might be fun for the unemployed single men out there. If you are working full time and have a wife and kid(s), then it is going to tough to handle one of these salary cap leagues. I have been there. That sort of league was a big pain in the neck.

 

[Noah Davis]

If you want the real GM experience as close as you can get then the answer is simple. Reality Sports Online. They've done all the heavy lifting for you - everything is handled by their software. 2-5 round rookie draft. Free agent auction with up to 4 year deals. Salary cap is 133Million (it was just adjusted this year). It was started by two NFL back-office guys so it is quite realistic.

I started a league there last year and I've included a copy of our bylaws. League of Ordinary Gentlemen constitution.

I've not found anything else on the market that is even relatively close.

Looks like great site. I'd be interested in doing a league like this.

I'd prefer just joining one, but wouldn't mind setting one up/commishing one. (I would ask for deposit with everything held on LeagueSafe if setting up -- I assume that's the case across most dynasty/keeper types)

I can't say enough good things about them. I'm in two leagues there. One I'm the commish and the other is with one of the owners. Awesome guys who listen to their customers they've considerably improved the site functionality every year. If you get the FBG daily email I think a sign-up discount code is in one.

As a commish because of their software I don't have to keep track of anything. There is some time required up front to customize "your" league but outside of that it is as simple as Yahoo or ESPN leagues. I've got a full time job, married, with two kids and maybe spend an extra 10-30 minutes a week to be a commish.

 

[freshhh]

If you want the real GM experience as close as you can get then the answer is simple. Reality Sports Online. They've done all the heavy lifting for you - everything is handled by their software. 2-5 round rookie draft. Free agent auction with up to 4 year deals. Salary cap is 133Million (it was just adjusted this year). It was started by two NFL back-office guys so it is quite realistic.

I started a league there last year and I've included a copy of our bylaws. League of Ordinary Gentlemen constitution.

I've not found anything else on the market that is even relatively close.

Looks like great site. I'd be interested in doing a league like this.

I'd prefer just joining one, but wouldn't mind setting one up/commishing one. (I would ask for deposit with everything held on LeagueSafe if setting up -- I assume that's the case across most dynasty/keeper types)

This site looks awesome. I too would be interested.

 

[Khy]

If you want the real GM experience as close as you can get then the answer is simple. Reality Sports Online. They've done all the heavy lifting for you - everything is handled by their software. 2-5 round rookie draft. Free agent auction with up to 4 year deals. Salary cap is 133Million (it was just adjusted this year). It was started by two NFL back-office guys so it is quite realistic.

I started a league there last year and I've included a copy of our bylaws. League of Ordinary Gentlemen constitution.

I've not found anything else on the market that is even relatively close.

May want to make a copy of that and remove your guys personal contact info, just a thought.

totally missed that.

Yeah man, no problem

 

[FUBAR]

I was in a league with contracts, auctions, player cap years, total caps years, IDP, 32 team NFL divisions, etc. Great management and great group of guys, but I didn't like it. Just too much day to day management for my taste. Every day there were FAs in an auction and there were a lot of things that needed to be kept track of. I THOUGHT I would love it. But for me, it just didn't add much over the average dynasty league experience.

My point is, be careful what you wish for. By all means give it a shot if you want, but my feeling is that a lot of the things being used to "mimic" the NFL don't really quite do it, and you are left with a lot of micro-management with not a lot of bang for your buck. Some may love it though, and to each his own - just giving my perspective.

I agree with you. Those leagues might be fun for the unemployed single men out there. If you are working full time and have a wife and kid(s), then it is going to tough to handle one of these salary cap leagues. I have been there. That sort of league was a big pain in the neck.

They take time sure. Owner burn out is the biggest problem in these leagues.

 

[TheMathNinja]

i participate in a deep dynasty league that uses salary cap, contracts (along with cap penalties for cutting players before their contract is up), a rookie draft, an offseason FA auction, transition tags, contract extensions, franchise tags, "protected" rights to players in their first 4 years in the league, IDP, PKs and PNs. it's the closest i've come to "the real thing" in FF.

EDIT: there are also in-season blind bid waivers.

2ND EDIT: 12 teams, 34 player active rosters, 7 player taxi squads (players with 1 or 2 yrs in the league are eligible as long as they've never been on your active roster during a regular season game), rookie draft is straight in reverse order of previous year's final standings.

Could you include a link? I'd love see the specifics of taxi squad rules, extensions, tags, etc.

 

[ebsteelers]

great site will have to check it out.

the most realistic would probably be a 32 team idp salary cap league.

the problem with the 32 team qb league is you gotta have a double player pool or the qb position is skunked no matter how deep people say it is.

and if you do a double player pool in 32 team league do you keep the players in afc/nfc or can you have a title game where brady is playing brady

 

[ebsteelers]

It takes some seriously dedicated owners to play in those leagues.

seems like hours put in wont match the dollars out unless your strictly looking at it as a fun hobby and dont care about the monetary aspect.

Will need to look at more

 

[WagesOfZin]

i participate in a deep dynasty league that uses salary cap, contracts (along with cap penalties for cutting players before their contract is up), a rookie draft, an offseason FA auction, transition tags, contract extensions, franchise tags, "protected" rights to players in their first 4 years in the league, IDP, PKs and PNs. it's the closest i've come to "the real thing" in FF.

EDIT: there are also in-season blind bid waivers.

2ND EDIT: 12 teams, 34 player active rosters, 7 player taxi squads (players with 1 or 2 yrs in the league are eligible as long as they've never been on your active roster during a regular season game), rookie draft is straight in reverse order of previous year's final standings.

Could you include a link? I'd love see the specifics of taxi squad rules, extensions, tags, etc.

http://www24.myfantasyleague.com/2014/home/29272#0