New League.. Dynasty or Keeper? (1 Viewer)

[chiefs2929]

Well I am new to the forum, been lurking around a little bit.

Anyways I have managed a league the last couple years and we have just used the standard 10 team snake draft no keepers. Wanting to start up a new league with mostly the same guys and make it a little more interesting and involved. I am toying around with the idea of dynasty or keeper league and want some opinions on which is better and why.

Share you stories, sell me on which is better. Also feel free to post scoring rules that work well. I am not interested in PPR. Where is the best place to make a keeper or dynasty league? I have used yahoo and espn.

Thanks

 

[flc735]

dynasties are much better, but if this is your first time, your gonna have a bad time. especially since it seems that your other league mates would be new to the dynasty format as well, its a better idea to first try a keeper league. its much easier to rebuild in a keeper if you draft a bad team

 

[bengalbuck]

I love dynasty but I think my favorite league is one I'm in that forces you to cut down your roster to 15 before the rookie draft. Basically a 15 team keeper league, which is very similar to dynasty, but still allows for more interesting annual drafts.

So everyone gets down to 15 in the offseason, then there's a 4 round rookie only draft. Then a 5 round "supplemental" draft with vets who weren't rostered and rookies who didn't go in the first 4 rounds.

Makes it tougher to stash young guys long-term, but also makes it easier to rebuild and adds some fun with a meaningful draft each offseason. Allows teams more methods to rebuild if they screw up the initial draft. For example, last year guys like Antonio Brown, Demaryius Thomas, Victor Cruz, Willis McGahee, Fred Davis, Heyward-Bey, Tim Hightower, etc. were all available in the supplemental draft.

Also spurs trading as deeper teams can move guys for draft picks to other teams or try to make 2 for 1 type deals.

It does sort of hurt to cut some of those youngsters that you like who aren't in your top 15, but the increased activity makes it more than worth it in my opinion.

 

[sspunisher]

If you've never played either, I'd recommend you start with keeper. Try that for a year or two and then you can transition into a dynasty. Making mistakes in dynasty startup drafts can set an owners back years, and some unfortunately lose interest.

 

[Wyld Stallyns]

All of my leagues are redraft except one keeper league – at the end of the day that keeper league never feels much different than the redrafts though because we're only allowed to keep 1 player.

I can't speak to whether or not you should jump straight into the dynasty deep end, but I will say that if you do do a keeper league you'll be far better off allowing multiple keepers. I'd go with 3 personally, that'd thin the redraft field out enough but not too much and allows owners to build a little more of a 'core' to build around from year to year. Kind of the halfway point between dynasty and redraft.