The Dynasty "Next Move" Thread (1 Viewer)

[eighsse2]

So, I know there's a whole Assistant Coach forum, but we do a lot of advice seeking here, too, and that forum just isn't very popular. But sorry if this is a dumb idea.

The thought here is, a lot of people want to ask a specific question about what to do regarding a certain player or trade offer, but why not see if the sharks have any "freestyle" advice as to where you should be looking next? Post your dynasty roster, league specs, future picks, anything that's important to know, without necessarily saying anything about what your plan is going forward. And just see if somebody wants to chime in and say what their next general move would be. Things like:

• "You're good where you are, don't make any moves unless somebody wants to offer you something clearly beneficial for you."
• "You're great at RB, maybe shop Bucky Irving to see if you could get that top TE that you're missing."
• "You're on the brink of a championship-type of team. Try to unload those three first-round picks for a couple more solid players."

Whereas something like "Try to trade for Puka Nacua" may be too specific, since you would have no idea what the Nacua owner's roster looks like, so you wouldn't know if it made sense for him to trade Nacua.

I dunno, just a thought. Some potential cons:
• Any given poster may have similar advice regarding every dynasty team due to his own personal dynasty style. "Trade your picks away." / "Trade your picks away." / "Trade your picks away." / ...
• An entire team is a lot of information to take in. Not many people may be willing to put in that kind of time and effort to give any advice at all.
• Some advice may be pretty obvious. "You have absolutely garbage WR's, and 5 of the top 24 RB's. Hmmm, I wonder what you should do ..."

 

[Jppaul]

ok, i'll go. I have two great teams and one rebuild.

How good is next year's rookie class, particularly WR?

I have five first round picks and four second round picks next year. Is next year's class expected to be good or should I be looking a different direction for rebuild?

 

[JohnnyU]

ok, i'll go. I have two great teams and one rebuild.

How good is next year's rookie class, particularly WR?

I have five first round picks and four second round picks next year. Is next year's class expected to be good or should I be looking a different direction for rebuild?

I don’t think next year’s rookie WRs and TEs are that good. QB is strong. RBs have a couple decent ones in Love and Taylor, but not that deep. Baxter is a wildcard coming off a major knee injury. 2027 is the year for WRs.

 

[-OZ-]

I’ll give it a go. 12 team SF League I won last year, we added two additional IDP flex spots this year.

QB ( 1 + flex) - Caleb, nix, Bryce, Flacco, Ty Taylor, hooker, rattler, Winston

RB (2 + 3 flex) - Henry, Achane, Breece, J Wright, I Davis, Mullings, J Hunter, Crosby-merritt, T brooks

WR (3 + 3 flex) Evans, BTjr, G Wilson, DK, Mims, Odunze, Lockett, Whittington, restrepo, J horn

TE (1 + 3 flex) Ertz, Kincaid, Ferguson, sanders, Theo Johnson

DL (2, 3 flex) hutch, Garrett, will Anderson, paye, tuimoloau

LB (2, 3 flex) Roquan, Logan Wilson, Spillane, J Campbell, Trevin Wallace

DB (2, 3 flex) Cam Bynum, d James, watts, battle, Winston

I think I’m in decent shape, 3 starters are old (, Evans, Ertz), but mostly young. TE and DB need work. solid overall. But I’m not sure what’s left to do.

I have all my 2026 and 27 picks plus the 27 first from probably the worst team.

 

[-OZ-]

ok, i'll go. I have two great teams and one rebuild.

How good is next year's rookie class, particularly WR?

I have five first round picks and four second round picks next year. Is next year's class expected to be good or should I be looking a different direction for rebuild?

If possible, trade 26 picks for a player you like plus a 27 first.

 

[eighsse2]

I’ll give it a go. 12 team SF League I won last year, we added two additional IDP flex spots this year.

QB ( 1 + flex) - Caleb, nix, Bryce, Flacco, Ty Taylor, hooker, rattler, Winston

RB (2 + 3 flex) - Henry, Achane, Breece, J Wright, I Davis, Mullings, J Hunter, Crosby-merritt, T brooks

WR (3 + 3 flex) Evans, BTjr, G Wilson, DK, Mims, Odunze, Lockett, Whittington, restrepo, J horn

TE (1 + 3 flex) Ertz, Kincaid, Ferguson, sanders, Theo Johnson

DL (2, 3 flex) hutch, Garrett, will Anderson, paye, tuimoloau

LB (2, 3 flex) Roquan, Logan Wilson, Spillane, J Campbell, Trevin Wallace

DB (2, 3 flex) Cam Bynum, d James, watts, battle, Winston

I think I’m in decent shape, 3 starters are old (, Evans, Ertz), but mostly young. TE and DB need work. solid overall. But I’m not sure what’s left to do.

I have all my 2026 and 27 picks plus the 27 first from probably the worst team.

So how many total roster spots do you get? Since that will determine how many you eventually have to drop.

 

[-OZ-]

I’ll give it a go. 12 team SF League I won last year, we added two additional IDP flex spots this year.

QB ( 1 + flex) - Caleb, nix, Bryce, Flacco, Ty Taylor, hooker, rattler, Winston

RB (2 + 3 flex) - Henry, Achane, Breece, J Wright, I Davis, Mullings, J Hunter, Crosby-merritt, T brooks

WR (3 + 3 flex) Evans, BTjr, G Wilson, DK, Mims, Odunze, Lockett, Whittington, restrepo, J horn

TE (1 + 3 flex) Ertz, Kincaid, Ferguson, sanders, Theo Johnson

DL (2, 3 flex) hutch, Garrett, will Anderson, paye, tuimoloau

LB (2, 3 flex) Roquan, Logan Wilson, Spillane, J Campbell, Trevin Wallace

DB (2, 3 flex) Cam Bynum, d James, watts, battle, Winston

I think I’m in decent shape, 3 starters are old (, Evans, Ertz), but mostly young. TE and DB need work. solid overall. But I’m not sure what’s left to do.

I have all my 2026 and 27 picks plus the 27 first from probably the worst team.

So how many total roster spots do you get? Since that will determine how many you eventually have to drop.

48 The roster is maxed, but no additional drops.

 

[eighsse2]

I’ll give it a go. 12 team SF League I won last year, we added two additional IDP flex spots this year.

QB ( 1 + flex) - Caleb, nix, Bryce, Flacco, Ty Taylor, hooker, rattler, Winston

RB (2 + 3 flex) - Henry, Achane, Breece, J Wright, I Davis, Mullings, J Hunter, Crosby-merritt, T brooks

WR (3 + 3 flex) Evans, BTjr, G Wilson, DK, Mims, Odunze, Lockett, Whittington, restrepo, J horn

TE (1 + 3 flex) Ertz, Kincaid, Ferguson, sanders, Theo Johnson

DL (2, 3 flex) hutch, Garrett, will Anderson, paye, tuimoloau

LB (2, 3 flex) Roquan, Logan Wilson, Spillane, J Campbell, Trevin Wallace

DB (2, 3 flex) Cam Bynum, d James, watts, battle, Winston

I think I’m in decent shape, 3 starters are old (, Evans, Ertz), but mostly young. TE and DB need work. solid overall. But I’m not sure what’s left to do.

I have all my 2026 and 27 picks plus the 27 first from probably the worst team.

So how many total roster spots do you get? Since that will determine how many you eventually have to drop.

48 The roster is maxed, but no additional drops.

Ohh, yeah, I hadn't even noticed you clearly have already had your rookie draft. My bad. Anyway, IDP definitely not my forte as I've never played it.

I guess my first thought is, on the offensive side, you're in a good-not-great place all around. No real weakness, but not stacked either, though you do have the potential for a monster 1-2-3 punch at RB, two of which are young. Nice mix at WR. Three high potential young QB's seems like a really good place to be in 2QB.

So far this feels like nothing more than a "rate my team" deal, but I suppose that would have to be the first step in the process.

Such a vastly different league from mine ... hmmmmmmmm. I'm gonna have to leave it at that for now and see if I have any better thoughts later.

 

[-OZ-]

So far this feels like nothing more than a "rate my team" deal, but I suppose that would have to be the first step in the process.

Yeah, the first step in assessing what to do is to see where you currently are, then where you want to go. It’s like reading a map.

 

[mjb03003]

12 team Superflex, TE Prem (2.0)

Took over this orphan this offseason. Made a bunch of trades to firmly punt 2025 and position myself for 2026/27.

QB: Drake Maye, Jalen Milroe, Joe Milton, Gardner Minshew, Aiden O’Connell

RB: Omarion Hampton, TreVeyon Henderson, Bhayshul Tuten, Rachaad White, Kendre Miller

WR: Tee Higgins, Jayden Higgins, Luther Burden, Quentin Johnston, Jalen Royals, DeMario Douglas, Kayshon Boutte, Troy Franklin, Jimmy Horn, Tutu Atwell

TE: Trey McBride, Mason Taylor, Isaiah Likely, Tyler Conklin

Picks: my own 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and an extra 2026 2nd (likely late)


Some of my own ideas…curious what others think:

QB - gotta be patient here because I’m tanking this year so no point in having a QB2 scoring a bunch of points.

RB - I’m basically willing to move any of these guys for WR/TE/future picks if the value is right. I don’t want to build around RBs but that’s where the value was in this draft so I took guys I think will at least hold their value.

WR - would love to deal Tee Higgins for a guy a couple years younger and less injury prone. But he seems like the kind of guy I can get more for in season. I also think he’s a stud when healthy and wouldn’t be opposed to simply holding.

TE - trying to stay stacked/strong at TE and continuously looking to add here if opportunities present.

 

[Mistakes Were Made]

How good is next year's rookie class, particularly WR?

No one knows. Automatically ignore anyone who expresses any sort of confidence. In a superflex league, it would have been totally reasonable to believe that Carson Beck, Sheduer, and Ollie Gordon would be the top 3 picks 365 days ago. None of those panned out.

We think the WR class sucks next year. It probably does. There will certainly be 2 or 3 guys who establish themselves as no doubt about it 1st rounders in 12 team SF. Ricky Pearsall, Jayden Daniels, Cam Ward, Matthew Golden, RJ Harvey, and Bo Nix are the proof in the pudding.

 

[menobrown]

We'll probably not have a flat out horrible WR class in the foreseeable future, but there will some classes that look so great it'll make it feel like it sometimes.

 

[Penguin]

ok, i'll go. I have two great teams and one rebuild.

How good is next year's rookie class, particularly WR?

I have five first round picks and four second round picks next year. Is next year's class expected to be good or should I be looking a different direction for rebuild?

If your looking for WR's the 2027 class has two of the best in recent years in Ryan Williams & Jeremiah Smith. I'd trade some 2026 picks to get up to the top 2-3 in 2027

 

[Ramblin Wreck]

2026 looks like a good QB year with or without Arch Manning. 2027 looks like the good WR season as Penguin just mentioned.

 

[InDitkaWeTrust]

This team, man. This team. 12 team 1QB short-ish benches. No TEP. Dunno if it's luck or the makeup of the team but it's been a contender for the past few years and never gotten over the hump. My main beef with this roster is that there are a lot of very good players and no true alpha studs (BTJ is arguable).

QB: hurts, tua
RB: Kamara, Bucky, walker III, Mixon, Hubbard , Ford
WR: BTJ, Godwin, D Smith, kupp, Pittman, Mooney, Wandale, Golden, QJ, Hopkins
TE: Andrews, njoku, Kmet, likely
Def: kc, gb, chi

I have all my 26 and 27 picks

Where do I go from here to get over the hump?

 

[eighsse2]

This team, man. This team. 12 team 1QB short-ish benches. No TEP. Dunno if it's luck or the makeup of the team but it's been a contender for the past few years and never gotten over the hump. My main beef with this roster is that there are a lot of very good players and no true alpha studs (BTJ is arguable).

QB: hurts, tua
RB: Kamara, Bucky, walker III, Mixon, Hubbard , Ford
WR: BTJ, Godwin, D Smith, kupp, Pittman, Mooney, Wandale, Golden, QJ, Hopkins
TE: Andrews, njoku, Kmet, likely
Def: kc, gb, chi

I have all my 26 and 27 picks

Where do I go from here to get over the hump?

• The first thing that jumps out at me, probably falls into the category of one issue I mentioned in the opening post (that is, some people may just give the same advice for every team, because they have a particular style). And that thing is, I almost never hold more than one DST, though I can half-understand holding two. But I can't imagine ever having three. I'd always rather have one more prospect, there's always a flyer or five hanging out there as free agents that I'd like to have.

But again. That's a style thing. But that's the next thing I'd be looking at personally.

• How many RB/WR/TE/FX do you start? I see you apparently have 25-man rosters which is more than I'm used to, so that could make it harder to find worthwhile prospect free agents.

• I agree that you have a lot of really good guys, but limited superstars, other than old superstars.

• Another thing that is just my personal style is to not consider it a problem if I'm contending but failing to win it all. You could be the best team every year for five years and never win it, there's too much luck involved to assume that anything is wrong with what you have been doing if you are winning a good percentage of all of your matches. (Not that it means there isn't any way to do things better, either.)

 

[wgoldsph]

Ten team, 4th year, regular ppr, 3 ts spots

Burrow

Barkley (traded 1.8 and Odunze for him), Pacheco, T Tracy, J Warren, J Williams, J McLaughlin, I Davis

Jet Jefferson, Garrett Wilson, Tee Higgins, R Shaheed, K Shakir, S Diggs

Ertz, Friermouth

2.7, 2.8 (late 3rd picks are worthless imo)

TS A Richardson, Penix, Adoni

A part of me wants to move Higgins for a stronger RB2, but I don't think I can get anywhere near the value of just having him on my roster.

 

[InDitkaWeTrust]

This team, man. This team. 12 team 1QB short-ish benches. No TEP. Dunno if it's luck or the makeup of the team but it's been a contender for the past few years and never gotten over the hump. My main beef with this roster is that there are a lot of very good players and no true alpha studs (BTJ is arguable).

QB: hurts, tua
RB: Kamara, Bucky, walker III, Mixon, Hubbard , Ford
WR: BTJ, Godwin, D Smith, kupp, Pittman, Mooney, Wandale, Golden, QJ, Hopkins
TE: Andrews, njoku, Kmet, likely
Def: kc, gb, chi

I have all my 26 and 27 picks

Where do I go from here to get over the hump?

• The first thing that jumps out at me, probably falls into the category of one issue I mentioned in the opening post (that is, some people may just give the same advice for every team, because they have a particular style). And that thing is, I almost never hold more than one DST, though I can half-understand holding two. But I can't imagine ever having three. I'd always rather have one more prospect, there's always a flyer or five hanging out there as free agents that I'd like to have.

But again. That's a style thing. But that's the next thing I'd be looking at personally.

• How many RB/WR/TE/FX do you start? I see you apparently have 25-man rosters which is more than I'm used to, so that could make it harder to find worthwhile prospect free agents.

• I agree that you have a lot of really good guys, but limited superstars, other than old superstars.

• Another thing that is just my personal style is to not consider it a problem if I'm contending but failing to win it all. You could be the best team every year for five years and never win it, there's too much luck involved to assume that anything is wrong with what you have been doing if you are winning a good percentage of all of your matches. (Not that it means there isn't any way to do things better, either.)

The starting lineup is QB RB RB WR WR WR TE FLEX FLEX DEF.

DEF can be a high scorer in this league. Some oddball rules. Most teams carry at least 2. But you're right. A good prospect is probably a better investment in a short bench league.

I've been trying to secure a superstar WR but just havent gotten any traction, mostly because the top 5 or so are owned by the other two strong teams in the league.

Anyway I appreciate the fresh set of eyes on the team. Hopefully things will fall my way this year and I can take home the 'ship!