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How would you like to be the commissioner having to replace teams all the time in that league? Even if it’s a great league you know there are one or a few to have to find new owners every year in a 32 team league.
Just got another offer from this dude...
quality vs. quanityJust got another offer from this dude...
Malcolm Koonce, who... while the name isn't super sexy... is a total starter-level player
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4 dudes you've never heard of that are all backups.
His claim: "you need warm bodies".
Yeah, I can get guys like that for $1 each on the wire once the season starts.
Some people think they can just fleece. I've been around WAY too long, fella.
Exactly.
This is total IDP talk, but I wanna trade an offensive player, plus a defender they want, for a better offensive player. DE, even better.Just got another offer from this dude...
Malcolm Koonce, who... while the name isn't super sexy... is a total starter-level player
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4 dudes you've never heard of that are all backups.
His claim: "you need warm bodies".
Yeah, I can get guys like that for $1 each on the wire once the season starts.
Some people think they can just fleece. I've been around WAY too long, fella.
In this instance, if I know you are going to send an offer, that would be different and I would treat it that way. But that has not been my experience so far over at FFPC.
I run a 24 team (2 copy) and we always have some turnover, but the dispersal draft is fun too.
Yeah, those types of guys are totally frustrating. I think this happens a lot when owners don't trust their evaluation skills enough to make offers. They don't want to get screwed in a deal so they don't want to make an offer. I would say one of the most important traits to being able to make trades is dealing with owners that are confident in their evaluation skills and are not afraid to "lose" a trade. Unfortunately there aren't that many owners with that skill in most leagues.
I’ve been in two of these (32 teams, only one copy of each player) as salary cap leagues, it’s somewhat surprising how much QBs go for, especially if their salary is low. The most valuable player I had was Eli manning at like 1/4 the cap of other decent QBs (yeah it was awhile ago).
I’ve been the treasurer for maybe a decade now, asst commish for a few years. Quit as full commish after one, that does take a lot of time. In 22 years we’ve never had a problem replacing owners.
I don't doubt it, because I did say, "even if it's a great league", but I was making a point that you can almost guarantee to have to replace a few each year based on the sheer number of teams in the league. You still have to go through the process of listing the team(s), collecting fees, running the dispersal draft (if more than one team probably), loading rosters, etc. etc.
In all honesty I wouldn’t do another. I’m only in two leagues now and I wasn’t sure about coming back in either this year. But I like them both for different reasons.
For the situations I have run into it is 1 guy across 7 leagues that operate like that. Not half the owners. Most owners seem able to make offers and negotiate. The one guy that only asks who I like is the lone black wolf.
It's usually just one or two owners in any given league that do this, and I still make trades with those guys. Most of my trades are ones where I initiated the conversation by making an offer.
