Gauging interest in a 12 person TBD Dynasty League

[hmsmystic]

3 hours ago, Yobogoya! said:

 

Damn. That must have been fun back then -- what did you wait 3 or 4 days to get the results by fax machine? 

For all you young whipper snappers (that's fun to type!) what I had to do in the 1990s as fantasy Commish was wait for the USA today (that's a newspaper:) to come out, usually until the Wednesday edition as the Monday night games ran late.  Then manually go through and score all the lineups from the posted individual player stats, score each fantasy game, update the league standings and then print and mail a sheet (and a mini bust balls newsletter) to all the owners every week.  So yes, our dues at the time included paying for the stamps!!!

[Preds]

1 minute ago, hmsmystic said:

For all you young whipper snappers (that's fun to type!) what I had to do in the 1990s as fantasy Commish was wait for the USA today (that's a newspaper:) to come out, usually until the Wednesday edition as the Monday night games ran late.  Then manually go through and score all the lineups from the posted individual player stats, score each fantasy game, update the league standings and then print and mail a sheet (and a mini bust balls newsletter) to all the owners every week.  So yes, our dues at the time included paying for the stamps!!!

Yep, I remember those days well, though we upgraded to faxing results instead of mailing them LOL!  

[Mike in Horseheads]

16 minutes ago, HOUSE said:

The last time I had any money was 1954

Go some place and get a hot cup of water and a pack of ketchup, put the ketchup in the water and enjoy! Tomato Soup, bon appetite

[TheMightyMaxio]

I'd be interested as well.

 

If I don't make the cut for the initial 12, please throw me on the waiting list for expansion (ie takeover) or rival start up AFL league. 

 

Also, if the owners you select are interested... I would suggest adding an extra $20 during the initial year, to create/buy an actual irl trophy.

 

 

 

[Alphadawg7]

Im interested

[hjnick]

Im interested.  I ran a dynasty league a while ago, that also had salary cap and contracts.

 

been looking for a dynasty league to get into.

 

Would you maybe do more than 12 teams?

 

What is the roster size?  IR?  Developmental roster spots?

 

Been here for a LONG time, just don't post that much.

[Draconator]

This sounds like a fantastic idea! I would not be interested, solely because I wouldn't put in the time commitment needed. Best of luck to all those who participate! 

[Logic]

First off, thanks to everyone who's replied so far. I wasn't sure we'd get enough interest to get this thing off the ground. Now it seems that we probably have enough interest to form TWO or even THREE leagues if we wanted to do so. 

 

To answer a few questions I've seen mentioned so far. Maybe this will cause a few people not to be as interested as thought, or maybe vice versa.

- Seeing the amount of interest, and after a few DM conversations, I think the buy-in would likely be more like $50 or above per season. It simply keeps people more committed/active/interested.

 

- To be clear, this is a dynasty league, not a keeper league. There is no mandate to drop X amount of players each year. You draft your team, you keep your team. Obviously you can add/drop/trade/draft players, but there's no component of "well I have to choose one of my three top players to drop each year".

- Along those lines, I don't have plans to incorporate any kind of salary cap or contracts or financial considerations. I want this league to be all about the football side of dynasty, not having to worry about contracts. No disrespect whatsoever to those who run these types of leagues -- I have several friends who are in them and love them -- but that's just not what this is intended to be.

 

- Would be a classic snake draft, with draft order chosen at random, with rookies included in the startup draft player pool. After year one, we'd have a rookie draft each year with either 3 or 4 rounds, depending on what everyone preferred.

 

- Waivers would be an FAAB system. You get $100 of imaginary money during the offseason to put blind bids on whatever waiver wire players you want. High bid gets the player. FAAB budget resets back to $100 for everyone once the season kicks off.

- Would prefer not to have more than 12 teams per league. It just waters down the talent pool too much and makes waiver wires too barren. Like I said, maybe this forum can support SEVERAL leagues, so that all interested parties can play.

All of the above having been said, once the basic structure is in place, there would be regular league votes every offseason on rules tweaks, bylaws, etc. I want it to be a democracy, not a dictatorship, where everyone feels like they have ownership of the league.

 

[RyanC883]

I’m definitely interested 

[Mikie2times]

I will draft hurt players and Travis Etienne. I’m good for the $50. I stayed married 7 years longer than I should so I’m committed. 

[Logic]

1 hour ago, Draconator said:

This sounds like a fantastic idea! I would not be interested, solely because I wouldn't put in the time commitment needed. Best of luck to all those who participate! 

I could kiss you for recognizing that about yourself and announcing it! I won’t, because that would be unpleasant for you. But….I could. 
 

 

10 minutes ago, Mikie2times said:

I will draft hurt players and Travis Etienne. I’m good for the $50. I stayed married 7 years longer than I should so I’m committed. 

you sound like the perfect league mate 😆

Edited yesterday at 02:44 AM by Logic

[Draconator]

11 minutes ago, Logic said:

I could kiss you for recognizing that about yourself and announcing it! I won’t, because that would be unpleasant for you. But….I could. 

Me love you long time baby

[Ball'n]

I would also be interested and have no issues with the $50 buy in, or if it's raised to a higher amount. 

[Simon]

12 hours ago, hmsmystic said:

For all you young whipper snappers (that's fun to type!) what I had to do in the 1990s as fantasy Commish was wait for the USA today (that's a newspaper:) to come out, usually until the Wednesday edition as the Monday night games ran late.  Then manually go through and score all the lineups from the posted individual player stats, score each fantasy game, update the league standings....

 

I live in a rural area with limited supplies and I remember it eventually getting to the point that I would have to get up really early and buzz down to the gas station to grab a USA Today before they all sold out. Presumably to guys who were running other leagues and doing the exact same thing as us. 

[Thrivefourfive]

I’m in if you’ll have me. 15 year dynasty league vet here. I’m currently in only three to four  leagues per year, three of them long established, and one that I do for the work dudes and ladies when there’s excitement. Yahoo, ESPN, myfantasyleague, and I’ll figure out whatever other platform. I have but one dynasty team, so I’m thirsty for another go at it.
 

I don’t daily, so it’s not like that. I’m an owner, not a renter ☺️

11 hours ago, Logic said:

First off, thanks to everyone who's replied so far. I wasn't sure we'd get enough interest to get this thing off the ground. Now it seems that we probably have enough interest to form TWO or even THREE leagues if we wanted to do so. 

 

To answer a few questions I've seen mentioned so far. Maybe this will cause a few people not to be as interested as thought, or maybe vice versa.

- Seeing the amount of interest, and after a few DM conversations, I think the buy-in would likely be more like $50 or above per season. It simply keeps people more committed/active/interested.

 

- To be clear, this is a dynasty league, not a keeper league. There is no mandate to drop X amount of players each year. You draft your team, you keep your team. Obviously you can add/drop/trade/draft players, but there's no component of "well I have to choose one of my three top players to drop each year".

- Along those lines, I don't have plans to incorporate any kind of salary cap or contracts or financial considerations. I want this league to be all about the football side of dynasty, not having to worry about contracts. No disrespect whatsoever to those who run these types of leagues -- I have several friends who are in them and love them -- but that's just not what this is intended to be.

 

- Would be a classic snake draft, with draft order chosen at random, with rookies included in the startup draft player pool. After year one, we'd have a rookie draft each year with either 3 or 4 rounds, depending on what everyone preferred.

 

- Waivers would be an FAAB system. You get $100 of imaginary money during the offseason to put blind bids on whatever waiver wire players you want. High bid gets the player. FAAB budget resets back to $100 for everyone once the season kicks off.

- Would prefer not to have more than 12 teams per league. It just waters down the talent pool too much and makes waiver wires too barren. Like I said, maybe this forum can support SEVERAL leagues, so that all interested parties can play.

All of the above having been said, once the basic structure is in place, there would be regular league votes every offseason on rules tweaks, bylaws, etc. I want it to be a democracy, not a dictatorship, where everyone feels like they have ownership of the league.

 

Two conferences that meet in the Super Bowl. The two can share players.. the big bash at the end would be interesting having perhaps a couple shared interests ☺️

 

[falgobofu]

I love the idea of a fantasy league but honestly looking for one that is more substantial in entry fee. I spend a lot of time, as im sure you all would as well, for the prize to be minimal. If there is a league willing to have a higher entrance fee of 150$ plus I would be interested. 

 

 

[Philo]

I know I'm late to the party but I am interested! Might be relegated to the TBD "UFL" league at this point 😂

[Xerx]

20 minutes ago, Philo said:

I know I'm late to the party but I am interested! Might be relegated to the TBD "UFL" league at this point 😂

 

 

This made me think...

 

First I started with, relegation in fantasy sports, that would be awesome, but impossible, end up with duplicate and triplicate players or would that be awesome?

 

Then, I went imagine, team stayed and owners got pushed around

 

Of course that led to, they should do that in real life...Sabres suck, guess what Terry, you know don't own the Sabres, you own the Rochester Americans...

 

Nobody is tanking with that penalty

 

 

***yes, I know this is all ridiculous, let me enjoy my morning coffee

[section122]

12 hours ago, Logic said:

First off, thanks to everyone who's replied so far. I wasn't sure we'd get enough interest to get this thing off the ground. Now it seems that we probably have enough interest to form TWO or even THREE leagues if we wanted to do so. 

 

To answer a few questions I've seen mentioned so far. Maybe this will cause a few people not to be as interested as thought, or maybe vice versa.

- Seeing the amount of interest, and after a few DM conversations, I think the buy-in would likely be more like $50 or above per season. It simply keeps people more committed/active/interested.

 

- To be clear, this is a dynasty league, not a keeper league. There is no mandate to drop X amount of players each year. You draft your team, you keep your team. Obviously you can add/drop/trade/draft players, but there's no component of "well I have to choose one of my three top players to drop each year".

- Along those lines, I don't have plans to incorporate any kind of salary cap or contracts or financial considerations. I want this league to be all about the football side of dynasty, not having to worry about contracts. No disrespect whatsoever to those who run these types of leagues -- I have several friends who are in them and love them -- but that's just not what this is intended to be.

 

- Would be a classic snake draft, with draft order chosen at random, with rookies included in the startup draft player pool. After year one, we'd have a rookie draft each year with either 3 or 4 rounds, depending on what everyone preferred.

 

- Waivers would be an FAAB system. You get $100 of imaginary money during the offseason to put blind bids on whatever waiver wire players you want. High bid gets the player. FAAB budget resets back to $100 for everyone once the season kicks off.

- Would prefer not to have more than 12 teams per league. It just waters down the talent pool too much and makes waiver wires too barren. Like I said, maybe this forum can support SEVERAL leagues, so that all interested parties can play.

All of the above having been said, once the basic structure is in place, there would be regular league votes every offseason on rules tweaks, bylaws, etc. I want it to be a democracy, not a dictatorship, where everyone feels like they have ownership of the league.

 

 

In a dynasty league I think a salary cap or some sort of roster movement being forced is actually good for the league.  If there isn't any difficulty to keeping players or decisions to be made you will end up with a couple of super teams that can't be beaten which will drive people from the league.  The best part of dynasty for me is those off season decisions and not just building but maintaining your team.

 

50 minutes ago, Thrivefourfive said:

Two conferences that meet in the Super Bowl. The two can share players.. the big bash at the end would be interesting having perhaps a couple shared interests ☺️

 

 

I really like this idea.  It might be difficult to organize as I don't know if sleeper can handle that but this would be a cool idea.  Perhaps SDS could add something as well to recognize the champ on the board maybe where it says community member replace it with tbd champ or something.

[Simon]

21 minutes ago, Xerx said:

***yes, I know this is all ridiculous, let me enjoy my morning coffee

 

Morning coffee at 10:00?

What are you, a banker ? - )