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Dynasty leaguesA dynasty league takes a keeper league to the fullest extent possible. The idea of a dynasty league is to allow owners to keep the same roster year to year. Owners are expected to manage their team all year long, not just during the season like all other formats. The mission is to create a dynasty team by making the best short-term and long-term moves. However, if certain parameters aren't in place, parity is almost impossible.
First of all, the rules of a dynasty league are nearly endless depending upon the complexity of the league. Some leagues can be as simple as just retaining your full roster year to year while others can work in salary caps teams must abide by. The rule books are thick, not like the one or two pager you have now, because of the details that are involved in players' contracts, salaries, roster restrictions, etc. Knowing your league's rules is very important. Once you understand them, you will be looking for loopholes more than Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones.
In complex dynasty leagues, auctions are an inherited part of dynasty leagues. Since players are under contract, they must have salaries. Each team has a salary cap in which they must sign a roster of players to fall under the cap. This is accomplished during the first draft. For more information on auctions, check out our series of auction league articles throughout the summer.
Getting back to dynasty leagues ... Generally, players' salaries will increase each season while under contract. Contract lengths can be bid upon for length, which will cost a team more money. Other variations can include limitations on contract length, players under long-term deals or require percentage escalations in salaries. The goal is to determine which players are worth keeping under contract, while abiding by your cap rules. In dynasty leagues it is almost impossible to have a squad full of high-caliber players for a number of years, since you will ultimately bust the roof of your salary cap.
A valued part of dynasty leagues can be having an Injured Reserve or practice squad. Leagues tend to mix the two, which allows you to have a limited number of injured players or guys you simply aren't using to sit on a taxi squad. Players stashed away here don't count against your cap or total number of players on roster. This allows some flexibility to stash an injured or slumping player on your taxi squad with some protection in order to play a hotter player without having to release/trade the other player to make room on your roster.
Free agency can be a tricky part of dynasty leagues if you're not savvy enough or simply not up to speed on your league's rulebook.
First come, first serve may be the free agency rule, however, the player available will have to be signed to his current salary. That means any team wishing to grab the prized free agent will have to have enough cap space to warrant such a signing. Some leagues use a sealed bid on a free agent, thereby awarding the player to the team with the highest bid. Many leagues also utilize a restricted and unrestricted free agent pool once the contract expires. As with the NFL, the player will be signed by the team that is offering the highest salary. Of course, if the player is a restricted free agent, the right to match any salary goes to the team in which the player is currently under contract. Now you probably understand how this can get a bit confusing for those not up to the task of a dynasty league.
As with all free agency systems, the opportunity to grab a player that can help your squad must be balanced with what you are giving up. This is even more relevant in dynasty leagues. While you may be offering a higher salary for a player to help you now, you may be losing youth and the possibility of having a young, quality player at a lower salary.
Hey, that's a solid segue to the youth movement in dynasty leagues. Youth is an even more vital component to dynasty leagues than keeper leagues. Youth is what will keep your team from having to spend years rebuilding after some success. If you balance your veterans with some youth, you will likely have some success. A team with veterans likely will help you win now; however, they are getting older and will lose a step to the developing players. Those developing players are necessary pieces to keeping your team in the mix.
Youth is so important that a rookie draft is held every season. Players are generally selected via a serpentine draft or a straight draft with the order determined from how teams finished the year before - the worst team would have the highest pick with the league champion having the last pick. Generally, rookies selected are set at a rookie salary. However, there are leagues that weight the salaries according to the selection number and round they were drafted. For instance, a rookie drafted as the first overall pick will have a higher salary than someone selected as the first pick in the third round.
Dynasty leagues are an interesting, enjoyable way to stay on top of the NFL and college ball all year long. To effectively manage your team, you must have a course of action. Keeping abreast of other teams, monitoring the waiver wire and scouting college players are all necessary for you to field a winning team both short- and long-term. You will have to make big-time decisions that can affect your team a couple of years down the road.
Dynasty leagues definitely require your attention and aren't for the casual fantasy player. If you aren't willing to put forth this kind of effort or are new to the game, we wouldn't recommend this type of league for you.
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Building and managing a fantasy football keeper teamYou've played a few seasons in single-year leagues and, after reading KFFL's guide, "How to Play Fantasy Football," along with the article "What Is a Keeper League and Why Play?" you feel you're ready to take it up a notch and play in a keeper league. You might think that success in regular fantasy leagues should automatically translate into success in keeper leagues, but that is not necessarily the case.
However, you shouldn't worry since we here at KFFL will help you learn the intricate details of managing a team in a keeper league and also help you avoid the most common pitfalls for newcomers to the next level of fantasy football.
Drafting
Your draft strategy for keeper leagues, especially full-retention versions, should integrate at least three new factors that are not necessarily accounted for in single-year leagues.
First of all, you should consider the overall age of your team. Keeping in mind that you will commit at least part of your roster for future seasons, you don't want to be stuck in a position where you could lose several key players in one offseason due to player retirements, persistent injuries or a rapid decline in production.
Second, you should consider monitoring the development of certain players that might currently be second- or third-stringers on their team's depth chart but are being groomed to eventually take over a starting job in place of an aging veteran or a future free agent. This way you should have the inside track the moment that player gets promoted to the first team.
Thirdly, you should be mindful of the coaching carrousel. Like a player, a new coaching staff might take a couple of years to really implement his plan and hit on all cylinders. However, once players grasp the new system, they should start posting better fantasy numbers than what they had been outputting before. A lot depends on how complicated the team's scheme is. Know what type of offense they favor, and then research to see if the starters at key positions fit that specific kind of offense. Are they players worth adding to your team, with an eye to the future?
Trades and free agents
Similar to what was explained regarding drafting, assessing trades and waiver-wire pickups in keeper leagues cannot follow the same exact logic as in single-year leagues.
Besides considering youth, the developing players and the coaching changes, you should also be mindful of avoiding the "one-year wonder." This means you should not mortgage your team's future by trading away or releasing a solid player in order to obtain another one who seemingly came out of nowhere to post up big numbers. This kind of mistake could really set your team back a couple of seasons in your league. Research can help you there.
On the other hand, you should always keep a close eye on these "surprise" performers because, when the conditions are right, they can duplicate or even surpass what they accomplished during their breakthrough seasons.
Injuries
One of the most important decisions you will face when playing in a keeper league will be how to deal when one of your players suffers a season-ending injury. If the player is either a fantasy stud or a borderline contributor, the decision will be an easy one. In the first case, in most instances, you will likely keep him. The severity of the injury and the prognosis for recovery will play a factor, though. In the second case, if you don't have an injured reserve available, you would be more inclined to release him and pick up another player.
The hard part is assessing what to do when said player is an in-between value instead. In such a scenario, be mindful of the fact that you are not playing just for the current season but for future seasons as well. Consider the player's age, health record, future with his team, free agency status and any other relevant factors. All of this information, just like it does for your other players, should help you make a better decision. Injuries are a delicate matter, though, especially in full-retention keeper leagues.
Get to know your opponents
The fact that a keeper league is designed to be played over a number of years should make it easier for you to identify other owners' philosophies and tendencies. Get to know who's more inclined to pull the trigger on trades, which kind of players they like to deal for, who's a bigger risk-taker on draft day and who favors which positions when deciding which players to keep for next year. All of this information should help you make better decisions when managing your own team.
Final tips and conclusion
There are some other things you should consider in order to be successful in keeper leagues, such as: (1) Know the specific rules of your league (for example, some leagues don't allow more than one player per position carried over to the next season, while others do not impose such restrictions); (2) Do your research (much more is required in keeper leagues - stay informed on player projections, updates, injuries, trades, etc.); and, finally, (3) Develop a strategy for notonly on draft day but also when assessing which players will be carried for next season.
Popular misconception might lead you to believe that a keeper league is just a chain of regular single-season tournaments that restart every year, but this is wrong. Especially in deep leagues with full carryover, achieving solid continuity on your team is paramount to pursuing success. Of course, the main goal is to win every year, but in the end, it's about who wins more over an extended period of time.
Keeper leagues can be highly addictive; once you really understand the nuances and finer points, they are truly more fun than single-year leagues. Here at KFFL, you can be sure that we will provide you with all of the necessary tools to be successful in keeper leagues as well as any other type of fantasy league in order to fully maximize your fantasy football playing experience.
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