Welcome, my friends, to Year Two of the SDMB Dynasty League. (League Page.) It appears we’ll have a 100% manager-retention rate this year, which is excellent.
2009 Champion: Really Not All That Bright
2009 Final Standings:
- 9 Inch Neils (RNATB)
- We Do HGH (stringer)
- CuteWiddleBunny (Hamlet)
- The Gusterrhoids (Justin_Bailey)
- Fightin’ Quakers (furt)
- Warner’s Brothers (dale42j)
- Varlos’ Zzzzzzz (VarlosZ)
- Isotopes (Petey)
- RetroVertigo (RetroVertigo)
- Deliverance (The Mad Hermit)
- New York Fanboys (Ellis Dee)
- Exploding Pancakes (SenorBeef)
2010 Draft Order: (non-serpentine)
- Exploding Pancakes (Beef)
- New York Fanboys (Ellis Dee)
- Deliverance (The Mad Hermit)
- RetroVertigo
- Fightin’ Quakers (furt)
- Warner’s Brothers (dalej42)
- Varlos’ Zzzzzzz
- Isotopes (Petey)
- The Gusterrhoids (Justin_Bailey)
- CuteWiddleBunny (Hamlet)
- We Do HGH (Stringer)
- 9 Inch Neils (RNATB)
Archive: Genesis, Interest List (+discussion), Recruitment Thread (+discussion), Year One League Thread.
Ok, to business. We should try to hammer down the relevant dates and deadlines for this year relatively quickly, and also we have a number of ideas and proposals from last year that were tabled until now. Please feel free to make any additional proposals, but keep in mind that many structural/rules changes would have to be incremental in nature, as people presumably managed their rosters last year with the current set-up in mind. For now, the topics of discussion are as follows:
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Draft Date – Currently set for 9/5 at 8:30 PM Eastern, but that’s just a placeholder. Saturday, 9/4 is the final roster cut date for NFL teams, and opening day is Thursday, 9/9. Ellis has already suggested having an early draft, something like the week of August 25 (Wednesday). Fine by me, but take a look and figure out which dates/times are or are not good for you. Since it will be a short draft, it will almost certainly start late in order to accommodate the Pacific Time Zone folks.
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Keeper Declaration/Cut Deadline – Presumably this should be very late in the game. If anyone has a reason why it should be more than a couple of days before the draft, let me know.
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Off-Season Trade Deadline – For the moment there is no off-season trading of player’s rights and/or draft picks, but my inclination is to open trading within a week or two and have, again, a late cut-off relative to the draft. Thoughts?
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Divisional Realignment – In last year’s run-up, SenorBeef made a relatively well-received suggestion that we re-align the divisions each year according to last year’s finish. So, we could keep last year’s divisions intact, or group together teams that finished similarly (1-4 in one division, 5-8 in another, 9-12 in the third), or even set up some sort of half-measure/relegation system.
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Return Yards – Not everyone loved the idea of return yards counting at 25 yards/point, but making a huge alteration probably isn’t an option due to the need for incremental change. So, the question for this year is: Should the modifier be lowered to 30 yards/point, or kept as is?
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Waiver-Wire – Keep the auction system we had last year? If so, do the teams at the bottom of last year’s standings start out with more money than the teams further up? If so, what kind of differentials are optimal?
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Basic Keeper Structure – Should we move off of unlimited keepers (for seasons subsequent to this one)? We did land on it in part because time ran out and we needed a decision. Again, incrementality should be observed in any proposed changes.
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“Rule 5” Draft? – A goofy longshot, but a cute idea if nothing else. The basic idea would be to promote parity by having one or two rounds of an intra-league draft, where we poach players from each other’s rosters, worst teams first, and only a certain number from each roster can be protected (say, 15, off the top of my head).
That’s all I can think of at the moment. Final rosters from last year to follow.
