# SDMB Fantasy Football DYNASTY League: Year 15 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** football-nfl\ **Created:** [August 7, 2023, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-15/988186 "2023-08-07T11:42:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 47
**Author:** ![Jules\_Andre](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jules_andre/32/9334_2.png) [@Jules\_Andre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jules_Andre)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2023, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-15/988186/47 "2023-08-21T22:29:22Z")
The other solution is to make it so every team has X picks every year, say, four. The draft is then always 48 picks, and after the draft it is your responsibility to cut down enough to add those drafted players to your roster. Essentially, you are drafting the rights to a player, and you can choose to add them to your roster by cutting an existing player. This is pretty much how it works in the real NFL, anyway. This poses some interesting new choices for an owner involving the waiver wire after the draft. And it makes unbalanced trades a non-issue. Every team will always finish the draft with 25 players because we don’t have a draft at all and your “post-draft roster” is the same as your pre-draft roster, everything happens after the “draft.” I guess if you go into our draft with 24 players, or trade players for picks, we would need to add a backup kicker to the roster, but that doesn’t require any input from managers or special rules. The commish does it at the end, and there can’t be any hard feelings or misunderstanding about the rules. The downside to this is that the draft takes longer, and we would have to start sooner. I think we should start the draft sooner anyway, because every year we run the risk of not having enough time to finish the draft, set up the rosters, finalize the schedules, etc. Additionally, right now, rebuilding is a little more difficult because of the balancing picks rule. It’s hard to build a cache of picks because you are always essentially trading 1:1. You need to include players for picks to gain a surplus of picks, but if you’re rebuilding, what players do you have? Separating the draft from the yahoo roster would make it easier to move a 1 for a 1 and a 3 next year, for example. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fantasy-football-dynasty-league-year-15/988186)._