Still not in a Keeper League?

Here is How to Get You Started

If you aren’t in a Keeper or Dynasty League; then you are missing the essence of fantasy football. Fantasy Football is where egotistical know-it-alls get an opportunity to role play as a general manager and compete against their other makeshift GM buddies. Your Fantasy league should allow you the opportunity to act as much like a GM as possible in order to keep you engaged.

How many times do you show up to a draft, you have the other nerds with their faces buried in their outdated draft magazine or the top of their head protruding above their laptop so that they can hang on every single word that Matthew Berry sputters? You select a number out of a hat to determine your draft position…and based on that one number you can pretty much determine who will end up on your fantasy team for the entire 16 rounds. This draft is presumably taking place on Groundhog Day.

The redraft-snake system is based largely off of luck in regards to who ends up on your team. Because yes Jackass, everyone has read the same rankings as you and has listened to the same damn podcast. You have zero Intel and your “sleepers” are wide-awake, get over yourself. Redraft-Snake-Leagues get very monotonous, offer no long-term commitment, and lead to a very dull off-season.

When you account into the equation variables such as; there is a 99% percent chance a Cowboy fan will draft Tony Romo in the first round. There is a 83% chance that a Niner Fan will draft Michael Crabtree in the 5^th round despite his Achilles injury… then you can pretty much predict the outcome of the entire draft even before it starts.

Here is the Mongoose to your Snake Problem:

Keeper League: You should start with an Auction Draft for the initial year. Make sure all owners are aware beforehand that the league has transformed into a Keeper or Dynasty league so that they can draft accordingly.

After the season has ended, and you crowned your champion…then Bam! Next year’s strategic planning already begins! You get to follow your keepers through the off-season to see if they get traded, hurt in the preseason, holdout on a contract, get a stud rookie drafted in front of them, get arrested for beating their wife while on bath-salts and have to miss the ENTIRE first game because of it.

We recommend:  start with a basic set-up and then evolve into a more complex league. Here is a recommended format to get your boring-ass league transformed into something more intense: 12 owners.

o   3 Keepers (Mandatory):  Each team will be able to carry over 3 of their players on to the next year. The strategic part is all 3 players must be 3 different positions. (To prevent the RB monopolist of the world)

o   1 Rookie Keeper (Optional):  Each owner has the option of carrying over/keeping a rookie who was on their team the previous year and forfeiting there Round 13 draft pick. Or they can elect not to keep a rookie and maintain their 13^th round draft pick.

o   Pre-Draft Trades: Owners may trade players and /or Draft Picks prior to the draft.

·               Note: Any players traded, will automatically become that teams keeper players, and cannot         be traded again until after the draft.

o   Day of Draft: All Teams must announce who their keepers are going to be prior to the start of the draft.

o   The Draft:  Use Snake Draft, Last Place picks first. To prevent teams from sandbagging to get the number 1 overall pick, you penalize the teams that finish in the bottom 3 with a monetary fine ($20).

o   Free Agency/Waiver Wire: Blind Auction Bidding

Positions

1 QB       2 RB       1 Flex    2 WR      1TE         1 D/ST   1 K             7 Bench

Still don’t buy into the keeper/dynasty leagues?

Read here:

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1306072-6-reasons-why-dynasty-is-the-best-fantasy-football-format#/articles/1306072-6-reasons-why-dynasty-is-the-best-fantasy-football-format

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Scoring System: Taming your Quarterbacks points and the PPR debate

2 Scoring Adjustments your League Should Make

Quarterback Scoring:

     When Quarterbacks score twice as many points as the rest of the positions, it dissolves strategy. 

Look at it this way:  If every QB that started….got an automatic 1000 points for sticking his hands under the centers perineum, what would that do to their value versus the other positions?  Fantasy Football shouldn’t be a collection of 1-man-teams! We spend all of this time researching “sleepers” and coming up with strategies for late round “steals” so let’s even out the playing field just a bit and reward those who do their homework.

     QB scoring should be relatively to scale with the rest of the positions. Giving QB's 6 points per TD pass and 1 point for every 20 yards makes the QB position arbitrary (It’s automatic points). Automatic points takes no strategy and isn’t fun.  This is one of the main reasons why QB’s are rarely drafted in the first round despite them scoring the most points for your team.  So why do so many people select RB’s first, when they score fewer points than a QB?  There is a very small gap between the 5^th highest scoring QB and the 12^th highest scoring QB. (We will elaborate on our Podcast).

Yes, QB’s are the most important position in football, and they should score the most points, but let’s tighten up the scoring gap a little.

We recommend:  that QB’s get 4 points per touchdown, but only -1 point per interception. They should also get 1 point for every 25 yards passing instead of 1 point for every 20 yards.

PPR Debate: 

Adding Points per reception brings value to your teams WR's, TE, and RB's. It means that if you didn't get to draft in the first few spots, there is still value to be had in the back-end of the round. This also adds the challenge of deciding on who to draft in the 2nd round, do you want Alfred Morris or Darren Sproles?

Adding this simple scoring change should impact your league in a more competitive and challenge way. With using a half-of-point-per-reception you are able to find value in those later rounds like Lerod-Stephens-Howling- TheThird - I-Just-Wanted-To-Use-More-Hyphens. 

We recommend:  Using a decimal scoring system and setting it to .5 Points per Reception. 

So why not make it 1 PPR? Glad you asked.  With 1 PPR you have guys like Joique Bell (or Insert any Lions RB) scoring more points than Alfred Morris and Steven Ridley; and that is inexcusable and unjustifiable and ridiculous.  When you have guys getting 1 point for a failed screen that gains 0 to negative yards, you should not be rewarded with a full point. 5 PPR is the happy-medium.  

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