Boards Dynasty League

Thanks Spongey!

Just got a look at my team. Aaron Hernandez. Jesus wept.

Ok folks we have a full league again. Thanks newbies for doing this quickly. I've sent an email to everyone in the league highlighting our next step is cutdowns to 25, there is an option to nominate your keepers. As soon as everyone has their 25 keepers nominated we can move on to the draft.

Draft picks are tradeable but i honestly dont know how good ESPN are at that element. If someone wants to trade a pick and the site wont allow it then just send me a note on it and i'll manually adjust the draft order

The current draft order in each of the 5 rounds is as follows:

1. gufc21
2. Mayordenis
3. Tristram
4. Barbarians
5. Taidghbaby
6. Bigbadrob83
7. UCD AFC
8. Masked Man
9. Padraig F
10. Eagle Eye
11. UnitedIrishman
12. Spongey1975

UCD AFC wrote: »

I presume there is no adding FAs at this time? Just dropping my players now.

No adds til after the draft. I couldnt see a way to turn them off but im gonna reverse any add i see. Once the draft is over then i'll set the waivers to run where people can add free agents & undrafted rookies

Tristram wrote: »

I've been adding and dropping players all evening and I hope none of my additions will be taken away. From what I can see this year's draftees are the only ones who are untouchable in-game.

Im gonna reverse the 4 additions and put back the 4 drops. You even took a rookie who would be one of top rookies taken in draft. Defeats the purpose of a rookie draft

I would ask everyone to just drop to 25 and do no additions, i dont know how to shut it off so just gotta rely on ye not adding until after the draft

Once the rookie draft is over then everyone will have a chance to acquire free agents in the normal way

Tristram wrote: »

What rookie did I take? As I said in my previous post I don't think it's possible to take rookies as they are reserved for the draft (as they should be).

There was no problem with Vick Ballard being picked up in the middle of June long after the season ended and there's nothing in the rules about there being some magical special time of the year that you are not allowed to pick up FAs. :mad:

Firstly, TAVON AUSTIN is the rookie you took. He would be one of the top rookies taken in the draft.

Secondly, Jake Ballard was picked up by Masked Man in June but he dropped him again in July. At that time most of us assumed FA adds were locked until the draft but that wasnt the case. I assumed Masked Man dropped Ballard in the interest of fairness.

You are right we dont have any rules in place, we dont even have any rules in place to operate the draft so technically we can have a free for all and just grab whoever we want. I am trying to get through this offseason as fairly as possible which means everyone gets a crack at the same free agents at the same time. If people dont want that i'll switch back on FAs (i figured out how to turn them off) and we can have our free for all

Too many Ballards

Sorry about Tavon Austin - in my defense I have been drinking - I absolutely understand rookies not being taken until the draft.

However, I really don't get FAs not being taken. Why not? What's the point? Does that mean no-one is allowed trade in the off-season either? Dynasty 7 days a week, 365 days a year!

Lads when do the cuts need to be done by. Have 3 done now but with it being first time wit idp I'll have to a bit of research later. Round 10 or so

Thanks for keeping an eye on this Spongey.
Yeah we had all agreed to keep FA pickups until after the rookie draft, then back to FAAB

Also, good idea to update your trading blocks lads, especially the new guys as it will carry over from previous owners' settings.
Only 3 of us have updated since last season so some of them look a bit strange

gufc21 wrote: »

Am I right in thinking that being a dynasty league the rookie draft will not be a snake draft? I mean I have the first pick in all rounds?

Yes, as per Spongey's post (my emphasis)

Spongey1975 wrote: »

The current draft order in each of the 5 rounds is as follows:

BigBadRob83 wrote: »

Thanks for keeping an eye on this Spongey.
Yeah we had all agreed to keep FA pickups until after the rookie draft, then back to FAAB

Also, good idea to update your trading blocks lads, especially the new guys as it will carry over from previous owners' settings.
Only 3 of us have updated since last season so some of them look a bit strange

Can you guys please post the rules of the league in this thread please?

Good man Spongey, whatever you put up will be good to form a discussion anyway.
Most of the standard rules already in the league on the site.

Just quick list off top of my head:

No FA pickups from end of season until after draft, when FAAB is re-instated

Date by which to cut down rosters

Format for draft each year

What to do with inactive player - how long before they are classified as 'inactive', does commish set lineup for them every week or go back through season and give them loss for every week? After season are they booted?

Trade veto - personally think veto's should only be applied where people suspect collusion, otherwise you're just second guessing people's judgement and if two people independently agree to a trade they are both happy with then don't think it's anyone else's business

Anti-tanking rules: players should have full active roster each week, especially towards end of the season. With rosters this size, hard to find a reason not to fill your team

No rule changes during the season unless unanimous vote

Rule changes in offseason only require majority vote

Members can suggest rules to vote on in offseason

First off forgive the long windedness of this post. Here are a few rules for discussion. Let me know what you think or if any changes need to be made.

Boards Dynasty League
Rules

1.League Set-up & Playoffs
(a) The league will be hosted on ESPN.com
(b) The league is made up of 12 teams divided into 2 divisions.
(c) Teams will play other teams on a head to head basis from week 1 to week 13.
(d) The two division champions will be placed as #1 and #2 seeds for the purposes of the playoffs.
(e) The next two best regular season teams will qualify for the playoffs as the #3 and #4 seeds.
(f) The semi-finals will involve #1 v #4 and #2 v #3 and will be played over weeks 14 and 15.
(g) The final will be contested between the two semi-final winners and will be held over weeks 16 and 17.

2. Rosters & Lineups
(a) Teams are allowed a maximum of 30 players on their roster.
(b) Players are required to start 15 players. These are 1QB, 2 RB, 2WR, 1TE, 1 Offensive Flex (RB/WR/TE), 1 Kicker, 2DL, 2LB, 2DB & 1 Defensive Flex.

3. Rookie Draft
(a) Each year the rookie draft will be held at the end of July/start of August or at a date agreed by all players.
(b) The draft will be conducted offline via the thread on Boards.ie dedicated to the Boards Dynasty League.
(c) Every team will be required to nominate a maximum of 25 keepers in the league site prior to the draft taking place.
(d) Each team will be allowed 24 hours to make their pick. As a courtesy to other teams each team will be asked to PM the next team to notify them that their pick is up. If a team has not made their pick within the 24 hours they will be awarded the highest ranked rookie available on the ESPN rankings.
(e) The draft order will be decided by the final standings from the previous year. The league champion will have pick #12. The league runner up will have pick #11. The two losing semi-finalists will have picks #9 and #10 based on their final regular season records. Picks #1 to #8 will be the reverse of the seeds for the consolidation ladder (which is in order of best record to worst record). The consolidation ladder results will not decide any draft order.

4. Waivers
(a) The league operates a Free Agent Auction system where teams put in blind bids for available free agents and the team with the highest bid will win that player. Any tied bids are decided in favour of the team with the worst record. Waivers will run every morning with the exception of tuesday.
(b) Each team has a free agent auction budget of $100 for the season. Once that is gone teams will only be able to bid $0 for players.
(c) Waivers will be closed from the time ESPN allow reactivation of the league until the conclusion of the rookie draft.
(d) After the end of the season waivers will remain open until ESPN deactivates the league

5. Trades
(a) Trading is allowed up to week 13. There is a one day trade review period before the trade comes official. 4 votes are required to veto the trade if it is deemed collusion.
(b) Draft picks are tradeable. If the site does not allow picks to be included in the trade offer then just add a note to the trade indicating which picks are included and the commissioner will manually change the owners of the picks in the relevant draft.

6. Rule Changes
(a) Any team can propose a rule change to the league. This can only take place during the offseason and will only be passed by a minimum of 7 votes. Votes will be done via poll on the league site and all members will be notified by email of the vote.

7. Inactive Players
(a) All teams are required to submit valid lineups each week. If, for any reason, a team submits a lineup with inactive players or players with bye weeks, that team will be contacted and if they fail to respond their team will be placed in the hands of the commissioner and they will submit future lineups based on ESPN’s projected rankings. That player will be removed from the league at the end of the season.

I think I may have picked up a FA in the last few weeks but can't remember rightly (could be another league). My apologies. Wasn't aware of the ruling. But will include that pickup in the 5 players I have to get rid of in the interest of fairness.

Considering drafting up from second last.. if I can get my head around what the **** is going on!

UnitedIrishman wrote: »

I think I may have picked up a FA in the last few weeks but can't remember rightly (could be another league). My apologies. Wasn't aware of the ruling. But will include that pickup in the 5 players I have to get rid of in the interest of fairness.

Considering drafting up from second last.. if I can get my head around what the **** is going on!

According to the list of transactions you didnt

gufc21 wrote: »

Would it be possible to get a list of everyone's user name and team together?

EAST
UCD Franchise UCD AFC
Allie Cows Gufc 21
Polar Bears Padraig F
Foxboro Legends Eagle Eye
Bedrock Boulders Masked Man
Marshall Mavericks UnitedIrishman

WEST
Pillow Fighters Tristram Tristram
Bear Down Spongey1975
Baa Baas Barbarians
Cutlering the Mustard Mayordennis
Team 4thandforever Taidghbaby
New Ireland Patriots BigBadRob83

Is it okay to propose trades now or does that start after the draft?

Mine are set

taidghbaby wrote: »

I have my keepers done!

Can someone correct me if I'm wrong but is Aldon smith a FA and if so why?

I dropped him. Had 5 LBs and he was the worst of the five (Lavonte David, Derrick Johnson, Chad Greenway & Mychal Kendricks were the ones i kept).

As for the keepers. Three are left to pick their 25 keepers (Barbarians, mayordenis & UnitedIrishman). Also EagleEye you have only selected 20 keepers if that was your intention

Just done mine there, thought I had to just drop the guys.

Should be sound now.

Hey lads just awaiting on negotiation conclusions which will affect my pick. Hope to be concluded shortly.



On another note this is my first time using a fa budget. Is it 100 from now till seasons end or till start of season and then a fresh hundred for the season?