Congratulations to Sunskerr winning their second championship!
team rosters: https://basketball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/nba/4885/startingrosters
2025 season standings: https://basketball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/nba/4885?lhst=stand#leaguehomestandings
Confirmed managers
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If you keep less than seven, you will have additional picks after the 5th round of the draft. For example, if you keep four, you will get all your original 1st-5th round picks, as well as 6th, 7th, and 8th rounders.
RealGM Suns Forum Dynasty League spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LWc-TP573LjiEJF8lfLFkEFcxhdicjLY9YnCy2YX4zk/edit#gid=0 new: updated with last seasons results
Draft rules
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Josh Lloyd Fantasy Basketball:daily videos, mocks, player discussion, rookie analysis(!!)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1I9lmlRwqSehJzlRo6DKqg
BasketballMonster: z-score based season rankings from previous years. click punt TO for 8 cat
www.basketballmonster.com
Hashtag basketball: dynasty rankings sorted by overall, competing, and rebuilding
https://hashtagbasketball.com/
New keeper rules for 2026 offseason.
Keep this in mind while drafting. It might seem intimidating to have all these new changes happening this year and next, but I'm confident this is all going to be much more fair, exciting, and even easier to keep track of.
1st: 7 keepers
2nd-4th: 8 keepers
5th-8th: 9 keepers
9th-12th:10 keepers
13th-16th: 11 keepers
Champion keeps 7 regardless of regular season
We are drafting until every roster has 15 players this offseason. These new keeper rules help promote rebuilding and retooling. For example, if you are a competitive team who finished 4th in 2025-26 season, slated to keep only 8, and you don't think you've got enough gas on your roster, maybe you think about getting some prospects in the 2026 offseason to add to your team. You'll finish worse in the 26-27 season, but now you'll be able to keep more players for the subsequent season in 27-28. So it kind of works well for mid-pack teams too.
This also seeks to emulate "salary cap" stuff without having to impose the burden of keeping track of salaries. Teams typically break apart very quickly now after competing and winning championships - so it will be harder to go back to back now.
Also remember in the 2026 offseason we will be using a new lottery system that is tied to the NBA's lottery system. This will be for non-playoff teams only. Teams in the playoffs will draft according to where they finished in the regular season.
You can now watch the NBA lottery live!
NBA teams that will represent our teams at the NBA draft lottery in 2026:
16th place: NBA 1: 14.0% + NBA 6: 9.0% = 23%
15th place: NBA 2: 14.0% + NBA 7: 7.5% = 21.5%
14th place: NBA 3: 14.0% + NBA 8: 6.0% = 20%
13th place: NBA 4: 12.5% + NBA 9: 4.5% = 17%
12th place: NBA 5: 10.5% + NBA 12: 1.5% = 12%
11th place: NBA 10: 3.0% + NBA 11: 2.0% = 5%
10th place: NBA 13: 1.0% + no team added = 1.0%
9th place: NBA 14: 0.5% + no team added = 0.5%
So I have combined lotto balls for six of our lotto teams, sort of arbitrarily but the %s work out well. This means that, for example, if your team finishes 14th place this year (3rd worst), you are tied to the odds of the NBA team seeded 3rd and 8th (let's say the Wizards and the Hornets are 3rd and 8th in real life)... If either of those picks moves up, you get the higher of those two picks!
If one of your NBA teams doesn't move up, and nobody jumped in front of you, you will pick where you were seeded normally. If your 2nd NBA team moves up but does not move up past your 1st NBA team, then you ignore it.
So basically every team that has extra odds will get the higher pick of whichever NBA team is representing them.
I will post which NBA teams will represent ours at the draft lottery beforehand so you know what to look for.
*commish reserves the right to modify these odds
Some amendments:
Since the most keepers that will be kept is 11 (13th-16th place) in 2026, I have decided to allow only picks from rounds 1-4 be traded. These are the only rounds that every team in the league participates in. BUT read this next part since it is super key:
For 2026 draft picks the plan now is to allow trading single draft picks, so you don't have to swap anymore. In yahoo just swap a your latest possible pick (I think it's like the 15th round, or, since we have 8 rounds total, just give any 9th round-15th round to signal this to me) to allow the trade to go through since yahoo only allows swaps. If you trade your 1st, 2nd, or 3rd, you'll still draft until you have 15 players in the 2026 FA draft, just after all the other (eight) rounds.
example: I want to trade my 2026 first to Qwigglez for idk Joel Embiid. Qwigglez then just trades me whatever latest pick is available on the yahoo trade screen (I think it's 15th round or something like that). In the 2026 draft Qwigglez would have my 1st and then after the 8th round I'd just pick a player to get to 15 roster size.
Rationale: We will have a different numbers of keepers for lots of teams in the 2026 offseason/draft. It makes no sense to continue allowing only pick swaps. Of course, you can still swap picks if you want. This also makes 1st rounders (and 2nds somewhat) more valuable for rebuilding teams!
Small change to keepers: 2nd place in the standings (regular season) will now be grouped with 3rd/4th place to keep 8. Only 1st seed and champion will keep 7.
