'25-'26 Dynasty - H2H format, dmastro32 check in, keepers, new rules p94, draft oct 14

[bigfoot]

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-2nd: 7 keepers
3rd-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!

Because we are now tied to the NBA lottery, but they have 14 lotto teams and we have 8, it would be crazy for the 8th worst team (9th place) in our league to have odds equal to the NBA's 8th (6.0%) worst team. The NBA odds and our total odds are as follows:

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 your 2nd NBA team. If both your teams got jumped by someone else's teams, then you have moved down!

To sum it up: 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

Does one lottery result apply to both rookie and FA drafts?

[sunskerr]

Does one lottery result apply to both rookie and FA drafts?

EDIT: haven't made a final call on separating rookie/FA drafts in 2026 offseason. if enough people want it before this year's season starts, we can do that.

The lottery is only for the 1st round. 2nd round and beyond will be reverse of regular season standings.

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Wheezy told me he's out so we'll need 1.

[uraverage]

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[TASTIC]

Does one lottery result apply to both rookie and FA drafts?

EDIT: haven't made a final call on separating rookie/FA drafts in 2026 offseason. if enough people want it before this year's season starts, we can do that.

The lottery is only for the 1st round. 2nd round and beyond will be reverse of regular season standings.

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Wheezy told me he's out so we'll need 1.

I just flicked a mate of mine Wheezy's squad, he said he's keen to take it over.

Isn't a member of RealGM but he's a massive Wolves fan and am in another cash league with him

[sunskerr]

Watch on YouTube

Big info coming from Josh Lloyd that is probably relevant to our deep af league. Some of the names in this video didn't have value in roto but now get a nice boost given the emphasis on winning individual categories in h2h 9cat.

[Slim Charless]

Do we have an updated list of our current picks? I dont think the spreadsheet has all of the trades made on there.

[Book1Nation]

I'm in, sorry for the late message.

[durden_tyler]

Not sure when is the date to declare our protected players? Anyway, still half-committed to this league, it's dynasty anyway, so hoping for a set and forget set up since we have other serious leagues to attend to

[sunskerr]

Not sure when is the date to declare our protected players? Anyway, still half-committed to this league, it's dynasty anyway, so hoping for a set and forget set up since we have other serious leagues to attend to

Then this is the league for you.The longest running dynasty leagues are the ones that allow people to get an advantage with offseason scouting but in season place strong limits on the power of streaming (i.e. being glued to the phone). We're going into year 10 so we've been pretty successful - thats roughly two cycles of player's primes.

Picks were updated on the spread sheet.

Keepers are due the day before the draft. Draft is looking like it will be on Oct 14, one week before the season starts.

[Slim Charless]

Not sure when is the date to declare our protected players? Anyway, still half-committed to this league, it's dynasty anyway, so hoping for a set and forget set up since we have other serious leagues to attend to

Then this is the league for you.The longest running dynasty leagues are the ones that allow people to get an advantage with offseason scouting but in season place strong limits on the power of streaming (i.e. being glued to the phone). We're going into year 10 so we've been pretty successful - thats roughly two cycles of player's primes.

Picks were updated on the spread sheet.

Keepers are due the day before the draft. Draft is looking like it will be on Oct 14, one week before the season starts.

Damn that's a shame for you man!

Sweet I'll take Derrick White here.

So my 2025 1st for Reaves + your 4th. Done

I have TASTIC's 1FRP this year, going back to our Reaves trade of last year. I don't know how to show the date but it's from before our draft in 24.

[sunskerr]

Not sure when is the date to declare our protected players? Anyway, still half-committed to this league, it's dynasty anyway, so hoping for a set and forget set up since we have other serious leagues to attend to

Then this is the league for you.The longest running dynasty leagues are the ones that allow people to get an advantage with offseason scouting but in season place strong limits on the power of streaming (i.e. being glued to the phone). We're going into year 10 so we've been pretty successful - thats roughly two cycles of player's primes.

Picks were updated on the spread sheet.

Keepers are due the day before the draft. Draft is looking like it will be on Oct 14, one week before the season starts.

Damn that's a shame for you man!

Sweet I'll take Derrick White here.

So my 2025 1st for Reaves + your 4th. Done

I have TASTIC's 1FRP this year, going back to our Reaves trade of last year. I don't know how to show the date but it's from before our draft in 24.

Ok I remember that TASTIC had to fix one of his deals. He also is listed as trading his 1st rounder w/Mobley for PerkinsForThree(now uraverage)'s 1st w/LaMelo edit: these picks were for the 2024 draft.

I also traded TASTIC a 5th in the Harden trade, but in-season I traded my 5th to dmastro32 attached to Jusuf Nurkic. So TASTIC has been given my 4th rounder instead. edit: the picks in the harden trade were for the 2024 draft. order restored.
@slim @tastic please advise which picks were swapped. Charless says its your first, but which pick is going back to TASTIC?edit:just read. sheet updated with 1st for 4th swap between TASTIC + Slim

Jalen Suggs
Jaren Jackson Jr
Mark Williams
Brandon Ingram
Coby White
Quentin Grimes
Anfernee Simons
Miles Bridges

all on the block.

[Kyler Murray]

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I already confirmed

[Book1Nation]

Keepers

Lillard
Haliburton
Kessler
Gobert
Herro
Bridges
Claxton
Risacher

Looking to trade Lillard or Gobert or both. Rebuilding with Hali out for season.

[bigfoot]

I've got a few relatively young guys that could bust out this year or next. If there is any interest in them let me know

Max Christie
KeyShawn George
Jonathan Mogbo

Also, anyone interested in starter material

Kevin Porter Jr
Michael Porter Jr

Drop me a PM

[sunskerr]

Keepers

Lillard
Haliburton
Kessler
Gobert
Herro
Bridges
Claxton
Risacher

Looking to trade Lillard or Gobert or both. Rebuilding with Hali out for season.

Was wondering what would happen in Dynasty with Lillard tearing his achilles. I think he's done tbh. Great player but it's going to be tough to get anything for him. Competing teams need him this year but he's out, and he's too old for rebuilding teams.

[Book1Nation]

Keepers

Lillard
Haliburton
Kessler
Gobert
Herro
Bridges
Claxton
Risacher

Looking to trade Lillard or Gobert or both. Rebuilding with Hali out for season.

Was wondering what would happen in Dynasty with Lillard tearing his achilles. I think he's done tbh. Great player but it's going to be tough to get anything for him. Competing teams need him this year but he's out, and he's too old for rebuilding teams.

I don’t think he’s done. Still put up good numbers last year. Probably still going to play for like 3-4 years after Achilles imo. CP3 had some good fantasy seasons after his injuries and similar age

[TASTIC]

Looking to move McCain and/or Eason and/or Vassell, either individually for a 1st, or collectively for a player upgrade. 3 good youngsters just don't really fit my squad

[Burgs_Burgi]

Hi all, I'm Stefan I'm taking over one of the dynasty teams (Got a Bealin’), I know TASTIC well so he linked me up. Quick intro, work in construction as a Project Manager in New Zealand. Big NBA fan and longtime supporter of the Wolves and finally have had something to cheer about since 2004, also love NFL (Go Birds), Football (Liverpool FC) and rugby I've been playing fantasy for a handful of years but never been in a dynasty league so looking forward to playing with you all. Cheers

[bwgood77]

Hi all, I'm Stefan I'm taking over one of the dynasty teams (Got a Bealin’), I know TASTIC well so he linked me up. Quick intro, work in construction as a Project Manager in New Zealand. Big NBA fan and longtime supporter of the Wolves and finally have had something to cheer about since 2004, also love NFL (Go Birds), Football (Liverpool FC) and rugby I've been playing fantasy for a handful of years but never been in a dynasty league so looking forward to playing with you all. Cheers

Welcome! I'm a Chargers fan so we have two of the best QBs under 27 (maybe the 2 best depending on what thoughts are on McDaniels).

I think we play later this year as the Chargers finish their brutal season ending schedule.

[Burgs_Burgi]

Keepers;

Bam
Zubac
Okongwu
Kawhi
Brown
Hart
Paolo

Looking to trade Beal, Gafford, Dunn, Collier for a Pick or collectively/combo for starter/upgrade