'25-'26 Dynasty - Season begins!

[TASTIC]

Whoever dropped Deni, must be really kicking themselves. Dude is on a tier this season

Yeah the previous owner of Deni has been super busy so they were unfortunately not on top of his production last year and expected expanded role this year.

When he was in the FA pool I had a deal to move up in the draft contingent on his availability but he got taken like a pick or two before where I was trading up to.

As for real life I was pissed the Wizards gave him up so cheaply since I had liked him as a player since his rookie year (I even had him on my dynasty team when he was a rookie but I had to get rid of him because I ended up competing/winning that year). I knew they were **** up. Wish we had gotten in on that. Would have been a much cheaper and better fit than Durant.

Not really loving the H2H format. Feels like there's more luck involved.

That's like half the entire point. If this was roto I would have the season wrapped by last week seriously.

Don't mind the H2H...but hate the capped limit of 3 adds a week. I've been without Trae for a month, Giannis off and on etc. Others have it way worse, but I'm trying to compete and limiting the ability for teams to stream/fill holes sucks. Seems we're pandering to keep a few inactive managers happy, while (mostly) competitive teams are being punished for being active? Has to be a better way, it feels like tail wagging the dog...

[durden_tyler]

Not really loving the H2H format. Feels like there's more luck involved.

If this was Roto though, the championship would have been decided already

[bigfoot]

Whoever dropped Deni, must be really kicking themselves. Dude is on a tier this season

Yeah the previous owner of Deni has been super busy so they were unfortunately not on top of his production last year and expected expanded role this year.

When he was in the FA pool I had a deal to move up in the draft contingent on his availability but he got taken like a pick or two before where I was trading up to.

As for real life I was pissed the Wizards gave him up so cheaply since I had liked him as a player since his rookie year (I even had him on my dynasty team when he was a rookie but I had to get rid of him because I ended up competing/winning that year). I knew they were **** up. Wish we had gotten in on that. Would have been a much cheaper and better fit than Durant.

Not really loving the H2H format. Feels like there's more luck involved.

That's like half the entire point. If this was roto I would have the season wrapped by last week seriously.

I enjoy it way more than roto (by a long shot). Kinda of wonder how the playoffs work out at the end of the season when a lot of big name guys get rested. Last two weeks have been rough with a lot of injuries.

[durden_tyler]

Whoever dropped Deni, must be really kicking themselves. Dude is on a tier this season

Yeah the previous owner of Deni has been super busy so they were unfortunately not on top of his production last year and expected expanded role this year.

When he was in the FA pool I had a deal to move up in the draft contingent on his availability but he got taken like a pick or two before where I was trading up to.

As for real life I was pissed the Wizards gave him up so cheaply since I had liked him as a player since his rookie year (I even had him on my dynasty team when he was a rookie but I had to get rid of him because I ended up competing/winning that year). I knew they were **** up. Wish we had gotten in on that. Would have been a much cheaper and better fit than Durant.

Not really loving the H2H format. Feels like there's more luck involved.

That's like half the entire point. If this was roto I would have the season wrapped by last week seriously.

I enjoy it way more than roto (by a long shot). Kinda of wonder how the playoffs work out at the end of the season when a lot of big name guys get rested. Last two weeks have been rough with a lot of injuries.

As always, H2H always credits the manager who is more active. So for your question, it's monitoring the stars and their load management at this point of the season.

i think Matt Bonner won me a couple of championship some years (decades) back-- aggressive add/drop is really the key in the latter part of the season (or even on a week to week basis)

[sunskerr]

Whoever dropped Deni, must be really kicking themselves. Dude is on a tier this season

Yeah the previous owner of Deni has been super busy so they were unfortunately not on top of his production last year and expected expanded role this year.

When he was in the FA pool I had a deal to move up in the draft contingent on his availability but he got taken like a pick or two before where I was trading up to.

As for real life I was pissed the Wizards gave him up so cheaply since I had liked him as a player since his rookie year (I even had him on my dynasty team when he was a rookie but I had to get rid of him because I ended up competing/winning that year). I knew they were **** up. Wish we had gotten in on that. Would have been a much cheaper and better fit than Durant.

Not really loving the H2H format. Feels like there's more luck involved.

That's like half the entire point. If this was roto I would have the season wrapped by last week seriously.

Don't mind the H2H...but hate the capped limit of 3 adds a week. I've been without Trae for a month, Giannis off and on etc. Others have it way worse, but I'm trying to compete and limiting the ability for teams to stream/fill holes sucks. Seems we're pandering to keep a few inactive managers happy, while (mostly) competitive teams are being punished for being active? Has to be a better way, it feels like tail wagging the dog...

The only time that being healthy matters in h2h is if you're struggling/on the bubble for qualifying for the playoffs, and then during the playoffs.

Your actual record isn't super important. As long as you're top 8 then even the 1st seed can have problems with injuries and you have a chance to win.

In this way injuries are kind of less important than in roto, where the missed games even early in the season impact you as much as at the end. In h2h it only matters at the end.

As for punishing active players...honestly I think this is a philosophy difference. I'm a bit uh, new school like Josh Lloyd in that I don't view streaming as much as a skill as it is simply a function of free time.

By making the rosters with a higher player count it increases the spirit of the dynasty format, and also emphasizes the draft and scouting.

If you had a good draft and caught a deep sleeper, that is ostensibly your injury replacement.

And realistically if your star goes down, if our waiver had more players on it like a 12 teamer, you're still replacing that guy with a scrub...The difference is like 11 ppg VS 7 ppg. I think you'd still be out of luck in that scenario.

In my opinion these changes simply emphasized a different kind of activity: the do your off-season homework and scouting active manager benefits, whilst the one who wants to spend time looking for and cycling through whomever had the most recent hot game until they get a sticker is limited (although you should still do this a lot in our current settings too because it still works).

[TASTIC]

I think we just disagree here, and that's fine.

RNembhard - prime example. Any non-contending team should have snapped him up after his first good game for a vet who they either won't keep or isn't healthy/performing...I went to grab him after another look through box-scores, but couldn't cos I'd already used 3 adds - which is my fault for rolling the dice on Post haha. Instead, the runaway top team grabs him (kudos to you).

Teams not even trying to compete won't ever get any better when guys like Nembhard at his age/potential just land on the top team.

I'm in a 30 team dynasty league with Josh and have been in many leagues with him for 10+ years, he'll be the first to tell you his way of thinking doesn't always translate to winning and it doesn't suit every league. Streaming is part of H2H leagues, it's far more prevalent and used than it is in roto. Limiting it to 3 is limiting people's activity - for what purpose?

[sunskerr]

I think we just disagree here, and that's fine.

RNembhard - prime example. Any non-contending team should have snapped him up after his first good game for a vet who they either won't keep or isn't healthy/performing...I went to grab him after another look through box-scores, but couldn't cos I'd already used 3 adds - which is my fault for rolling the dice on Post haha. Instead, the runaway top team grabs him (kudos to you).

Teams not even trying to compete won't ever get any better when guys like Nembhard at his age/potential just land on the top team.

I'm in a 30 team dynasty league with Josh and have been in many leagues with him for 10+ years, he'll be the first to tell you his way of thinking doesn't always translate to winning and it doesn't suit every league. Streaming is part of H2H leagues, it's far more prevalent and used than it is in roto. Limiting it to 3 is limiting people's activity - for what purpose?

I added him like after he was announced as starter. It was a revolving door of PGs. I got one good game off a process based decision (target starting PGs). No rebuilding team would have gotten Nembhard if the waiver limit was unlimited because I added him before his big game and because it's Ryan Nembhard, an undrafted rookie.

But again, I refer you to a another long post I made (you can find it maybe a page or two back for my thought process). As a league where we have lots of different people with different amounts of free time and availabilities we don't actually want to advantage streaming that much - its not a function of skill so much as it is when you can be at your phone.

That's imo a very solid philosophical cornerstone for a league like ours where not everyone wants to engage in or can't engage in watching the waiver so much.

If you want to argue that I've come down too hard on it then sure i can entertain that idea. But I'm also working with yahoo's limited tools. The obvious ideal situation is a weekly games cap and unlimited transactions (this means you can't spam adds to win against less active managers but you can also add for injuries as much as you like) but yahoo can't do a games cap. So we have to have an add limit of some kind.

Yahoo's default is 4 adds and we're only 1 under that.

I'm not strictly following Josh Lloyd's advice to the letter on this of course because that would be dumb but what you see in our league is an attempt to reflect that thought process on yahoos limited platform(de emphasize streaming so we're not disproportionately advantaging super active managers).

[bigfoot]

Don't let Jalen Williams linger too long in that IL+ slot.

[sunskerr]

Don't let Jalen Williams linger too long in that IL+ slot.

beedub on that mission early for peterson.

Also not that I'm particularly interested in moving him but I just wanna see what is out there for Jokic so he is on the block. All I'm saying is that he isn't untouchable if you offer an elite player who is one of my favorites.

[bwgood77]

Don't let Jalen Williams linger too long in that IL+ slot.

beedub on that mission early for peterson.

Also not that I'm particularly interested in moving him but I just wanna see what is out there for Jokic so he is on the block. All I'm saying is that he isn't untouchable if you offer an elite player who is one of my favorites.

Oh yeah. Not sure who Peterson is but I did see Jalen Williams is playing, so I will move him. Been pretty busy with other stuff.

[sunskerr]

I think we just disagree here, and that's fine.

RNembhard - prime example. Any non-contending team should have snapped him up after his first good game for a vet who they either won't keep or isn't healthy/performing...I went to grab him after another look through box-scores, but couldn't cos I'd already used 3 adds - which is my fault for rolling the dice on Post haha. Instead, the runaway top team grabs him (kudos to you).

Teams not even trying to compete won't ever get any better when guys like Nembhard at his age/potential just land on the top team.

I'm in a 30 team dynasty league with Josh and have been in many leagues with him for 10+ years, he'll be the first to tell you his way of thinking doesn't always translate to winning and it doesn't suit every league. Streaming is part of H2H leagues, it's far more prevalent and used than it is in roto. Limiting it to 3 is limiting people's activity - for what purpose?

Ok, well, I've had some time to think, and going back to 4 adds per week doesn't seem like it would have any negative effects. I think 5 is probably too much. I can get behind 4 because it would relieve some of the injuries we're seeing (it seems even worse this year with teams being extra conservative about calf injuries*).

I actually approached this from a different angle you did but I thought about it like: the better more guaranteed a team is to be in the playoffs they can actually afford to use their adds on scouting, whereas teams fighting for a playoff spot really need the results now. This means better teams benefit from less adds, whilst middle of the pack teams get hurt more. Bottom teams should also just be using adds for scouting anyway.

Scouting a player requires you to keep the player on your team for longer so even if we bump the adds up to 4 then it doesn't affect top teams except for the weeks they play each other (if they even want to go all out against each other at all).

As for how it affects streaming in the playoffs, that's when managers need to be most active anyway, so 4 adds is like, marginally more time-invested than 3.

Also 4 adds being the default is very attractive because imo being closer to standard settings is probably the best thing for this league because it's easier to use online fantasy resources for help.

Anyway, what do you think?

PS maybe you were right about Ryan Nembhard being good

*going back to the calf strain thing if anyone is interested:

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[Kyler Murray]

LaMelo on the block for some equal talent on the F positions since I am too guard heavy, won't move him for old vets since I'm not an immediate contender or combination of lesser players. A somewhat less valuable player and some picks would be a consideration as well.

[bigfoot]

Seems like a lot of managers don't get their lineups set for the week. A lot of very good players riding the bench on many teams. With head-to-head and a different draft setup what's the plan if any for tankage?

Also, any rebuilders interested in Collin Murray-Boyles, Sion James, Khaman Maluach drop me a PM. All rookies and two playing decent minutes already.

[sunskerr]

Seems like a lot of managers don't get their lineups set for the week. A lot of very good players riding the bench on many teams. With head-to-head and a different draft setup what's the plan if any for tankage?

Also, any rebuilders interested in Collin Murray-Boyles, Sion James, Khaman Maluach drop me a PM. All rookies and two playing decent minutes already.

Tankers just get bumped down a spot. Maybe more if I'm feeling vengeful

I have interest in CMB

[bigfoot]

Seems like a lot of managers don't get their lineups set for the week. A lot of very good players riding the bench on many teams. With head-to-head and a different draft setup what's the plan if any for tankage?

Also, any rebuilders interested in Collin Murray-Boyles, Sion James, Khaman Maluach drop me a PM. All rookies and two playing decent minutes already.

Tankers just get bumped down a spot. Maybe more if I'm feeling vengeful

I have interest in CMB

Are you rebuilding? You already have Egor, Nembhard, and Raynaud as rookies. You want one more?