Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to the Dynasty Do podcast. I'm your host,
Corey Evans. This week's show is titled Dynasty New Year Resolutions.
I have ten tips, topics, or ideas recommendations that I
want to implement in all of my Dynasty leagues and
or my personal strategies for twenty twenty five and beyond.
Speaker 2: First off, I want to thank you all for.
Speaker 1: Being loyal listeners supporting my work throughout all of twenty
twenty four. Hope was a very successful redraft and Dynasty
campaign for you. And let's look forward to twenty twenty
five and another fun off season and in season with
more championships and most important fun via trades are just
enjoying the process of lineups and watching players perform up.
First for resolution is implement weekly double headers. It levels
the playing field for all teams. Can be done as
either two opponents facing two league members specifically, or one
opponent and the league average or media.
Speaker 2: And that's my favorite way to go about it.
Speaker 1: Because it solves the ongoing dilemma of facing teams that
might have huge spike weeks or go off while others
scored less than you. You could have beaten half if
not three quarters of your other peers, but instead you
played or faced that one team that had total points
among all league members that given week. So weekly double
headers eliminates that variance or randomness of a schedule that
you cannot control, and often sorts itself out in terms
of the top teams ending up with the best records
end of season and the most points scored. I can't
recommend or suggested enough put up for a vote the
very least or try. It doesn't have to be every
single week where you have double headers, could be half
the season. There's a lot of flexibility on fantas platforms,
but I will say the one opponent and the league
meeting or average is my favorite setup. Resolution Number two
is considered, but don't overvalue NFL draft capitals is a
very sound reminder as we approach the peak part of
the officering process where draft fever will hit us all
rounds one to seven or day one, two or three
draft capital, they should certainly be part of our evaluation process,
but not the end all be all four rookies outside
of first round draft capital, which I think does speak volumes.
NFL franchise is committing that Day one cost is significant
I often use day two or Day three selections as
a tiebreaker. If I'm stumped when it comes to prospects,
You're a close and dynasty ADP. Or if I'm on
the clock and cannot make my mind up. From now though,
I'm going to focus on landing spot traits and college
production that is outside of Day one or the first round,
because rounds two to three, let alone rounds four to
seven aren't all that far off from on drafted territory
when it comes to Day three pick. So even though
we put a lot of weight into draft capital, it
is important, but it's not the overriding hit or miss.
Clear cut analysis is going to dictate the future career
arcs of NFL prospects. And if you look back and
just do simple data studies, even a few recent classes
of rookies, you'll see what I mean. So sure factor
in NFL draft capital as part of your rookie process,
but don't make it the ultimate deciding fact. There's so
many other variables to consider again, landing spot trades in
terms of NFL COMMI testing, mac Trix Coush production, it
all completes the prospect evaluation puzzle. Resolution Number three is
to buy the injury dip during the season, not off season.
It's far easier to acquire injured players during the regular seasons.
People are willing to swap unavailable talent aka injured out
of the picture for assets that can immediately contribute to
the fantasy lineups. It's short term thinking, but a lot
of people fall suspect to it because you want to
win now and you don't care about the future dividends
or the long term piece of an asset on a
dynasty roster. So I always try to buy the injury dip.
If a players place than I are, that is my
queue or red alarm to attempt to buy low, because
if you wait till the offseason, think about everybody's on
the same page. There's no timeline the player can return
by the time the next season begins, so there's no
rush or urgency for a lead member to sell set
asset because they're not playing actual football games at that time.
Solution number four is to make at least one or
two playoff seeds by points four or max points four
in favor of regular season record. The season record from
weeks one to fourteen. It can be a fluke depending
on strength to schedule or injuries during a given week.
As I mentioned, that's why we good little headers make
a huge difference because you play two opponents, either a.
Speaker 2: Peer and a peer or a peer and the lead
media and.
Speaker 1: Average, and that does help level out points four max
points four.
Speaker 2: But if you use both in tandem.
Speaker 1: That being the doubleheaders weekly and then one or two
playoff seeds most likely five or six if you're in
a ten or twelve team league, be dependent upon points
four max points four. It showcases and puts the best
teams in the playoffs based on the points that were
accrued over the course of a fourteen week season. There's
no reason that a team that is five hundred or
below should be in the playoffs over a team that
scored one hundred to three hundred more points than that
said roster. And it happens all the time. And that's
why I think it's becoming more more popular to eliminate
at least one or two of the final seeds in
the playoffs based on season record to instead points four
max points four. Now max points four eliminates some of
the strategy when it comes a week week lineup. Setting
max points four just says your team, no matter what,
what have scored x amount of points from weast one
to fourteen from your starting lineup and your bench the
best players combined, sort of like best ball, if you will.
Whereas points four as you set those lineups, and that's
what you had each and every week, your points four
across entire slate of the campaign. Resolution number five is
to make the rookie one point oh one the least
max points four. And from experience of people tanking and
being a commissioner myself in so many leagues or other
league members leaving leagues because of it, I can assure
you that making the rookie one point oh one decided
by least max points four is the fair solution possible.
What that means is that your website will compute, and
I'm using sleeper for example, the least amount of points
that were possible. So it doesn't matter if someone left
inactive players or injured players, players that are not even
receiving much volume in their lineup, because it is going
to determine the max possible points start or bench, and
that team that had the least or fewest will receive
the one point on one.
Speaker 2: That is the best way to go about it.
Speaker 1: And the only clear concrete way to identify who the
worst team was in your league, whether it be eight, ten,
twelve teams, et cetera. The weakest team is identified regardless
of who was a start sit over the courseman entire season,
which eliminates complaining about tanking because it takes it or
removes it from the equation.
Speaker 2: The true worst team will receive the.
Speaker 1: One point oh one and then, however your league decides
one point two and on is up to your league settings.
Time for quick break and then resolution six through ten
are up next. Before I get to that, if you
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back after a quick break. Resolution Number six is remove
trade deadlines. I cannot emphasize this enough. League engagement activity
are each the foundation of all dynasty leagues. If you
limit either engagement or activity, it takes back from the
fun of being a contender who needs another piece to
put their roster over the top, or even a non
playoff bound team looking to cash out an aging yet
effective asset or veteran talent for instead youth, younger talent,
or rookie draft picks the next year. In a sense,
keeping a trade deadline is asking for less league involvement
and really is counterproductive to what we're all trying to do.
Just keep leagues up and running for years upon years
and not have anyone back out. League turnover is one
of the biggest issues in dynasty formats and I'm telling you,
removing trade deadlines really does encourage people to make trades
in all capacities offseason, in season, the playoff push. Trust me,
it is one of the best decisions your league will make.
Resolution number seven is be proactive on the wave wire,
and this is something that I myself have really put
a lot of attention to you in twenty twenty four
and I will continue to do so moving forward. It
happens to all of us, right we put a player
or a few of them on our weekly waiver bid list,
we miss out, whether it be because of a higher
priority or a spender based on fab in our league
being one step ahead of it, or the process. Being
proactive in the wave wire can be weak or league winning,
And the way to go about it, at least in
my mind, is to take that chance or that shot
on a player the week prior. If you are having
a sense of an increase in usage, or you're looking
ahead of five weeks or just depth shart climbing, make
that move early, be proactive, and don't wait for everyone
else to catch up the speed and then you miss
out because you didn't spend as much as perhaps the
other people in your league.
Speaker 2: It's better to take.
Speaker 1: A chance and if backfire, as opposed to missing out
altogether on a difference making player.
Speaker 2: Because we all might laugh at.
Speaker 1: The talent available on a waiver wire, but each and
every year, suddenly, out of nowhere players become very valuable
and can help us win a championship. Resolution Number eight
sort of goes hand in hand with number seven. It's
switched to FAB free agent blind bidding, speaking of waiver
priority or bids, fabs becoming, if not already the norm,
and if you're not familiar, you get a fake imaginary budget.
So we'll say one hundred dollars or I like to
do one thousand dollars, But really it's all just the same.
Threshold gets to matter how much you spend per week,
and everybody has the same amount. Priority bidding based on
we'll say regular season record is a stale approach, and
it allows bad teams to improve during the season as
well as in the off season. Rookie drafts rewarding more
often than not people who do not pay attention, and
that's why they're in last place. Of course, there's accepts
to the rules, such as injuries or poor production, but
most of the time the bottom dwellers tend to be
the people that pay the least amount of attention, the
least amount of homework, and you should not reward them
by keeping an old system like a priority reverse standings.
Instead switch to FAB because all rosters should have an
equal chance at bidding on players with a set budget
that has agreed upon by the league. And again that
could be one hundred dollars or one thousand. It's all
congruent because you spend a percentage or a bid per week.
You can have zero dollar bids, or you can spend
an all in one player if you want. If you've
used it once a FAB system, you know what I'm
talking about referring to. And once the FAB waivers run
on Wednesdays for most leagues, it should I become first come.
Speaker 2: First serve.
Speaker 1: I am not a fan of daily FAB waivers because
at that point you should be able to make an
ad drop at your convenience when you're doing the work
behind the scenes to post everybody having that same time
each and every day. That's where I think it's a
bit unfair, and it goes back to the old school
mentality of worse to first. Because FAB should be a
one stop shop where it's Wednesdays and then first come,
first serve rest of the way. That's at least my opinion,
and if you don't, at least experiment with the fab budget,
which can be done in the offseason a good test
or indication if your league will like it or not.
Speaker 2: That's a good starting.
Speaker 1: Point or way to see if it should be implemented
to come in the regular season. Resolution number nine is
penalized league members for inactive lineups. It sort of aligns
with the tanking mindset or lack of attention because the
most comic complaints I receive as a podcast toast or
commissioner are what do I do when it comes to tanking?
And it is sort of a gray area because in
the NFL or any professional sports league, there is tanking,
it's just not as obvious as it is in fantasy football.
I discussed the idea or concept of using the least
max points four as a solution to tanking for the
one point on one and I will recommend that ten
times out of ten another option, and I do strongly
encourage this for those that pay money for leagues entrance fees,
especially if it's a high stakes league. Is just put
up flat charge out there. Minimum will say five dollars
maximum infinite for all other lineup airs or intentional mistakes
or any collusion such as leaving injured players or teams
on buy in active slots of a lineup, and then
you just add all of the rule breaks or penalties.
So for this example, we'll say there was five dollars
per each of those errors times ten occurrences. There's another
fifty dollars you can then add however you want.
Speaker 2: In your league payoffs.
Speaker 1: I recommend the Super Bowl champion that fund at season's end.
And I'm telling you once there's a penalty in place
for people leaving an active lineups, and if you have
max points four as a solution to tanking, you're no
longer going to see any taking occlusion in your league
because there's more at stake and less avenues to cheat
or bend the rules. And resolution Number ten is to
monitor snap rates. One of my favorite metrics that I've
recently become over the past. I'd say two to three
seasons more reliant upon when making my lineup decisions. All stats,
metrics or analysis they're imported. It can tell a story
like prospect evaluation. It's not just film, it's not just
box scores. It's a collective appro which the same for
submitting a lineup. That being said, I am relying now
more than ever on snap rates for running backs, wide
receivers tight ends because it's an indicator of playing time,
and playing time is what in turn leads accounting stats
like receptions, yards, touchdowns, targets earn the opportunity or the
volume that is done through how often a player is
on the field, their snap percentage, snapshare, snap rates.
Speaker 2: That data used to be hard to find in the.
Speaker 1: Fantasy football stat world, but if you play on sleeper,
it is on the player card usually next day by
noon we'll say give or to take a few hours.
And that is really an important number to see week
over week. Are they a fifty to sixty percent snapshare player,
seventy five percent or above or a sub fifty percent.
It can help make lot of decisions and really paint a.
Speaker 2: Picture of who you trade for. Hold seller buy.
Speaker 1: Hope you all enjoyed this Dynasty New Year Resolutions episode.
A quick recap of all ten. Number one was implement
weekly double headers. Two, consider but don't over value NFL
draft capital three, buy the injury dip during the season,
not off season. Four, make at least one to two
playoff seeds determined by points four or max points four.
Speaker 2: Five.
Speaker 1: Make the rookie one point oh one the least max
points four to eliminate tanking. Number six, remove trade deadlines.
Number seven, be proactive on the waiver wire. Number eight
switch to FAB which is free agent BLND bidding. Nine
penalized league members for inactive lineups, and number ten monitor
snap rate.
Speaker 2: Hope you all enjoyed this resolution episode.
Speaker 1: If you and your lead members have all ten checked
off and used already, great, If not, put up for
a vote, be vocal and try to get these in
place or at least discussed, which is a huge part
of the off season process, just having those conversations and
keeping your lead engaged and trying to improve you over year.
Speaker 2: Thank you again for listening.
Speaker 1: And successful twenty twenty four for the Dynasty Do podcast.
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