Building Your Draft Board: Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder Unlike the other pieces in this draft prep series, I’m going to specifically focus on cap leagues here. We have a lot of other content here at Dynasty Football Factory where we talk through navigating a snake-draft startup. In particular, Andy Miley has […]
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Scouting Your League-mates: Know Them Better than they Know Themselves No matter what format your dynasty league is – whether it is a more “normal” league or a cap league – you should always be scouting your league-mates. During his podcast tour this summer, Leo Paciga (@Ciga_FF on Twitter) talked in depth around how he
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Scouting Yourself: I’m Starting with the Man in the Mirror Horrible Michael Jackson reference aside, self-scouting is the most important thing you can do to prepare for your upcoming football season. However, if you’re not brutally honest with yourself during this process, you’ll wind up with blind spots on your roster that will likely come
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Summer is coming to an end and we are in the midst of the preseason and seeing how our favorite football teams will ready themselves to try and win the Big Game in February after 17 weeks of the regular season and three rounds of playoffs leading up to it. It’s a time filled with
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In many Dynasty leagues, especially ones with shallow-to-mid sized rosters, playing the waiver wire during the course of the season is an outstanding way to be able to find helpful pieces that can potentially slip through the cracks in rookie drafts or find new life after being jettisoned off of someone else’s Dynasty roster. If you’re
In one of my more recent pieces, I touched upon the concept of tanking coming out of a start-up draft. I know it hit a certain group of people – namely those who feel that certain players in their late 20’s need to be sold before they hit “the cliff” of production – rather hard. However,
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I’ll keep it 100 here for you all: If you’re content with merely making the playoffs every year and never building sustainable success or improving your odds at title runs, stop reading now. Seriously. Maybe you should consider a different hobby, preferably one where you don’t have to worry about being competitive. Model railroads would
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You’ve heard me talk a little about using cap space as a weapon before in my articles, but namely in terms of how you can free up cap space to be able to keep turning over your unwanted/overpriced players and get cheap talent in return. But, really, that’s only half of the battle with using cap space
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Recently, one of my colleagues here at DFF, Andy Miley, put out an excellent piece of what you should be looking for in a Commissioner when you’re looking to join a new league. One of the main points he touched on was the league’s By-Laws. To summarize: 1. Clear-Cut Rules A league’s rules should be straightforward
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In one of my recent pieces, I provided an introductory overview of how Salary Cap dynasty leagues work, and the basics behind how to focus on valuation, as you have to factor a player’s production, as well as their cost, into determining their true worth in your league. In this piece, I will be providing you
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As we’ve begun to move through startup season in dynasty leagues, I’d like to hit on a topic that is near and dear to me: Tanking. This piece is specific to startups who use snake drafts; I will have follow up pieces to this on startups with salary caps, as well as for owners who decide
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In my last piece, I discussed how to bundle assets and untangle complex deals that could leave you on very much the short end. As one of my colleagues at Dynasty Fantasy Football so eloquently put it, “if you wrap a turd in enough bacon, people might be apt to think that it’s a filet
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In my last piece, I discussed player valuation and how to negotiate trades in a manner that allows you to sell assets and get value in return. To summarize, I outlined 5 key points that you should always be keeping in your mind when selling an asset: Who is my target audience for this asset?
In my last feature, we canvassed how to build relationships with your league-mates. After all, being in a dynasty league means that if you want to remain competitive you have to be comfortable with making trades and by extension, talking trades. Here is a quick review on some of that article… Quick Review: If you owned
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A lot of us go to sites like Dynasty Football Factory (shameless plug) to get the latest and greatest dynasty football-related information. While most all dynasty, and by extension, fantasy-related content is invaluable, I’m going to reflect on a topic which is as important as player valuation in a dynasty league setting: being able to
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