same_ol_g35 Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 The trouble is we only keep 10 players at the end of the season. So there's no real point in trading for folk if two thirds of everyone's roster is going to be available in the draft anyways. You're just going to sit and wait and see who you get in the draft. I think raising the keepers might stimulate more trades as less quality players will fall out of rosters and into the draft. But, it might not and could just lead to the good teams hording more talent with no real need or want to trade but that's the trouble with any fantasy league. We just have to decide which way we want to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
placidcasual Posted August 28, 2018 Author Share Posted August 28, 2018 Personally feel the free agent pool is deep enough to cover the lack of trades. Any time I've had injuries or players sent down, I've been able to pick up serviceable replacements. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
same_ol_g35 Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 Personally feel the free agent pool is deep enough to cover the lack of trades. Any time I've had injuries or players sent down, I've been able to pick up serviceable replacements.Yeah that was kind of my point(badly put). Fantasy baseball never really generates a lot of trades due to the size of the player pool. There's always decent to good replacements floating about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k-ton Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 1 hour ago, placidcasual said: Personally feel the free agent pool is deep enough to cover the lack of trades. Any time I've had injuries or players sent down, I've been able to pick up serviceable replacements. This is spot on and the only way I can see that we'd get more trading happening is if we had about 10 more teams. Then you'd not be able to have such depth of quality on your roster with the additional back up of quality free agent options. However, I don't think we have a waiting list to join. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k-ton Posted September 2, 2018 Share Posted September 2, 2018 Final day of the season and the title match is nicely poised. Enrico Palazzo has a healthy 45 lead, but Fidel’s have 2 more starters and all the starters are quality. Could get really tight. Good luck to you both! ETA... 3rd vs 4th really close too, beyond that I think it’s all decided. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k-ton Posted September 3, 2018 Share Posted September 3, 2018 Congratulations to Fidel’s Astros on back to back championships! Incredible scenes, just incredible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dee4Life1893 Posted September 3, 2018 Share Posted September 3, 2018 3 hours ago, k-ton said: Congratulations to Fidel’s Astros on back to back championships! Incredible scenes, just incredible. I'm the early 50's Yankees! Bring on the hate Seriously, good season guys. Unlucky in the final Enrico Palazzo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k-ton Posted September 3, 2018 Share Posted September 3, 2018 4 hours ago, Dee4Life1893 said: I'm the early 50's Yankees! Bring on the hate Seriously, good season guys. Unlucky in the final Enrico Palazzo. Am I only allowed to hate certain vintages of Yankee? Oh god, I've been doing it wrong... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
same_ol_g35 Posted September 3, 2018 Share Posted September 3, 2018 Thanks for a great season guys and congrats on your win Fidel's Astros. Now on the debate about what to do for next season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowshed Chris Posted September 3, 2018 Share Posted September 3, 2018 Well done to both finalists and, of course, to Fidels Astros for taking the title.For next year, I think we leave it at 10 keepers. I’d suggest going with 5 starting pitchers and 1 closer. Reduces the effect of folk fiddling things and taking advantage of starters who qualify as relievers which isn’t really in the spirit of the game IMO. I’m sure there are other things we can do to improve things overall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamuraiJock Posted September 4, 2018 Share Posted September 4, 2018 23 hours ago, Dee4Life1893 said: I'm the early 50's Yankees! Bring on the hate Seriously, good season guys. Unlucky in the final Enrico Palazzo. A well deserved win I think for the defending champ! My pitching was struggling to hold together all year so not a huge surprise to come up short. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k-ton Posted September 4, 2018 Share Posted September 4, 2018 18 hours ago, Cowshed Chris said: Well done to both finalists and, of course, to Fidels Astros for taking the title.For next year, I think we leave it at 10 keepers. I’d suggest going with 5 starting pitchers and 1 closer. Reduces the effect of folk fiddling things and taking advantage of starters who qualify as relievers which isn’t really in the spirit of the game IMO. I’m sure there are other things we can do to improve things overall I'd like to suggest we all have a bit of a chat about whether we want to continue as a dynasy league or switch to a redraft. If we persevere as a dynasty league, I'd like to increase the number of keepers. This would allow you to stash prospects as well as active players. At the moment there's little incentive to trade players for various reasons. Without more teams, we'll never get away from the situation of having perfectly adequate replacements from waivers (and there's no prospect of half a dozen more folk looking to join up). I think this will always limit the number of trades however, having control over prospects could introduce a bit more of that activity with folk willing to sacrifice a current proven player for a few players who are on the verge. 20 keeper spots would allow you to do that. Alternatively, we could switch to a redraft league. That would also give us the option of retaining a limited number of keepers (say 5). This would give a much higher turnover of players and would mean year to year things could look very different. I'm also open to the option of doing one of each as both have their merits, but feel at the moment we're kind of falling somewhere between the two and not getting the benefits of either! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
same_ol_g35 Posted September 4, 2018 Share Posted September 4, 2018 2 hours ago, k-ton said: I'd like to suggest we all have a bit of a chat about whether we want to continue as a dynasy league or switch to a redraft. If we persevere as a dynasty league, I'd like to increase the number of keepers. This would allow you to stash prospects as well as active players. At the moment there's little incentive to trade players for various reasons. Without more teams, we'll never get away from the situation of having perfectly adequate replacements from waivers (and there's no prospect of half a dozen more folk looking to join up). I think this will always limit the number of trades however, having control over prospects could introduce a bit more of that activity with folk willing to sacrifice a current proven player for a few players who are on the verge. 20 keeper spots would allow you to do that. Alternatively, we could switch to a redraft league. That would also give us the option of retaining a limited number of keepers (say 5). This would give a much higher turnover of players and would mean year to year things could look very different. I'm also open to the option of doing one of each as both have their merits, but feel at the moment we're kind of falling somewhere between the two and not getting the benefits of either! I agree with this. As I've said before I'm happy to go either way(insert Kenneth Williams picture). I think we should have a discussion about it and decide together which is best, because as k-ton has said currently we're somewhere in the middle and that makes planning for next season problematic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamuraiJock Posted September 4, 2018 Share Posted September 4, 2018 Of the 2 options I think the redraft approach is likely to be more popular with the majority. I get the impression some are more active MLB fans than others, so i'd worry that a Dynasty league would end up dominated by a few strong managers. Re-draft means everyone gets a chance to reset and fight for the title each year. Happy to go with a majority either way though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Henry Posted September 4, 2018 Share Posted September 4, 2018 Of the 2 options I think the redraft approach is likely to be more popular with the majority. I get the impression some are more active MLB fans than others, so i'd worry that a Dynasty league would end up dominated by a few strong managers. Re-draft means everyone gets a chance to reset and fight for the title each year. Happy to go with a majority either way though. I quite like the idea of a second league, as well as increasing the number of keepers in the dynasty league. I think once you start a dynasty league, by definition you need to keep it that way. The second league could be a bit more experimental. Maybe even a straight points league, although again, would it be the same four or five players who dominate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k-ton Posted September 5, 2018 Share Posted September 5, 2018 Meant to say - if we do end up with 2 leagues then I’d be happy to act as commissioner on the new one (assuming no one else is desperate to do it). Not done it before, but presuming it’s not crazy difficult! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
same_ol_g35 Posted September 5, 2018 Share Posted September 5, 2018 52 minutes ago, k-ton said: Meant to say - if we do end up with 2 leagues then I’d be happy to act as commissioner on the new one (assuming no one else is desperate to do it). Not done it before, but presuming it’s not crazy difficult! I for one welcome K-ton as our new second league overlord. I mean commissioner! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Henry Posted March 3, 2019 Share Posted March 3, 2019 This running again or what? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
placidcasual Posted March 3, 2019 Author Share Posted March 3, 2019 I'm unsure what to do with this tbh. Don't think the dynasty/keeper format has worked out. If someone else wants to commish it and run it as is or switch it to a redraft I'm happy to pass the reins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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