If you are using the Yahoo app, I implore you to use actual website instead. It is so much better and so much more detailed. I messed around with the app a little bit last season and it was terrible. The actual page shows you everyone's roster, their schedules, the moves they have made, it shows you the best available players on waivers, it shows you everything you need to know. The app is essentially good for setting your lineup and that's it. So if you want the full Rad Dynasty experience, VISIT THE WEB PAGE.
Now that that's out of the way, I will inform you that, even though the draft is still 3 months away, we are essentially good to go. The IDP scoring we talked about last year has been changed. Schedules are set. Keepers on all of your rosters have been carried over. The draft order is set as well. One minor note: tight end Andrew Ogletree is not available on Yahoo for some reason, so I was unable to bring him over from BDB's team. For now I have awarded BDB an additional 6th round draft pick to cover for this. If Ogletree is added later, I can re-add him to BDB's team and take the draft pick back. Unless BDB just decides to drop him. He is kind of a useless player. But that is up to him to decide.
Since I have you all here reading this, I am going to take the time to explain how this season's draft will work, since it is the first (non start up) dynasty draft most of you have been involved with.
Rosters are 25 players. I allowed you to keep 15 to 20 players. If you kept 20, you will get 5 draft picks. If you kept 15, you get 10 picks. If you kept 19, you get 6 (so on and so forth). Just because one team has more picks than another, doesn't mean the draft will be unbalanced or unfair though. Everyone will pick in order for the first 5 rounds. The worst teams from last year pick towards the top of the order each round, the better teams pick last. There were a few trades in the offseason that changed the order - for example TDs or Bust doesn't have a first round pick because they traded it with Tee Higgins to Bluth Company for Breece Hall and a 5th round pick. So Bluth has two first rounders and TDs has none.
Once the first 5 rounds of the draft are complete, the teams who kept less than 20 players will continue to draft until they reach 25 players. This is a little hard to describe on paper, so let me give you a visual representation. Go to https://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1/4274/draftresults to see what I am talking about.
As you can see, the order for the first 5 rounds is set. All but four teams kept 20 players, so in round 6, the only people drafting are Alice, BDB, TDs, and ned. (Remember, if BDB decides to keep Ogletree this pick will be taken away). So in round 6, these four teams will have the only selections. Everyone else's draft pick for the round will be automatically filled in with a player they had kept.
Same in round 7 (and beyond). Alice and ned are the only teams to keep fewer than 19 players, so they are the only two teams that will continue to draft (unless other teams later decide to drop more players). Everyone else's draft spot will be filled with players they decided to keep.
This might sound a bit complex, but I promise you that it is not.
For now, there is nothing really that you need to do. Remember, the draft is August 18th at 4 PM central. When August rolls around, I'll send a reminder that you have till August 10th to drop any additional players (thus giving you more draft picks). Once the 10th has passed, your rosters are set in stone - barring any pre-draft trades.
Dynasty drafts are very rookie-heavy. If you are unfamiliar with the rookies coming in this year, I advise that you familiarize yourself with them. Here is a good article:
If you don't really care enough to bother learning the new rookies, you can just go ahead and draft any players that were left unrostered from last year. Chris Godwin and Diontae Johnson are the highest rated non-rookies still on the board. There's a ton of other names out there too, like Ezekiel Elliott and Gus Edwards. But remember, this is dynasty. While it might make sense to you to snag a veteran over a rookie, it may not pan out long run. Maybe Chris Godwin will help you win more games this year than, say, Ladd McConkey or Xavier Leggette. But will you be able to say the same 3 years down the road? 5? 10?
I guess that is all I have to say for now. I think this all makes sense, but I understand if you may have questions. Please reach out and ask!
For now, I'll continue to track rosters, draft picks, and player moves on the official offseason thread, which you can find here:
See you in August.
