Anyway, the regular season for the Rad Dynasty ends after week 15. All teams that didn't make the playoffs will have their rosters locked. Yahoo will have a "consolation" tournament for all the losers, but please note that these consolation games will bear no official standing in the Rad Dynasty history books. Aside for pride purposes, they mean absolutely nothing.
The top 4 teams will make the playoffs. Week 16 is the first round of the playoffs. The two teams eliminated will immediately have their rosters locked. Week 17 is the championship round, where a winner will be crowned. The final game of the week 17 championship matchup is the Packers vs Vikings night matchup on December 31st. As soon as that game is complete, the scores will be tabulated and we'll have a winner in year one of this league. Yay. The very next day, January 1st, the rosters for the final two teams will be locked.
Starting from January 1st, everyone in this group will have exactly SEVEN DAYS to send me a list of all the players you want to keep for next season. You can keep up to 20 people from your roster. Keep in mind, that next season I am reducing rosters from 25 to 24 players, just to give people a few more waiver wire options next year for bye/injury purposes. It's only one spot for twelve teams, so it shouldn't make too much of a difference. But it will make a difference.
If you do not send me a list in seven days, I will automatically just pick the top 20 point scorers from your team to carry over, regardless of position. If you choose, please keep in mind that you can keep fewer than 20 players, but you must keep at least 15. How will this work in the draft next season? Let me explain.
The draft for next season will be in August of 2024. The players available to take in the draft will be incoming rookies from college, and any player that was left unrostered after this current season ends. So, for example, if I choose not to keep Elijah Moore - he will go into next year's draft and can be picked up by anyone.
How does the draft work if there is an imbalance of players? Let's say My Team keeps the bare minimum of 15 players. TBone keeps 17 players. BDB keeps 20 players. The rest of the rosters will be filled by drafted players until they reach 24 players. So My Team would have 9 draft picks, Tbone would have 7, and BDB would have 4. But this doesn't mean that My Team has an unfair advantage when it comes to the draft. No, no. Everyone, regardless of how many players they keep, will select in the first four rounds of next year's draft.
The draft order is determined by reverse order of the standings. The team picking first in the first round is the worst team. The team picking at the end of the first round is the champion. Keep in mind all the various tiebreaker rules that I have outlined in the past, when it comes to the standings. The draft is not snaking, so in the second round, the worst team picks first as opposed to the champion picking first again, etc.
The first four rounds of the draft are solely determined by last year's standings. Every single team gets a pick in these first 4 rounds. The rest of the rounds depend on how many people you kept. So if you kept 20, you only get these 4 picks and then you are done drafting. If you kept 17 players, you pick in the first 4 rounds, and then rounds 5, 6, and 7 of the draft. And then you are done drafting. If you kept 15 players, you pick in rounds 1 through 13 of the draft. And then you are done drafting.
This may sound a little complicated but I promise you it will make sense in the end.
In the off season, you can make verbal deals with other players to trade draft picks with one another. These deals have to be run through me, and I can adjust the draft order accordingly. They can't be done through Yahoo. Any deals involving picks must involve a 1-1 ratio of draft picks and players. So if I am acquiring a second round pick and a player from BDB, I have to send a draft pick and a player back. I can't just acquire like three draft picks for one player, or two draft picks for one pick. Just due to the way Yahoo is set up, they have to be even.
If you make a deal, both parties must contact me saying they agree to the deal, and I will make the changes on the game's Yahoo page, and send an announcement to all players. Please keep in mind that I as commish hold veto power for any trades I find to be unfair. If you are trying to trade Christian McCaffrey and a 3rd for Christian Watson and a 7th, I am denying that.
When the draft comes around next year, I will again send out a refresher on how this works. If you are having trouble following, all you need to know for now is that:
WITHIN 7 DAYS OF THE END OF THE SEASON, YOU MUST SEND ME A LIST OF 15 TO 20 PLAYERS TO KEEP.
That is all you need to know, at the bare minimum. Once you do that, you don't even have to think about this league until August 2024.
As always, I am here to answer any questions you may have. I want this to be a smoothly run league where everyone understands what is going on. Full transparency from me, too. I think I've laid everything out as well as I can.
Oh! As far as changes for next year. I already mentioned trimming rosters down from 25 to 24. That's not too big a change. Someone had mentioned eliminating a tight end spot earlier in the year, but I think I am going to keep the double TEs for now. It really makes everyone have to use their noggin due to the lack of good options at the position. This is meant to be a tough league, and finding two quality tight ends is a part of that toughness.
The only real change I am contemplating is perhaps tweaking the IDP scoring. Right now, IDP are a bit overpowered. We're having random linebackers scoring more points that Jaylen Waddle on a weekly basis. Some games are completely determined by the strength of a team's IDP. Maybe 1.5 points per tackle is a bit too high. The average on Yahoo is just one point. Maybe my settings are too high. I don't want to mess with anyone who has built their team around IDP, though. But I am thinking of dropping it down to like 1.25 points. Nothing drastic, but something that perhaps shifts the onus just slightly more back to the offense. I would also drop assisted tackles from a full point to .75 points. The yahoo league average is .5 points for an assisted tackle, afterall.
To balance this, I would slightly shift the scoring for what I would consider an "impact" play. Move an interception from 2.5 to 3 points. A safety from 2.5 to 3. A fumble recovery from 2.5 to 3.
Would anyone be opposed to those changes? I really think it is the way to go. Remember, year one was an experimental year in the league to test how things were going. I think if anything, 2023 has shown how overpowered IDP are with these current settings, and I think it essential to reel them back down to earth next year. Unless anyone throws a fit, I will go ahead and do that next year.
I can't think of anything else you might need to know for next season. As much as I want to expand the playoffs, I like how tough it is to make the postseason in this league. It makes things so much more competitive than leagues where half the teams make the playoffs. I also thought of maybe adding divisions in an attempt to create some rivalries, but I want this to be a league where everyone plays everyone at least once in the regular season.
If you have any questions, thoughts, or suggestions - send them my way! I'll be coming in with my week 12 recap probably tonight or tomorrow.
Editing in what my list of keepers would look like if I made them today (note that this isn't a final list, and is subject to change. This is just an example).
1 Justin Herbert
2 Anthony Richardson
3 Ja'Marr Chase
4 Jaylen Waddle
5 Jahmyrr Gibbs
6 Da'Von Achane
7 Jaylen Warren
8 Roschon Johnson
9 Zach Charbonnet
10 Kyle Pitts
11 Pat Freiermuth
12 Michael Mayer
13 Jahan Dotson
14 Jayden Reed
15 Quentin Johnston
16. TJ Edwards
17. CJ Mosley
And then I would have 7 picks in the draft to fill out the rest of my roster.
Players going back into next year's draft pool from my roster would be:
1 Elijah Moore
2 Jonnu Smith
3 Brandon Aubrey
4 Jonathan Allen
5 Kenny Moore III
6 Khalil Herbert
7 Michael Wilson
8 Jordan Hicks
9 Joshua Palmer
10 Ernest Jones
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