This year will be slightly different. Read the highlighted section below for the Cliff's Notes version, otherwise continue reading below it for the more detailed explanation.
Short version:
- You have from the time the season is over until May 3, 2025, to send me a list of 20 players to keep. I'll send reminders a week before the deadline. It is best to wait until then before making your decision.
- After the deadline, Taxi players go back to your team. You now have 21 players.
- You then have until August 3rd to make any cuts to your 21 players. You must cut at least one (to bring you down to 20), but you can cut up to 6 (which means you are keeping 15).
- Remember, the more players you release, the more draft picks you gain in compensation. But you must keep at least 15 players going into the draft.
Long version: When the season ends, you will have way more than one week to send me your keepers. The NFL Draft ends on April 26th of 2025. From that point forward, you will have one week to send me a list of TWENTY keepers. Not 15 to 20, but exactly 20. That means you have until the end of the day on May 3rd, 2025, to send me your keepers. If you do not submit them in time, your top 20 scorers regardless of position will be carried over this year. This gives you enough time to observe the draft and check how this effects your keeper picks. Like, if you have a mid-tier TE on your team, and then the real life NFL team drafts a stud TE out of college to play ahead of him, you might want to drop that so-so TE. Or if you have aging quarterbacks on your team, you can decide how many you want to keep or if you'll be pursing a rookie in the draft.
After this deadline ^ everyone will have 20 players on their team. 20 then will become 21 as your taxi squad players are released onto your team. I will post a list of who those are below, in case you forgot. So you will then have 21 players from this point until the draft, when you will be forced to drop down from 21 to anywhere between 15 and 20.
Trades can happen at any point in the offseason. Remember, there is no Yahoo board that tracks offseason activity, so you as managers have to message or email each other, agree to a trade, and then message that trade to me, and I will update the tracker for next season. This year, trades can put you above 20 players, but you still cannot make a trade that will drop you below 15. Any trades involving draft picks must involve an equal number of draft picks in return. Just remember, if you do make a trade that puts you about 20, you will still only be allowed to keep 15 to 20 of them going into the draft, just like everyone else.
As I stated last year, the Rad Dynasty draft will now take place every year on the first Sunday of August. In 2025, this falls on the 3rd. Entering the draft, you can carry over a maximum of 20 and a minimum number of 15 players from last year. I give everyone 10 days warning before the draft to make any cuts. That means I will message everyone on July 24, 2025 that they have ten days to make any roster cuts. Once the clock rolls over to the 3rd of August, the deadline passes and the keepers are locked in.
The draft works the same as last year. If you keep 20 players, you get 5 draft picks. If you keep 19, you get 6 picks, etc. If you keep 15 you get 10. It always equals 25. I think this is pretty clear, but I understand it can be confusing so message me if you have any questions. Also, if anyone wants me to post their email address, phone number for texting, etc. and make it available for everyone to see, please let me know and maybe I can make a post with everyone's contact information. This would be used for offseason trading. I don't want anyone to miss out because they don't have social media or they never check their Yahoo email address. Personally, I only use my Yahoo account for fantasy. I rarely check my Yahoo email. Trading is a big part of dynasty! I've been an active trader and so far it has paid off.
Last but not least - and this is the tough manager stuff - I really have some decisions to make when it comes to a few teams in the league this year. I want this league to have 100% participation from everyone trying to win, and I feel as if I'm not getting this from a couple teams. Lineups are not set, injured players are left in there, as are people on bye weeks. The draft was missed for these teams as well, and their rosters are terrible and devoid of young talent. These rosters look very bleak from a dynasty perspective.
For the sake of competitive balance, I'm going to have to replace the manager of one of these teams. For the other teams, you get one more chance to show you're at least trying to turn things around. Who will I replace? The Killing Fields - I am looking at you. Hopefully you don't take it personally. But it seems like every time I've played in a league with you, you just abandon it midway. It's more than just a pattern at this point. It's what you do. That's who you are as a fantasy football manager. I hope you don't take it personally, but as a commissioner I expect a little bit more than that, and I know I will never get that from you. But hey, you filled a spot and gave me two good years in this league, which is what I had originally asked for. You were a big part of the early development of this fun little dynasty league of mine, and I have to thank you for that.
I think I am done rambling now. Below I will post everyone's taxi picks and also I will post the draft picks of people who made trades involving draft picks in 2024 (there are 4 affected teams).
TAXI LIST:
Dynastic Dan: TE Cade Stover (Hou)
Teflon Don: TE Erick All Jr. (Cin)
Bluth: RB Braelon Allen (NYJ)
Show me the TDs: QB Michael Penix Jr (Atl)
TDs or Bust: WR Troy Franklin (Den)
ned's rollers: WR DeMario Douglas (NE)
Alice: WR Jalen McMillan (TB)
My Team: WR Marvin Mims Jr. (Den)
Tbone: WR Jalin Hyatt (NYG)
Thunder Thighs: QB Spencer Rattler (NO)
BDB: WR Andrei Iosivas (Cin)
Killing Fields: WR Jacob Cowing (SF)
DRAFT PICK TRADES:
Dynastic Dan sent his 2025 5th round pick to BDB for his 2025 4th in the Justin Herbert/CJ Mosley offseason trade.
As part of a later trade for Trey Benson, Dynastic Dan sent his 4th rounder to Tbone for his 5th rounder. Dan still has BDB's 4th rounder though.
In the Jaylen Waddle trade, Dan acquired Perry's 3rd for the 5th Dan got from Tbone.
Dynastic Dan has:
1st rd
2nd rd
3rd rd
Perry's 3rd *acquired in Waddle trade
BDB's 4th *acquired in Herbert trade
Perry has:
1st rd
2nd rd
4th rd
Tbones 5th *acquired from Dan in Waddle trade, who acquired from TBone in Benson trade
5th rd
Tbone has:
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
Dan's 4th *acquired in Benson trade
BDB has:
1st rd
2nd rd
3rd rd
5th rd
Dan's 5th * acquired in Herbert trade
Everyone else just has their normal draft picks, rounds 1 through 5 (so far).
2025 Draft Order:
Locked in:
2. The Killing Fields (4-11) **seeking new management
3. TBone (4-11)
4. BDB (4-11)
5. My Team (6-9)
6. Teflon Don (7-8)
7. ned's rollers (8-7)
8. show me the TDs (9-6)
9. Alice in Horns (11-4)
10. TDs or Bust (11-4)
11. Dynastic Dan (12-3)
12. Fergalicious (11-4)
The eliminated teams are carrying this much FAB to next season:
$100: Tbone
$100: BDB
$100: The Killing Fields
$99: My Team
$68: Bluth Company
$39: Teflon Don
$19: Show me the TDs
$0: ned's rollers
Once the postseason ends and the champion is declared, I will be making a new post tracking things in a much more organized manner, to start the 2025 offseason.
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