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730 sats \ 24 comments \ @HardMoney 29 Jan Stacker_Sports

Received an email from sleeper that had 3 different fantasy football league formats vs traditional.

Best Ball - https://sleeper.com/blog/what-is-best-ball-fantasy-football/

Dynasty - https://sleeper.com/blog/keeper-vs-dynasty-league/

Guillotine - https://sleeper.com/blog/guillotine-fantasy-football/

Best ball format is probably my favourite. Takes setting the lineup out of consideration and actually rewards strategies like have 2 really good QBs since the best score counts. Would be a better format for beginners imo since it would limit the amount of 0 point injured players that get started.

Dynasty - potentially interesting but would make it hard to add new teams in the future if more want to play

Guillotine - seems like you need a lot of teams for this format to work but is kinda like a survivor pool on steroids

Thoughts @grayruby @Undisciplined @Public_N_M_E @Coinsreporter @SirStacksalot

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87 sats \ 18 replies \ @grayruby 29 Jan

We talked about doing a dynasty league but thought we should see how it goes the first year. I think it is a good point about adding new teams. I am not against having multiple leagues going with different formats.

This is @Public_N_M_E's show so I won't steal his thunder. I am good with however he wants to coordinate it.,

FYI @SirStacksalot is @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears on SN.

80 sats \ 17 replies \ @Undisciplined 29 Jan

I like the idea of ultimately having a ~stacker_sports dynasty league going, but I don't think we have the critical mass of interested parties yet.

80 sats \ 0 replies \ @Public_N_M_E 9h

Before converting to a dynasty (and I agree a dynasty for stacker sports would be awesome! And was the original idea.) I think we want to utilise traditional formats to generate more interested parties and then move to dynasty.

35 sats \ 15 replies \ @grayruby 29 Jan

How many do you think we need? 8?

40 sats \ 14 replies \ @Undisciplined 29 Jan

If there's a good way to add and subtract teams each season, I think we could start with 6.

71 sats \ 0 replies \ @Public_N_M_E 9h

I have ideas, but nothing solid yet. Effectively you could use 2 leagues. A redraft and a dynasty, the winner of the redraft gets to take over the team that lost the dynasty. I'm just concerned about how long it can realistically take to get a bad team good, but it forces the manager to make good trades and find good free agents.

I'm all for expanding the main league with the vision to move to a dynasty format once we've drummed up loads of interest.

You could also just run two redraft leagues and have a winner promoted to league 1 loser demoted to league 2 thing with redraft aswell... Really depends on what people really want.

71 sats \ 12 replies \ @grayruby 29 Jan

6 shouldn't be too hard to arrange. I don't want to give Pub too much work though. If we have a dynasty league I think it would have to be separate from the regular league.

67 sats \ 11 replies \ @Public_N_M_E 8h

I enjoy doing them to be honest. I think I do have a threshold in which I'd begin looking at taking a cut of the buyins as "admin fees" but it wouldn't be much, kinda just beer money if I'd have to throw down several hours a week on admin.

Id look to get closer to 12-14 teams in play before thinking about converting to a dynasty format. And then if more teams want to join the dynasty that would be via promotion from a secondary league.

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80 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined 29 Jan

I agree with the argument for Best Ball. I think we would have many more participants if it were less complicated.

64 sats \ 1 reply \ @HardMoney OP 29 Jan

The 2 advantages for bestball:

limits how many automatic wins happen when someone doesn’t switch out bye or injured players. Will be far fewer sub 100 scores
changes the strategy a bit. Maybe it makes sense to have 2 elite QBs and 1 mid tier one even tho only 2/3 will count. Same with TE, kicker or defense. Will result in some interesting waiver wire strategy. Will result in some more unpredictable drafting

29 sats \ 0 replies \ @Public_N_M_E 8h

There are definitely pros to bestball it's a set and forget. Draft and done thing.

I prefer active management, and I believe that once skin is in the game we will see managers paying a lot more attention to their rosters.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coinsreporter 8h

I hardly understood the league, the app. The best suggestions from everyone else should be considered my suggestions... I beg some respect, I was the loser. ;)

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Public_N_M_E 9h

I agree that bestball is very beginner friendly, but personally I lean more towards active management with a redraft (long view, stacker sports dynasty)

How you run the stacker sports dynasty is with relegations. Two leagues one dynasty capped at 12-14 team (nice big competitive league) and one redraft league, the winner of the redraft league adopts the team from the loser of the dynasty. That seems to be an alright way of doing it, but I am concerned that the worst teams will take longer than a year to become good and will just have owner churn, but at the same time it forces the new owner to look hard for streamers and deep dive for breakouts and make good trades.

I'm much more pro actively managed teams so personally wouldn't use the best ball format.