Fantasy 08-09 Building Thread

[BillLaimbeer]

Originally Posted by roscoe36

I don't want to do anything that excludes Woody. So you guys should help sell him on keeper leagues if that's your thing.

Btw, everyone cheering for Keeper Leagues better be prepared to be a Commish!

I agree we need to keep Woody. It's good to have an automatic win every few weeks.

Actually, since Woody doesn't like homework, a keeper league would make more sense for him. You're not going to be making drastic moves in a keeper league.

I thought Darth was the Commish. He can screw things up with the best of them.




"Darth for NHL Commish - 2008"

[mikhail1973]

Originally Posted by roscoe36

Simple explanation, you keep your roster, season to season. You actually manage a franchise, not just coach one year at a time.

That's cool. I could do that.

[round]

I'd always wanted to do one in baseball... makes decisions on who to cut and who to keep much more interesting... you also draft each year looking ahead. I would asume you need a bit larger of a rooster so you can have room for injuried players so you don't have to cut that super star who has the season ending injury. again speaking from baseball... ive seen folks keeping anywhere from 4-15 roster spots from year to year. Would be lots of fun. Only tried hockey once and even though i enjoy watching it more then a baseball game, i found the hockey league not as much fun as baseball... But it was a bad league where nobody would even other to reply to a post let alone both to reject/accept a trade offer.

[jammertime]

You'll find the opposite problem around here round. You'll wish that the other managers will STOP talking!

[Woody]

I'm not opposed to a keeper league. I'll play whatever.

MY problem is I can't remember who I have week to week let alone year to year. Plus the fact that all the guys I had two years ago were lousy this past year. I need a new team about once per month.

Now, if I can go back a couple of years to when I had Lidstrom, Iginla, and Brind'Amour, and Vanek was playing well, and I had Broduer and .......

Well, Whatever...

[mikhail1973]

Who needs to remember anything? Isn't this for fun first and foremost?

[roscoe36]

I mostly play to watch Red Light, TatoHead and Sweepy bicker all season.

[Woody]

A question.

If its a keeper league, and the top teams get to keep all their best players, how do the bottom feeders ever catchup?? I mean their only so many really good players and since you don't start over at draft time, the best teams will slowly get stronger and the worst teams will have no way to catch up. New teams will be at a real disadvantage.

A fresh draft of EVERYBODY each year means that even if your draft sucks one year, you get a chance to do it right the next time.

Am I missing something???

[round]

Originally Posted by Woody

A question.

If its a keeper league, and the top teams get to keep all their best players, how do the bottom feeders ever catchup?? I mean their only so many really good players and since you don't start over at draft time, the best teams will slowly get stronger and the worst teams will have no way to catch up. New teams will be at a real disadvantage.

A fresh draft of EVERYBODY each year means that even if your draft sucks one year, you get a chance to do it right the next time.

Am I missing something???

not an expert here... but you don't get to keep all your players, and its a reverse draft in the following years... so the worst team gets the best player out there...

[Darth Tater]

Originally Posted by Woody

A question.

If its a keeper league, and the top teams get to keep all their best players, how do the bottom feeders ever catchup?? I mean their only so many really good players and since you don't start over at draft time, the best teams will slowly get stronger and the worst teams will have no way to catch up. New teams will be at a real disadvantage.

A fresh draft of EVERYBODY each year means that even if your draft sucks one year, you get a chance to do it right the next time.

Am I missing something???

I've never been in a keeper, but I think it works something like you get to keep 4 players. Then if you keep extra, you lose your top draft choices. Something like that.

But you bring up a good point woody. I think somebody has to keep track and I think that somebody is the commissioner. I doubt we can get a volunteer to commish, but yeah, a keeper would be very cool.

So in a keeper, Hasek & Brodeur lose value and rookies with potential gain value. It would be new to all of us. The commissioner (NOT ME) would have their work cut out for them explaining it.