Hot Takes
A440• 12 mo ago
I’d also say that, personally, I’m never a middling team. I’m either a favorite to contend, or I’m rebuilding. If I’m not sure, that means I’m rebuilding. It’s just way too valuable to know when you’re rebuilding to pass it up.
The other thing I do, and when done with the above, creates an almost unstoppable strategy. I will move off of star players about a year too soon. It maximizes their value to me, and allows me to continually get younger and stronger. There are exceptions, I will ride a player into the ground, but I’m never doing that with more than one or two in my starting lineup (good examples are CMC and Hill).
This approach of the above two things (along with key objective projecting) allows me to almost always be a favorite to win, and when I’m not, the turnaround almost never takes more than a year.
2HotRopeAllstars• 12 mo ago
In Dynasty I have to sayings I love. The first I created the second I was told to me.
1. You gotta trade to get paid. The more trading the better. Even if you end up losing a trade here or there (by circumstance I.e. injury trade, draft replacement etc.) keep trading.
2. Win now and later. Trading studs for other studs lower in the same tier and adding draft capital is great. Gives you more weapons to trade etc. (Keep trading) some guys are cool and some guys are dicks. But remember even the guys that are dicks come around sometimes so keep shooting offers. If someone gets offended by an offer wait awhile and then touch base and send another.
2jimmikmik• 12 mo ago
Also, don’t devalue future rookie picks. First time me and my friends got into a league we were all trading our future firsts like they were nothing. Some classes are much more valuable than others, but in general I almost never like trading away my own future firsts11A440• 12 mo ago
Yeah…getting <@jimmikmik> going has a tendency to do just that.
I’m just besides myself at all of the clear examples of irony. So rare to actually see it happen.1L85• 12 mo ago
You guys are embarrassing yourself and look foolish arguing like little kids wasting everyone's time taking over the mans thread because y'all are too immature to just stfu and stop arguing.1jimmikmik• 12 mo ago
<@DontTakeTheRUFies> a lot of good advice here, most importantly don’t be a know it all pompous douche like <@HotRopeAllstars>
1A440• 12 mo ago
Pick trading really comes down to objective projections and being good at it. Everyone always thinks they’re going to win, but I can’t stress enough that the ability to know objectively whether you’re realistically contending this year is probably the most important piece of information you can have. Knowing that you don’t have a real chance outside of luck allows you to take full advantage of value swings of the various assets, which goes hand in hand with owning your own pick. Because of this, I’ll almost NEVER trade my own personal picks in the distant future. I’ll trade mine for next year to compete now or grab a key player I want for rebuilding, but I’m rarely trading my distant picks1A440• 12 mo ago
But I usually have more than just my first anyways1A440• 12 mo ago
Agree with most that’s been said. Cept I will say that RB is the position you can gain the most from in a single season setting. At least at the top end, if you deemphasize the position, it’s correct, they can be patched in at RB2 and below. The reason people deemphasize them is because in dynasty you have to account for injurability and longevity, and RBs are both the most injury prone and have the shortest shelf life on the average. Just know that the top RBs will bring the most bang for your buck of any position.
As for draft picks, I think I sorta agree with jimmi, mainly in that I don’t throw away my firsts willy-nilly. Specifically your own first, you have the most control over. I’ll move them for the right deal, but owning your own pick allows you to better reap benefits if you need to pivot midseason into rebuild mode1jimmikmik• 12 mo ago
<@DontTakeTheRUFies> also very important to not use trade calculators as a bible. KeepTradeCut and some other sites are fantastic resources despite the amount of people that shit on them. They’re a great guide, but not end all be all by any means whatsoever. Use trade calcs and rankings like that to just get a rough idea of consensus values and rankings and fine tune your own rankings yourself1
