rayderfan77

I am the: Hoboken Hoosierdaddies

If it was me I would be all over it. A 75% Portis is a definite upgrade over Taylor.

In the league I belong to we have what we call a supplemental pick where we can gain the rights to A) a college player who is going pro or to an injured or overlooked NFL player that does not get drafted. We are not allowed to use this player this year but can keep him for the following year. My question is can someone generate a list of backup RB's that have 1 year left on their contract?? Also, any advice as to who I should draft with that pick would be appreciated. So far my list contains...Adrian Peterson, Kenny Irons, Michael Bush, Michael Turner (SD), and Matt Schaub (ATL)

I am okay with your "plan" as long as it is just a strategy. You have to allow yourself the ability to adjust depending on value at that position. If you use a tier system in your pre draft strategy and note where the dropoffs happen you will better know when you need to pick certain players. I would never ever say that I will draft any position in a particular round. Flexibility is needed.

Thank you for your advice. Anyone else?

Ok well, it doesn't look like there are a whole lot of ideas out there so I will give some of mine. We are planning on it being and Auction draft with keepers year in and year out. We are going to allow teams to keep up to as many as 3 player per year but they can drop everyone if they want to. They are allowed to keep 1 Franchise player, 1 Rest. FA, and 1 regular keeper. The way we currently have it set up is that the Fran Player's salary will go up a set amount (like $3) per year and he can only be dubbed your franchise player once. The Regular keeper's salary increases by a minimum of $2 or 50% of last years salary whichever is greater. (50% might be high so it might be like 30%) and the RFA actually goes back into the draft pool at the end of the year but the owner has a chance to match any offer on that player. We plan on having a cap of $200, and out of that you must draft 1QB, 2 RB, 3WR, 1TE, 1K, 1DB and 1DL/LB (starting lineup) along with 8 additional players. You can draft up to 25 total players. During the year if one of your players gets injured you can place him on IR and get back half of your investment or you may drop him entirely and get back his whole salary. However once the player comes off IR he retains his full salary again. Free agency will be done by a blind auction with a single bid. I.E. You bid $8 for Kevin Barlow and someone else bids $10 for him...the other guy gets him and you do not have a chance to up his bid. All of this will be done silently through email and all players will be awarded on a given day throughout the week. After the draft each team is awarded an additional $50 is cap room in order to bid on players + their remaining cap room. No team is ever allowed more than 25 players and total cap must remain under $220.00. This allows for players to bid higher on FA and not have to drop quite as high of caliber of players in order to obtain them. I don't know if this makes sense when I typed it but it does in my head. Please, please criticize anything you don't like or do any additions. I can take it.

Bell...in a heartbeat! He has the most potential of any of those guys and will get plenty of touches. Plus he may end up winning the job anyway.

I have been involved in many leagues...free ones through Yahoo, live draft internet leagues, auction leagues and even belong to a keeper league where we have announcers annoucing our picks and draft college seniors, but even with all of those I want more. So a friend of mine and I are trying to start an ultimate FF league. One where we combine the auction style and keepers together. We have a million different ideas as to how we should implement salary caps and increases, free agents, franchise players, RFA's, IR, and include college players. What I am asking you, my fellow junkies, is, that if anyone is already involved in leagues like this, if I can pick your brain? And for those of you who are not but love FF what ideas can you give me to add to my league. I will take all advice, ideas, comments...whatever. Thanks in advance for your tips.