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As of now, we can't trade for dollars but it's actually one of the changes our league wants to implement. If it goes into effect this year before the draft, which is Labor Day weekend, more to consider. But assuming it doesn't, teams are starting to drop people they aren't keeping. Saw Mahomes and Kelce Dropped. Both were pretty expensive for their positions. Lower 20s. Not keeping McCaffrey would free up budget to go after higher end starters like that in other positions while trying to build RB depth of cheaper players. As a hypothetical example: what combo would be better: Goff, Mccaffrey, Jacobs, AJ Brown, D London $1 TE (can't keep waddle if keep CMC) Vs Mahomes, Josh Jacobs, D Singletary, AJ Brown, D London, J Waddle, T Kelce

So if i drop Jacobs and keep: McCaffrey ($37) Singletary ($3) A Brown ($17) D London ($15) Waddle ($14) I would have a max spend of $4 max bid to fill starting QB, TE, K, Defense and 7 bench spots. If i get a $4 QB, then everyone else must be $1 players. Would have a good starting lineup but one injury could doom my season with little depth. Makes this league very interesting year to year.

No, you can't trade for money. I offered McCaffrey for Laporta ($3) to an owner who basically has no keepers. He rejected since that's alot of budget to allocate to one person when you have to rebuild your whole team.

I think he would go around the same price or more. There will be teams that will have alot of budget to spend and McCaffrey would be best available player.

Appreciate the response! Alot to consider. We do have to come out of the draft with a valid roster so D and K are required. I allocate $1 per.

I don't think singletary and Edwards would go for $1. Are they worth more, who knows. But supply and demand will drive up their price. Probably the best RBs that may be available are Barkley, Bijan Robison Mixon, rookie rbs and maybe a few mid tier rbs. There will be teams entering the draft with no starting RBs on their roster so will need to pay in order to get at least one.

$1 is the minimum bid. Undrafted players who get picked up during the season salary is $5. Don't have to stay under budget once the draft ends but impacts the keepability for future years.

Yeah i like London's upside as well. I'm also exploring trade options of Waddle, london or Mccaffrey to shed some salary. Some guys i could potentially target with trades at cheaper prices: M Pittman - $8 Tank Dell - $3 Nico Collins $3 Aiyuk - $9 Nacua - $8 Laporta - $3 Kincaid - 2 The teams with these players have budget going into the draft so they can afford to take on salary, if the trade makes sense. For example would you trade McCaffrey for Laporta for a budget savings of $34? Not saying the other team would accept McCaffrey for laporta straight up. LaPorta is his only keeper so he has to rebuild his whole team and most RB will be kept. Then my team could be: QB - Goff ($4) RB - Josh Jacobs ($13), Gus Edwards ($7), Singletary ($3) WR - AJ Brown ($17), London ($15), Waddle ($14) TE - LaPorta ($3) total of $82 with $18 to spend on draft to upgrade RB2 and fill out bench players.

The reason London costs more to keep is because there was only a handful of good WRs last year available in the draft. So I had to overpay to get him. I believe I drafted Waddle a few years back at a reasonable price and he has grown incrementally ever since. That's what makes this league interesting. If you draft a player cheap before he explodes, you have a keepable asset for many years. Otherwise you have to overpay in draft for known commodities or basically commit to a rebuild year where you trade your high priced studs to contenders for cheap keepable assets.

Who do you think is a more valuable keeper? Waddle at 14 or London at 15?

Or would it be better to keep the 3 WRs over mccaffrey keeping brown (17), waddle (14), and London (15)

Only a $100 budget. For more context around league. It's definitely a know your league type of situation. Sorry for the long post Going on Year 16 $100/budget Start 1 QB, 2 RB, 3WR, 1 TE, K, D/ST and 7 bench spots PPR All players are able to be kept each year if fit within the budget prior to draft Players price rise each year based total fantasy points scored the previous year (example CMAC kept at $33 last year, scored 391 fantasy points, $4 price increase - $37 to keep this year Goal is to find cheap studs that can grow with your team for years before they become to expensive to keep Alot of players are kept. Bijan Robinson was the best available RB in auction last year and he went for $28 (McCaffrey is the highest priced player right now) There are typically teams with lots of money to spend but not alot of studs available (mostly rookies) Last year i drafted Goff for $1; which turned out to be a steal (i could keep him for $4 this year) I came in 2nd last year What i see as my options: Go into draft with McCaffrey, Jacobs as starting RBs, AJ Brown, Waddle as WR1&2, with Singletary as my RB3 bench guy. $84 of 100 budget spent. Hard to get a starting rb option for $3 (singletary) Look to trade Waddle for a cheaper WR or TE option to free up some more cap going into draft Don't keep McCaffrey and get back $37 of draft budget (this is the critical decision that steers the ultimate direction of the team for years) Other guys on my bench that "could" be considered keepable at prices but i don't have enough budget Drake London - $15 Gus Edwards - $7 Goff - $4

Thanks for all the responses. I ask cause I'm in a league where you can keep anyone on your team as long as you are under budget going into the draft. Here are my potential keepers and the prices. Alot of players are kept in this league so finding quality replacements at reasonable costs in the draft is a challenge. McCaffrey - $37 Jacobs - $13 Singletary - $3 AJ Brown - $17 Waddle - $14 Start 2 RBS and 3 WRS. If i keep all of these, thats $84. $16 to fill starting QB, TE, WR3 K, D, and 6 bench spots. So not alot to work with so would have to fill roster with alot of cheaper players. McCaffrey is a huge expense but on the fence if he's worth it. He's also a tradeable asset after the draft if my team is out of contention to start the rebuild process. Also on the fence about Waddle. Can i find a cheaper guy who can put up same production? Thoughts?

Going into my dynasty auction ppr draft ($100 budget), would you be happy allocating 53% of total budget if you ended up with McCaffrey, Josh Jacobs and Devin Singletary? League starts 2 rbs no flex.

Yes, and i'm typically the person thats always a year ahead! I kind of feel it could happen again with Davis.