I am needing some help from Hardcore FF addicts.

[rayderfan77 0]

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.

[Timinator 0]

I'm replying mainly for the bump. I'd like the ideas too.

 

I've never done an auction for football. I hated it for babseball. Auctions seem too easy for owners who have more money than brains. I've only participated in Keeper leagues of 1-3 players and never had any restrictions. Hence, I had Emmitt for his entire Dallas career which probably sucked for anyone else.

[rayderfan77 0]

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.

[steelerblitz 0]

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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.

 

Please, please criticize anything you don't like or do any additions. I can take it.

 

My auction league uses pretty much the same setup that you are implementing with some differences in it.

 

The only thing I would do differently is your FA. If you want it to be a true auction/keeper, I would change this. My league currently has an auction every week. We all meet in a chatroom through AIM and have an auction for FA every week. It adds a whole new aspect to the game. Our league uses a $400 salary cap. You start with that amount at the draft....some choose to blow the whole amount at the draft, some only use $350 and save some for FA. Those that save some and get draft day value, usually can outbid owners that blew their wad on studs at the draft. I have seen both styles work in our league. Owners that blew it all at the draft and saved zero cash have won the league, and those that saved have gotten some FA steals have also won the league. It brings into play different draft day strategies. It also keeps the league very active since we meet each week online, and the smack talk is great. Trades also happen a lot since we meet live each week....teams often trade players for some cap money etc....

 

Good luck.

[rayderfan77 0]

Thank you for your advice. Anyone else?