New 3 Year Mini Dynasty Concept

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I am thinking about starting what I call a Scratch Dynasty League. It essentially involves building a team slowly from scratch over a three year period, strictly through drafting, before you start competing head to head against other teams. It would be a 10 team league and here is how it would work:

 

Season 1

Each team pays a $100 non refundable entry fee at the beginning of season one.

There would be a 4 round rookie only slow email snake draft in June/July where all teams select the first 4 players for their respective rosters. Only rookie players will be added to teams at this time. Draft order generator will be used to determine draft order.

There will be no normal waiver/free agency process as this is a draft only league.

The points of those 4 players will be added up over the course of a season and the team with the most points will win a cash prize.  

If a team loses a player to injury, that team may use the "emergency" free agency process to add a replacement player, but that replacement player can only be another rookie and, if/when the team's original player returns from injury and is active on their NFL team, that team must drop the replacement player. The team will not have the option of keeping the replacement player because that player is better, etc and a team will not be able to utilize free agency to replace players who are cut or inactive (the idea is that you identify and draft rookies who will have a prominent role on their NFL team). Only players who are inactive on their NFL team for a certain week(s) may be replaced and only for that time period. Once that injured player returns to active status, the replacement player must be dropped.

 

Season 2

A second non refundable $100 fee will be collected prior to start of season 2.

There will be a second 4 round rookie only slow email snake draft in June/July and those players will be added to the rosters. Now each team will have a maximum of 8 total active players. Draft order will be determined by order of finish the prior season (total points) with the last place team getting first pick and so on (in ascending order).

Once again, if a team loses a player to injury, that team may use the "emergency" free agency process to add a replacement player, but that replacement player can only be a rookie and, if/when the team's original player returns from injury and is active on their NFL team, that team must drop the replacement player. The team will not have option of keeping the replacement player because that player is better, etc and a team will not be able to utilize free agency to replace players who are cut or inactive (the idea is that you identify and draft rookies who will have a prominent role on their NFL team).

The cumulative points for all 8 players will be tabulated over the course of that season and a cash prize will be awarded to the team with the most total points.

 

Season 3 

A third non refundable entry fee of $100 will be collected prior to start of season 3.

A third and final 4 round slow email rookie snake draft will be held in June/July. Each team at that point would theoretically have up to 12 total players but, if a player or players are cut, inactive, or otherwise not playing in the NFL, a team's total could be less than 12. Draft order once again will be determined by order of finish the prior season (total points) with the last place team getting first pick and so on (in ascending order).

After the rookie draft, there will be a one time 4 round veteran snake draft (all available NFL players included) where teams would be able to fill out and finalize their rosters with whatever players and positions they feel are needed to make a full and competitive roster. That draft would take place after the 3rd NFL pre season game and would be an online one day only draft. Draft order for veteran draft would be randomly determined by draft generator. 

After the veteran draft, each team will have a maximum of 16 players, though again, it could be less if a team's rookies were cut or are no longer active in NFL. 

The "emergency" free agent process would again be available and would extend to veteran players. If a team loses a rookie (injury only), it can only replace that player with another rookie. If a team loses a veteran player (injury only), it can replace that player with another veteran, but the points scored total for that veteran cannot exceed the points scored total of the original, injured player. Again, once any player returns from injury, the team must drop the replacement player and activate the original player.

The third season is where each team will field a starting lineup of 1 QB, 1 RB, 2 WR, 1 TE, and 1 FLEX (RB, WR, or TE) each week for the entire league season. The league will change to a head to head league and teams will compete against each other in a normal H2H format with playoffs and championship matchup (top 4 teams from regular season will qualify for playoffs). 

Trading will be allowed throughout all 3 seasons but no free agency/waivers will ever take place, other then the "emergency" free agent process. The idea is to draft well enough over the 3 rookie drafts and 1 veteran supplement draft to form the best, most complete team possible and be able to survive the loss of players due to them being inactive or cut for performance reasons. 

 

The total prize pool will be $3000.

1st Place - $1530

2nd Place - $500

3rd Place - $300

4th Place $200

Total Points For (Seasons 1 and 2) - $100 (X2)

MFL Site Fee - $270 (covers all 3 seasons)

 

 

Let me know if anyone would be interested in joining a league with this concept. If we get 10 teams, I'll put the league together and it will start with a rookie only draft this year. Fees and prize distribution handled through Leaguesafe.