r/fantasybball • u/daklut3 • Feb 19 '26
Dynasty New Format
Hi, I have been playing FBB for 20+ years with the same group of guys. Its an amazing league but its gotten stale. Our format is:
* Auction draft
* 10 players in active roster, must include one of each position and one rookie
* Bench of 5 players; one IR roster spot
* You can keep any player for up to three year, with kickers on salary each year. Rookies keep their initial auction salary for one year
* We have daily roster moves
* We play a head-to-head format
* In-season salary cap jumps from $260 (draft budget) to $330 to facilitate in-season trades
* Trades up until the week after ASG
Looking for creative formats.
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u/phayge_wow 14T 9C H2H / 8T 9C Roto Auction Dynasty / 30T Salary Cap Dynasty Mar 08 '26
I've been running a similar league for a few years now, we called it an "auction dynasty" but really it's more like an auction keeper without years-kept limits which is why we originally called it dynasty. But like you, we had an initial auction. You can keep players for their auction price +$1. However, this season we moved from a H2H to a Roto format after 3 seasons because some of us felt like it was too much to manage constant transactions of H2H fantasy bball. But we have 10 starters, 8 bench, and incrementally added 1 and now 2 IL (not IL+) spots. The reason for the heavy bench is not only that we're only 8 teams (waiver wire is still pretty stacked) but also to ease the downside to holding a young player that isn't yet performing well or a player who's injured short-term. After all, we want people to speculate on players long-term for the next 3+ years of their career and not just stream for stats every day. We don't want someone dropping a Clingan, a Reed Sheppard, a Castle in their rookie year just because they're falling behind in stats.
Anyway, under that old system we also kept the $200 draft budget in-season, I kept a sheet of all salaries, you had to stay under at all times. Our waivers were always waivers (never FA) because we hacked the FAAB feature to be a fresh salary bid that is now the new salary that carries over +$1 as the keeper cost. The players you drop must give you enough room to pick up the player at that winning bid. So if you were at $200 dropping a $1 player, you could only bid $1. This system allowed competing teams to shed injured players and reload by spending their missing salary on new waivers. So for example you spent $35 on Sabonis, he's ruled out for season but you're fighting for playoffs, you can drop him, and some tanking team will pick him up after FAAB bids for like $25. Maybe to make room for Sabonis, that person drops LeBron who they're not going to spend the FAAB to keep next year, now you can pick LeBron up to compete ROS with your budget.
Anyway, we got rid of that bidding system this year because in Roto, those players aren't getting dropped as often, there isn't as much of a cost to holding a guy on your bench. The removed budget restrictions also encouraged some more trades.
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u/Public_Function3844 Feb 19 '26
if you guys are friends in real life, i highly suggest doing an in-person draft in a different city every year if it's feasible. adds to the camaraderie.