This dynasty team was a 2015 startup where my goal was a Year 1 productive struggle (looking like the 1.02 draft position for 2016) in a best ball format. With a total points structure, it provides more clarity on team direction as it is a race to Week 16 instead of the head-to-head playoff variables at play. Therefore, the strong teams have more incentive to bolster their rosters, trade away rookie picks, and calculate some odds on going all-in or not. Those dynamics are good for non-competitive teams as well, resulting in a robust market to sell productive current year players.
This league has no regular waiver process. You read that correctly – we have a free agent draft after Week 6, then a few periodically in the offseason. Other than those distributions of available players, and the rookie draft, your roster is frozen outside of trading. I was fortunately enough to land Dion Lewis, the prized free agent, with the 1.01 free agent pick after Week 6 by a slim margin. The 1.02 was Leonard Hankerson by comparison. Since I have been shopping Lewis as his current year production hurts me and I do not consider Lewis a core asset for the long run. Previous to working out this deal, ultimately with the odds-on favorite to win the points crown, it had been tough to get anything but rejections in return on the trade market.
The Trade
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