Comments for Trigger Happy: Setting League Transaction Limits at http://hockey.dobbersports.com , comment 1 to 10 out of 10 comments http://hockey.dobbersports.com Wed, 22 May 2013 08:44:20 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://hockey.dobbersports.com/index.php/columnistsarticles-mainmenu-77/hoos/4214-trigger-happy-setting-league-transaction-limits#comment-18456 My partial keeper (H2H weekly) has max 25 adds, unlimited trades, and when playoffs start you get 1 add for the whole playoffs. I would never discourage trading. I would never have unlimited adds. Allowing streaming forces everyone to stream to be competitive. - duducks Mon, 19 Dec 2011 05:58:26 +0100 http://hockey.dobbersports.com/index.php/columnistsarticles-mainmenu-77/hoos/4214-trigger-happy-setting-league-transaction-limits#comment-18455 In my keeper league - 24 years strong - we use $100 (real money) for the total contract amount for each team. Top 3 teams win $. Nr. 1 team can protect 4 players for next season, nr. 2 team 5 players, nr. 3 team 6 players, the rest 8. Player contracts rise every year by the nr. of years the player has been held by that team. We have an Equalization Draft (no team protects more than 8) and an Auction Draft at the start of each year where we bid on the available players. Only one roster change can be made each week during the season. Trades are unlimited but there is a deadline. Best league I've ever been in. - Robert Esquire Mon, 19 Dec 2011 05:38:00 +0100 http://hockey.dobbersports.com/index.php/columnistsarticles-mainmenu-77/hoos/4214-trigger-happy-setting-league-transaction-limits#comment-18453 In my 10 year keeper league we have a salary cap of $100. The way it works is that an add/drop is worth $2 and a trade is worth $5. Loans, which we are phasing out this year are worth $10 for each team involved. All the money goes to the season's winner. The buy in at the beginning of the season gets pooled and goes towards the prize money at the end of the 10 years. We also have fines that take a hit of the cap too. Ie renegging on a trade is a $10 fine. The guys in my league love this system because even if you are way behind in the overall standings, a single season victory can fetch you a good chunk of coin, which hasnt been lower than $650 so far. So it keeps guys active every season. Furthermore, we can trade for cap space. Ie. trade a pick for $20, thus making one teams cap total $120 and the other's $80. - Flying Hellfish Mon, 19 Dec 2011 04:58:52 +0100 http://hockey.dobbersports.com/index.php/columnistsarticles-mainmenu-77/hoos/4214-trigger-happy-setting-league-transaction-limits#comment-18449 I play the way the league lets me. It really is that simple. You play to win the game and the goal is to stretch without breaking the rules. The key is that the rules are made very clear. When you play with all sorts of restraints, it is fun to see how others play with the same rules. - Chris Wassel Sun, 18 Dec 2011 18:42:02 +0100 http://hockey.dobbersports.com/index.php/columnistsarticles-mainmenu-77/hoos/4214-trigger-happy-setting-league-transaction-limits#comment-18447 I am in three leagues: 3 transactions per week, not counting trades, 18 man roster, 10 teams, h2h no limit transactions, but only 164 games per position, 19 man roster, 10 teams. roto no limits of any kind, no salary cap, 18 teams, 19 roster spots, h2h no limit, salary cap, 25 man roster, very NHL, h2h all have playoffs I find all four enjoyable and each has a different strategy. The hardest to win is the no limits, 18 team league because of parity when so large a group of players is used. The rest are weekly h2h battles where transactions can give you a win for a week. great piece..thanks Mike - mike hess Sun, 18 Dec 2011 08:52:41 +0100 http://hockey.dobbersports.com/index.php/columnistsarticles-mainmenu-77/hoos/4214-trigger-happy-setting-league-transaction-limits#comment-18446 50 is a good starting benchmark. There's roughly 25 weeks. Anywhere from 1/week to 4/week is pretty good. 25-100. My favourite one year league has 2/week for a 20-player starting roster. Overall, I prefer the transactions to be limited to a lower number - better strategy... and more focus on trading, if major overhaul is needed. I'm in one (free) league with unlimited transactions... doing well... but not enjoying it - a bit ridiculous. The league leader has made like 150 transactions - and I find myself drained trying to keep pace and field a daily line-up. - Pengwin7 Sun, 18 Dec 2011 08:39:01 +0100 http://hockey.dobbersports.com/index.php/columnistsarticles-mainmenu-77/hoos/4214-trigger-happy-setting-league-transaction-limits#comment-18440 In our league, 19 teams and 25 years strong, the more transactions the higher the prize money. I don't have time to explain but, every transaction has a fee. We do have a trade deadline and trades have to be approved. - Charlie Sun, 18 Dec 2011 05:22:41 +0100 http://hockey.dobbersports.com/index.php/columnistsarticles-mainmenu-77/hoos/4214-trigger-happy-setting-league-transaction-limits#comment-18439 I run three fantasy keeper leagues, two hockey and one soccer (based on English Premiership). 1.Hockey, 15 adds per year, no adds after trade deadline 2.Hockey, 20 adds per year, no adds after end of regular season 3.Soccer, 1 add per 10 days, no adds during summer break (draft only) - Pavel Nikiforovitch Sun, 18 Dec 2011 05:14:05 +0100 http://hockey.dobbersports.com/index.php/columnistsarticles-mainmenu-77/hoos/4214-trigger-happy-setting-league-transaction-limits#comment-18435 I'm the commish of the league in my sig (14 team, 1 year roto, 18 man rosters) and we have a 40 move limit for the season. Forty works out to be a pretty good number for us...it's high enough so that managers can make roster adjustments as they see fit, but low enough to rule out any funny business. I'd consider dropping it to force people to think a little more about their moves, but for now I'm pretty happy with that number. - scliff Sat, 17 Dec 2011 23:18:49 +0100 http://hockey.dobbersports.com/index.php/columnistsarticles-mainmenu-77/hoos/4214-trigger-happy-setting-league-transaction-limits#comment-18433 i am really active in 2 full team keepers. one there is a 5 per week limit, the other has a flat 50 moves. those limits are really more about stopping people from streaming. Streaming in a league with less than 250 players active is a very reasonable thing with no limits, there are a ton of 40 point guys and big hit/pim guys that do not kill your +/-. there needs to be something in place to stop this behavior. a high limit more or less solves this - notoriousjim Sat, 17 Dec 2011 19:26:43 +0100