Fantasy-Football.DE

Proposal:
Expand the league rosters by ONE spot, to be called the "Practice Squad". The additional Practice Squad roster spot can only be used for rookies. A player on the Practice Squad can not play on the active roster unless activated (thus removing him from the Practice Squad and submitting his activation to the current league roster restrictions).

Note: The Practice Squad idea is already in place in the GFF.de league.

Pros:
1. Rookies without immediate value, but with "long term" value, can be kept without using a valuable roster spot for active players.
Ex: A rookie QB such as Christian Ponder, who has no immediate impact in the league, but could have value as a rookie keeper once the season is complete.
2. Allows for owners to keep their drafted rookies longer, instead of cutting one of both of them at the first roster cut. This creates more of a "relationship" between owners and their rookies.
3. Enables all owners to have a place for a rookie, to eliminate the end of season scramble to find a rookie in order to fit the league rookie keeper rules, thus, eliminating gray areas of rule enforcement for rookie keepers.

Cons:
1. Allows for owners to horde valuable rookies.
2. Allows for users to free up a veteran roster spot, since many rookies have no immediate value during their first season. This would mean there are even less available veteran free agents with value.

So there's the proposal, what do you guys think? Is this something that would interest you, or are there other pros/cons you can think of that should be added to this list for proper analysis?

im against this proposal because its coming from chris :aetsch:

Ok seriously: 1st: im against this proposal just because I like the current rule better! At the moment u have to weight the options you have and then you got to make a tough decision (keeping a potential long-term rookie versus a decent veteran). This would favour owners who already have a comfortable veteran depth and doesn’t need to assure a stronger depth at veteran. 2nd: I don’t like the fact that owners could heavily horde rookies to use them later for certain trades. There are owners who don’t have the possibility to check out the rookie trends week by week

The Practice Squad sounds interesting. Therefore I would support the idea.

Why would I need an extra spot for a rookie QB ?

I own the CAM (Charlotte, NC) :grinning: !!!

FlyingFrogs schrieb:Why would I need an extra spot for a rookie QB ?

I own the CAM (Charlotte, NC) :grinning: !!!

Obviously this wouldn't benefit those who have amazing rookies like yours

Now, seriously, why don't we start a voting? I find the idea interesting, it would add a new twist to the FF experience. If it does not work as expected, we could kill the squad again, afte one season maybe.

FlyingFrogs schrieb:Now, seriously, why don't we start a voting? I find the idea interesting, it would add a new twist to the FF experience. If it does not work as expected, we could kill the squad again, afte one season maybe.

Agreed.

@Martin, is it okay if we put this to a vote?

Of course. I read your opinions am curious about the result
My opinion is, we don't need a additional spot.