so a few of my friends and i are trying to set up a fantasy hockey keeper league, just for fun, not serious, just for s***s and giggles and bragging rights.
i was thinking of rather than just having a set number of players that we keep each year, or having some kind of rotation saying you can keep this set of players this year, then one of those players is lost the next year and however that method words.
basically i wanna do some kind of contract method. each player would be given a default contract based on when he was drafted, there would be free agency and a team salary cap and a limit as to how long contracts can be and how many years in total a manager can have locked up in contracts. to prevent someone from signing a player like ovie or sidney or malkin for like 20 years, or signing a bunch of players for like 5 years each thus basically eliminating there need to really do anything.
anyway, i am having trouble figuring out the method of valuing contracts.
right now the roster is 20 players, i think i am going to have to expand it though (3 C, 3LW, 3 RW, 4 D, 2 G, 5 BN) i am thinking of expanding the bench, i can add up to 5 more.
after some calculations and guess and check work, i have arrived at this conclusion, each teams first four picks will be given 3 year deals, the next four given 2 year deals, then the rest 1 year deals. the first five picks for each team would earn 7, 6, 5, 4 and 3 million respectively. then the next two picks would earn 2 million, the next three 1 million, then the remaining picks 500,000
with the extra bench players, that works out to be 39.5 million for the team salary, so i am thinking a cap of either 45 or 50 million would be more than enough, the total years comes out to 37, so then maybe the year cap could be 45 or 50 as well. ( the maximum term for a contract is 5 years, so there would need to be room for contract terms to expand without going over)
anyway, does this make sense?
does anyone do something similar to this?
does it work?
would you be interested in giving this a shot? i am currently trying to figure out how much interest there is amongst my friends, but i do not know if they will want to do it with the contracts instead of just keeping players, so if i can find enough people elsewhere that want to try this, or a mix of friends and strangers, then it could work
i realize there are issues with the free agency and dropping players then people resigning them and stuff, but i kinda have a pretty good idea of how those problems are going to be addressed when they arise, i actually think i have a pretty good handle on this, probably better than i think i do.
i am just wondering if there is a way to improve my numbers or my method, or if there is something i am overlooking.
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