If you’re joining a “regular” dynasty league and want to take your franchise QB in the first round, then the choice is easy. You draft Patrick Mahomes. If you feel like you need a top RB with that first round selection, there are plenty of them to choose from. Christian McCaffrey, Alvin Kamara, Derrick Henry and Dalvin Cook all fit the profile of a RB1 who you can plug in your lineup every week for the next few years. Or maybe you want to go against the grain and take a WR first, then follow up with a RB or QB in the second round. Davante Adams, Tyreek Hill or Stefon Diggs would slot in your WR1 spot on a weekly basis nicely. Finally, how about taking the #1 player at the TE position for the past several seasons? If that’s what you’re thinking, then Travis Kelce is your man. All great options and depending on your draft position, you could choose anyone of them, however…

Question: Besides being great, what else do all of them have in common?
Answer: They all make at least $12.5 million per year

In a “regular” dynasty league, that doesn’t matter. You draft the best player available from your draft board and move on. However, in Dynasty Owner, you’ll need to account for player salaries when thinking about who you want to draft with your first pick (and every other pick as well).

Salaries matter a lot because there’s a salary cap (projected at $123.2 million for the 2021 season) and you can’t go over it. Taking the top scoring player during the fantasy regular season in Patrick Mahomes might seem like the correct choice, but are you willing to spend $45 million of your salary cap on him? Or do you wait and draft someone who might be slightly less productive, but who has a much lower salary? That way, you’ll be able to save some salary cap room for other quality players later on in the draft. Adding in salaries makes a tough decision even tougher and is what makes Dynasty Owner different than almost every other type of fantasy football league.

Which affordable players should you be thinking about for your first round pick in 2021? That depends on your draft slot, but here are some ideas about players who are likely to be 2021 Dynasty Owner first round selections.

Standard Dynasty Owner scoring for kickers gives you 1 point for every extra point, while a missed extra point will cost you 1 point. It’s 2 points for a field goal of between 0 and 39 yards, 4 points for a field goal between 40 and 49 yards and 5 points for a field goal of 50 yards or longer. A missed field goal of between 0 and 39 yards will cost you 3 points, while a miss of 40 yards or more is a loss of 2 points.

For the purposes of this article, all statistics cited are from the full 2020 NFL regular season. The Dynasty Owner regular season stats cited at times are based on Weeks 1 – 13 of the NFL regular season. The Dynasty Owner playoff statistics cited are based on Weeks 14 – 16 of the NFL regular season.

In today’s video we will touch on a few more rebuild topics such as, where you should start when rebuilding, when the right time is to rebuild, why to rebuild, should you rebuild or retool, and why it’s important to be real with yourself about your team's outlook.

At some point I will either have this entrenched in your head or you’ll get tired of seeing it, but make sure you’re following the offseason content as much as you can these short articles and videos can make a world of difference for owners giving them an advantage.

The advantages may not be enough to win your league but in certain situations it could certainly happen, and they will always put you in better positions with a better understanding of what’s going on. Dynasty Owner can be a lot to take in at first but that’s ok and why Steve, The Jerk, Nate, and I are here to help anyway we can.

I want to remind everyone as well please feel free to reach out with any comments, questions, or concerns to any of the Dynasty Owner team. We had one rebuilding owner reach out last week with a trade, which I will include in the video as well.

You most likely already know this name, after all he did become a college football star in 2020, but what dos his transition into the NFL look like? Well, depends on who you ask.

The film-grinders will tell you the Smith is one of the best receivers in the class and somebody who always impresses. Analytical minds might say that he had a late breakout age (he didn’t produce great numbers until his senior year) or maybe that he’s not worth a high pick because he’s two years older than Ja’Marr Chase. Everyone is right.

So, this makes his prospect profile a hard one to comb through. Winning the Heisman did not make Smith a top wide receiver, but his all-around skillset combined with his high-level production are what puts him at the top.

Full article can be found here: https://dynastyowner.com/2021/01/prospect-preview-devonta-smith/

More awards?!?!? Hooray!
Just like the NFL with Pro Bowl selections, the Associated Press (AP) National Football League Most Valuable Player Award (NFL MVP), NFL Honors, Super Bowl MVP, and now the NVP which stands for Nickelodeon MVP, Dynasty Owner has way too many awards to give out. Unlike the NVP award, none of them will go to Mitch Trubisky though. That’s a promise.
What we’ll do is name the Dynasty Owner Playoff Player of the Year and a runner-up, plus the Playoff Breakout Player of the Year. There will be awards for every position (QB, RB, WR, TE, K) as well. We won’t name Value players, either overall or at each position, since salaries don’t really matter in the playoffs. It’s just all about scoring as many points as possible to win your League Championship.
Performing well in the Dynasty Owner playoffs can help players to maintain their high draft stock or move players up the draft board for the next season. For example, the 2019 Dynasty Owner playoffs saw the solidification of the high draft status of a few players from the regular season, such as Saquon Barkley, Christian McCaffrey, Lamar Jackson and Michael Thomas. It also saw the rise of Kenyan Drake. Drake’s 77.0 Dynasty Owner fantasy point playoff performance in the two game 2019 Dynasty Owner playoffs pushed him up to ADP 30.4 in 2020 with a $8.48 million salary after an ADP of 77.0 in 2019 with a salary of only $845,315. Handing out some playoff awards to highlight the best performances of the 2020 Dynasty Owner playoffs can give us a glimpse into the 2021 draft position of some key playoff performers.
All stats are based on the Standard Dynasty Owner scoring system as outlined in the updated Dynasty Owner Constitution. Standard Dynasty Owner scoring gives you .1 points for every yard rushing or receiving, .1 point for every 2 yards passing, 1 point per reception, 6 points for a rushing, receiving or passing touchdown and 2 points for a successful 2-point conversion (rushing, receiving, or passing). Interceptions or fumbles lost cost you 3 points, while a fumble that is recovered by the player’s team is a loss of only 1 point. Bonus points are available for 100-199 yards rushing (2 points), 200 yards rushing or receiving (6 points), 300-399 yards passing (1 point) and 400 yards passing (4 points). There is also a 3 point bonus for clutch scoring, which is a score that results in a lead change in the final two minutes of the 4th quarter or overtime. Kickoff and punt return touchdowns are worth 6 points for the player and kickoff and punt returns are worth 1 point for every 40 yards.
Standard Dynasty Owner scoring for kickers gives you 1 point for every extra point, while a missed extra point will cost you 1 point. It’s 2 points for a field goal of between 0 and 39 yards, 4 points for a field goal between 40 and 49 yards and 5 points for a field goal of 50 yards or longer. A missed field goal of between 0 and 39 yards will cost you 3 points, while a miss of 40 yards or more is a loss of 2 points.
For the purposes of this article, all playoff statistics are from the 2020 Dynasty Owner playoffs (Weeks 14 – 16), while regular season statistics are from Weeks 1 – 13. Salaries listed are from the 2020 Dynasty Owner season as well unless otherwise specified. With the boring caveats out of the way, let’s hand out some more awards!

The challenges Dynasty Owner presents on its own are tough enough, now throw a rebuild on top of it and you are left with quite a challenge, catastrophe, mess, or an enjoyable time depending on who you ask. If you go into a rebuild with a negative outlook and are not actively involved in trading and free agency you will not have much of a chance.

Obviously, a rebuild means your team stinks which is not much fun, but if you have a plan and look to the future rebuilding can become quite interesting, especially here on Dynasty Owner. A rebuild in this format is so much different and has many more moving parts from, salary cap, new contracts, future contracts, and who can you afford to keep on your roster each year. As I have mentioned before I will be talking various aspects of rebuilds and the different challenges rebuilding will present. Today’s article will be geared around what to do with the salary cap when rebuilding which I have found several different strategies that owners can deploy when using the cap to their advantage. If you really sit back and think about it there are many ways you can use players' salaries to expedite your rebuild and I will do my best to break some of those down in depth some with deals I have made already.

I want to touch on this offseason briefly before we get into the article. Each of us writers (Nate, The Jerk, Steve, and myself) will be specializing in different areas that will help owners construct their teams, or make tough decisions. I will be specializing in rebuilding your team as I have mentioned in previous articles. Rebuilding dynasty teams is something I really enjoy doing and have done quite a bit of in the past, and I am now here to pass that knowledge off to you.

Dynasty Owner will present several different strategies you can use to build your team back up. Throughout this offseason I will do my best to help explain these strategies for owners to use in the coming months. I will also be doing videos with each article that will go a bit more in depth and may answer some questions you have. The reason I mention this again is to encourage all of you to ask questions on the videos/articles on YouTube or Twitter. We are here to help you guys please do not be shy!

Full article can be found here:

Today we are going to discuss contracts for a team that is near and dear to my heart. Let me rephrase that…” they used to be near and dear to my heart.” Yes, I used to be a Rams fan. I was born and raised in St. Louis, MO, and I still live here. I grew up watching Rams’ games with my family, and (as I’m sure you can guess) the pinnacle of my Rams’ fandom came almost 21 years ago. Super Bowl XXXIV was one of the best nights of my life, at least as an adolescent. I sat and watched the entire game with family and neighbors, and I celebrated (not really knowing what I was seeing) as Mike Jones tackled Kevin Dyson to seal a St. Louis Super Bowl. We all went outside to bang pots and pans and then shot off fireworks. A truly great night. I casually followed and watched the Rams throughout the Marc Bulger, Sam Bradford and Jeff Fisher years. What’s interesting is I was surprisingly indifferent when Stan Kroenke packed up and took them to the coast.

Maybe it was the pitiful seasons the Rams produced leading up to the exodus. Maybe it was the fact that I had accepted a move was inevitable. Maybe I just didn’t care anymore. This is what I do know...it was freeing. Not that I spent a great deal of time invested in watching the Rams, but I no longer had to care or worry about my team finishing below .500 for the tenth consecutive season. It was over. I had no team. I didn’t fully appreciate it at the time, but it was a blessing. I no longer felt compelled to adjust my fantasy football drafts based on home team biases. I stopped blacklisting all Seahawks, 49ers and Cardinals players just because they were rivals in the NFC West. (Truth be told, there weren’t many Rams players that were rosterable during the end of their St. Louis tenure.) My point is this...biases of any kind are a nasty habit to fall into, and we adopt them much easier than we think and oftentimes we don’t even realize it. Throughout this article, I’m going to sprinkle in some biases that surrounded Rams’ players in the 2020 season. As always, let’s start with some contract speculation…

Check out the full article here: https://dynastyowner.com/2021/01/contract-speculation-and-breakdown-los-angeles-rams/

There wasn’t much question who the 2020 John Mackey Award (awarded to the nation’s best tight end) would go to this year, Kyle Pitts ran away with the award. He now joins a pretty successful list of tight ends including, T.J. Hockenson ($4,955,306), Mark Andrews ($863,290), Hunter Henry ($10,607,000), and Tyler Eifert ($4,750,000). While the award does not guarantee success at the next level (ask Jake Butt ($675,235), Nick O’Leary ($1,047,500), and Austin Seferian-Jenkins) it adds to an already impressive resume that will assuredly make Pitts one of the top dynasty tight ends as soon as he finds a new home on April 29th.

Kyle Pitts is our next rookie prospect to gear up for the rookie draft that will be taking place for the 2021 season and definitely one to keep an eye on. For a TE that is 6'6" tall he's going to be one to look at to adding to your rosters.

Check out the full article that goes with the video here: https://dynastyowner.com/2021/01/prospect-preview-kyle-pitts/

Another Awards video? I know that’s what everyone who saw this title is thinking that, but these awards are slightly different than the ones announced yesterday by Jay (@JayPoundsNFL) in his weekly article and video. These awards will more closely follow the pattern of the weekly recap articles and won’t have any funny or creative names or titles.

First, we’ll name the Dynasty Owner Player of the Year and Value Player of the Year. In addition, we have plenty of other awards to give away, including Rookie of the Year, Free Agent of the Year and Position Player of the Year and Value Position Player of the Year at every position (QB, RB, WR, TE, K). We might have some honorable mention awards as well depending on how difficult the final decision was on picking a winner.

Why are we looking back at the 2020 season and giving out these awards? As the famous quote goes, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” By knowing the best players and performances from 2020, both current Dynasty Owners and new Dynasty Owners can assess the past season, learn from it and properly prepare for their 2021 Dynasty Owner season and drafts.

All stats are based on the Standard Dynasty Owner scoring system as outlined in the updated Dynasty Owner Constitution. Standard Dynasty Owner scoring gives you .1 points for every yard rushing or receiving, .1 point for every 2 yards passing, 1 point per reception, 6 points for a rushing, receiving or passing touchdown and 2 points for a successful 2-point conversion (rushing, receiving, or passing). Interceptions or fumbles lost cost you 3 points, while a fumble that is recovered by the player’s team is a loss of only 1 point. Bonus points are available for 100-199 yards rushing (2 points), 200 yards rushing or receiving (6 points), 300-399 yards passing (1 point) and 400 yards passing (4 points). There is also a 3 point bonus for clutch scoring, which is a score that results in a lead change in the final two minutes of the 4th quarter or overtime. Kickoff and punt return touchdowns are worth 6 points for the player and kickoff and punt returns are worth 1 point for every 40 yards.

Standard Dynasty Owner scoring for kickers gives you 1 point for every extra point, while a missed extra point will cost you 1 point. It’s 2 points for a field goal of between 0 and 39 yards, 4 points for a field goal between 40 and 49 yards and 5 points for a field goal of 50 yards or longer. A missed field goal of between 0 and 39 yards will cost you 3 points, while a miss of 40 yards or more is a loss of 2 points.

For the purposes of this video, all statistics are from the 2020 Dynasty Owner regular season (Weeks 1 – 13). Salaries listed are from the 2020 Dynasty Owner season as well unless otherwise specified. With the boring caveats out of the way, let’s hand out some awards!

Link to full article on our website: https://dynastyowner.com/2021/01/more-2020-dynasty-owner-regular-season-awards/

The 2020 Dynasty Owner is a wrap and our writer Jay thought it would be great to issue out some awards to players from this year. From Daniel Jones tripping heading to the end zone to Mike Davis really pulling out all the stops to help Carolina out in the absence of CMC, the awards are great to recap how its all played out this season on Dynasty Owner.

Check out the corresponding article on our website: https://dynastyowner.com/2021/01/2020-dynasty-owner-regular-season-awards/

Matt TheJerk takes a look at the Arizona Cardinals contracts and gives his speculation. It coincides with the article that was written by him featured in the link below talking about some key players like Kyler Murray, Christian Kirk and Kenyan Drake.

This is some crucial fantasy football advice as Dynasty Owner is different compared to other fantasy football platforms out there. Using real player contracts and salaries adds depth to the game and gives insight into what your team can and can't do.

Check out the article: https://dynastyowner.com/2021/01/contract-speculation-and-breakdown-arizona-cardinals/