Why You Should Host Your Dynasty Leagues on League Tycoon

This article is written by Dan Meylor from our friends at Dynasty League Football.

One of my favorite things to do as a dynasty fantasy football writer is to present ways to make our game more fun and easier for commissioners and managers. I’ve written a bunch of strategy articles on how to attack auctions and others on how to navigate salary cap decision-making. I like to think those articles helped readers enjoy dynasty more and made things easier for them. This article is intended to shed a little light on a game-changing platform to help all dynasty and salary cap players.

Here’s why you need to switch to League Tycoon today.

League Tycoon is Exclusively Dynasty

I’m so grateful to have a website committed only to dynasty players. Their platform was built with the sole intention of catering to the dynasty community.

Not only is it exclusively a dynasty platform, but traditional dynasty league hosting on League Tycoon is also completely free and comes with all the features you want as a commissioner or manager.

• Rookie Drafts
• Future Draft Pick Trading
• Rookie Draft Lottery
• Compensatory Draft Picks
• Slow Auction Drafts
• Automatically Migrates Rosters From Year to Year
• League History Tracking
• Mobile App & League Chat
• Ability to Import Existing Leagues from Sleeper, ESPN, CBS, MFL, and More

The Best Salary Cap Hosting in the Business

For dynasty managers like myself who enjoy the added challenge of incorporating salary caps and multi-year contracts into their leagues, League Tycoon offers the premier platform to track and manage a cap league.

Gone are the days of the commissioner tracking salaries on spreadsheets or manually adding contract years in the commissioner tools page of a platform that wasn’t made to host these types of hardcore leagues. On League Tycoon, the site will automatically assign contract lengths and salaries based on League settings. No manual input and no questions about whether the commissioner mistyped data.

The unique, yet still easy-to-use tools they give managers and commissioners make Tycoon the only choice for cap leagues.

Bidding Years & Contract Length

I was tired of participating in auctions where managers competed in a free agent auction for a player and decided on contract lengths after the auction ended. I was ready for an upgrade, and Tycoon created it.

Instead of the archaic single-layer bidding system used everywhere else, Tycoon allows leagues to require managers to bid on the salary and length of contract during an auction. Customizable league settings determine how much of a yearly discount a multi-year offer will allow over a single-year offer, and managers with different team-building strategies can battle for the same player in a fair fight.

This feature changes the game for cap managers.

Contract Extensions & Franchise Tags

Most salary cap leagues incorporate franchise tags, and some even allow extensions, but no other platform presents every manager with a team page giving a full list of eligible players for both, the cost of making that decision, and a button to execute the transaction. All without the commissioner having to grab a calculator or change a player’s contract length or salary manually.

Tycoon hit a home run with these easy-to-use features.

RFA Tenders

Another feature that takes so much effort for commissioners to incorporate into leagues hosted on other platforms, League Tycoon made RFA tenders and matching offers easy to set up and even easier to understand.

Once players are tagged as restricted free agents, other managers will have the right to bid on said player. When the auction ends, the tagging manager will decide if he/she wants to match the offer or take the draft pick compensation from the winning manager.

Again, this is all presented in one place, making it incredibly easy to see how each decision would change each team’s salary cap for this season and the future. I said the extension and franchise tag feature was a home run; the RFA tender system is a grand slam.

Rookie Contracts & Options

Rookie draft picks are given a predetermined and completely customizable salary and contract length after they are drafted. Once again, there are no manual inputs by the commissioner; the player, his contract, and the contract length are on the roster of the drafting team immediately after the selection.

There’s also the option to incorporate team options, much like the fifth-year option the NFL uses for first-round NFL draft picks. Another feature, which is presented in one place and guides managers by showing exactly how executing the option will affect the franchise, is incredibly easy to add to a league, as well as the fun of cap leagues.

Effortless Salary Cap Penalties

On other platforms, when you drop a player with a contract, the commissioner will sometimes have to manually track the penalty. Other sites will track the total penalties for a team but won’t list each drop and how much of the total each player costs the franchise. These types of small things create problems for managers and questions for the commish. No calculator, no problem on Tycoon. They do everything for you instantly.

Cap managers get all these features and more, as well as all the customizable options standard dynasty leagues enjoy.

Compensatory Draft Picks

League Tycoon describes compensatory picks as a way to “give commissioners a flexible tool to add extra draft picks to the board. Different leagues use them in different ways depending on their rules and culture.” It’s a perfect description and an incredible tool for all leagues.

Some leagues will use compensatory picks to reward good teams that finish the season with a good record but miss the playoffs. Others use it like the NFL does, awarding comp picks to teams that lose quality players to free agency. Some even use the picks to help new owners join the league or when a league expands from 10 to 12 teams. I have a league with a soft cap and award comp picks to teams that stay under the cap. Another league I run awards comp picks to teams who risk the most in RFA, which gives managers motivation to participate in restricted free agency.

The point is, compensatory picks are completely customizable and easy to incorporate into any league setting or unique idea. This is very difficult to do on other platforms.

Trade Auctions

These can be a lot of fun.

You’re thinking of trading a player and want to get the word out. Just start a trade auction for that player with a couple of clicks and watch the other managers submit offers. You can set the current winning offer for everybody to see, and no manager can ever say after it's over that they would have offered more.

Draft Lottery

If you’re the type of league that doesn’t want to see tanking get rewarded automatically with the number one pick in the draft, this optional feature is for you. Fully customizable to give more or less of a chance at the top pick to the worst team from the year prior, it makes managers think twice about selling for pennies on the dollar at the trade deadline and creates a fun off-season event for everyone in the league to react to on lottery day.

League Tycoon App

Finally, League Tycoon’s app is ahead of the field for both presentation and ease of use. Everything is at the user’s fingertips, from setting lineups to making trade offers or waiver claims to checking on live scoring on Sundays. For such complex leagues, the app is easy to understand and navigate, and gives managers a one-stop shop for everything they need 365 days per year.

The league chat feature is a game changer on the app as well. League messages are delivered in real time, so everybody knows immediately when a star player hits the trade market or when anew auction has been started.

And if you prefer a website rather than an app. Their site is just as user-friendly.

Overview

I’ve played Dynasty on 13 different platforms. League Tycoon is multiple tiers above the second-best one. The most customizable, the most features offered, the easiest to use for commissioners and managers, and easily the best and easiest to use app for cap leagues. If you haven’t already given them a shot, do it today and don’t waste another season playing on a second- or third-rate platform.