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Trading Future-Year Draft Picks in Fantasy Football
In DataForce dynasty, keeper and other multi-year leagues you can trade future-year draft picks, which makes the game even more challenging.
When you trade current-year picks, you're trading specific draft spots: a round and pick, such as round 3, pick 5. When you trade future-year picks, you don't know exactly which pick you'll receive. You're trading rounds that belong (or belonged) to another team, and that team's performance this season will determine how early in the round it picks.
The chart on this page shows who owns whose picks for each of the next two years.
Potential Points and Your Draft Seeding
In DataForce keeper and dynasty leagues, next year's draft order is based first on playoff finish and then on potential points. Annual drafts are not serpentine: the team with the #1 pick picks first in every round.
In a 12-team league, picks 1 through 8 of each round go to the eight Toilet Bowl teams, in order of fewest potential points. Two of those eight are teams that lost in the first round of the playoffs and moved to the Toilet Bowl. (Ten-team leagues seed six teams this way.)
The four teams in the final two rounds of the playoffs then get their turn: the 4th-place finisher gets pick #9, the 3rd-place finisher pick #10, the 2nd-place finisher pick #11, and the Super Bowl winner pick #12.
But what are potential points? Simply, they measure how much each team was capable of scoring: the points its optimal lineup would have scored. Potential points from the regular season (weeks 1-14) are added up, and potential points from the Toilet Bowl weeks (15-17) are subtracted, so it pays to keep competing. Rules prevent tanking your lineup to lower your potential points, so for the most part this measures the true strength of each team and the worst teams get the best picks. See the rulebook for the full calculation.
Trading with Other Fantasy Teams
With potential points in mind, you can judge the value of future-year picks. For example, if you trade for the second-round pick of a team that is likely to finish last in potential points, you'll probably get the first pick in round 2: the 13th pick overall in a 12-team league.
DataForce allows trading picks in the first five rounds for the next two years in Dynasty leagues (one year in limited-trading leagues), and the first fifteen rounds of the following year in Keeper leagues. Legacy leagues may trade picks in the first five rounds of the following year, or two years ahead in Supertrader leagues.
