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btv802 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 23, 2018 12:19 pm Alright so yeah, I don't really expect to be a playoff team in 2018 either. Feels like I'm relying on too many players with too many question marks. I'm in year two with this team and all along I've been roster building with a focus on a sustainably good playoff team for the long term rather than pushing my chips in to win as soon as possible. I always expected it would take a few years to get to a place where I'm making the playoffs consistently and that's why I've held on to my future 1sts.

Appreciate the opinions though! Just wanted to take the temperature on what I currently have. I've got a guy in my league always telling me that he thinks I'm a contender this year and I should sell my future picks to make a push. Not sure I feel like doing that and these responses certainly strengthening my resolve to be patient.

jp4703 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 23, 2018 12:22 pm

btv802 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 23, 2018 12:19 pm Alright so yeah, I don't really expect to be a playoff team in 2018 either. Feels like I'm relying on too many players with too many question marks. I'm in year two with this team and all along I've been roster building with a focus on a sustainably good playoff team for the long term rather than pushing my chips in to win as soon as possible. I always expected it would take a few years to get to a place where I'm making the playoffs consistently and that's why I've held on to my future 1sts.

Appreciate the opinions though! Just wanted to take the temperature on what I currently have. I've got a guy in my league always telling me that he thinks I'm a contender this year and I should sell my future picks to make a push. Not sure I feel like doing that and these responses certainly strengthening my resolve to be patient.

He probably just wants your picks.

btv802 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 23, 2018 12:24 pm

jp4703 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 23, 2018 12:22 pm

btv802 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 23, 2018 12:19 pm Alright so yeah, I don't really expect to be a playoff team in 2018 either. Feels like I'm relying on too many players with too many question marks. I'm in year two with this team and all along I've been roster building with a focus on a sustainably good playoff team for the long term rather than pushing my chips in to win as soon as possible. I always expected it would take a few years to get to a place where I'm making the playoffs consistently and that's why I've held on to my future 1sts.

Appreciate the opinions though! Just wanted to take the temperature on what I currently have. I've got a guy in my league always telling me that he thinks I'm a contender this year and I should sell my future picks to make a push. Not sure I feel like doing that and these responses certainly strengthening my resolve to be patient.

He probably just wants your picks.

Nahhh I think his intentions are good as he's usually suggesting trades to me that don't involve him. "Hey you should package your '19 & '20 1st to go buy player X from so and so"...so I don't think that's his intention. He's hopelessly optimistic about young and unproven players and I think he actually believes in my roster. I love the look of my roster long term but in the short term I'm admittedly a little bit terrified of it

skip wrote: ↑Mon Apr 23, 2018 12:42 pm I'm a big believer in selling future picks but I think that when we talk about "win now" there can be a lot of variation on what that means. If an RB or WR has at least another 3 years ahead of them those are the pieces I want to be trading for. There are plenty of owners out there who are willing to sell off a player too early just for a future pick. Those are the opportunities to go after and to use the same strategy year over year. So you are getting the best of both worlds...win now, win later, and you always get more of those shiny draft picks to trade even if they are "future".

btv802 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 23, 2018 12:54 pm

skip wrote: ↑Mon Apr 23, 2018 12:42 pm I'm a big believer in selling future picks but I think that when we talk about "win now" there can be a lot of variation on what that means. If an RB or WR has at least another 3 years ahead of them those are the pieces I want to be trading for. There are plenty of owners out there who are willing to sell off a player too early just for a future pick. Those are the opportunities to go after and to use the same strategy year over year. So you are getting the best of both worlds...win now, win later, and you always get more of those shiny draft picks to trade even if they are "future".

I do have a fear that in not aggressively selling future picks (which a lot of the guys in my league make a habit of doing as quickly as possible) that I'm going to never be quite good enough. If some things fall the right way I think I'll eventually put together a competitive playoff team but never be a true contender. Still, I'm not sure that with the way I've constructed the roster so far that selling my '19 1st is going to even come close to putting me over the top in a way that would make it worth it. I find it pretty hard to judge in general but I'm trying to stick to a two year plan of building quality depth of talent in my roster before I start making a push.