What is a 'dynasty' league?

What is a 'dynasty' league?

Gregg Rosenthal (Fantasy Sports Sr. Editor) gives expert video advice on: What is an 'auction draft' league?; What is an 'IDP' league?; What is a 'dynasty' league? and more...

A dynasty fantasy football league is for really intense owners maybe taking the next step. I would not recommend it for first time players. In a dynasty fantasy football league, you draft very similar to a normal fantasy football league. You have a draft, maybe in the off-season, where you draft all your teams. Usually it's going to have a bigger roster than in regular leagues as it'll probably have at least 20 players on it. But in dynasty fantasy football leagues, once you draft all those veterans, you're not going to draft veterans again. The only draft you're going to have every season is a rookie draft. So in dynasty fantasy football leagues, once you draft a player, you have him forever. So it goes from year to year to year. I'm in a dynasty fantasy football league, and I joined actually after it started, which I don't recommend necessarily. But I've been in it for five years and it's been going on for eight years. All these guys know each other. So it's something that if you're a really big fantasy player, is the next step. Because if you like being a GM - that's why people like fantasy football sometimes - you're put into those shoes where you're a GM. This is really like being a GM because once you draft a player you've got him. You don't put him back into the pool every year. So there's a lot more strategy involved with draft picks - you can trade draft picks - and with trades. Usually in dynasty fantasy football leagues you're going to have individual defensive players which we call IDP leagues. So you're going to be able to draft linebackers, safeties and defensive linemen. That's a dynasty fantasy football league. I would start off in a regular league, which is a re-draft fantasy football league, where you start over every year before graduating to a dynasty league.