If you want to see some really messed up fantasy football action...

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...check this one out:

http://www.theudffl.com/draftview.aspx

It's a dynasty league that is just starting up, and players have contracts/prices based on their statistical performance over the past two seasons. You can sign players to 1, 2, or 3-year contracts, and there are rules for extending contracts beyond this duration. There are also rules for free agent bidding and designating players as franchise players and transition players as in the NFL, and an NFL-style rookie draft for all seasons after the first.

Starting lineup requirements are 1 QB, 2 RB, 3 WR, 1 TE, 1 PK, and 1 Flex, but the Flex can be of any position, including QB. Scoring rules are 1 point per reception and passing TDs are 4 points, all other TDs are 6 points, and special teams TDs get credited to the player that scores them (no D/ST in this league). 10 rush/receiving yards per point, and 20 passing yards per point.

You've got a $25 million cap to fill 20 roster slots. Rookies start out at a flat $250 K minimum salary, so they're nice values, and that explains why both Matthew Stafford and Mark Sanchez got drafted before Peyton Manning, since his salary is 12x the rookies' salaries. 2nd year players have a salary equal to 10,000x(60% of their rookie season point total). 3rd year and later players have salaries equal to 10,000x(40% of '07 point total + 60% of '08 point total).

I haven't picked a team name, so I'm "TomTom" in this league, which is my handle on a dynasty league FF website/message board that I subscribe to. I've never done anything like this, and the salary cap definitely throws off who gets taken when, as a quick inspection of the third round reveals. I almost went with Tom Brady at #4 overall before deciding on Chris Johnson, and then swore out loud when I got a phone update last night that included the fact that Aaron Rodgers went the pick right before mine in the second round, though I'm reasonably happy with landing Stafford in the 3rd. I think he'll make a big splash earlier than is typical for rookie/young QBs.

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Here's my team (with salary data) through 8 rounds:

QB - Joe Flacco (1.368 M), Matthew Stafford (250 K)
RB - Chris Johnson (1.511 M), Marshawn Lynch (2.191 M)
WR - Dwayne Bowe (2.179 M), Roy Williams (1.265 M)
TE - Antonio Gates (1.98 M), Dustin Keller (717 K)

Here's a fun game, if you haven't been watching along -- try to guess which pick went in which round. You can check your answers to the first three rounds with the draft link given above.

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Here is my roster with all 18 rounds of the startup draft in the books, with salary data and length of contract included:

QB - Joe Flacco (1.3677 M, 3 years), Matt Hasselbeck (1.695 M, 2 years), Matthew Stafford (250 K, 3 years)

RB - Chris Johnson (1.5108 M, 3 years), Marshawn Lynch (2.1914 M, 3 years), Fred Jackson (1.1402 M, 3 years), Thomas Jones (2.3618 M, 1 year), Brandon Jackson (722.6 K, 3 years)

WR - Dwayne Bowe (2.1792 M, 3 years), Roy Williams (1.2654 M, 3 years), Laveranues Coles (1.8098 M, 1 year), Justin Gage (1.3786 M, 2 years), James Jones (826.8 K, 3 years), Laurent Robinson (408 K, 3 years), David Clowney (250 K, 3 years)

TE - Antonio Gates (1.98 M, 3 years), Dustin Keller (717 K, 3 years)

PK - Nate Kaeding (1.192 M, 1 year)

Cap numbers are: Year 1 - 23,246,300, Year 2 - 17,882,700, Year 3 - 14,809,100. The salary cap is 25 Million, although it will probably go up as time goes on.

I like what I've got at QB and TE a lot, looking long term. Johnson and Lynch are a pretty solid 1-2 punch at RB, but I might be lacking a little in depth. T. Jones should be OK this year. WR has some question marks, even with Bowe and Williams, and I've got a lot of young guys who are essentially penny stocks with speculative futures (James Jones, Laurent Robinson, David Clowney). The hope is at least one of them pans out as a solid NFL WR that I can keep on my roster for cheap for the next 3-5 years.