Tactical Transactions: Moves to Make Before Week 14

Last week I was traveling to and within the United Kingdom as part of a company on-site meeting (hat tip to my colleague Wyatt Bertolone for picking up my slack). When I wasn’t working or bopping around here and there, I was able to spend some time being a tourist and enjoying sites I hadn’t before seen given this was my first trip across the Atlantic. I even managed to survive the airline losing my checked baggage for a couple of days, and got it back just before I ran out of clean clothing!

While perhaps cumbersome, I want to attempt to turn the experiences of my past week into dynasty football metaphors. Here goes…

The Manchester Christmas Markets: In advance of this specific destination, my wife sent me a TikTok video of the best foods to eat there. I must’ve walked around this market for about 25 minutes, not being able to find my predetermined delicacy of choice (a sandwich called a ‘parmo’). That’s when I realized there were actually multiple markets, and where I needed to be was about 0.75 miles away. You better bet I made my way down there and fulfilled my culinary destiny, which I think is a metaphor to keep your eyes on the prize and finish what you started.

Buckingham Palace: Quite the site, though my pronunciation was roundly mocked by colleagues (apparently the ‘h’ is soft). The famed palace guards were indeed out patrolling, which I’ll equate to always needing to stay alert in search of any edge possible.

Westminster Abbey: This place was as incredible as it was ornate. I took lord knows how many pictures, but when I got home I could barely recall the ‘who’ and ‘why’ behind them! I just got lost in the opulence and was untargeted in taking it all in. We all love having that ‘sexy’ team with beautiful things to look at, but it shouldn’t distract us from the end goal of making your starting roster (or future roster) better and gunning for the championship (or firm rebuild).

Big Ben: It’s the trophy, duh! You could walk for blocks in any direction and it would still be visible, much as any trophy should be. The championship will always be the biggest elephant in the room, much like Big Ben.

Hyde Park: I met a lovely gentleman who kindly shared his critter food, enabling me to feed the birds and squirrels. Nice as can be despite us being complete strangers, and I was able to forge a brief relationship which ultimately led to him pointing me in the way of a good pub! Dynasty football is about relationships, and the better your relationships the more bird and squirrels you’ll be able to feed – er, rather, the more trades you’ll be able to make!

‘The Feathers’ Pub: No metaphor here. The fish and chips were absolutely bangin’ and people need to know about it.

The Darn Lost Luggage: Unideal, yes, and I was definitely stressing about it at first. But eventually I just trusted the process, which in this case was the fact my suitcase was in the system somewhere and would eventually join me, which it ultimately did. Things don’t always go to plan, but why get upset about what you can’t control? Trust your own process, navigate the bumps in the road, and keep moving forward.

Disclaimer! As you’re well aware by the fact you’ve come to a website entitled dynastyleaguefootball.com, we’re still taking a long view into account in addition to each player’s weekly (and year-to-date) output. Guidance will continue to take into account a player’s current stature in tools such as DLF’s ADP and rankings, in addition to how he’s performed.

One last note, as I’m referencing DLF ADP and rankings, advice herein is for a 12-team, non-superflex setting with full PPR scoring. Divergent league settings (both for starting positions and scoring) hopefully shouldn’t render this advice as not actionable, but it’s an important disclaimer nonetheless.

With that preamble in hand, here are the tactical transactions you should consider before week 14:

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