we had a similar expansion during last years offseason going from 14 to 16 teams.. team 1 in my sig (which has since sadly had to fold)
There's really not much you can do to avoid managers from keeping the players they want.. looking at it from their standpoint, it wouldnt really be fair for them to lose players they've worked hard to own. I agree you need to set a limit on how many each team can protect, but if they fall under the prospect category you cant really change that now..
we had a salary and contracts (had extensions we could use each year to resign guys) so we had a little bit more of a limit to the guys we could protect..
but overall, the expansion teams are going to have to struggle a while before they become contenders..
One expansion team was able to draft lindback (was left unprotected from one manager, but this was before he was traded to tampa) so he got lucky with that.
The other expansion team traded for bobrovski, which worked out for him as well.. both teams didnt have to struggle that bad to meet the goalie start minimum.
I'll say this about an expansion in a dynasty.. it encourages a lot of trading throughout the league.. was a fun time
12 Team H2H Keep 6
Scoring Cats - Players: G, A, P, +/-, PPG, SHG, GWG
Goalies: W, GAA, SV%, SHO
Start 2C, 2LW, 2RW, 4D, 1G (locked in for the week)
C: Malkin, Kuznetsov, Larkin, Couture
LW: Hall, DeBrincat, Fiala
RW: Kucherov, J.T. Miller
D: Theodore, Gustafsson, Pulock
G: Hellebuyck, Shesterkin