a. Each season, each team will be able to extend "keeper extensions" for up to 5 players, which will cost the base price of player (price paid in auction), plus a tax that increases each time you extend a player. Each extension lasts one season. The next season, you will again have the option to extend the player, but at a greater price. You can extend a player up to 3 times, meaning the longest you can owner a player is 4 seasons. Schedule of extensions as follows:
1st extension: Base value + $5
2nd extension: Base value + $10
3rd extension: Base value + $17
b. The maximum a player may be kept is 3 seasons (not including the year they were drafted).
c. The minimum base value for a player is $3. So the minimum a player can cost in their first year they are kept is $8. Undrafted players who are picked up in free agency are assigned a base value of $3, regardless of FAAB paid.
g. In order to keep a player, they must be on the roster by the Tuesday after the fantasy championship, when roster pickups/drops cease until the next season.
h. Trades and drops do not affect the keeper value of a player.
i. Example: Team A drafts Matt Forte for $35 in 2017.
i. At the beginning of the 2018 season, if Team A decides to extend Matt Forte for the 2018 season, Team A will be deducted $40 from their auction draft budget.
ii. At the beginning of the 2019 season, if Team A decides to extend Matt Forte again, Team A will be deducted $45 from their auction draft budget. If they do not want to keep him, he goes back to the draft pool, and no price is paid.
iii. At the beginning of the 2020 season, if Team A decides to extend Matt Forte again, Team A will be deducted $52 from their auction draft budget. If they do not want to keep him, he goes back to the draft pool, and no price is paid.
iv. Matt Forte would not be eligible to be extended in 2021, and would return to the draft pool.
j. A players keeper price sticks with them if they are traded to another team or dropped. A player changing teams does not reset the extension timeline and associated price.
