Keeper league rules question (1 Viewer)

[RockonitsAjay]

In one of my leagues were are adding in 1 keeper from last season's roster. This is our first time having a keeper for our league. Everyone keeps one player losing the round that player was drafted in last year, and anyone drafted after the 6th, or picked up off waivers they must give up their 6th round pick. It is a 12 team league and we have not decided draft order yet.

However my question is how do you decide which teams are forced to signify who they are keeping first? I can imagine a scenario where one of the players in the league may say "I do not want to choose my keeper until the person picking in spot X has let everyone know who they are keeping"

For example: The team that has Arian Foster (drafted in 1st round the previous year) gets third pick and they want to know if they have to keep him in order to prevent the other two teams in front of him from drafting him, or they can keep a different player and just draft Foster at 3 knowing the two teams in front of him kept their 1st round players and will not draft Foster.

Another example may be: The team drafting first obviously will not keep their first round pick (since they can draft anyone in that spot), but if the player drafting second was asked to announce their keeper they would want to know if Foster and Mccoy are being kept before they make their decision to possibly keep their first round pick.

How do other leagues avoid this or what rules do you have in place to prevent this from happening? Any feedback would be great! Thanks!

 

[Gawain]

We keep six, losing the round drafted. We email to the commissioner our keepers before a deadline (usually the Thursday before the draft). He emails his keepers to someone else in the league. Then, he complies the list and sends it out. Our commish is trustworthy and no one suspects that he is using the info for his benefit. Theoretically, everyone makes their decision blind.

I have argued that the keepers could be rolled first to worst, to give the last place teams a little advantage, but have been shouted down when I brought it up.

 

[RockonitsAjay]

We keep six, losing the round drafted. We email to the commissioner our keepers before a deadline (usually the Thursday before the draft). He emails his keepers to someone else in the league. Then, he complies the list and sends it out. Our commish is trustworthy and no one suspects that he is using the info for his benefit. Theoretically, everyone makes their decision blind. I have argued that the keepers could be rolled first to worst, to give the last place teams a little advantage, but have been shouted down when I brought it up.

Thanks for the quick reply I could not think of a fair way to choose for the life of me. Doing it blind would be very fair and I will bring that up to our commish. I was also thinking like you with the first to worst idea to give the last teams an advantage, but I can just imagine how upset that would make those in the first half of the round. You could possibly argue that that would give those later in the round a better advantage than those drafting earlier.Thanks!

 

[BigSteelThrill]

We allow a hold-over posting to count as long as the message reads 11:59pm on the holdover nite.

Any edits are shown, so any late edits null. Most recent valid hold-over post counts. Deleting messages is "turned off" during that week.

Owners can then jockey all they want (never happens except for trades to get players that weren't otherwise going to be held).

We hold over 3 offense + some IDPs

 

[Addai's Adidas]

We have a deadline. All players EXCEPT the player(s) being kept have to be dropped by the deadline. If you have more players on your roster that the alloted number of keepers, all players are dropped. Works for us.

 

[Sweet Love]

I agree with the blind deadline...in fact, I am not sure that "blind" is nearly as important as setting a deadline that gives people enough time to prep for the draft with the keepers out of the equation. For example, I would do a Monday keeper deadline, Tuesday draft order dispersal and Fri or Saturday draft.

 

[steelcityman]

when we keep players, we can keep up to 8, and last years champ goes first, then down the line to last, so that, in theory, the last team from last year can see who is being kept and who isnt and also if he keeps 2-3 how many picks he may get before other who may keep 4-8. We do that 2 weeks before the draft so everyone knows who was cut and who was kept and the modified draft order in advance. Everyone must keep at least one player. The only way you can modify your keepers is if someone you kept gets hurt and is out for the year, and then you can only cut that player, and not keep someone you already cut.

 

[Tanner9919]

In one of my leagues were are adding in 1 keeper from last season's roster. This is our first time having a keeper for our league. Everyone keeps one player losing the round that player was drafted in last year, and anyone drafted after the 6th, or picked up off waivers they must give up their 6th round pick. It is a 12 team league and we have not decided draft order yet.

However my question is how do you decide which teams are forced to signify who they are keeping first? I can imagine a scenario where one of the players in the league may say "I do not want to choose my keeper until the person picking in spot X has let everyone know who they are keeping"

For example: The team that has Arian Foster (drafted in 1st round the previous year) gets third pick and they want to know if they have to keep him in order to prevent the other two teams in front of him from drafting him, or they can keep a different player and just draft Foster at 3 knowing the two teams in front of him kept their 1st round players and will not draft Foster.

Another example may be: The team drafting first obviously will not keep their first round pick (since they can draft anyone in that spot), but if the player drafting second was asked to announce their keeper they would want to know if Foster and Mccoy are being kept before they make their decision to possibly keep their first round pick.

How do other leagues avoid this or what rules do you have in place to prevent this from happening? Any feedback would be great! Thanks!

we keep 9 players ( a high number, I know, but, it is a keeper league afterall..)..we have to have our keeper list posted on the message board before a certain time/date ...this gives the commish time to reset rosters so that you can see all of the free agents that weren't kept,etc..

we do allow trades before the keepers are due..

if you're late you lose a 2nd round pick..