Keeper League Rules (1 Viewer)

[cdeventure]

Anyone have a great & simple keeper league....a keeper league where you can keep 3 or 4 players preferably. Our league has a 3-headed monster (3 owners) as commissioners and we all can't seem to agree on the rules...the other two are trying to make rocket science out of this whole keeper league and I just want to keep it simple! If anyone could post your league's keeper rules, I'd appreciate it!

Thanks for your advice in advance!

Cheers!

 

[-X-]

Just do a dynasty and keep anyone, then you won't have to re-draft the same players every season, just the rookies. Simpler than a keeper league.

 

[cdeventure]

Just do a dynasty and keep anyone, then you won't have to re-draft the same players every season, just the rookies. Simpler than a keeper league.

I appreciate your effort, but we're not doing a dynasty league...thanks though!

 

[-X-]

One day you will see the light, grasshopper.

 

[bjlmonster]

We have a 13 year old keeper league. Here are the rules pasted from our website:

# Each team shall keep a maximum of 3 players from the roster at the end of week #17 of the previous season.

# Freezes must be declared a minimum of one week prior to draft (Those teams, not freezing 3 players will have them done by the commish at his discretion).

# One week prior to the draft, each team may only have 3 Frozen players from their rosters.

It actually works very smooth. When we lose an owner or want to expand to more teams, here are the rules in regards to keepers:

Expansion Teams:

* All expansion teams will take over an existing team if they exist.

* If there is more than one, then a random draw will determine who inherits which team.

* If we are adding teams, they will be allowed an expansion draft of three players prior to the draft (Order chosen by random draw).

That is it. Very simple and as commish it is easy as long as everyone declares their keepers. If you don't want your commishes deciding the 3 keepers for teams who don't declare in time, give them none or take the top 3 players off their roster according to your websites top 100.

 

[offdee]

10 team, 2 player Keeper (copied from Excel file so may not show up the prettiest)

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Supplemental Draft (2 Rounds):

All GM's have the option to tag 2 players from last year's roster as "Franchise Players" which will

allow them to have rights to that player for the upcoming F2K season.

**Franchise Players can only be claimed by one GM for a maximum of two consecutive seasons

**A player labeled as "Franchise" for two consec. seasons by one GM is not allowed to be traded

Any GM that chooses not to retain rights to the maximum two "Franchise Players" will have the right

to participate in the Supplemental Draft. By tagging one "Franchise Player" allows one

pick (end of Round 2) in the Supplemental Draft. By tagging no "Franchise Players" from

last year's squad allows two picks (Round 1 & Round 2) in the Supplemental Draft.

Order of Supplemental Draft will go in accordance to the GM's record last season, and will be

Serpentine format for teams with two picks. Worst to First Order

F2K Draft (18 Rounds):

Once the Supplemental Draft is completed and all 10 GM's have a total of 2 players on their roster,

the draft order will proceed as follows in accordance with the overall record and playoff

results from last season: Reverse Order for all NON-PLAYOFF teams

# 1 Pick (5th Place)

# 2 Pick (6th Place)

# 3 Pick (7th Place)

# 4 Pick (8th Place)

# 5 Pick (9th Place)

# 6 Pick (Last Place)

# 7 Pick (4th Place)

# 8 Pick (3rd Place)

# 9 Pick (Runner Up)

# 10 Pick (Champion)

** The Draft will be a Serpentine format in which the #10 pick of Round 1 will get the #1 pick

of Round 2 and so on….

** Draft Picks can be passed at any time, but once a pick is passed it is lost and that GM

must wait until their next pick is up to make another selection.

** Draft time limit per pick: 1 minute 30 seconds (Draft: 4 hours 30 minutes max.)

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Roster Limits:

Maximum of 20 players on active roster throughout the season. (No Minimum)

Free Agent Acquisitions:

Blind Bidding system

Bids for available Free Agents e-mailed to: (e-mail address here)

Deadline for bids is FRIDAYS at Noon

(or Noon on day of game if first game of the week is earlier than Saturday)

Minimum bid amount is $1, and can only be increased in full dollar increments. (no max. bid amount)

Every bid submitted must have the following elements:

~ Name of available Free Agent wanting to acquire

~ Dollar amount willing to pay for Free Agent

~ Name of the player presently on roster that will be dropped if bid wins

** $1 penalty assessed if winning bid does not name a player to drop (if at max. 20 roster)

If tie bid for a player, the team with the worse record at that time will receive the player.

(if same record, than less overall point total at that time will receive the player)

Commish is not allowed to access the "f2kbids" e-mail account or open any e-mails received to that

account before the bid deadline of the week.

When Commish is awarded a player, the winning bid e-mail must be forwarded to the entire league for

all to verify that it was made before the deadline. (time stamp on original e-mail to validate)

Free Agent Acquisitions through blind bidding can be done through our Super Bowl (end of Week #16)

Trades:

Trades are Free of Charge.

Trades Do Not need approval by Commish. Commish will only intervene upon obvious collusion.

Notify Commish of Trade details thru E-mail. Commish will announce to league, input on website, and

keep track of info. in records.

** when trading draft picks, equal number of draft picks must be swapped. (if uneven, the team down

a pick will automatically receive the other team's lowest available pick to even things out)

IN-SEASON: (Day after Franchise Players announced thru Beer Bowl)

~ Day after Franchise Players announced thru start of Draft: Only present year's draft picks,

of any round, are allowed to be traded (Franchise Players and next year's draft

picks not allowed to be traded)

~ Start of Draft thru end of Draft: Players drafted and/or present year's draft picks of any round

are allowed to be traded. (next year's draft picks not allowed to be traded)

~ Day after Draft thru Wk.# 11: Players and/or next year's 7th Round and lower draft picks

are allowed to be traded.

~ Wk.# 12 thru Beer Bowl: Trading of players and/or draft picks is NOT ALLOWED.

** Supplemental Draft Picks are NOT ALLOWED to be traded at ANY TIME

** Next year's 1st thru 6th Round Draft Picks are NOT ALLOWED to be traded at ANY TIME.

** During NFL Season Trades Not Allowed Noon on Saturdays thru Midnight on Mondays

(Open Trade Window is Tuesdays thru Saturday morning of each week)

** A team is Not Allowed to re-acquire the same player that they earlier traded away until

6 NFL weeks have passed since that original trade ocurred.

OFF-SEASON: (Day after Beer Bowl thru day Franchise Players announced)

~ All trades are allowed involving players and/or upcoming draft's 7th Rnd and lower draft picks.

** 1st thru 6th Round Draft Picks are NOT ALLOWED to be traded at ANY TIME.

** Swapping two Franchise Players who are both under 1 yr. contract so they are not lost after

the 2 year Franchise maximum is not allowed. (other players and/or picks need

to be involved)

Starting Lineups:

Starting lineup consists of: 1 QB, 2 RB, 3 WR/TE, 1 Kicker, 1 Team Defense/Special Team

Starting lineups are due on the web site before kickoff of each player's game that week

If a new lineup is not submitted in time, the previous week's lineup will be used.

Starting players on bye weeks when it's not necessary is not allowed. Commish has authority to correct.

Starting players obviously out due to injury when it's not necessary is not allowed. Commish has

authority to correct.

Post starting lineup on F2K Web-site: (website location info)

If problems or last minute changes, contact- (commish contact info)

1st Round Playoff Point Spotting System

Wk. # 15 Playoff games only: +3 pts. awarded for every win advantage from reg. season (max. +9 pts.)

(signifies Home Field Advantage in same conference Playoff matchups like the NFL)

** Wk. # 16 games, Super Bowl & Consolation Bowl, will be all even regardless of regular season records.

(signifies Neutral Site like the NFL)

Tiebreakers:

Indiv. Game tiebreaker policy: Higher scoring NON-STARTER player labeled as "tie-breaker" submitted

with weekly lineup gets the Win. Starters for that week cannot be used as "tie-breakers" and

will result in a Loss if they are labeled in a Head-to-Head tiebreaker situation.

Playoff birth tiebreaker policy: 1st- Head to Head record, 2nd- Overall point total, 3rd- Divisional Record

4th- Points Scored Head to Head

** 3-way (or more) Playoff birth tiebreaker policy: 1st- Head to Head won/loss percentage in games

among the clubs involved in the tie, 2nd- Overall point total, 3rd- Head to Head points scored

average in games among the clubs involved in the tie

Miscellaneous:

After Week # 14, Last Place team of each division pays in $1 for every loss to the Fantasy Fund.

Wk. # 17 Beer Bowl Loser buys the following amount of beer to be consumed at the next Draft:

~ 12 pack to be used for the "Draft Slammers" (12 pack is the loser's choice of beer)

~ 6 pack for the Beer Bowl's top scorer (6 pack is the top scorer's choice of beer)

 

[Ted Lange as your Bartender]

I'm in a league where you can keep up to 6 players, where each player you keep = forfeiting a draft choice starting in round 2. In other words, we do a full drafting round, but then round 2-7 are reserved for keepers. It's great because if you have a strong core you can keep it intact as long as you want, but if you're weak, or if an incoming draft class is deep, you're not forced to keep mediocre players. You can blow it up and start over with more draft picks.

Also, we don't announce our keepers until 10 minutes before the draft begins, so there's a bit of a chess match going on before the draft with players and picks getting traded on the speculation of who might get kept or dropped.

 

[OldMilwaukee]

"rookie keeper "

Any rookie player you draft is under your contract for three years.

UP TO THREE PLAYERS UNDER CONTRACT (2 or 1 year left)CAN BE CARRIED OVER TO THE NEXT SEASON.

Trading of the players with their contracts is allowed.

Rookies dropped by their the drafting them, are free agents......not under contract.