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Ditto here. I'm curious how the other team is supposed to start over. Do all the players from the "abandoned" team get thrown back into the pool of available players? If you keep 3 or more, that's gonna be murder for the new owner....
It is not really fair to make him start from scratch and try and put together a good team. Explain to the rest of the league that you will be looking for a new team every year, since this guy will probably get annoyed pretty quick. Or try something where you can protect up to 5 players at the expense of draft picks. For example if you protect 3 guys you don't get a choice until round 4. That way if a team drops out the incoming team will always get a shot at a competitive team.
I would let the current teams only protect 2 or 3 players each. Let the other two teams have a little draft (order decided by coinflip, or one of those handy online dice roll things) for a 2 or 3 rounds to supplement their teams. Pretty fair IMO
Our league's rules state that we'd hold an expansion draft for the new teams after keepers are declared. (We keep 4 per team) The expansion teams then have a serpentine draft, during which they can select any players EXCEPT rookies. Just like other teams selecting their keepers, they forfeit a draft pick for every expansion draft pick they make. This way, if they want to target Adrian Peterson or Calvin Johnson, they make fewer expansion draft picks.With all that said, we've never used it, but our league owners seemend to think this was the fairest method. The new teams start out in a bit of a hole (like expansion teams in the NFL) but they can at least get a start.
