Rules Question - Trading Keeper Picks (1 Viewer)

[bcdragon]

Forgive me if this has been addressed before. I searched for quite a while and could not find a specific answer.

In a keeper league, should the actual right to keep a player be a transferrable right?

Example:

Keeper league allows each team to keep up to 3 players.

Team A trades Shaun Alexander to Team B for Wali Lundy and one of Team B's keeper rights. The end result is that Team A ends up with 4 keeper picks and Team B ends up with 2 keeper picks plus the players that were swapped.

I'm incllined to say that the trading of the right to keep a player should not be allowed, but I don't want to be narrow minded.

Opinions?

 

[turnit643]

Sounds legit to me. Just a detail to help avoid confusion: make sure it's clear that the rights are just for the one year and not for the life of the league.

 

[Val Rannous]

We have always allowed this in our long time keeper league, but the league was setup with rules that encourage trading of all sorts. Picks, protects, players - anything is tradable. But Babyeater is right - no asset is perminantly tradeable.

For many teams, a 1st round pick is better than a protect spot, for others not as good. If you evaluate trades as a 1st being roughly equal to a protect, you won't be far from wrong.

Val

 

[Ozymandias]

We allow trading back and forth of players prior to the decision as to who to keep (we keep 6).

 

[PatsWillWin]

Obviously there should be a rule in place one way or the other - if the league is just a 3-keeper league, then no, I don't think implicit in that is the right to trade keeper spots.

If you want to take the league in that direction, just put in the rules. Personally, I don't like it, but that's just me.

 

[Avery]

It depends on how your rules are written.

I'm all for creative trading, but if your rules state that this league is a "keep 3 player keeper league" then you can't trade the "right" of one of your keepers for the rules stipulate that each team keeps 3 players, no more and no less.