Trading of future keeper slots (1 Viewer)

[toppshelff]

We have a mandatory keep-4 league. People can trade future draft picks, players, etc. A proposal for our rule update was put out allowing the trading of future keeper slots. A team with SJax, SSmith, Barber and Romo as his best 4 keepers might trade Barber, Romo and a keeper slot for Maroney and a 3rd round pick (from a team with obvious depth at keeper). The first team would have Sjax, SSmith, Maroney - a nice 3 pack. The other team can keep an extra player.

Does anybody do this?

What could go wrong with this?

Would anyone ever trade a keeper slot?

Appreciate your thoughts.

 

[j3r3m3y]

We have a mandatory keep-4 league. People can trade future draft picks, players, etc. A proposal for our rule update was put out allowing the trading of future keeper slots. A team with SJax, SSmith, Barber and Romo as his best 4 keepers might trade Barber, Romo and a keeper slot for Maroney and a 3rd round pick (from a team with obvious depth at keeper). The first team would have Sjax, SSmith, Maroney - a nice 3 pack. The other team can keep an extra player.Does anybody do this? What could go wrong with this?Would anyone ever trade a keeper slot?Appreciate your thoughts.

In my 3 keeper league I would not allow it. The keeper slots are not a commodity.It would be like trading an extra roster slot or the WR#3 starter slot. Would you allow one team to start an extra WR and one to start one fewer because they traded it away?

 

[3nOut]

We have a mandatory keep-4 league. People can trade future draft picks, players, etc. A proposal for our rule update was put out allowing the trading of future keeper slots. A team with SJax, SSmith, Barber and Romo as his best 4 keepers might trade Barber, Romo and a keeper slot for Maroney and a 3rd round pick (from a team with obvious depth at keeper). The first team would have Sjax, SSmith, Maroney - a nice 3 pack. The other team can keep an extra player.Does anybody do this? What could go wrong with this?Would anyone ever trade a keeper slot?Appreciate your thoughts.

Interesting twist. never heard of it. If I had LT, Manning, and Holt, I might consider tradaing away a slot assuming that it is only for one year. Any more than one year is too high of a price to pay.

 

[toppshelff]

It would only be for a year, similar to trading a future draft pick. You'd call it "2008 Keeper Slot" allowing one extra player from 2007 to be kept to 2008, for instance.

 

[Addai's Adidas]

I wouldn't allow that.

Our keepers started out being your 1st and 2nd picks of the draft (keep 2 max). You can only keep two. Now, if you traded a player for a second round pick (a keeper round) you could, but you could not trade for a player and keep three.

 

[toppshelff]

Where you lose a draft pick for each player kept, maybe the team dealing the keeper spot, gets that round's pick from the other guy. So if I trade you a keeper slot that ends up being your 3rd keeper, I get your 3rd round pick (1st non-keeper round). This way the guy with 3 keepers is still penalized (loses his first 3 picks) on top of whatever else he delivered for the extra slot. The guy who lost a keeper, gets an extra draft pick to make up for it. A little challenging to track, perhaps.

 

[GregR_2]

I wouldn't allow that.

In my 3 keeper league I would not allow it. The keeper slots are not a commodity.

He isn't asking whether it should be allowed under existing rules. He said they are looking at changing the rules to allow it and wants to know if anyone can think of any implications that should be considered.Frankly I can't think of much of an argument against it, or something to worry about when you craft your rule. It's not conceptually any different than a redraft league that allows trading of a player now for a pick the next year. The only difference is instead of using a pick on any player left in the pool of players they use the keeper spot on a guy from their own roster.As for would anyone ever do it, sure, I think sometimes it could be a good move. Part of it could depend on your particular keeper rules. In my league the 1st keeper costs the 1st round pick, a 2nd costs their 2nd, etc. Keeping players is optional and you use your pick normally otherwise. So for my league, it would be more problematic to trade the keeper slot since the other team needs the pick to keep the player which, and then you need to decide what round it has to be. We allow up to 4 to be kept, and for instance I wouldn't want to see the keeper slot be traded and let the team keep a guy with their 5th round pick because of it.But if everyone keeps 3 and there's no benefit to just keeping 2, like you get to pick before everyone else, sure there could be times it might be worth doing it. Like if you have a couple of old players like Tiki last year that you don't expect to continue playing to where you really don't have a good enough guy for your 3rd keeper slot. Trade it away and make a title run.