When should you select your keepers? (1 Viewer)

[solorca]

I am playing in a keeper league for the first time this year...and I believe it's the first time for most of the people in my league. When determining the rules, the league owner made a decision that we need to select our keepers by week 16 of the season for the next season. To me, this sounds really odd because of the risk of injuries, retirement, new teams, etc.

Is this something that is common in leagues, or is there usually a more uniform date closer to the draft itself?

 

[mikel0254]

I am playing in a keeper league for the first time this year...and I believe it's the first time for most of the people in my league. When determining the rules, the league owner made a decision that we need to select our keepers by week 16 of the season for the next season. To me, this sounds really odd because of the risk of injuries, retirement, new teams, etc. Is this something that is common in leagues, or is there usually a more uniform date closer to the draft itself?

We declare our keepers 1 week before our draft. We draft about a week before the regular season starts, so our keeper date this year is Aug 21st. I've never heard of a league where keepers are declared during the previous season (precisely for those reasons you state - injuries, trades, etc)

 

[Insein]

Same as above. Although our commish this year stated our keepers were to be in by 7/30 this year. Still not before the last season ends. Thats ridiculous. Even with the 7/30 declaration, we have a caviat that if your keeper gets injured, you can switch him. You can't switch him if he plays bad or gets demoted though in preseason.

 

[RUSF18]

We do ours two weeks before the draft. A few days after keeper declarations, we determine the draft order (only keep one).

 

[Road Warriors]

We do ours two weeks before the draft. A few days after keeper declarations, we determine the draft order (only keep one).

We do ours 2 weeks before the draft, but we do have a rule that declares your potential list of keepers is based on your roster as of the end of the regular season. We added that rule to force teams to manage their possible injury issues for potential keepers through the regular season ( if you want to keep a player that gets injured, you'll have to carry that player through the regular season ) We set it for the end of the regular season as to give the playoff teams an opportunity to make roster adjustments without losing rights to potential keepers. We didn't want weakened rosters in the playoffs in exchange for keepers.This also disallows any off season movement that greatly changes a players value from being picked off waivers and kept in the off season.

 

[simey]

we select our keepers the wednesday before our weekend draft, and we always draft the last saturday in August.

 

[adrenaline]

I can't think of a good reason to have it before the NFL draft takes place.

 

[We Tigers]

We do it a week before the draft, with the same injury exemption--if one of your guys gets hurt before the draft, you can replace him. However, it has to be a legitimate injury where the player is expected to miss time--you can't switch Cedric Benson cause he had cramps/you got second thoughts.

 

[Black]

We try to wait until a few preseason games pass, but want to allow a week or two for people to plan their Drafts and do mocks.

This year, Aug 22 is our date.

 

[MDPapi]

That's a bit silly. We do it 2-4 weeks before draft. This year is Aug. 8. We do it a couple of weeks early just to let owners prep with the actual list of players available. We keep eight per team (four on offense and four on defense) in a 12-team league.

I am playing in a keeper league for the first time this year...and I believe it's the first time for most of the people in my league. When determining the rules, the league owner made a decision that we need to select our keepers by week 16 of the season for the next season. To me, this sounds really odd because of the risk of injuries, retirement, new teams, etc. Is this something that is common in leagues, or is there usually a more uniform date closer to the draft itself?

 

[GregR_2]

We don't have a set date in the rules, but generally we go with a couple of days before the start of the draft. Enough time the commish (me) has time to assign draft picks to them so the draft is right, and so people have a day or two to finalize a draft strategy.

I don't see why they should be declared further in advance than you need to. Just makes it more likely someone gets screwed over by injuries or unforeseeable changes in situation to do it early. Doing it before free agency and the NFL draft just seems really out there.

 

[J Giles Band]

Our keeper deadline is typically July 31st. Due to the lockout and delayed/compressed free agency period this year we backed it up to August 6th.

Teams are allowed to release a designated keeper (for injury or otherwise) after the keeper deadline and prior to the auction but must pay a financial penalty equivalent to the players single season salary. In this instance the players salary does not count against the salary cap.

Our auction is always the last weekend in August.

Would not be comfortable designating keepers almost a year in advance like the OP's league. Too many things can change (free agency, injury, draft, coach, scheme, etc.).

 

[shortbow]

In both my keeper leagues we declare our keepers by july 21st. The only way we can change our keepers is if someone retires or dies. We draft on the 29th and 31st.

 

[AcerFC]

We do it August 1st so that everyone has enough time to figure things out

at the end of a season

 

[Herb]

We declare our keepers immediately before our draft starts. Exciting.