Keeperitreal Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 Hello all, I'm the commish in a keeper league heading into year 6. An issue has come up which has never happened to us before. Both Jordy and Benjamin are owned of course, and now both are out for the year. Is there a standard or common rule regarding their keeper status? In your leagues can they be reserved prior to the draft thereby opening up a spot in your regular draft order or do they need to be protected first, taking up a spot on your roster, then reserved after the draft? If you could explain the pros and cons, or the thinking behind which way is best to do it that would help too. Any replies would be very much appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevegrab Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 (edited) We do not have IR slots but do have 5 keepers per team. If an owner wants a guy on their roster they need to use one of their keepers on them. I don't think we'd change that if we had IR slots. Our draft isn't for about 2 weeks, with keepers due a week before that. Not sure what the Benjamin and Nelson owners will do. I'd need to hear a pretty compelling argument to allow an extra keeper/protected player under this scenario. That is how i'm reading your "can they be reserved prior to the draft thereby opening up a spot in your regular draft order" option. They would be protected AND you'd have that roster spot open to draft somebody (same as if you didn't protect a player). We have considered adding IR slots and instead just selttled on having a larger roster (easier to manage). Edited August 24, 2015 by stevegrab Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tazinib1 Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 IR spots in dynasty's are extremely common. Although it is not as common, I have seen it in keepers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keeperitreal Posted August 24, 2015 Author Share Posted August 24, 2015 Yes we are in dynasty league, thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Country Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 In a dynasty league where you keep your entire team, they could be put on IR at any time. In every one of my keeper leagues, where you have a max number of keepers that is less than your entire roster, they would first need to be kept, thus using up one of the allowed keeper spots, and then they could be placed on IR for the leagues that have IR. To allow them to go on to IR first would be giving their owners an extra keeper. Those owners need to decide if they are worth holding this year just to decide whether or not they want to hold them next year when they return, or they need to drop them and keep someone else (they could always draft them back, likely at a much later round than as a keeper) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keeperitreal Posted August 24, 2015 Author Share Posted August 24, 2015 (edited) Thanks. So it is a keeper league, not dynasty, (not really sure what the dif is?) we can keep up to 9 players out of a total 18 man roster. So, in our situation, we have to protect the player first...this is the standard I guess? Thanks for all the replies. Edited August 24, 2015 by Keeperitreal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tazinib1 Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 Dynasty's are a keep all and assign contracts. It's a whole new ballgame lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keeperitreal Posted August 24, 2015 Author Share Posted August 24, 2015 Interesting. So we keep up to 9 of 18, but also have contracts. When you draft a player for the first time, he gets a 3 year contract. After 3 years, you can resign him for another 3 years which costs extra money into the pot. After this, he would automatically become a free agent and be available in the draft in year 7. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Country Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 Interesting. So we keep up to 9 of 18, but also have contracts. When you draft a player for the first time, he gets a 3 year contract. After 3 years, you can resign him for another 3 years which costs extra money into the pot. After this, he would automatically become a free agent and be available in the draft in year 7. Not all dynasties are contract leagues. Basically, keeper just means you are keeping players from the previous season. A dynasty league is basically a subset of that in which you keep your entire roster. In general terms, when someone says "keeper" it is assumed it is less than a full roster. When one says "dynasty", it is assumed the entire roster is kept. Either can have contracts, salary caps, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackass Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 Thanks. So it is a keeper league, not dynasty, (not really sure what the dif is?) we can keep up to 9 players out of a total 18 man roster. So, in our situation, we have to protect the player first...this is the standard I guess? Thanks for all the replies. Yes, that's how my keeper league works. Otherwise it's almost an advantage b/c you'd be keeping an extra guy (even though that extra player wouldn't be available this year). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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