Keeper league rules

[XBonesX]

I am in a 10 team keeper league.

 

What are some of the options in other keeper leagues if you decide to NOT keep anyone?

 

Wouldn't your decision to keep someone be affected by the player pool available?

[Big Country]

Depends on the keeper setup.

 

Some league are fixed number of keepers. You keep that many, every team does, etc.

 

Some have costs assosciated, such as keep up to 5, but each kept player costs you a draft pick starting with your first, or it costs you the round they were initially drafted in, or it costs you a pick x number of rounds above where they were drafted.

 

THe decision about not keeping anyone is all about the league rules. If it is fixed, then not keeping anyone is not an option. If it is a league with costs assosciated, then you simply don't have to forfeit any picks to keep anyone and enter the draft with a full complement of picks

[XBonesX]

Depends on the keeper setup.

 

Some league are fixed number of keepers. You keep that many, every team does, etc.

 

Some have costs assosciated, such as keep up to 5, but each kept player costs you a draft pick starting with your first, or it costs you the round they were initially drafted in, or it costs you a pick x number of rounds above where they were drafted.

 

THe decision about not keeping anyone is all about the league rules. If it is fixed, then not keeping anyone is not an option. If it is a league with costs assosciated, then you simply don't have to forfeit any picks to keep anyone and enter the draft with a full complement of picks

that is the thing. we don't have the rules set in stone other then the fact we can keep 1 player. But what are some suggestions for what we should do if a player decides on NOT keeping someone.

[Big Country]

If you rulesstate that each team keeps 1 player, than eac hteam needs to keep 1 player.

 

If you want to rewrite your rules, you can say that each team can keep 1 player in lieu oftheir first round pick or in place of the pick in the orund the player was drafted the year before or in lieu of a pick x number of rounds above the round the player was picked the year before.

 

How is the rule currently written?

[XBonesX]

If you rulesstate that each team keeps 1 player, than eac hteam needs to keep 1 player.

 

If you want to rewrite your rules, you can say that each team can keep 1 player in lieu oftheir first round pick or in place of the pick in the orund the player was drafted the year before or in lieu of a pick x number of rounds above the round the player was picked the year before.

 

How is the rule currently written?

 

you can keep 1 player, if you don't, your name goes into a hat with anyone else that doesn't keep someone and you get to pick out of the available players. Then the draft starts.

[Big Country]

you can keep 1 player, if you don't, your name goes into a hat with anyone else that doesn't keep someone and you get to pick out of the available players. Then the draft starts.

 

Seems like you do have your rules set in stone contrary to your above post.

 

You either keep someone or you go into a supplemental draft for one player. 9Note that most leagues that use this system have rules that either no rookies can be taken in this supplemental portion and sometimes that only players that were on a year end roster can be taken)

 

And, to answer your 2nd question in the first post, yes, my decision would be based on whom I expected to make it into the supplemental round vs. my potential keeper player.

[XBonesX]

Seems like you do have your rules set in stone contrary to your above post.

 

You either keep someone or you go into a supplemental draft for one player. 9Note that most leagues that use this system have rules that either no rookies can be taken in this supplemental portion and sometimes that only players that were on a year end roster can be taken)

 

And, to answer your 2nd question in the first post, yes, my decision would be based on whom I expected to make it into the supplemental round vs. my potential keeper player.

 

the thing is, the commish wants to

 

1) keep the keepers as secret as possible so people CAN'T choose their sleeper based on who will be available.

2) commish also will not allow you to not keep anyone for the sake of seeing WHO you could get in the supplemental, then turn around and take someone from your own team that you could have kept anyway......

 

what do you think about that?

[Big Country]

the thing is, the commish wants to

 

1) keep the keepers as secret as possible so people CAN'T choose their sleeper based on who will be available.

2) commish also will not allow you to not keep anyone for the sake of seeing WHO you could get in the supplemental, then turn around and take someone from your own team that you could have kept anyway......

 

what do you think about that?

 

Agree with #1. No one should know what other teams are planning to do. All keepers, or teams deciding not to keep a player, should be announced at the same time so no team has an advantage. It's up to the owner to weight the risk/reward of keeping, or not keeping a player and make educated guesses on what other teams are going to do.

 

For #2, you should be able to select anyone you want. Once keepers are announced, all the players are dropped to the draft pool, so they should be fair game. It's a strategic decision/risk to drop your player that you could for sure keep and go to the supplemental draft where that player may or may not be the best available player. So, I disagree wholeheartedly with your commish on #2, agree wholeheartedly with #1.

[XBonesX]

Agree with #1. No one should know what other teams are planning to do. All keepers, or teams deciding not to keep a player, should be announced at the same time so no team has an advantage. It's up to the owner to weight the risk/reward of keeping, or not keeping a player and make educated guesses on what other teams are going to do.

 

For #2, you should be able to select anyone you want. Once keepers are announced, all the players are dropped to the draft pool, so they should be fair game. It's a strategic decision/risk to drop your player that you could for sure keep and go to the supplemental draft where that player may or may not be the best available player. So, I disagree wholeheartedly with your commish on #2, agree wholeheartedly with #1.

Thank you