What are Keeper Leagues? It sounds like you keep the same team from year to year. If that is the answer, are you able to add/drop players each year or are you locked in no matter how the player is doing?
Where do you find keeper leagues? - yes, urls please.
In your humble opinion, or in your experience, what site(s) have been the most fun for you?
When you start, do you have to commit to keep that team, or can you wait until after the draft to see if it’s a team you want to keep?
Thanks,
The Keeper Leagues I’ve been involved in only allow you to keep a rookie. For example, if I drafted Tom Brady during his rookie season, I get to keep him w/o paying for him next season. I’ver never been in a Keeper League that lets you keep anybody - just rookies.
That doesn’t like like fun to me. Thanks
Kathy
The SDMB He Hate Me Keeper League-
Rules are here. (I have some editing to do, but the general idea is there.)
The present standings, from before this weekend’s games:
He Hate Me Keeper League
Season Standings
Rank Team Name -----------------------W-L-T WPct Pts Streak
1 4th and 19 (Wilson) …4-0-0 1.000 311.54 W-4
2 Rhinosaurs(neuroman)… 3-1-0 .750 334.86 W-1
3 Falcon Twists- Munch… 3-1-0 .750 264.33 W-3
4 HamletponglIjtagha’ …3-1-0 .750 260.30 L-1
5 BithloMulletRevival …3-1-0 .750 249.78 W-3
6 Pentium None …2-2-0 .500 234.36 W-2
7 Varlos’ Zzzzzzz …2-2-0 .500 231.01 W-2
** 8 T. Rex …2-2-0 .500 195.96 W-1**
9 Omni’s Omnipotents… 2-2-0 .500 194.27 L-1
10 Mundi’s Morning Blue… 1-3-0 .250 276.83 L-2
11 Baltimore Weirdos… 1-3-0 .250 233.83 L-3
12 New York Fanboys …1-3-0 .250 206.75 L-3
13 FerociousFUPAs …1-3-0 .250 205.23 L-2
14 Balls (Chitwood) …0-4-0 .000 221.81 L-4
From your humble commissioner.
We’re keeping three players from those who were drafted at the beginning of the year. Which ones are kept will be decided during next years’ preseason, about 2 weeks before the start of the regular season.
Thanks.
That sounds more interesting and what I was hoping it was like.
Kathy
Typically, it just means you get to keep two or three players from your team last year, which prevents you from worrying about them being drafted by someone else next year.
I’ve never liked keeper leagues too much, I think it’s much more fun to be able to start from scratch each year. Some of the problems are things like, if a guy suffers a career ending injury then it’s nearly impossible to replace him with a decent alternative. It also immediately handicaps any new entrants into the league.
I’ve been in keeper leagues where you can keep up to 2 players from the previous year, but you lose the current year draft choice in the round they were taken in the previous year. It can spark a little more thought, because it might make more sense to keep Antonio Gates if you drafted him in the 14th round last year (great value pick that you probably can’t repeat this year, but he is at a low point scoring position) versus keeping Brett Favre if drafted in the 3rd round (high scoring quarterback, but this may be the year father time gets him).
Keeper leagues can have many different rules and variations. We discussed some of them in this year’s SDMB keeper league thread. IMHO, the rules in a keeper league should reward players for correctly identifying the up-and-coming players in the NFL are, but also not allow teams to gain too much of an advantage. For example, in the SDMB keeper league, we are not allowing coaches to ‘keep’ star players drafted in rounds one and two. This avoids the problem of someone trading away his entire team for Priest Holmes and Ladanian Tomlinson.
Steelerphan, you changed your name to The Mad Hermit?
I play in an auction keeper league, which IMO is the best of all worlds.
Each year you have a $30 salary cap. You can keep as many players as you want, as long as you can afford them under the cap. Players get a $0.50 raise for each year they have been kept (2 years is $1.00, 3 years is $1.50, etc.)
Any player not kept is dumped into a pool and bid on by all players. Whoever bids highest gets him.
It works out because you can keep prospects cheaply or fill in specific positions depending on your roster. It also changes trading as you can trade a high priced player for lots of cheap prospects if your season is going down the tubes.