Keeper Limits Question
by jbrobe04 on Feb 25, 2010 1:11 PM EST
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I didn't delve too far back into the archives before I posted this, so if this is a repeat topic, I apologize, but I'm looking for some input from other fantasy owners about the possibility of changing my own league.
Our league is a 12 team, 3 keeper league. I started thinking about maybe adding some sort of limitation on the number of years a team can keep or protect a certain player. The thought being that it adds a little more turnover from year to year. Obviously, Pujols is likely to be kept on the same team for the next 6 or so years. However, on the other hand, people can always trade for these keepers (in fact, Pujols was traded for last year) and maybe if you draft someone on the young side, you should be able to hold on to him for as long as you want.
1. So, do people who have used some sort of keeper limitation like it and
2. What type of limitation do you think is best (e.g. only a certain number of years, dividing the draft round in half each time he's kept etc. etc.)
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I honestly don’t think you can have a limitation on how long you keep a player. At that rate you’re most likely going to give up the best player on your team sooner or later (Pujols, Mauer, Hanley Ramirez).
What you could do is you can have say 3 total keepers and then 2 guys that have to be switched after 3 years of keeping them or something. So you up the keeper by 2, but that means those guys will only be kept for 3 years before they are back on the market.
Have the teams claim those players in a post on the message board in the league and those are locked keepers until traded. Then keep using that post to keep everybody updated. Make sure it gets transferred from year to year.
I have seen
some leagues increase the round value by 2 or 3 if you keep him. Example-if Carlos Gonzalez was drafted in the 13th round, if you keep him this year, he is a 10th round pick.
raygu
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auction leagues
I play in one where after the second year you have to raise the player’s salary by $5, and you can decide before each season whether to raise him $5 or throw him back.
Another league, we have to sign the player to a LT contract with a $5 raise for each year you want to keep him. Ex-you draft Hanley Ramirez at $10 in 2008, he is $10 for 2008 and 2009, then in 2010, you have to raise him to $15 on a LT1 contract, to $20 on a LT2 contract and so on., So, if you raise him to $15 L1, you keep him for this year and next at $15, and then he gets thrown back in 2011.
raygu
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we use 3 years.
A player can be kept for 3 straight years, no matter if he is traded or not, and then he returns to the pool.
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