2011 Keeper Rules
A glance at the keeper rules for 2011 and beyond
keeper terminology
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1. keeper: a player drafted or picked up as an FA or from the WW and never dropped from the roster who can be retained for the next number of years at some cost
2. slots: a range of draft rounds. there are three slots in our league. slot 1: 1-4, slot 2: 5-10, slot 3: 11-16
3. keeper cost: giving up one draft pick per player based on a formula
keepers
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1. Each team can have up to three keepers.
2. Slot Maximum: Only one keeper per slot. (example 3)
3. Position Maximum: Only one keeper per position (RB, WR, QB, TE, K, DEF). If a player is listed in two positions (like Joe Web was), he will be charged in the earliest of his positions listed (RB, WR, QB, TE, K, DEF) (example 2 and 4)
4. Increasing Costs: Players in slot 1 give up 1 round in the following year. Players in slot 2 give up 2 rounds and players in slot 3 give up 3 slots. (example 5)
5. If by way of keeper cost, a player moves to an earlier slot, he would be charged to the new slot from that year onwards (example 5)
6. Free agents picked from the Waiver Wire (WW is Waiver Wire - Siva please note) and the Free Agent pool can also be keepers as long as they are never dropped. (example 6)
7. All FA keepers give up round 13 in the first year. From then on, all rules for regular keepers apply (cost, slot maximum, position maximum) (example 7)
8. Traded players are eligible for keepers as long as players were never dropped from their rosters. The receiving team will give up the original round they were drafted (for drafted keepers) or round 13 (for FA players).(example 8)
9. If owners want to trade during the draft, they will not swap places, but pick players as requested by the trading partner and then complete the trade using the yahoo trade tool. players will be charged to the rounds they were drafted out of. (example 9)
10. All draft-day trades must be approved by the league before the draft
examples
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1. gautham drafts seyi ajirotutu in the 7th round. gautham can choose to have ajirotutu as a keeper by giving up a round in next year's draft. he also tries to add him to the chinese noodles he is making at home.
2. gautham drafts chris chambers in the 4th round. next year, gautham can choose have chris chambers as a keeper, but he cannot have both chambers and ajirotutu since you can have only one keeper per position. siva is flabbergasted that chambers is still in the league.
3. gautham drafts clinton portis in the 8th round. next year, gautham cannot keep both portis and ajirotutu since only one keeper per slot. common sense indicates that he should not keep either of them. but we don't give much weightage to that in our league.
4. gautham drafts ryan mathews in the 3rd round. next year, gautham can keep both mathews and ajirotutu since they will be in different slots and they play different positions. we hear rishi muttering "ryan mathews is tomlinson, tomlinson is ryan mathews .. nooooooo"
5. gautham drafts jerry porter in the 13th round. in the following year, porter will cost 3 rounds and be charged to the 10th round next year (charged against slot 2). in the second year, he would give up 2 rounds and cost the 8th round. in the third year, he would give up 2 rounds and cost the 6th round. bak picks up vick in the first round, he cannot be a keeper next year since bak cannot lose a round considering vick went in the first.
6. after john beck gets hurt, gautham picks up rex grossman from the WW after beating Siva to pulp. gautham can keep grossman as an FA keeper by giving up round 13.
7. in the following year, gautham will give up round 10 to keep rex grossman. siva buys a gautham voodoo doll.
8. pravin picks up vinatieri in the fourth round (nope, am not making this up) and tejus picks up AP in the 7th (it happened, but before we agreed on keepers). tejus trades AP for vinatieri (i wouldn't have ruled this out in 2007. now, maybe not. just maybe). pravin will give up round 5 to keep AP (7-2) while tejus will give up round 3 to keep vinatieri (4-1)
9. chandra wants to trade his first round overall #5 pick to rishi for his first round and second round picks. rishi requests chandra to pick up braylon edwards. chandra requests rishi to pick up ryan longwell and vijayasanthi sangu. they would then trade these players between themselves. braylon will carry a first round charge for keepers while longwell and sangu will carry first and second round respectively.
bridge to auction
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1. if we choose to move to an auction draft later, a way to take the keepers needs to be formulated. players will get a discount based on their AV (Auction Values) set by yahoo.
1-9: 40%, 10-29: 30%, 30-49: 20%, 50 and above: 10% (same as the diminishing values)
changes
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item (7) in "keepers" has changed. originally, the plan was to give up "ADP+1" for an FA keeper. but since we have an Waiver Wire Budget (which means everyone has an equal chance at an FA), the FA value is set to an arbitrary number.
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