For all the noobs interested in keeper it’s definitely the way to go. Trevor , did an excellent job explaining. Our league has been running for 15 years now, about 7 years ago we made the switch to keeper league. We give the option to keep two players for the length of two seasons. Keeper eligibility is for players drafted in the 4th round or later and also , undrafted players. Players who have been rostered prior to playoffs, are keeper eligible. Undrafted players can be kept for a 14th round. We want to reward great gm maneuvering, so just like how a undrafted talent can get to a bigger contract quicker , they can be kept as a 14th rounder. Each year a player is kept , they will cost a rounder higher the next season. So if you draft a guy in the 4th this year , to keep him next year would cost a third , and the following year he would be a second round. I would urge people to not automatically make keepers 1st, 2nd and 3rd round picks. I say this because at the end of the day you want people to come to the draft prepared and not winging it with (insert draft experts cheat sheet). Keeper league is fun, strategic and rewarding. We love the luck of fantasy, but we want to reward the people who do the work. For last two seasons one of my league mates benefited by strategically picking up Travis Eitenne as his last pick his rookie year. Guess what , everyone had forgotten because he was out for the season. But my boy put him in IR, decided to keep him as a 14th rnder , and then 13th rnder. How bad ass was that move ? Another league mate tried the same thing with Jk dobbins who went undrafted , he stashed him in hopes of having a gem. He got hurt the next season so it didn’t workout. I say all this to say sometimes it works out sometimes it doesn’t. Rewards those doing the work and let keepers be sprinkled throughout the draft, that way you don’t have draft expert guys pulling up finessing the draft with others work. Every year there’s hidden gems like Elijah Mitchell, Eitenne , Puka nuckua to name a few. Another wrinkle that we incorporated after 4 years of keeper addition was IDP. It’s another game changer , and I urge everyone to dabble into idp fun. Peace, and football. Thanks again Trevor for a dope video.
It's hard to know without a little more context. Is it superflex? And is it Half or full ppr? Fields in the 16th seems great either way. Aman Ra in a full PPR in the 6th is excellent but Olave in the 10th would be my other keeper if not.
If it's a more or less standard PPR league and not Superflex, I would keep Amon Ra in the 6th. (no brainer) and Chris Olave in the 10th. Pierce is solid but how effective is that team/offense going to be? Although I really like Fields, he's more than replaceable, especially down at round 16. Good luck.
We are converting to a Keeper League beginning this year. I am the commissioner and have received a little bit of negative feedback from some of the owners. We've been doing redraft for 20 years or so and the only real changes we've made, other than tweaking the scoring little bit, was going to PPR years ago. I was really surprised that some of the more successful teams/owners were the ones giving me pushback regarding a Keeper League. Your advice was helpful, I think I'm going to go with a 2 player keeper league (I don't want some of these guys to have a heart attack, lol) and whatever players you keep will cost you whatever round they were drafted in and move up 1 round each year. Do you recommend a maximum number of years a player can be kept? I've been advised to establish a 3 year maximum, more so the negative guys might see light at the end of the tunnel if someone is keeping a player they want. Not sure about that though. I'm going to set an 8th. round pick as the cost of any players that were picked up off of the waiver wire becoming a teams keeper. We draft 17 rounds (still 1 K & 1 D) so that's a mid round pick. Thanks for the helpful insight. 👍
Glad to hear this video helped! 2 keepers should be an easy transition for your league. I'm confident they will grow to like it (especially once they draft someone worth keeping haha). The reason for moving up a spot each year for the keeper a team chooses should help eliminate the need to put a 3 year cap on it but that's up to you. Also, I would recommend only allowing someone to keep a player that was originally drafted at the beginning of the year. If someone grabs a player off of waivers and is allowed to keep them (unless they were originally drafted) might cause some frustration among other teams. Failing to pay attention for even one week, big life events, work, sickness, etc. could all be reasons that a team misses a potentially HUGE keeper option picked up off of waivers. Does that make sense?
Question for those of you who have done keeper before. This is my first year having keepers who will be affecting next years draft. My big question comes in this scenario: I would like to keep player x, however, I drafted them in the 4th round and I have traded away my 4th round pick. Will it take away my 3rd round pick then or how does that work?
I think I must have misunderstood some keeper league set up videos. Whenever I heard someone say 2 rounds back the next year and then 1 round forward the following year I just assumed it meant. If I drafted a guy in the 1st rd I can keep him with my 3rd round earliest pick and then the following year rd 2 is his cost and then his contract is up. I’m assuming now people meant draft the player near their ADP or minus/plus a rd. And then the following year move it up an additional rd. Tbh I kinda like the idea of only keeping a player max 3 total years and drafting him 2 rounds back and then a rd forward the last year. Also my keeper is a rookie only keeper 2 rookies (1 offense & 1 defense) so you can watch your guys grow for the next two additional years if you want to. Technically it’s set up so by the third year of the original 2 keepers on your roster contract that you can have 2 more keepers who should be entering their 2nd year of their contract so that means year 3 you could have up to 4 keepers if you wanted. Does that seem weird to treat it like the NFL with those kinds of contracts? Again it is only rookies kept so not like everyone will keep a guy or 2 every year and they can always drop them as their keeper for someone else. Did I do it completely messed up? Or is it fine? Only major rule I have is no keepers allowed in rd 1. We are a superflex league is why. Usually the first 2 rds are heavy on QB if your doing it right. So that wouldn’t be fair to those guys keeping like a bijan in the first rd. Instead get him rd 3 and then rd 2 his last year of the contract. Thoughts? I didn’t wanna go into heavy detail with all my specific rules lol.
Good question. I would recommend only allowing people to keep players that were originally drafted. So if they traded for a player or picked them up off of waivers, as long as they were originally drafted at the beginning of the year, I allow them to be kept.
For all the noobs interested in keeper it’s definitely the way to go. Trevor , did an excellent job explaining.
Our league has been running for 15 years now, about 7 years ago we made the switch to keeper league. We give the option to keep two players for the length of two seasons.
Keeper eligibility is for players drafted in the 4th round or later and also , undrafted players. Players who have been rostered prior to playoffs, are keeper eligible.
Undrafted players can be kept for a 14th round. We want to reward great gm maneuvering, so just like how a undrafted talent can get to a bigger contract quicker , they can be kept as a 14th rounder.
Each year a player is kept , they will cost a rounder higher the next season. So if you draft a guy in the 4th this year , to keep him next year would cost a third , and the following year he would be a second round.
I would urge people to not automatically make keepers 1st, 2nd and 3rd round picks. I say this because at the end of the day you want people to come to the draft prepared and not winging it with (insert draft experts cheat sheet). Keeper league is fun, strategic and rewarding. We love the luck of fantasy, but we want to reward the people who do the work. For last two seasons one of my league mates benefited by strategically picking up Travis Eitenne as his last pick his rookie year. Guess what , everyone had forgotten because he was out for the season. But my boy put him in IR, decided to keep him as a 14th rnder , and then 13th rnder. How bad ass was that move ? Another league mate tried the same thing with Jk dobbins who went undrafted , he stashed him in hopes of having a gem. He got hurt the next season so it didn’t workout. I say all this to say sometimes it works out sometimes it doesn’t. Rewards those doing the work and let keepers be sprinkled throughout the draft, that way you don’t have draft expert guys pulling up finessing the draft with others work. Every year there’s hidden gems like Elijah
Mitchell, Eitenne , Puka nuckua to name a few.
Another wrinkle that we incorporated after 4 years of keeper addition was IDP. It’s another game changer , and I urge everyone to dabble into idp fun.
Peace, and football.
Thanks again Trevor for a dope video.
one of my long time leagues is transitioning to a keeper league this year and you explained everything very well. good stuff
Awesome! Glad to help. How many keepers are you going with?
Keeper question keep 2 Amon Ra 6th rd, Olave 10thrd, Pierce 11thrd, Fields 16th rd
It's hard to know without a little more context. Is it superflex? And is it Half or full ppr? Fields in the 16th seems great either way. Aman Ra in a full PPR in the 6th is excellent but Olave in the 10th would be my other keeper if not.
If it's a more or less standard PPR league and not Superflex, I would keep Amon Ra in the 6th. (no brainer) and Chris Olave in the 10th. Pierce is solid but how effective is that team/offense going to be? Although I really like Fields, he's more than replaceable, especially down at round 16. Good luck.
We are converting to a Keeper League beginning this year. I am the commissioner and have received a little bit of negative feedback from some of the owners. We've been doing redraft for 20 years or so and the only real changes we've made, other than tweaking the scoring little bit, was going to PPR years ago. I was really surprised that some of the more successful teams/owners were the ones giving me pushback regarding a Keeper League. Your advice was helpful, I think I'm going to go with a 2 player keeper league (I don't want some of these guys to have a heart attack, lol) and whatever players you keep will cost you whatever round they were drafted in and move up 1 round each year. Do you recommend a maximum number of years a player can be kept? I've been advised to establish a 3 year maximum, more so the negative guys might see light at the end of the tunnel if someone is keeping a player they want. Not sure about that though. I'm going to set an 8th. round pick as the cost of any players that were picked up off of the waiver wire becoming a teams keeper. We draft 17 rounds (still 1 K & 1 D) so that's a mid round pick. Thanks for the helpful insight. 👍
Glad to hear this video helped! 2 keepers should be an easy transition for your league. I'm confident they will grow to like it (especially once they draft someone worth keeping haha). The reason for moving up a spot each year for the keeper a team chooses should help eliminate the need to put a 3 year cap on it but that's up to you.
Also, I would recommend only allowing someone to keep a player that was originally drafted at the beginning of the year. If someone grabs a player off of waivers and is allowed to keep them (unless they were originally drafted) might cause some frustration among other teams. Failing to pay attention for even one week, big life events, work, sickness, etc. could all be reasons that a team misses a potentially HUGE keeper option picked up off of waivers. Does that make sense?
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Yes, that makes sense. I'm not set on anything yet so I'll definitely consider that. Thanks again. Good luck this year.
Question for those of you who have done keeper before. This is my first year having keepers who will be affecting next years draft. My big question comes in this scenario: I would like to keep player x, however, I drafted them in the 4th round and I have traded away my 4th round pick. Will it take away my 3rd round pick then or how does that work?
I think I must have misunderstood some keeper league set up videos. Whenever I heard someone say 2 rounds back the next year and then 1 round forward the following year I just assumed it meant. If I drafted a guy in the 1st rd I can keep him with my 3rd round earliest pick and then the following year rd 2 is his cost and then his contract is up. I’m assuming now people meant draft the player near their ADP or minus/plus a rd. And then the following year move it up an additional rd.
Tbh I kinda like the idea of only keeping a player max 3 total years and drafting him 2 rounds back and then a rd forward the last year.
Also my keeper is a rookie only keeper 2 rookies (1 offense & 1 defense) so you can watch your guys grow for the next two additional years if you want to. Technically it’s set up so by the third year of the original 2 keepers on your roster contract that you can have 2 more keepers who should be entering their 2nd year of their contract so that means year 3 you could have up to 4 keepers if you wanted. Does that seem weird to treat it like the NFL with those kinds of contracts? Again it is only rookies kept so not like everyone will keep a guy or 2 every year and they can always drop them as their keeper for someone else. Did I do it completely messed up? Or is it fine? Only major rule I have is no keepers allowed in rd 1. We are a superflex league is why. Usually the first 2 rds are heavy on QB if your doing it right. So that wouldn’t be fair to those guys keeping like a bijan in the first rd. Instead get him rd 3 and then rd 2 his last year of the contract. Thoughts? I didn’t wanna go into heavy detail with all my specific rules lol.
should you be able to keep players picked up on wavier wire?
Good question. I would recommend only allowing people to keep players that were originally drafted. So if they traded for a player or picked them up off of waivers, as long as they were originally drafted at the beginning of the year, I allow them to be kept.