Gawain
Footballguy
I follow the dynasty threads quite a bit, but my main league is a keeper where you lose the round the player was drafted. Keep up to 6, including one 1st/2nd year guy that can only have been minimally started. These leagues are very tough to determine value for and I know that I screw up my value judgments on a daily basis.
There isn't much content for keeper leagues, as redraft and dynasty understandably dominate. Hoping to start a thread where the few of us that still hold on to our archaic forms can bounce some value questions off each other. Formats vary a lot. Guys who are in keep-2 leagues will have a much different value list than guys in a keep-10 league.
Some of the more universal rules that I've learned:
--Never keep anyone at 1.01. If the guy you are keeping at 1.01 is the best player available, keep someone else and redraft him.
--Keep-12 leagues is where I'd transition to using dynasty information, but before that # of keepers, blending needs to occur. Taking numerous rookies in hopes of having long-time keepers is a losing strategy, as there's no ability to keep a guy who can't help, like a Michael Turner and still be competitive. The Bengals backfield was a great example of a guy having a ton more dynasty value than keeper value.
--Don't overlook the value of freeing up your earlier picks. Guys who can be kept for a double digit pick (Shaun Alexander when he was drafted as Watters backup) for years on end are worth their weight in gold. When deciding on a trade, you need to take round considerations, not just for the current year, but looking beyond at some diminished value.
What do other people who still play in lose the round keeper leagues find to be helpful? How many are you keeping? How do you handle free agents (we currently don't allow them to be kept)?
There isn't much content for keeper leagues, as redraft and dynasty understandably dominate. Hoping to start a thread where the few of us that still hold on to our archaic forms can bounce some value questions off each other. Formats vary a lot. Guys who are in keep-2 leagues will have a much different value list than guys in a keep-10 league.
Some of the more universal rules that I've learned:
--Never keep anyone at 1.01. If the guy you are keeping at 1.01 is the best player available, keep someone else and redraft him.
--Keep-12 leagues is where I'd transition to using dynasty information, but before that # of keepers, blending needs to occur. Taking numerous rookies in hopes of having long-time keepers is a losing strategy, as there's no ability to keep a guy who can't help, like a Michael Turner and still be competitive. The Bengals backfield was a great example of a guy having a ton more dynasty value than keeper value.
--Don't overlook the value of freeing up your earlier picks. Guys who can be kept for a double digit pick (Shaun Alexander when he was drafted as Watters backup) for years on end are worth their weight in gold. When deciding on a trade, you need to take round considerations, not just for the current year, but looking beyond at some diminished value.
What do other people who still play in lose the round keeper leagues find to be helpful? How many are you keeping? How do you handle free agents (we currently don't allow them to be kept)?