How to run a keeper draft

[ExperiencedRookie]

This question goes out to those of you who have keeper experience.

I'm curious how a keeper draft is suppose to work.

Should every team just announce their keepers, line up, and draft?

Has anyone heard of this format? Say your 2 keepers are Chris Johnson and Drew Brees. You selected Drew Brees in the 3rd and Chris Johnson in the 9th.

Now you lose your draft picks in the Rds that your keeper players were selected in. So when keeping Brees and CJ you would have a 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 10th, yada yada yada.

An owner who is keeping Westbrook and Fitz would lose his 1st and 3rd.

This format gives an advantage to savvy owners who made some great mid to late round picks.

Is this common?

 

[bodey24]

I have heard of that type of keeper league, but I have never actually been in one. That's a very interesting format for a keeper league though.

 

[Runnik's Hambones]

It is interesting. I wish I could be of help but I've never been in one like that.

 

[Cooley Cadets]

I also have not played in a league with this format.

How would you evaluate a player you decide to keep that was obtained by a trade? The original owners round?

In your example, if you keep Chris Johnson for multiple years - each year he would remain a 9th rounder?

 

[ExperiencedRookie]

How would you evaluate a player you decide to keep that was obtained by a trade? The original owners round?

In your example, if you keep Chris Johnson for multiple years - each year he would remain a 9th rounder?

Yes, so it puts a higher value on a player who was found at a lower draft pick.

If you would then end up trading Chris Johnson to someone else, he would retain that 9th round value.

I'm trying like crazy to get my commissh to accept these settings.

Last year I drafted Roddy White in the 8th and Matt Forte in the 9th.

If I was to keep those 2 players while most other owners would have to sacrifice a 1st or 2nd round pick to keep their top guys, I would gain an obvious advantage.

 

[WesDawg]

I have experience with this type of format in Baseball, but not Football. In Baseball, it's standard to increase the round incrementally each year you keep that particular guy. 2 rounds per year is fairly common. So this year they would cost you a 6 and 7, in 2010 they would cost you a 4 and 5, etc.

Being a fan of simplification, I avoid tieing anything else to your keepers except the roster spots you sacrifice.