Fantasy Opinions needed: Fantasy Free Agency

[rwren 2]

This year we started using multiple keepers. Each team can keep up to 3. We also decided to implement a free agency period before the draft where we will designate a week where everyone can bid on each other's keepers. In a 10 team league there could be as many as 30 keeper/free agents. Each keeper is given a draft value based on a chart we developed. For example, if I drafted Romo in the 8th round last year, he becomes my 6th round keeper this year if I designate him as a keeper.(per the chart).

If you bid on someone's keeper during the free agency period, you have to bid at least 1 round higher than his value. For this example, a team bids a 5th rounder. The original team has the option to keep Romo at the new value of 5th round, or release him to the other team, and then the team compensates him with a 5th round.

Originally when we devised this, we didn't think about the fact that if the 2nd team won Romo and then he became their 5th round pick that there would be no way to compensate the original team. So we revised it to be this way..Team B compensates Team A the 5th , keeps Romo and Romo does not count as his 5th round pick. In the example, Team A gets the 5th round pick and as a result of not owning Romo in the 6th round anymore, retains the 6th round pick. So the original owner is rewarded by either keeping the player in a round where he get value, or he gets an extra pick.

However, the scenario above is very simplistic and I'm concerned with the other scenarios that may arise if you have 10 teams in a bidding frenzy, multiple players that land on a team with the same value, or the scenario where someone bids on my keeper and then I can't keep him because I have committed the compensation pick to another team on whose keeper I just bid on. Anyway, as you can imagine all kinds of crap could result and cause confusion and end up with a bunch of pissed off screwed over owners because the system is way too complicated.

 

Does anyone out there do something similar in the off season? If so, how do you do it? Or if you like our system, can you offer some suggestions where this might be simplified?

[weepaws 2,459]

You keep up to three keeps and you lose the round you drafted that player in . Example team A drafted Romo round 6 they keep him that becomes team A 6 round pick . So much more fun and easy .

[danr128 0]

Simplify it Keepers are designated rds 1-3. The benefit of a keeper league is getting to keep the player not in getting perceived value. The later round designations mean nothing because most teams are going to keep their best players. Finally if trades are made involving keeper players it should be no different than any other trade the market dictates the value.

[Frozenbeernuts 1,652]

It kind of seems like youre defeating the purpose of keepers. I get leveon bell in the third this year. I would be annoyed to have to match someone elses 1st round bid, ruining the value a keeper league represents. Plus, after 30 players are already kept, a 5th round pick is the same value as a 7th or even 8th round pick depending on where you draft.

[rwren 2]

It might be misleading to call this a keeper league per se. We are trying to simulate the free agency of the NFL. The goal was to add another fun element to our league during our off season.

[Frozenbeernuts 1,652]

It might be misleading to call this a keeper league per se. We are trying to simulate the free agency of the NFL. The goal was to add another fun element to our league during our off season.

Limiting the number of bids each team has may be the best option. Unless you want the real feel of the NFL, then its going to be chaos, which is how the NFL can be.

[rwren 2]

Limiting the number of bids each team has may be the best option. Unless you want the real feel of the NFL, then its going to be chaos, which is how the NFL can be.

I have given that thought. Also, we are not allowing a team to bid what they don't have. Also, if a team ends up with multiple keepers with same round value, they have to use the next round up for each player.

[weepaws 2,459]

It might be misleading to call this a keeper league per se. We are trying to simulate the free agency of the NFL. The goal was to add another fun element to our league during our off season.

 

Don't see the fun part to that system .