Play for keeps
You know that feeling when you get finished seeing a great movie and you can’t help but spread the word about how great it was? That’s exactlly how I feel about fantasy football keeper leagues.
I finally decided to try one a few years ago I quickly became obsessed. Anyone familiar with me, or my blog, knows I sometimes joke about fantasy football being an addiction. If that’s the case, keeper leagues are the crack cocaine of fantasy sports.
If you don’t know what a keeper league is I feel so bad for you, but allow me to explain. You get a group of serious players together and draft a team like usual, but you play multiple seasons and “keep” certain players. To insure turnover, a salary cap type system or a rule (like only keeping a certain number of players) gets put into place. In most leagues, each player is assigned a value, and sometimes that value increases every season depending on the settings.
For you Madden video game folks, think of fantasy football as a “season” and keeper leagues as “franchise mode.”
Keeper leagues are so much fun because there is a lot more strategy involved. For example, if your playoffs hopes are squished by the trade deadline, you can trade away stars for prospects and build toward the future. Also, while drafting, you must consider a players age because younger players obviously have a premium and older players always run the risk of injury or a drop in production.
Last night I was negotiating a trade with a fellow owner in a keeper leagues and we introduced draft picks for next seasons draft into the picture. Then we talked about conditional picks (Yes, I know we’re are sick). Think about this though, keeper leagues give you the ability to say things like, “Ok I’ll give you Larry Johnson for Shaun Alexander, but I want a 14th round pick next year and a 16th round pick if Alexander misses four games due to injury this year.”
Keeper leagues give you more options for trading and more options will result in more trade action and a league you’ll be thinking about all day long.
You know that feeling when you get finished seeing a great movie and you can’t help but spread the word about how great it was? That’s exactlly how I feel about fantasy football keeper leagues.
I finally decided to try one a few years ago I quickly became obsessed. Anyone familiar with me, or my blog, knows I sometimes joke about fantasy football being an addiction. If that’s the case, keeper leagues are the crack cocaine of fantasy sports.
If you don’t know what a keeper league is I feel so bad for you, but allow me to explain. You get a group of serious players together and draft a team like usual, but you play multiple seasons and “keep” certain players. To insure turnover, a salary cap type system or a rule (like only keeping a certain number of players) gets put into place. In most leagues, each player is assigned a value, and sometimes that value increases every season depending on the settings.
For you Madden video game folks, think of fantasy football as a “season” and keeper leagues as “franchise mode.”
Keeper leagues are so much fun because there is a lot more strategy involved. For example, if your playoffs hopes are squished by the trade deadline, you can trade away stars for prospects and build toward the future. Also, while drafting, you must consider a players age because younger players obviously have a premium and older players always run the risk of injury or a drop in production.
Last night I was negotiating a trade with a fellow owner in a keeper leagues and we introduced draft picks for next seasons draft into the picture. Then we talked about conditional picks (Yes, I know we’re are sick). Think about this though, keeper leagues give you the ability to say things like, “Ok I’ll give you Larry Johnson for Shaun Alexander, but I want a 14th round pick next year and a 16th round pick if Alexander misses four games due to injury this year.”
Keeper leagues give you more options for trading and more options will result in more trade action and a league you’ll be thinking about all day long.
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