Dynasty/Keeper League "Reset"

[roninmedia]

We all know these long term leagues vary in their rules, whether through the format, scoring within the respective format, number of keepers.

In the fantasy football leagues I played, the keepers were usually 3 years in duration, while dynasty leagues were typically 5-7 years or sometimes longer. At the end of this time period, you couldn't keep a player for the entire time period or we had a full reset where we redrafted everyone.

I know baseball is more of a long term culture, I mean with the minor leagues and prospects and waiting for them to develop. In football, players make it or break within the first few seasons.

How do you feel about a full "reset" where everyone goes back into the pool and it acts as a redraft league for that season? Or do you like when the league is continous with no resets?

[TheYanks04]

By definition, if you do not keep some players and redraft everyone, it is no longer a keeper league. So if you do that, you are basically dissolving the keeper league and reforming a new one.

Nothing wrong with that if that is what you want to do. But the very essense of sending everyone back to the free agent pool for a redraft basically terminates the keeper league. Typically I like to at least retain some players year to year. You usually have to adjust the keeper count down to try to rebalance the league at some point. I prefer going that route.

[mak1277]

How do you feel about a full "reset" where everyone goes back into the pool and it acts as a redraft league for that season? Or do you like when the league is continous with no resets?

Personally, my preference would never be to do a reset. It's going to be necessary at some point though, if the league gets to be non-competetive. In order to keep owners, it's a very real possibility that a reset might be required.

This really just goes to the point of getting a really good ownership group though, and less to the "rules" of a keeper league.

[Lofunzo]

If you're gonna do that, just drop 1 round per year off of when you originally drafted the player until it drops to 0. Then, you can't keep that player. No reason to reset a keeper league to me.

[BritSox]

If you're gonna do that, just drop 1 round per year off of when you originally drafted the player until it drops to 0. Then, you can't keep that player. No reason to reset a keeper league to me.

That's my favourite way of running a keeper league. Though i prefer it when you count down to one, and can only keep one guy at first round value. That way would seem to indicate you could never keep a first round pick.