Need opinions about keeper league rule

[baizboll]

Contracts should never reset. That would encourage too many shenanigans.

[dmendro]

Yes, contracts should follow the player in leagues without salaries.

However why people do keeper leagues without an auction and without salires is beyond me. You really need an auction draft and player salaries with built in annual raises for keepers to work right.

[baizboll]

However why people do keeper leagues without an auction and without salires is beyond me. You really need an auction draft and player salaries with built in annual raises for keepers to work right.

Keepers can work fine with contracts which doesn't necessarily require an auction.

[dmendro]

However why people do keeper leagues without an auction and without salires is beyond me. You really need an auction draft and player salaries with built in annual raises for keepers to work right.

Keepers can work fine with contracts which doesn't necessarily require an auction.

I disagree, because without an auction and salaries, you have to put a timelimit on how long an owner can keep a player.

Personally I believe you should always give an owner the option of keeping the player. That option may be horribly expensive, but the choice is always there, so the rules are never actually forcing a player to be dropped. You want to keep A-Rod forever, go ahead, but you won't be able to afford other elite players if he's $80 and using 25% of your budget. Howver, you always give the owner that choice, which is more akin to real life, and allows the owner flexibililty in what he she can or can't do, without forcing an action unnaturally.

[baizboll]

Keepers can work fine with contracts which doesn't necessarily require an auction.

I disagree, because without an auction and salaries, you have to put a timelimit on how long an owner can keep a player.

To address your comment about time limits: You can set up contracts based on draft position. For example, players drafted in rounds 1-6 are assigned 2 year contracts and defined as A players . Players drafted in rounds 7-15 are assigned 3 year contracts and defined as B players, etc.

An example of a player's contract status would be 3A2 = drafted 3rd round this year has 2 years left on contract; or a B player drafted 2 years ago in the last year of his contract 12B1. A team is allowed to keep a specified number of players from each contract group - A, B, or C - as long as there is time left on his contract.

So my point remains that you don't necessarily need to have an auction to run a keeper league and accomplish what you are striving for which is not being able to hold onto a player forever. I'm not saying one method is better than another, only that there are multiple ways to handle keepers.