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KeeperSystem

Page history last edited by Brian Kealoha 5 years, 1 month ago

 

 

Keeper System (Major Update 2/9/13)

 


PROTECTION SYSTEM (APPROVED 1/25/13)

EFFECTIVE 2014 SEASON

 

The keeper system in this league is designed so that each franchise has some historical consistency and an overall sense of organizational pride. Each season, franchise owners decide how much of their previous roster they would like to bring with them into the following season.

 

Up to 15 players per team can be retained (see information below pertaining to "Franchise Players").  An owner can keep less than 15 players if desired. Rookies can be retained indefinitely at the discretion of the owner rather than being limited to the point of achieving rookie status according to MLB. 

 

The retention rules are outlined below. (Please note that “RS” stands for Round Selected.)  

 

Round Selected (RS)
Year 1 Years 2 -5  
 
 
Year 6
1-5  RS  Previous year RS (1-5) minus 1   
 
 
Release 
6-10  RS 

Previous year RS (6-10) minus 1 

 
 
 
Release 
11-15  RS  Previous year RS (11-15) minus 2   
 
 
Release 
16-20  RS  Previous year RS (16-20) minus 3    
 
Release 

21-26 

RS  Y1RS minus 4   
 
 
Release 

Player Added In

Season 

RS=20  Y1RS minus 3   
 
 
Release 

Rookie Status Ending 

RS=23, but can

be activated at

owner's discretion

Same as

RS=23

player 

       

Rookie Status

Intact

Can be retained

indefinitely at

owner's discretion

         

Franchise Player

Designation

Can be retained

indefinitely at

owner's discretion

         

 

This means that a player selected in round 12 could be retained the season after this was instituted by giving up a round 12 selection. 

The key here is that after each player’s acquisition, he is assigned a round value and a year, in some cases using the fantasy owner's discretion. 

 

In addition, once that established round is set, the cost to keep the player (for any owner until the player is released) will follow the pattern shown above.

 

When and if the player reaches a round value of 0, or if he is retained without being eligible to be drafted for five years (the year following his Y5 designation) he has to be released, except for the following Franchise Players as described below:

 

FRANCHISE PLAYERS (FP)

Two (2) players shall be designated as “Franchise Players” indefinitely as 1 of up to 9 keepers at the beginning of the 2014 season.  They shall also be included in the total of up to 15 keepers that will be allowed at the beginning of the 2015 season.

 

Should these Franchise Players be traded, their designation as Franchise Players and all related requirements carry over to the new team. If conflicts occur in which that team now has 3 Franchise Players at the time of keeper selection, as it most likely will because of a trade, the team that acquires that Franchise Player would have to follow the replacement process outlined here:

 

Should a team owner replace a Franchise Player, the released player will occupy a value of RS3.  If an owner already has an RS3 player, the established rules of having 2 players with the same RS will apply.  You may have 3 FP’s during a season, but this conflict must be cleared prior to the new season and keeper designation. The third FP will be designated an RS2 after the rollover takes place should a team wish to keep that player.

 

If a player labeled as “No Keep” having had his eligibility expire be moved into a FP, the RS3 designation would be taken into account BEFORE rolling over the player status to no keep. That means the player that was originally FP becomes RS2 at the start of the new season so that the No Keep can be kept. 

 

In summary, a player who has a FP designation and you want to remove this designation, the player will become a RS3F. The exception to this is when this move is done to remove a “no keep” to one of your players, in which case the player becomes an RS2F. The F designates they can no longer be a FP on your team again, but could on another team if traded. 

 

Once a player loses his FP designation, he can never be designated an FP by the current franchise.

 

 

 

 

In addition, there are several situations permitting an owner to assign the initial round selected. All these round assignments are to be made on an annual basis by the final keeper deadline each year. These round choices include:

 

  • Franchise Players will not occupy any value rounds and will not be subject to the rules governing "release" requirements in the above chart.  
  • When there is a conflict because two (or more) players occupy the same round (either due to trade or waiver acquisition) – in this case the owner can move a player to a more valuable round, not to a less valuable round.

 

 

As mentioned earlier, there are several ways that a team can gain control of a player that is assigned the same round value – he could draft a player in round 10, he could acquire via trade a player in round 10, and he could have a player that is retained from prior years worth a round 10 value in that year as well. If this occurs, the owner will have to make a choice by increasing the round value of the player at the time the conflict is created:

 

Example Player  Round Value is Established At 
Drafted in Round 10  Owner’s choice – assigns one player round 10 
Player Acquired in Trade w/Round 10 value  Owner’s choice – assigns one player round 9 
Player Drafted in Round 12, now in Year 2 of retention  Owner’s choice – assigns one player round 8 

 

Obviously, we can create examples with more and more conflicts, but the key is that an owner can always resolve those conflicts through changing a player’s round value to an earlier round by the final keeper deadline. Once round is established, it cannot be moved to a later round. So let’s say the player acquired via trade above is assigned a round value of 9 - even if the round 10 “opens up” later because the player in round 10 is dropped or traded, the owner cannot “go back” and change it back to round 10. This is recommended in order to reduce confusion and recordkeeping (no changing rounds) as well as to lead to more players being placed back into the draft as soon as possible.

 

The key is that each player in the system will have a Round Selected (RS) value and a year of acquisition, and this will follow that player until he is released. Even if a trade occurs, this RS and year tag will stay with the player unless the new owner changes the round value to an earlier round to resolve a conflict. So we will have a shorthand way of communicating about players – for example, if Stephen contacts Bob about a trade, he can offer him Player X who is a “Y1RS14.”

 

Players Added In-Season

Players added in-season via waivers: (Revision 1/20/18 in red font) - Free agents may be added after the draft through the end of the MLB regular season. Officially, the window for Free Agent (FA) additions closes on the last day of the MLB regular season and does not reopen until two days after the draft is completed. The abiding principles of how free agents may be retained for future years are supported by the following key considerations: 1) That we want to reward owners for a savvy pick-up by allowing them to gain some value through retention; 2) We don't want, however, to build in a huge advantage for such an addition, because this type of pick-up is driven by speed on the waiver wire or an owner's waiver position at the time, which is more luck-based; 3) We don't want to encourage owners to do a quick drop/add in order to improve a player's retention situation. Therefore: Non-rookies added in-season will be assigned a Round Selected of 20 (Y1RS20). This gives an advantage for a good pick-up, but not as much as if it was round 26. Dropped players would retain their RS value for the entire season and will not be reset until the following year's draft.

 

Non-Rookie Keeper Limit

In order to avoid any team gaining control of too much talent in any given season, each franchise will only be permitted to keep up to 15 keepers each year. “Franchise” players are included in this count, but minor league players are not.

 

Minor League Players:

Minor Leaguers can be activated at the discretion of the owner. So even if a player (who has not been on the active roster) went past the rookie levels, he can be kept in minor-league status until the owner decides to activate him. There is no limit on the retention of a rookie as long as he does not accumulate stats for an owner. Once that occurs, he is assigned a round selected of 23 in the following year’s draft. It will be totally up to the owner to determine activation, and the RS will be 23 the year after he decides to do so (Y1RS23).  At the end of the season if an owner has more than 5 eligible minor leaguers, the owner must indicate which 5 will be protected as minor leaguers in the 5 assigned slots. The other players will go through the RS process as outlined herein. 

 

Waiver Period:

To be increased to 4 days in the 2013 season to allow for longer consideration of whether a player’s round value could be a keeper for a particular team, as well as making it more difficult to cycle players for the Monday/Thursday off days in a particular week.

 

Reversion to 2012 Rules:

Once implemented, the new league structure will remain in place for at least two (2) years.  After that point, any owner can call for a vote to revert. If seven (7) owners support a reversion, the league will re-adopt the 2012 rules effective in the spring of the following year.  Since there may be unforeseen impacts that will significantly affect team rosters as a result, the commissioner will appoint a committee to recommend new guidelines to make this transition as fair as possible.

 

Keeper Rules

 

The keeper system operation begins 7 days prior to the Official Draft date.  All owners must submit a final keeper list to the league, drop the rest of the players from your team, and resolve any round conflicts. This is a list of players from the franchise roster who will remain with the franchise to begin the new season. The list must contain up to 15 players in 2015 and thereafter.

 

Final keeper lists cannot be added to, subtracted from, or changed in any way. All players that are not included on a final keeper list immediately become free agents in the draft pool and may be selected by any franchise in the Official Draft.

 

During the Official Draft, each owner MUST select all players listed on his final keeper list in the designated round of the player’s contract (i.e round 3 for a RS3 player). An owner he may select any free agent that is still available with his draft rounds that are not committed to a keeper. Each owner will have access to all franchise keeper lists so that he can see the players who are not free agents due to keeper designation by other owners.

 

It is important to note that it may benefit some teams to designate a smaller number of keepers. 

 

Keeper Management

There will be an area on the league website where owners can go to access keeper information. 

 

Keeper Deadlines

Draft keeper lists are due ten days prior to the Official Draft.  Final keeper lists are then due five days prior to the Official Draft. An owner may retain up to 15 players including any Franchise Players. Beginning in 2014, if an owner fails to meet these deadlines, his franchise will automatically be assigned players on his roster that finished highest on the previous year player rater. The owner is required to draft those players with his first five picks in the Official Draft.  In subsequent years, the RS chart will be used to determine the final list.

 

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