The fantasy football season is freshly over and while most keeper leagues don’t require any keeper designations for at least a few months, I’d love to get some conversation started on who everyone is thinking about keeping in their leagues.
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What it costs you to keep a given player into the 2024 season and beyond
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I’m in a 12 team league where we can pick 2 players as keepers.
The cost is giving up a draft pick at least 1 round before wherever that player was drafted. For any keeper you carry into a second year, you have to give up a draft pick one round ahead of last years pick you give up, so every year a keeper costs a better pick than last year. This means players drafted in the 1st or kept from the previous season by sacrificing a 1st can’t be a keeper for the next season.
Players have a minimum keeper value of a 10th round pick, so any FAs after the draft or players picked in rds11+ still cost a 10th.
On my roster I have Puka Nacua (would cost a 10th), Jordan Addison (6th), and Calvin Ridley (9th). Debating which two of these three I should keep,or if I should use one of my keeper selections to hang on to Anthony Richardson who looked great before his injury, or one of the Ravens RBs I have - Keaton Mitchell and Justice Hill. Mitchell looked like a sure thing to be the next starter before getting hurt.
I figure going deep on WR with my keepers lets me lean into a hero RB strat next season, so I think that’s probably the way I’ll go just want to make sure I’m not making a mistake.
Not really familiar with keeper leagues. But I would definitely keep Puka. He was WR1 on that team even when Kupp was playing. What’s the deadline to decide? Because if Kirk leaves Minnesota, I’d keep Richardson. If not, it’s a toss up either way. I don’t think Ridley is worth keeping. He was way too boom and bust for the Jags and I don’t see him being a number 1 receiver on another team.
The only keeper league that I’m in is an 8 team league. It’s an auction league with $600 budget. The keeper cost is half the amount of fantasy points they scored during the season. A top 10 player ends up costing about 1/4 of your budget. QBs tend to go pretty high with less teams not having one of the top 5 means you are giving up a significant advantage since there are only 2 other teams with a “bad” QB.
Anyways, my keepers last year were Mahomes, Ekeler, and Jefferson.
This year I’m keeping Mahomes and Jefferson again. But for the third keeper, I’m deciding between keeping Kyren, Nico Collins, and Mike Evans. I’m guessing that Kyren is the one I am going to go with. I’m pretty sure I can get Evans and Collins cheaper in the auction draft.
Yeah Kyren Williams looks like he’ll be a league winner if he stays healthy all year - that’s who I’d go with.
That’s a really interesting way of doing keepers, I’ve never heard of basing value off fantasy points before.
I like it because if you have a guy get injured and wreck your season, you get a discount the next season to give you a bit of an advantage the next season. And it also helps solve the problem of guys coming out of nowhere getting to be kept for basically free the next few years