2014 SOI Keeper Fantasy Football League

[Kid]

Congrats to PcB on winning the league.

 

Before posting the keeper restrictions for next season, we still need a resolution on this.  Am I the only one who thinks it's an issue? (I mean that question literally, this might be me seeing a problem where nobody else does.)

 

In noting a transaction this week, I think our rules need a tweak.  As it stands right now (and with a few irrelevant exceptions), a drafted player is kept in a higher round than he was kept in the year before and an undrafted player is kept in the 7th round.  

 

PcB drafted Derrius Guice (who was supposed to be Washington's rookie RB) in the 16th round even though he had already torn an ACL and it was known that he would miss the season.  I'm not wild about the idea of drafting a player solely as a keeper, but I can live with it in part because in order to actually get to keep him in the 15th round next year, PcB would have had to have kept him on his roster all year.  He couldn't do that and he dropped Guice by the 3rd week of the season.

 

This week, Koz picked up Guice.  Koz, of course, tanked the season and was effectively eliminated from the playoffs before this week started.  While I can live with the idea that he could pick up Guice in the last week of the season when he has nothing to play for and keep him next season (even though I'd still prefer come up with a system that wouldn't allow that), I don't think Koz should get the benefit of the fact that PcB drafted Guice in the 16th round, which I think our current rules would afford him.  

 

So, I'd propose a rule tweak that says a drafted player who is released and then signed as a free agent during the season is kept based on their draft position or using a 7th round pick, whichever is worse for the team keeping the player.  This would only apply to players that are released and then claimed as a free agent (or off waivers).  It would not apply to players that are drafted and not released/waived, including those that are traded.

 

In other words, if PcB had managed to keep Guice on his roster for the season (or if he had traded him to Koz), then he could have been kept as a 15th rounder next year.  But, since he was released, I think that if Koz wants to keep Guice, he should have to do so as a 7th rounder.

 

Thoughts?