Behold the KEEPER RULES!!!

Below are the Keeper Rules!!! for Pick and Roll Call 2008-2009. After the rules are some explanations that should clear up some of your questions. If you have more questions, don't hesitate to email me (my email is listed on the league page) or post on the league message board.


The Basics

1. "Keeping" a player means guaranteeing that a player on your current roster will be on your roster next year.

2. You can keep up to 4 players each year.

3. You don't have to keep any players for next year. It's up to you: anywhere between 0-4.

The Eligibility Rules

4. To be eligible for keepage, the player must be on your roster by the end of the fantasy regular season.

5. If you drop a player during the fantasy playoffs, nobody can keep him that year (not even you) if he's picked up again.

The Deadline

6. You must submit your keepers to The Commish no later than two weeks before the draft.

7. You CANNOT change your keepers after you turn them in. They are locked. No exceptions. EVER.

The Logistics

8. If you want to keep a player you drafted: you draft that player in the upcoming draft one round earlier than the previous year.

9. Exception: You can keep your first round pick without penalty. If you keep your first pick, you can keep your second pick too without penalty. And so on, up to your fourth pick (if you want).

10. If you want to keep a player you picked up as a free agent: you draft that player in the upcoming draft in the round determined by a simple formula. (See the Explanations for details.)

11. If you want to keep a player you traded for: you draft that player in the upcoming draft one round earlier than when the previous owner drafted him.

12. You can “keep” a player up to three times, meaning you can have a player on your roster up to 4 years in a row (the year you drafted him first + 3 more years).

13. Exception: If you picked up the player from free agency, you only get to “keep” him once, i.e. only for the year after you picked him up.

EXPLANATIONS

Rule 3: As Chris says, if you miss the deadline, "You’re Fucked. No Keepers for you! DECLARE YOUR KEEPERS!"

Rule 4: The definition of "end of the fantasy regular season" is a simple concept: if you can't play the guy on the first day of the fantasy playoffs, you can't keep him.

Rule 8: Here's an example of how the rule works: if you draft Mo Cheeks in the 7th round in 2009 and wish to keep him for the 2010 season, you must draft him as your 6th round pick in the 2010 draft (as the 6th round is "one round earlier" than the 7th round). You may not draft any other player in the 6th round that year, and you may not draft Mo earlier or later than the 6th round.

Rule 9: This rule is hard to articulate in one sentence, but gets simple when you talk examples. Example: You draft Michael Jordan in the 1st round, Scottie Pippen in the 2nd round, Larry Johnson in the 3rd round, and David Robinson in the 4th round. The rest of your draft sucked except for Rodman in the 9th. You decide that Johnson isn't worth keeping and Rodman is, so you want to keep Jordan, Pippen, Rodman, and the Admiral (Robinson, for those of you who weren't alive for the 90s). You can keep Jordan as your 1st rounder and Pippen as your 2nd rounder under this exception. However, since you're not keeping Larry, the Admiral can be bumped up like normal under Rule 8, and is kept as your 3rd rounder. Rodman, of course, isn't affected by this rule because he's not a top-4 pick; he'll be kept as an 8th rounder like normal.

Rule 10: This rule has a few clarifications. First, this rule only applies to undrafted free agents, i.e. players that nobody drafted and were in the free agency pool from the get-go. If a player is drafted and then dropped, that player retains their draft status for keeper purposes for the rest of the season. If you pick up a player who was drafted in the 10th round but dropped, you can keep him as if you drafted him in the 10th round.

Second, the rule states that a formula will determine where you draft a free agent keeper. The formula is: the square root of (“the number of players drafted” x “the end-of-year Yahoo! Rank”). The Yahoo! rank is their rank based on total stats, not average per-game stats. So a player who finished with a Yahoo! Rank of 50 would have a draft value of 89.44 (160*50 = 8000, and the square root of 8000, as we all know, is 89.44) and thus would be eligible for Keeping as a 9th-rounder (because the 89th pick of the draft is in the 9th round). There is also a 6th-round cap to this rule. If a player ends up with a Yahoo! Rank in the Top 10 or 15 and merits a draft value in the 2nd or 3rd round or so, they will be assigned a 6th-round Keeper value.