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Advice: Setting up a Keeper League - How do you determine the cost of your keeper?
We're entering our second year as a 10 man league and have decided that before we draft we would like to incorporate keepers. We're leaning towards 2.

That being said, we're having a difficult time deciding on the rules. We would like to hear how your league is run - more specifically as it relates to the penalties associated with keeping a player.
ex. In exchange for keeping a player drafted in the 5th round in 2013 the owner would have to forfeit that round minus 1 (a 4th round pick in 2014).
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    Jimmy Rudig (376 Reputation Points)
    Ours is simple but has quite a few rules. You can keep up to 2 players, but only one at a position, so you can't keep 2 RBs for example. The cost is one round higher than the previous year, which means a first round pick can't be kept. Same thing for a 2nd rounder the second year, so if you took AP in the 2nd round in 2012 you got him in the first last year, but you wouldn't be able to keep him this year. Players that go undrafted cost a 10th. Also a player can't be kept more than two years in a row. So if take a flyer on a guy in the 13th and he becomes a star, you can keep him for a 12 the next year and for an 11 the year after that, but then you have to let him go the third year.
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    Eamonn Choukrane (665 Reputation Points)
    I like 2 keepers in the same round they were drafted in but no first rounders can be kept.
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    Matt Kent (500 Reputation Points)
    In our league, the price goes up 2 rounds. So if I drafted Eddie Lacy in the 5th round last year, I'd have to give up my 3rd round this year. If you drafted Marshall in the 2nd round last year, you'd have to give up a 1st round pick AND 7th round pick. If you took Shady in the 1st round last year, you'd have to give up a 1st round pick AND 4th round pick.

    Also, you can only keep players that were drafted. So no WW pickups can be kept, except if someone drops a player who was drafted and someone different picks up him, then he can be kept at what his cost would have been for the guy who drafted him. (I pick C. Patterson in round 16 last year but dropped him week 1. You pick him up and he explodes. You can keep him for a 14th rd pick this year)

    We have had a max of 4 keepers per team the past few years but I think we're gonna bump it down to 3 this year to replenish the pool a bit.

    Hope this helps.
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    Channing Hindel (833 Reputation Points)
    We did the same thing except it went up 4 rounds every year. So, if you got Arian Foster off the waiver wire the year he blew up, you could draft in the 16th round the next year, then 12th, 8th.... It worked pretty well. If you only bump it up one round per year, you can essentially have a stud RB or WR for his entire career and never draft him before the 6th or 7th round.
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    JJ Zachariason (411 Reputation Points)
    There are a lot of ways to determine it. I like auction drafts and keepers are easy there, as you can just do the cost of obtaining that player (sometimes plus an inflation rate).

    With snake drafts, I'd just do the cost of acquisition from the previous season. So if you draft LeSean McCoy this year, keeping him costs a first-round pick.
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