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Fantasy BuckeyePlanet Fantasy Football - Keeper League (R.I.P.)

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My draft sucked. I was on tilt from the very first round. Oh well, should be fun anyway.

Congrats to my opponents for Weeks 7-9, who will be raping my team senseless while all of my players are on their bye weeks. Every time I identified a player that looked useful near my draft position, they had one of those three weeks as their bye.
 
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jlb1705;1978047; said:
My draft sucked. I was on tilt from the very first round. Oh well, should be fun anyway.

Congrats to my opponents for Weeks 7-9, who will be raping my team senseless while all of my players are on their bye weeks. Every time I identified a player that looked useful near my draft position, they had one of those three weeks as their bye.
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Don't feel bad, my draft sucked too and I am going to get skullfucked in week 8.
 
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I got a PM about how this league handles injured players, and I want to extend the discussion to the rest of the league.

First of all, if you have a highly valued injured player and you release him, that player is available to anybody else in the league. That player can be stashed on the roster and kept for the next season at a 7th round value just like any other waiver/free agent pickup. This actually happened once already. In the first season of this league somebody dropped Tom Brady after his knee injury. The person who picked him up was able to keep him on the cheap. To me this is part of what makes a keeper league interesting. Everybody will run into a decision like this at one point or another, and it makes things interesting. I had to decide last year whether or not to drop Ryan Grant (who had been drafted in the second or third round) and possibly allow a competitor to get a good value on a RB for this year, or keep him on my bench and be short a roster spot.

One aspect of this that hasn't come up in this league before is, what happens to the keeper value of a player who is dropped, clears waivers, and is picked back up by the original owner? Does the player retain the original keeper value (for better or worse) for the team that drafted him, or does that player revert to the same seventh-round keeper value like any other player that goes through the free agent pool? I'm interested in seeing what other people in the league think, because I can see it both ways. On the one hand, I can see how some might not want to see players' keeper value being "laundered" thru waivers. On the other hand, I can also understand the point-of-view that if a player with a high keeper value clears waivers that means everybody else had a shot at him, and if you get him back you deserve whatever reward that might bring. Of the two options, with the way I re-construct rosters and keeper values the former would be much easier, but the latter would still be do-able.

Also, I did a quick look and saw that Yahoo does have an Injured Reserve option for keeper leagues. It is implemented as a roster spot (similar to QB, WR, TE, BN, etc.) so if we wanted to make a change along those lines we wouldn't be able to do anything until next year. I'm just wondering for now if there would be any interest in it.
 
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I like it as is. It makes things more interesting and helps struggling teams to pick up spare parts with which to rebuild.

I don't like the idea of promoting keeper value laundering. I vote that they retain their drafted value. Now if someone else picks them up then drops them then I think a seventh round value is fair.
 
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Being "that guy" that picked up Tom Brady the year he got hurt... I actually didn't use him as a keeper the following year. I instead decided to keep Brees (for a 4th) due to being unsure how Brady was going to do the year after getting hurt. It cost me 3 rounds, but with how Brees did that year, I made a great choice in the end.

I think how we have it now adds an extra tactic to the game, which I like. You can decide to drop him and risk an opposing team use that to their advantage in the future, or suck it up and keep him on, using one of your valued roster spots. Whether picked up early or late, I'm for using a 7th round pick instead of what that player was originally drafted at.
 
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I too am in favor of allowing others to pick up a dropped player as a potential keeper for next year's 7th rounder. However, I don't believe that you should be able to drop a player and then claim him again in waivers and get him for a 7th rounder unless, like JWins said, if that player was picked up by another team and then dropped again and then you picked him up off of waivers after that...
 
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What a frustrating season... I feel like a have a rock solid roster, but keep coming up just a little short each week. Last year I was in a league in which I had the highest scoring team, but failed to make the playoffs.... I might not have the top team this year, but I doubt anyone wants to face my guys in the playoffs.
 
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jlb1705;1978047; said:
My draft sucked. I was on tilt from the very first round. Oh well, should be fun anyway.

Congrats to my opponents for Weeks 7-9, who will be raping my team senseless while all of my players are on their bye weeks. Every time I identified a player that looked useful near my draft position, they had one of those three weeks as their bye.
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Like I said, BEST DRAFT EVER! :biggrin:
 
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jlb1705;2072128; said:
Like I said, BEST DRAFT EVER! :biggrin:
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Congrats jlb! Much deserved championship. Don't believe we've ever seen a run like that in this league. You were hard to beat, especially with that 5-headed monster at RB and Gronk at TE. And Welker. And the Steeler D. Damn jlb... that's a team.

For the second straight year, I had the most points the final week of the year, but came up short in my game the week prior. I thought I drafted really well at RB with Foster, Bradshaw, D.Williams, Moreno, and Spiller. Spiller did nothing (until Fred Jackson gets injured 6 weeks after I let him go), D.Williams was a humongous disappointment and wildly inconsistent the entire year, Moreno goes on IR after McGayhee takes his job (and Moreno was injured before that happend as well), Bradshaw gets banged up near the end of the year and misses games, and Foster didn't play the first few games of the year. All things considering, it's amazing I came in 3rd. Started 3 WRs almost every week because I barely had 2 RBs worth playing between all of that, bye weeks, and matchups.
 
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I went ahead and renewed the league on Yahoo since they already have their 2012 football stuff up. If you were in it last year, you should be able to go ahead and rejoin.

Anybody who wasn't in the league last year who is interested in joining, please let me know. First come, first served, only if we have an opening.

The draft date and time are tentative. I went for something in the range of what we usually have, but the consensus of the people in the league will determine if that time is suitable or if we need to change it to something else.
 
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