Looking for help from experienced keeper league owners...

[LJ_Rocks_KC]

I'm the commissioner of a fantasy football league and this year we decided to make the jump to a keeper league. We are making it a 3 player keeper with the option of keeping a 4th if he's a rookie. I am looking for advice on rules of the league (do you keep a player at the cost of the round you drafted him in?). Maybe there is a thread in here that I have overlooked, but if any of you have some advice from experience it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!!

[RJ24VC15]

Losing the pick 1 round off the round the keeper was picked in works good.

[LJ_Rocks_KC]

So you can keep your 1st round draft pick this year for your 2nd round draft pick next year and so forth?? Not sure if I understood

[Pjluva10]

Set a limit of the number of players that can be kept at one positon, ie a max of two players at a given position. Plus set up a limit on the number of years in a row a player can be kept. That keeps people from dominating the league for more than 2 to 3 years and adds a bit more of a twist to draft strategy. Set whatever rules you decide on prior to the draft. Nothing can wreck peoples moods in a keeper than rule changes the next year.

[Kellys Heroes]

click on mine down belwo if you want an example. The managers are still giving me Ideas.

[5]

The only football keeper I've done (and still do), we have use a max 3 keeper and keep them for a max of 3 years. If you keep one guy, that's your 1st round pick...if you keep two, that's your 1st & 2nd round, etc.

There are a bunch of different ways to do it. What do your league members prefer?