What's the Scenario for Keepers?

To touch on some of Dawson and Keith's comments under the initial post of the official TFLOEG blog, I thought I would give the entire league three options I've considered to see what you guys like.

Option One: We do what we did previously and each team can choose any two players from their team to keep for the next year.

Option Two: Similar to option one, each manager can choose any two players to keep although they will lose their pick in the next year’s draft based on where their kept players were chosen. For example, I choose Montee Ball in the six round this year and he becomes the number one RB in fantasy. Obviously I may want to keep him, so I would have to sacrifice my six round pick next year.

 Another thing I've heard drafts do in this case is that initially it is the round that player is chosen in is lost in next year’s draft, but if the manager chooses to keep him year after year (because of the value at that round in the draft) the round is cut in half each consecutive year the manager chooses to continue to keep the player. For example, I keep Montee for the 2014 draft (based on my previous example) and he continues to improve and I want to keep him for the 2015 draft. At that point he would no longer be considered a six round pick but a third round pick (the year after that a second rounder, the year after that a first). Obviously, there is a lot of playing around we can do with that.

Option Three: AND MY PREFERRED. Let’s all commit to at least one thing in our miserable lives. Can we do that? Two words: Dynasty League. Suddenly the teams we draft this year we keep everyone, minus the players on our benches. Next year at our draft it’s a seven or eight round draft to fill our benches back up with tossed back players and rookies. If this is the route most wanted to take, we could make the keepers look something like this:

1-QB

2-RBs

2-WRs

1-TE

1-Flex (RB,WR, TE)

1-DEF

1-Kicker

And if we wanted to make it awesome I would suggest each team could keep:

1-rookie (that would be going into his second year at the time of the next draft)

1-sophomore (that would be going into his third year at the time of the next draft)

Suddenly, each manager has a lot more invested in their team, because if you don’t put effort in once you’re out of the playoff race (and have the mindset of there’s always next year) you may have the same terrible team the next year.

Let me know what you all think and if we can make changes to one idea to make it better for the whole league. Or , if you have a totally different suggestion let me know and we can look into it.

-The Commish