Just a refresher....

PapaBear Fantasy Baseball Keeper Rules.

Starting with 2010 Season, PapaBear Fantasy Baseball league has been transformed into a partial keeper league. Congratulation to all on this evolutionary step in our Fantasy League development.

Each Team has to have up to 10 keepers. You can keep any number of keepers from active or bench, however only 2 out of All players you keep will be slated as bench players. The rest will move into active rounds. If you decide not to keep 10 players you will have your draft picks back in the rounds you did not keep players in.

Your keepers can be players drafted (by you or any other manager, if you acquire these players via trade) between rounds 8th and 30th. Also you can keep players from the bench and
FA pick ups as part of the 10 keepers as well. But You can not keep any players drafted in the first 7 rounds. Players drafted during the first 7 rounds, dropped and re-acquired via FA / Waiver pick ups are not eligible for any type of keeper designation for the current year. However if a player is drafted in a keeper eligible round and dropped during the season, though he is released of his contract and thus becomes an FA he will retain his drafted round keeper designation eligibility for that year.

You can keep any number of players from the bench or waiver/FA in expense of keepers from the main roster, however still only 2 can be designated as DIR. The rest would have to be considered a regular keeper with no extra year eligibility on your roster. Though keeping these bench players gives you an advantage of having players occupy later rounds of active draft roster.

Active roster Keepers have position restrictions. You can not keep more than one position player (ex. 1 RP, 1 SS or 1 2B, 1 C, 1 3B, 1 1B) from the players drafted between 8th and 30th rounds. However you can add an MI and/or CI position on top of that. Meaning if you keep 2 SS you can only keep one 2B, or if you keep 2 3B, only one 1B can be kept. Outfielders and SP have no keeper limit restrictions, thus you can keep as many OFs and SPs as you want. What it means to you is that you do not have to keep a reliever for example, but if you do decide to do it, you can only keep one out of your active keepers and etc...

The 9th and 10th keeper has to be a player that was drafted to the bench or picked up via waiver wire. So it is between rounds 29 and 38, or FA pickups. Players drafted not on the bench rounds, dropped and re-acquired via FA / Waiver pick ups are not eligible for the Diamond in the Rough (DIR) keeper designation for the current year. For these 2 Diamond In the Rough players, they can be of any position with no limitations (so if you want to keep 2 SS for the 2 DIRs it is OK to do so, of course since we have only one RP on bench, if you through trades have 2 bench RPs and decide to keep both, one of them will shift into your main lineup and can not be considered a DIR)
Keepers must be announced right upon draft order is established. (Once lottery drawing is complete).

The Active roster regular keepers, you can only keep a player in the keeper status on your team for 3years (after the year you draft him). At the end of his 3 year contract you have two choices:

Trade him to another team. In this case the new team will have renewed this player contract and can keep him for 3 years as well. (including the year they acquire him)
Drop this player. He becomes a fair game to all in the next draft.

Diamond In the Rough (DIR) keeper can be kept in this status for 1 year only. The next time it will be up to you to decide if you want to keep this player as a regular keeper or let him go to be a Free Agent. (So if in 2010 draft you kept a player that you drafted in round 33 as your DIR keeper. He will be your DIR for the 2011 season. If you want to keep him again for 2012 season, he must be kept as a regular keeper (like a player drafted between rounds 8th and 30th). So DIR gains an extra year on your roster if you want him (first as DIR and the next 3 as regular keeper).

As you keep your players as keepers, you will lose the draft round you picked them in for the next year draft. So if you kept a player you picked in round 8th you will not be picking in the 8th round in the next year draft. If you decide to keep the same player the second year of his contract you will skip the round before the previous round skipped. So in the second year of the player contract, the player you have originally picked in the 8th round will cost you the 7th round selection. And so forth (next year it will the 6th round), until his contracts expires on your team.

If you acquire a player via trade and you decide to keep him, but this player was drafted in the same round as one of your other keepers, you will have skip a round prior to the round that player was drafted. (Example: you have 2 keepers drafted in the 9th round, you will skip round 9 and 8 in the next year draft)

Keeper player salaries are subject to CDM salary fluctuation. So as an example, if you drafted a player in year 1 and his salary was $1,500,000 but in the current year his salary is $2,300,000 . Your keeper player price is $2,300,000 for that new year. Please consider the previous 2 rules while making your keeper designations.

Please restrain yourself from performing funny business trades involving your keepers at the end of the contract, where you trade a player back and forth in order to refresh his contract. We are all adults here and fantasy sports are our passion, lets not spoil it. Play fair.

Every year, prior to the draft, owners can submit proposals for rule adjustments or additions. A vote of greater than 50% would pass the proposal.
In season rules can be proposed, but frown upon, they can be approved only if 100% of the managers votes in favor.

Ideally, everyone will be in this league for decades, but there will be times when people quit. When this happens, anyone interested in joining the pool will submit an application to our commissioners, if they deem you worthy they will present your application to the rest of the managers. Majority vote will get you in. You will inherit the team of the departed owner and you will decide on keepers.

No trades for future picks (year to year) is allowed. You can still trade waiver picks within a year as we have done in the past.

One important change!!!!

Our rosters will now be expanded to 40 players (10 bench)
We are adding 1 OF and 1 SP, due to cdm lowering their player values, this move was necessary to keep the salary as a component of our league. Cause if you remember in hockey salary was a none issue.

SO PAY EXTRA ATTENTION TO SALARIES DURING OUR DRAFT or YOU WILL HAVE TO PULL A FANKY AND DRAFT LIKE 7 $1000 PLAYERS TO MAKE UR LINEUP FIT!!!