THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball

Thanks for the link!  The article has five ideas I thought of with friends, and the comments have dozens more.  It’s my first foray into such a league, and I want to try to ensure we’ve heard all of the other ideas out there before we pick a format.  So many good ideas out there…

Yes, lots of good ideas in the comments.  I think a followup with a summary of those examples is warranted.

OK, the follow-up is up at this link: http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/fantasy/article/keeper-league-roundup/

I tried to organize them in a meaningful order, and decided on a spectrum from least-dynasty-enhancing to most-dynasty-enhancing.  It’s a very subjective ordering of course, since no one has experience in all of these types of leagues.  But it’s a good way, I think, to help guide folks as they look to start up a league or modify some rules of their existing league to more suit their needs.

Thanks again for the link, I hope people get something out of the follow-up.

I do like this one:

# Keep any number of players, with each of {$1, $4, $7, $10, $13, ...} added on to one particular player.

* I really like this idea. There’s obviously a bigger benefit here to keeping a couple guys than the previous $5 flat rate. But at the same time, no one can keep a dynasty together from the year before, because their fifth kept player is going to cost $13 more than the previous season. I also like the fact that this system allows a manager to keep their sentimental favorite player or favorite draft pick for many, many years, if they continue to make that one player their $1 increase.

It introduces a strategy component as well, as you note at the end.  Very nice.

I’m a huge fan of that one as well.

The league I’m starting up was going to be based off of the price guide format outlined in the link, but we’re having a heck of a time finding a publicly available, free, neutral price guide based similarly enough to our league settings to be applicable.  So we’re actually probably going to convert to the one you highlight above.

Just a really clever idea, and unlike the price guide style, it’s not difficult to keep track of either.