2014 SOI Keeper Fantasy Football League

[Kid]

It's at least the spirit of the rule.  A few years ago, the rule was that any player signed off waivers was a 7th round keeper, regardless of whether and where the player was drafted.  Ace, after being eliminated from contention, signed a bunch of high draft pick players who were injured, with an eye towards keeping them in the 7th round the next season.  These were players who he only signed after being out of contention and after the players' seasons were done due to injury.  The only reason he signed them was to keep them the next year, and not to use them during the season he signed them.  Ace was blocked for the reason that it wasn't fair for a team, with nothing to play for, to sign a player that couldn't help the team and then get a cheap relatively low keeper pick to use.  That's when we imposed the rule that any player kept would be kept according to how they were drafted the year before, even if released, etc.  That way, if Ace had kept a 1st round pick who he claimed off waivers after already being on IR, he would have to use a 1st round pick to keep the player, not a 7th.

 

This is effectively a one-off situation.  You have a player who was not drafted because he was suspended for the entire season.  PcB didn't draft him (if he had, I'd have no objection).  He didn't sign him while still in contention in the league.  He signed him in the 2nd week of the playoffs, after not making the playoffs, for the specific intention of hoping that Gordon's suspension would be lifted and he could be kept cheap.  He signed a player who did not play at all last season, when it couldn't hurt him because he was already eliminated, for the sole purpose of keeping that player, and not to use that player on his team last year.

 

This is no different than when Ace signed IR players to keep them in the 7th round.  It violates at least the spirit of the keeper system, and I don't think it should be allowed.