What is a 'keeper' league?
A keeper fantasy football league is a league where you keep the same owners every year. So you keep coming back with the same group of owners, and you're allowed to keep some of your players year to year. Now you're not usually allowed to keep all your players, it really depends on the fantasy football league's scoring system but I think maybe the most popular is to keep somewhere from two to three players. So there will be some strategy involved in terms of who you keep as it still depends on your rules in your fantasy football league, but you're going to want to keep the better players, like Chad Johnson or a running back like Willie Parker. A lot of times in keeper fantasy football leagues, you'll give up a corresponding draft pick based on where you took this player the previous year. So if you took Chad Johnson in the 6th round, you have to give up your 6th round pick to keep him the next year, but it's worth it. So from year to year you want to keep your best players and also your best values. I like keeper fantasy football leagues because it adds a little more strategy to it and it gives a little more value to young players. It also makes it possible for some teams that maybe aren't winning, to trade for some young players that they can keep for the next year. So it helps them out, adds a little more strategy, makes it a little more complex and a little more like what real NFL teams have to deal with.
