[ALL CAPS]

I think Dev either brought this up or discussed it with me in the offseason. Quonas is inquiring about it now because he inherited Fire's team and it BLOWS. Anyway, do you guys feel that keepers should be mandatory? In other words, do you HAVE to keep all 5 slots?

We're not talking about allowing keepers at the same position here.

I just want to know if you think it's okay that people keep fewer than the required 5. If you CAN keep fewer than 5, should people be allowed to keep none at all? Should there be a keeper minimum? Like 2 dudes? Just spit balling.

[Qonas (invisible)]

Sept 7, 2011 14:58:09 GMT -5 ALL CAPS said:

Quonas is inquiring about it now because he inherited Fire's team and it BLOWS.

Quoted for supreme truth. No wonder she finished last.

Anyways, the few keeper leagues I've done have always been flexible with the keepers. It's like betting on Final Jeopardy - you have a maximum cap, but there is no minimum. You could bet nothing. I definitely think we should have the ability to keep nobody.

The flex thing would also work - we do get a minimum, but it's not all five.

[The Canadian Content]

I think it should stay the way it is. It's a part of the challenge of the game. Sorry if it screws Qonas this year, but he can drop all 5 guys he keeps and pick up FAs at the end of the draft, or just put up with it, draft smart, and have better keepers for next year.

[Sparty]

Here's what I think...

I think you should have to keep all five but expansion teams should have some flexibility. Maybe allow them to make two pickups out of the pile of players that people didn't keep with some restrictions? Like a one guy with a 7-12 round cost and another with a 13-whatever cost. I just think he shouldn't be saddled with something that bad. He didn't do it.

MTA: Actually, maybe it'd be better to give them the option, when it's just one team entering, to either keep the team they could potentially inherit, or just start from scratch. I think it'd be fair to let him start from scratch since when the league started, we were all starting from scratch.

If there's more than one team entering, I think all the players from the deceased teams should go into a pool and they do an expansion draft from those.

[Deleted]

Since I agree with Sparty, I went with the third option. Definitely would have helped me out last year with the team I inherited.

For the rest of us, I prefer the 5-keepers we've been using.

[ALL CAPS]

I'm fine with the idea of letting one new team just start from scratch. What I don't want to do is hold any supplemental drafts. Just because I think they're a pain.

I'm still waiting to make sure we only have one replacement team this year before figuring out how to handle it. I'm pretty sure Tim and Dev are in, they just haven't joined on Yahoo yet. I've got no clue what Sanman or Habs' plans are. Once I find out if they're both in, we can get things moving.

[ALL CAPS]

Okay. Looks like the vote has stagnated and we're going with keeping keepers at 5 per player since everyone has basically turned in their keepers.

HOWEVER, from now on, any new new teams entering the league will be starting from scratch. All players from abandoned teams will go back into the draft pool.

Any objections?

[Deleted]

No objection.

[2hot]

None here either... For a change...

[ALL CAPS]

Okay. Everyone is on the hook for 5. Quonas gets to start from scratch. So does whoever takes over for Sanman if he doesn't show his face around here by friday.

motion PASSED!