One of the main reasons to changing the nature of the league to a keeper league that employed a hybrid of auction-style keeper rules was to create more turnover of the better players and, consequently, create more parity in the league. In looking over the keeper lists, it looks like we are achieving the first part of the goal. The second part is, of course, dependent on drafting a decent supporting cast, keeping the players healthy, and actually looking at your team more than once a month.
I created a rundown to look at the number of players kept by each team this year as well as the number of players remaining on the same teams over the last two years. The end result of all of this -- less than half the players kept this year were on the corresponding team last year. Also, even though most teams kept the maximum of 10 players, no team kept more than 6 from two years ago and only two teams kept less than 4. Though the A-Rod's and Pujols' aren't changing teams (i.e. the top 20 players), the rest are, giving other teams the chance to build a solid team and a chance at finishing in the top 4 (sort of like the Tampa Bay Duffmen). As someone on the outside looking in for top level keepers, this is making the league a lot more fun for me.
Team Name - # of 2008 Keepers (# of Keepers from 2007)
Powell - 10 (5)
Hanley - 10 (3)
Christian - 10 (6)
Craig - 10 (4)
Chris - 10 (5)
Albaugh - 10 (5)
Gintz - 10 (6)
Woodhouse - 10 (6)
Jason - 9 (3)
Morten - 10 (4)
Tracy - 6 (4)
Tim - 10 (5)
Total Kept - 115 (56)
Mean - 9.6 (4.7)
Median - 10 (5)
Max - 10 (6)
Min - 6 (3)
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I certainly echo Powell's sentiments that the new system has made the league more interesting and created more opportunities for teams to improve.
I completely agree...not only does the 3 of the top 5 rule get players in the pool, but choosing to keep player B who may not be as good as player A, but has much better round value and makes more sense to keep.
It's also awesome that the last few rounds are actually very valuable. How else would OpSD have ever kept the mighty Gil Meche?
The only negative, if it really is a negative, that I see is it really promotes the "dump" trades come August. I would never had dumped Lee, Beckett, et al., if we were not in the current system. There would have always been dump trades, but now it is basically going to be a yearly event that some of the bottom teams will trade some of their top 5s to get something for them before they have to just relese them to the draft the next year.
I actually kind of like the dump trades. It creates a good way for weaker teams to get better in a hurry. The only downside to them is that it kind of forces all the top teams to make them, but I think we found a pretty good balance last year. CA and I both gave up some future goodness, but we are both still in good shape for this year.
When my team sucks, I really find it fun to be able to try to improve for the future though.
I'm not saying I'm against dump trades...I'll sell the future when I'm in the race, and try and buy the future when I'm not. It's just the only potential negative I can find.
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