The price
Two bases, set separately
A league prices a first keeper year and a repeat year independently, and the reason it is worth two settings is the reason keeper leagues go stale.
The round they were drafted in
What the roster actually spent on them. Simple and unarguable for a first keeper year, and it rewards finding value late.
Where the market drafts them now
Average draft position, blended across sources. The right basis for a repeat keeper: a player kept three years running is not still worth his original round, and pricing him there is how a dynasty ossifies. A player the board ranks nowhere is priced at the last round rather than left unkeepable.
A league sets these two slots separately, and the pairing above is only what a new league starts with — your commissioner's choice is on your own keepers page. Splitting first year from repeat is the point of having two: the round a player cost is a fair price the first time you keep him and a worse one every year after, which is how a keeper league ossifies around whoever drafted well once.
The market
Which board said round four
Priced against
2 market sources, blended
Prices are blended across every armed source rather than taken from one board, so a single site's opinion of a single player cannot decide a keeper round on its own.
A player nobody drafts
A player no source ranks counts as undrafted and is priced at the last round, rather than being quietly dropped from the board. An unkeepable player and an unpriced one are different answers, and only one of them is true.
Eligibility
Who can be kept at all
A separate question from the price, and the one worth checking against your own league before the deadline rather than after it.
The trade deadline
Locked by default
By default a player added after the trade deadline cannot be kept — the rule that stops a contender's late waiver claim becoming next year's cheap keeper. A commissioner can switch it off.
Keeper questions
What gets asked before every draft
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Keeper costs nobody has to compute
Your league's keeper rules, applied to your league's rosters, priced against a real market — updated as the board moves.
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