2020 L eague of Elites Rules and Recap Keeper Rule s : • A maximum of 2 kee pers per team may be kept ; a team can also choose to keep 0 or 1 • The 2 kept players must be differe nt positions • P layers cannot be kept 2 years in a row, even if it is a different team • T he pick given up to keep said pl ayer is the round drafted the year before + 1 ; ex: Da lvin Cook was dra fted in the 2 nd round he can be kept for a 1 s t • By this rule, 1 st round picks cannot be kept • I n the event a player is undrafted, the pick given up shall be a 10 th rounder • I f two players from the same round ar e kept, the pick given up shall be a n extra round higher ; ex : A free agent and a player drafted in the 11 th were chosen to be kept The picks given up would be a 9 th and 10 th round pic k • Jordy Ne lson Rule : If a player is on IR before the draft, they ca n ’ t be kept Scoring Rules: • Official scoring found here: https://fantasy.nfl.com/league/3223651/settings My Proposals and Changes: • Change from Standard to Half P PR o This adds value to receivers, increases scoring, and helps to alleviate the lack of TDs scored by your team in any given week. Hal f point is preferred to full point as 8 catches for 20 yards doesn ’ t consti tute 10 points in my opinion. • Change from Move to Last after Claim, never Reset Waivers to FAAB Waivers o This gives EVERY team a fair shot at EVERY player any given week. Each team starts with the same number of ‘ do llars ’ that are used to bid on free agents during the waiver period. N o real money is involved. Think that week 1 breakout will be a league winner? Maybe you ’ ll want to drop 50% of your budget on him; but if he fizzles out, you only have 50% le ft for the rest of the season This makes waivers another strategy i n itself. o The way we do it is primitive and rewards night owls who can stalk the free agent pool after waivers clear and have their pickings without losing their claim. By switching to FAAB, you can use $0 bids to automati cally grab anyone who would ’ ve cleared waivers. • Set a c ommis sioner o We need to have somebody in charge of rule votes, communication , and draft preparation. The constant cycling of commissioner to the winner is unique, but it isn ’ t very productive or helpful. o Sean should be the default, and if anybody else wants to run the y can contact him. M y View o n the Trading of Picks Situ ation : The first occur r ence of this was the first year I was commis sioner, 2015. W hen P ink Floyd and Yi came to me at the draft with the idea to trad e Brady for a pick and be kept for that pick Although it didn ’ t make sense , a pick was being created out of thin air (as Thorne raged about). A small deliberation was had and the trade was upheld. So I guess this w hole thing is my fault. So , the next year I don ’ t believe any of those trades happened but the year after, when the draft was at BWW , was a shitshow. W e voted on the rule, and it passed surprisingly almost unanimously So I traded away Juju to Sean for a pick, and I beli eve Paul made a trade as well; this was a voted on rule , why wouldn ’ t anyone try to take advantage of it? It was during the draft, so the acquired players had not played any games for the team s trading for them. I figured this had to be said because I thought it was implied and it clearly was not. The whole scenario with Kevin was because he traded away the pick for Adams during the season Just as Joe M traded away his 2 nd round pick for Barkley and Giron /Fo ster traded their 3 rd round pi ck to Joe L for Mixon A ll 3 of these teams got to use these players for the rest of the season and playoffs ; that was the pri ce they paid and the advantage they received S o, in my head, the first trades were okay for the player to be kept because they never got to play for the team to t rade for them. A n in - season trade can ’ t be kept for that pick because the player gave you an ad vantage for that seas on. If you made it this far, thanks for reading , God Bless the L eague of Elites, and Geo sucks.