Best Auction / Keeper Formats

[AtlasShrugged]

A group of my guys are setting up a big boy fantasy football league starting next year.  Really the only definite that we have settled on is that we are doing an auction draft and a keeper format.  Do any of you guys have experience with such?  Cheers.

[CarolinaNCSU]

I'm in a keeper league, but it's a snake draft. The way we set it up, you can keep up to 3 guys, at their drafted round. You could do the same with dollar amounts for the auction aspect. The only real rules are these two (for draft picks and waiver pickups) 

 

I took Kelvin Benjamin in the 10th round this year. He's going to be a keeper, and I'll get him at the cost of my 10th round pick for next year (well below where he'll probably be drafted in 2015.) Doing this, you're able to reward smart drafting and risk taking.

 

Now let's say you added a FA through waivers, if you want to keep him, my league agreed upon using his ADP for the next year, say, he's going in the 5th round, and adding 2 rounds. So, for me to keep say, Tre Mason, who I claimed off waivers and is going in the 5th in 2015...it would cost my 7th round pick.

 

 

If you're looking for something simple, this works...just replace the draft rounds with dollar amounts and you're golden.  

[SmokinwithWilly]

For our keepers, we charged half the drafted round to keep him. So late round fliers would cost a 6th - 8th the next year but would eventually get expensive to keep. Non drafted pickups count as a 9th round pick for keepers ( I love my OBJ FA pickup for next year). You get at least 2 or 3 years for drafting late rounds well or picking up good free agents, but you don't get to keep Manning, Julio, or Forte for a 10th round pick forever. 

[Happy Panther]

I'm in one. 20 man roster with $400 total salary. Each year you can keep between 6 and 12 players and their salaries go up by a set percentage each year until year 4 when there is a much bigger bump. Also the top players each year get a bigger bump.

 

You can also put players on IR and not be charged for their salary.

 

Typical transaction fees.

 

The auction is open format just keep bidding until no one is interested in upping the bet and call going going gone