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Draft Order and Keepers

2024 - 2025 Season

Values based on the 2023 draft.

Team	Keepers
1. BRICK 4 VIC (Bix)	Tyler Herro (6) Jonas Valanciunas (9) Immanuel Quickley (12)
2. BANE of my Existence (Nick)	Giannis Antetokounmpo (1) Joel Embiid (2) Desmond Bane (3)
3. Giddey up your Jokes (Michael)	Nikola Jokic (1) Alperen Sengun (3) Cody White (10)
4. WHERE DID THE DAME TIME GO? (Nicholas)	Cade Cunningham (2) Jalen Suggs (10) Miles Bridges (12)
5. Big Memphis (Clement)	Jalen Brunson (2) Ja Morant (7) Bogdan Bogdanovic (12)
6. 2TAY MELO (Kenneth)	Jayson Tatum (1) LaMelo Ball (2) Scottie Barnes (4)
7. Chicago Bullsh*t (D)	Victor Wembanyama (1) Anthony Davis (2) Tyrese Haliburton (3)
8. #walkingtripledouble (Yannick)	Domantas Sabonis (1) Anthony Edwards (2) Jalen Williams (6)
9. CoCo Curry (Clayton)	Steph Curry (1) Jaden McDaniels (6) Dereck Lively II (13)
10. Everybody Loves Draymond (Steven)	Donovan Mitchell (1) Paul George (3) Paolo Banchero (6)
11. Better Call Paul (Siddhesh)	Luka Doncic (1) Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (2) Jalen Johnson (10)
12. SenGoons (Brendan)	Trae Young (1) Kyrie Irving (2) Tyrese Maxey (3)

2023 - 2024 Season

Values based on the 2022 draft.

Team	Keepers
1. WEMBANYAMBA (Clayton)	Steph Curry (1) Jakob Poeltl (4) Nic Claxton (10)
2. #walkingtripledouble (Yannick)	Domantas Sabonis (1) Anthony Edwards (2) Zion Williamson (5)
3. WHERE DID THE DAME TIME GO? (Nicholas)	Damian Lillard (1) Andrew Wiggins (8) Jaden McDaniels (12)
4. Everybody Loves Draymond (Steven)	Donovan Mitchell (2) Devin Vassell (5) Luguentz Dort (12)
5. MAKING WHAT YOU’RE CRAVING (Kenneth)	Jayson Tatum (1) LaMelo Ball (2) Kawhi Leonard (5)
6. P R O C E S S (Nick)	Giannis Antetokounmpo (1) Joel Embiid (2) Desmond Bane (5)
7. Chicago Bullsh*t (D)	Anthony Davis (2) Tyrese Haliburton (3) Mikal Bridges (4)
8. Old Joints and Weak Knees (Clement)	Kevin Durant (1) Jalen Brunson (5) Daniel Gafford (10)
9. Saddiq in a Box (Brendan)	Kyrie Irving (4) Tyrese Maxey (5) Alperen Sengun (6)
10. Jokes on You (Michael)	Nikola Jokic (1) Markelle Fultz (10) Walker Kessler (13)
11. BRICK 4 VIC (Bix)	Myles Turner (2) Jaren Jackson Jr (4) Brook Lopez (9)
12. Better Call Paul (Siddhesh)	Luka Doncic (1) Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (3) Chet Holmgren (10)

League Rules

As of 2018, we have transitioned from a redraft league into a keeper league. This means some changes to what we’ve done in the past. All of these are debatable, if you have any concerns or suggestions feel free to bring them up and we can discuss.

Note: These rules were taking from the original document seen here: Document

Draft

For our first season, we will be holding a standard snake draft with a random, Yahoo generated draft order.
For all future seasons the draft order will be determined by reverse regular season standings order and will not be snaking.
- To prevent tanking, the positions 9–12 in the regular season standings will, in order, hold the first 4 picks, followed by reverse order for the positions 1-12.
- To clarify: the draft pick order, based on regular season standings, is: 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 8th, 7th, 6th, 5th, 4th, 3rd, 2nd, 1st.

Keepers

Prior to the start of each future season, you will be allowed to select 3 players from your roster at the end of the prior season as “keepers”. These players will remain on your roster as you go into the draft and the following season, instead of entering the player pool from which the draft will occur.
Your most basic keeper leagues have no rules regarding who you can choose as your keepers.
However, some leagues have rules regarding the following aspects. We are not implementing these.
- Position: Everyone must keep x number of guards, y number of forwards, z number of centres.
- Length: As mention in the previous point, some leagues have a limit on the number of years you can keep a player before you are forced to release them into the draft pool.
However, due to demand, we are implementing keeper rules regarding:
- Draft round: Your keepers eat up the future draft pick that they were previously drafted in. If next summer you decide to keep your third, sixth and tenth round picks from this 2017-2018 season, for the 2018-2019 draft, you would give up your third, sixth and tenth round picks.
  - If a player was not originally drafted by any team, and you acquired them last season from waivers, they cost you your 10th round pick. ~~This is true even if the player was originally drafted. So, if a player was drafted in the 2nd round and dropped, and later in the season, a team picked them up, they would still cost a 10th.~~ As of 2022, any player that is drafted maintains their original draft value, regardless of any in-season transactions.
  - If you kept your 2nd round pick through the year and traded for someone else’s 2nd round pick during the season, the keeper cost would be the next higher round pick. (In the case of 2 1st rounders, the next lowest pick is used instead)
  - If you previously kept a player in round n, the following year the draft round cost would be round n/2, rounded up to the next highest round. For example, a previously kept 7th rounder would cost a 3rd rounder in the following year.
- When trading, adding waivers, or adding free agents, the draft round cost follows the player.
- When you are trading draft picks, you must be trading an equal number of picks both ways for us to maintain draft and roster size integrity in future years.

Other rules

Beyond that most other rules should be consistent with what we have traditionally used. You can view this in the league settings page but for the lazy:

12 teams, 9 cat h2h
No max pickups or trades
Will have a trade deadline
Can trade next years draft picks
Standard, continual rolling waivers, 2 day waiver period
League votes on trade review
4 pickups per week
Pickups: Daily - Tomorrow
Playoffs: exclude the final super long final week of the season
Playoff tiebreak: best regular season record vs opponent wins
No playoff reseeding (I’d like to change this. Anyone else?)
No divisions

Archive of Past Seasons

Records maintained starting from the 2018 draft.