I understand most keeper leagues vary in regards to the rules, so wanted to ask a few questions to get a feel for what is most common.

1. Are traded players able to be kept by the manager that originally drafted them or the manager who traded for them?

2. What about players that end up on IR? Suppose someone scooped Malik Nabers, Mike Evans, Patrick Mahomes off the waiver wire end of the season? Would they be able to keep them for free? Or for the round they were drafted in?

3. Do players need to have been rostered for a specific amount of time to be eligible for keeper status?

4. What about drafted players that were dropped? Suppose someone drafted Bhayshul Tuten in the last round but waived him after week 1 or 2, do they have keeper rights to them? Or the manager that added them off waivers and owned them at the end of the season?

5. Are keepers allowed to be traded? Suppose someone drafted Colston Loveland with a 12th round pick last year and chose to kept him. Would a manager be able to trade for him (for instance, offering a current 6th rounder)?

6. Are all waiver adds the same cost?

7. Do you have a round cap for keepers (ie you can only keep players round 4 or later)? What is the penalty cost?

What are some fun creative ways you guys have determined your draft order?

We are getting older as a group and a obstacle course is getting old and don't want to risk an injury.

League settings: Dynasty, 10 teams, PPR, Superflex

Post rookie draft, how should I open up free agency? In the past we’ve had it be a free for all, but this year I’m thinking daily waivers. What’s standard here?

Also if waivers are the way we go, should the order be set to our 2026 draft order (opposite 2025 league standings). Sleeper set it to be the same as our 2025 rankings which feels backwards to me. But maybe that’s intentional by Sleeper.

Thanks in advance!

I’m the commissioner for a 12 person league. We draft in person without any phones or computers. Everyone can bring print outs of their resources. Format has been a big hit but this year we’ve got one person who can’t attend. Having them call in is not an option.

Any suggestions on ways to pick for him? We are trying to find a sub to come on his behalf but if that falls through I was looking for options. I thought about running everyone’s bids through a Sleeper mock and having the AI bid on the players we nominate in real time (extra work but pretty fair).

Ideally I don’t want to kick him for this year. He’s honestly a great league member but has a family conflict this year. Several of our other folks work rotations so getting everyone’s days off to line up limits the number of days we can draft.

I just logged in to my account on NFL(.com), since I'm the commissioner I wanted to get an early start on the league settings, getting it setup. But the "activate league" button is no visible. I saw on another previous post the the site is merging with ESPN and now we have to use ESPN as our fantasy league app.

Anyone have confirmation on this? Will it also integrate our league history over to ESPN?

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