Keeper/Dynasty League Draft How To

If you have a keeper or dynasty league where some or all players on rosters are carried over from year to year, there is a certain sequence of events that you will need to go through to prepare for your on-line draft on MyFantasyLeague.com. This How To guide will walk you through those steps.

1.	From your 2007 league home page, log in as the league commissioner, and click on the commissioner home page message link to upgrade your league to a 2008 league. Log into this new 2008 league as Commissioner.

2.	Make sure your 2008 league is set up to hold an on-line draft by going to your For Commissioners > Setup > General League Setup page and make sure that the "At the start of the season, rosters are determined by:" option is set to one of the first two "On-line draft" settings (email or live).

NOTE: Do not use the Draft Order Setup - One Round option to manually account for future draft pick trades as these will be automatically accounted for in step #6 below.

(Optional Step for Keeper/Dynasty Leagues). Go to the For Commissioners > Setup > Players and Rosters > Transfer Rosters screen and check the checkbox next to each player that should be transferred from the 2007 end-of-season rosters. This will move those players onto each owner's active roster for your 2008 league, and make those players un-draftable for your 2008 league.

(Optional Step for Keeper/Dynasty Leagues). Once your league has determined each owner's keeper players, you must use the For Commissioners > Setup > Players and Rosters > Select Keepers screen to specify which players should be retained on each franchise roster. Any players not selected will be dropped from the roster. If the 2008 draft has been defined, you can optionally define the specific draft pick taken by each keeper player. For example, if your league rules dictate that an owner can keep up to three players, in lieu of their first 3 rounds of draft picks, when the commissioner loads the keepers onto the rosters at the beginning of the season, he may indicate what draft pick the owner has given up for that keeper player. Once the commissioner has completed the "load keepers" step, the system will automatically update the draft report to indicate the keeper players in their appropriate slot, and also automatically skip over that pick when it comes up in your draft.

If you had a 2007 league with us, and allowed owners to trade future year draft picks in 2007, go to the For Commissioners > Setup > Draft Setup > Import Future Draft Pick Trades option to have the system automatically update your 2008 draft order based on the actual 2008 draft pick trades. Note that it is important that you do this step before letting owners actively trade on the site, as otherwise there will be confusion due what looks like duplicate listings of draft picks on your For Owners > Trades page.

1.	Go to the For Commissioners > Setup > Players and Rosters > Load/Unload Rosters page, and indicate what players initially should be put on what rosters for each franchise. This will make those players un-draftable for your 2008 league.

2.	Make sure your 2008 league is set up to hold an on-line draft by going to your For Commissioners > Setup > General League Setup page and make sure that the "At the start of the season, rosters are determined by:" option is set to one of the first two "On-line draft" settings (email or live).

Use the For Commissioners > Setup > Draft Setup > Draft Order Setup - One Round to now remove the specific draft picks used in lieu of the 'keeper' players. For example, if five out of eight teams in a league kept a single player, modify the first round of the draft to only include the three picks that correspond to the franchises that did not keep a player.

(Optional Step for Keeper/Dynasty Leagues). Once your league has determined each owner's keeper players, you must use the For Commissioners > Setup > Players and Rosters > Select Keepers screen to specify which players should be retained on each franchise roster. Any players not selected will be dropped from the roster. If the 2008 draft has been defined, you can optionally you can also define the specific draft pick taken by each keeper player. For example, if your league rules dictate that an owner can keep up to three players, in lieu of their first 3 rounds of draft picks, when the commissioner loads the keepers onto the rosters at the beginning of the season, he may indicate what draft pick the owner has given up for that keeper player. Once the commissioner has completed the "load keepers" step, the system will automatically update the draft report to indicate the keeper players in their appropriate slot, and also automatically skip over that pick when it comes up in your draft.

NOTE: One common question we get about keeper league drafts on the site is "What happens to the players currently on rosters when a draft starts?" The short answer to that question is "nothing" – the system will see that those players are currently on rosters (and simply leave them on the rosters), and thus make them un-draftable to other owners in your league.