Limited Keeper Help
Hi everyone,
Entering the 2nd year of a 12-team limited keeper. The team I ended last season with and each player's respective draft round was:
C: Seguin (R2), Barzal (R5), Johansen (R9), J. Staal (R19), Backlund (R21), Nelson (R21)
LW: Ovie (R1), Forsberg (R4), JVR (R7), Fiala (R12)
RW: Arvidsson (R5), Gallagher (R13), Tuch (20), Sprong (21)
D: Carlson (R7), Ghost (R6), McDonagh (R16), Spurgeon (R21), Theodore (R21)
G: Andersen (R3), Varlamov (R12)
Our keeper rules are:
- Sign any player on your roster for 1-3 years max.
- Managers can keep up to 4 players, as long as total contract years is 10 or less.
- Managers can't re-sign their own keepers after the contract expires. Have to trade or dump back into the draft pool at the end of the season.
- Limited options to 'buy-out' a contract, so multi-year commitments are for real.
- During the draft, keepers "replace" our picks in the same round in which that player was most recently drafted. So if I keep Ovechkin, I forfeit my 1st round pick, etc.
I officially own the 5th draft position (non-snake format), but keepers will affect the actual picks I get. Based on what I know so far, my 1st rounder would likely be 2nd overall, my 2nd rounder 7-8th overall and my 3rd rounder 15th overall. 6 other GMs who pick after me have already announced their keepers and all of them have kept 1 goalie and a mix of elite players + late round value picks. 3 kept their 1st rounder, 3 didn't.
So far, top available talent in the draft includes Burns, Karlsson, Wheeler, Benn, Scheifele, Hall, Bergeron, Bishop, Hellebuyck, Malkin, and possibly some other notables once everyone's keepers are announced.
So, questions:
- Initial instinct is to keep Ovie (R1), Sequin (R2) and Anderson (R3) and possibly Carlson (R7) or Gallagher (R13). Any good arguments for a different strategy? If I don't keep Ovie, unlikely I'll be able to redraft him, even with the #2 pick.
- Knowing Ovechkin's decline is coming and will likely impact Carlson, I'm thinking of 1 or 2 yrs max for each of them. Thoughts?
Thanks everyone, and happy drafting!
12 Team H2H, keep up to 4 with max total contract years <=10. Keepers replace the draft round in which they were originally selected.
3C, 3R, 3L, 4D, 2G, 6Bench
G, A, +/-, PIM, PPP, SHP, GWG, SOG, HIT, BLK, FW,
W, L, GAA, SV, SV%, SO
C: Karlsson, Trochek, Haula (C/LW)
LW: Guentzel (LW/RW), Connor, Vrana, Teravainen (LW/RW), Forsberg,
RW: Konecny, Gallagher (R13), Voracek, Toffoli (LW/RW), Namestnikov (LW/RW)
D: Carlson, Graves, DeAngelo, Werenski, Myers
G: Andersen (R3), Samsonov, Merzlikins
* Andersen (R3) is signed for 2 more years, Gallagher (R13) signed for 1 more year. Carlson is termed out, can't keep.