" "My keepers are better than your keepers."

Oh yeah? How can you be so sure?

You don't know my league. You don't know the rules. You don't know what those players will or won't cost me heading into 2012. And vice versa.

When it comes to keepers, leagues have wildly different approaches that require wildly different strategies. Some are a free-for-all, where each team keeps a set number of players and forfeits nothing in return. Some are a bargain bin, where each team surrenders draft picks relative to where each keeper was selected last year. Some are a simulation, where each team has a farm system, an annual budget and a long-term outlook. And some incorporate aspects of all three.

With so many varieties, each with their own long- and short-term consequences, comparing keepers across different leagues is virtually impossible.

Yet here I am attempting to do just that. "