Player stats & fantasy
Keeper League Value Calculator
A keeper is worth keeping when his cost is below what it would take to draft him again. This compares the two directly, handles escalating keeper rules, and ranks your candidates by surplus rather than by name recognition.
Surplus, not talent
The best player on your roster is often the worst keeper. If he cost a first-round pick and would go in the first round again, keeping him gains nothing — you have simply pre-committed the pick. The value is in players whose cost sits several rounds below where they would now be drafted.
Escalation changes the horizon
Where a keeper costs a round earlier each year, a player kept three seasons running gets expensive fast, and a young player with rising value stays ahead of the escalator while an ageing one falls behind it. That is the whole strategic content of a keeper league: not who is best now, but whose value curve outruns the cost curve.
Questions people ask about this
How do I decide which fantasy players to keep?
Compare the keeper cost in draft-round terms against the round the player would actually be drafted in this year. Keep the biggest surpluses, not the biggest names — a star kept at his real cost gains you nothing, while a breakout player kept at a twelfth-round price is where keeper leagues are won.
What is keeper escalation?
A rule where a player costs a round earlier each consecutive year you keep him — kept in the tenth this year, the ninth next, the eighth after. It stops dynasties forming around one cheap star and means the right question is whether the player's value is rising faster than his cost.
Should I keep a player at his actual draft value?
No. Keeping a player whose cost equals his value simply pre-spends the pick with no gain, and it removes the flexibility to react to the draft as it unfolds. If nothing on your roster carries surplus, keeping nobody is a legitimate and often correct choice.
Where these numbers come from
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