BL Pix is a 16-team league and has existed for over 25 years. We do a live Chat room draft. This year the draft is March 25 starting at 9am EST. We are in the process of voting to set a permanent day for the draft in following years. We have decided it will be the last weekend at least 3 days before the start of the season. Currently, we are voting on either having it saturdays or sundays.
One of the things we wanted to insure when it was created was that competitive balance would be maintained and we would avoid one or two teams becoming perpetually dominant. (Although, It is still possible to build a very good team for many years.)This aim was accomplished well because of a unique keeper system. At the end of each season owners create a rank-ordered list of 18 players. The top 3 for each team are automatically kept with the others divided into 4 groups of 5, 4, 3, and 3 players. Then each team loses one randomly-determined player from each group, and those players are added to the draft pool for the coming season. Thus there are always good players in the pool and the weaker teams get a chance to improve. Also each team’s last 4 picks may be used to protect rookies (and they are tradeable), insuring that the annual draft pool will always contain some attractive rookies.
I've had some questions about the random nature of the keeper system. The way each group is determined is by the the Dow Jones number at the end of each day. Specifically, the last 2 numbers after the decimal point. So one player is lost each day.
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