ROTISSERIE: Too-Few-Keepers Strategy

Auction leagues with liberal keeper rules, including long keeper lists and very deep “Ultra” style reserves and minor-league systems, have many benefits. They especially reward the diligent owner who carefully manages for multi-year success.

But the flip side is that any given season is nearly impossible to win for owners who do not have abundant low-price keepers when they must compete against teams that do.

In leagues with liberal keeper rules, teams with few keepers often go into auctions so far out of contention that it can make sense to “dump at the auction.”  This strategy has two parts: gambling on a whole pile of sub-$3 speculative plays while bidding hyper-aggressively on the available stud players, with the express...

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