ROTISSERIE: Contracts in keeper-league trades
May 30 2012
Has an owner in your keeper league decided to pack it in and rebuild already? Or perhaps you are that owner?
As trade season begins, one key skill in making smart trades is the ability to value appropriately long-term contracts, which is an inexact science, to say the least.
We do a bad enough job projecting player value for the current season. Looking a year or two or three out? Forget about it, right?
Maybe not. While it's true that any sort of accuracy may be an unattainable goal, there are some sound principles to adopt in valuing long-term contracts that will help more than you think.
While there are myriad sets of rules governing keeper leagues, our discussion will revolve around a fairly typical setup in which players...
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