The League Explained

Nerd League Soccer is an Auction-Style Keeper League format. What does this mean? Well... let's talk about that.

Auction Leagues
Auction Leagues are Leagues in which teams take turns bidding on players they wish to have on their team for the fantasy season. Players are farmed out to teams across the league with no teams owning the same player.

Each team starts out with a predefined amount of money at the start of the draft. Our league starts with $300 and teams receive another $100 at it's completion. Each team submits bids based upon their budget. As the bid goes up inevitably teams pull out of the auction with the last remaining team winning the rights to that player at the cost of the final bid.

Players are nominated for auction by teams who take turns, much like in a draft, to nominate players they want to bid on. The nominating team starts the bidding by nominating the player their starting auction price after which any team can then pull out of the bidding or up the bid. If all teams pull out of the bid the originating team whens that player for the starting auction price.

Keeper Leagues
In a general sense, when people talk about a keeper league, they are talking about a fantasy league where the league doesn't start fresh every season.Keeper leagues work virtually the same as a normal fantasy league, except that each team gets to keep a certain number of players from year to year. Each fantasy owner will get to select which players they get to keep, and teams will keep the same number of players in most cases.

Linkage:

[https://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1/342547/keeperintro Yahoo! Keeper Intro]

The Hardball Times - Designing the perfect keeper league

Rotowire

ESPN Fantasy Football Resources

Reddit Keeper Leagues: What are your rules on keeping players and drafting.

Keeper Leagues for Dummies

Prime Fantasy Football

Fantasy Guru

NLS currently allows teams to select eight players each year to keep.Though there are other ways to go about this such as contracts in which teams must manage,