In the six and eight keeper leagues, you may declare up to 3 RB, 3 WR, or 2 at any other position. Keepers will have a contract period of four years in the eight keeper leagues and five years in the six keeper leagues. Players can be kept beyond the contract period at the cost of one extra keeper each. Keeping 3 keepers beyond the contract period would cost three keepers. Contract years will be carried along with any traded players. A player in his third year will still be in his 3rd year if you acquire him in a trade.

Prior to the draft, teams keeping fewer than allocated number of keepers may receive one free agent pick according to the table below. Extra first round draft picks will count against a team's number of keepers in determining free agent draft eligibility. (This is to keep a team from trading off keepers for draft selections and then tryng to get a free agent.) The free agent pool will include any players from the previous player pool (including those who did not play in the NFL the prior season) but will not include rookies. The league commissioner can also allocate special case free agent allowances, but never more than one for two vacant keeper slots. In addition, the commissioner can allocate as many free agents or supplemental picks as deemed necessary to sell a vacant team. The free agent draft draft order will be determined by a random draw specific for the free agent draft only. Any traded draft rights will not apply to these selections.

Teams with fewer than the allocated number of keepers may be eligible for supplemental draft picks according to the following table. The total of keepers, free agents, prior supplemental picks, and additional draft picks (number of picks over one per round) through the current round will determine if a team is eligible for supplemental picks.

The supplemental picks will be entered between selections without actually increasing the number of selections per round beyond the number of teams. In other words, if two teams get supplemental first round picks, those selections would be desiganted as 2.01 and 2.02, and all selections wioud be moved out two; eg. the original 2.01 would become 2.03.

Any draft rights that were previously traded the prior season will be for the normal drafting position and not any free agent selections or supplemental draft picks. If a team traded for another team's 4th round pick which may have be 4.10 but was moved to 5.02 due to supplemental picks, the 4th round pick traded would be selection 5.02. The free agent and supplemental draft selections can be traded after keeper designations are finalized.