The Constitution

Twelve managers. A full PPR skill-position league — no kickers, no defense, nowhere to hide. This is the shape of the field and how points are kept.

The −0.5 per sack is a house rule, not an accident.

The heart of the league. You pay for what you keep in draft capital — and the price follows the player, not the manager. Reward good drafting; inherit other people's baggage.

• §1Keep up to two players. Declarations are due by August 1 each year.
• §2The first keeper year costs the round he was drafted in — this season, by any team.The base cost travels with the player. A late-round pick who gets dropped and reclaimed keeps that cheap price, which is exactly why stashing dropped-but-drafted players (a well-timed IR grab in December, for instance) is a legitimate strategy. From there the price climbs — see §5.
• §3Undrafted players cost a 10th-round pick.If both of your keepers were never drafted this season, they can't both be 10ths — one costs a 10th, the other a 9th. You choose which is which.
• §4Same-round collision → bump up a round.If two keepers would both cost the same round, the second moves up one round (a 5th becomes a 4th). You choose which player bumps.
• §5The cost climbs one round every keeper year after the first.Year one is the base round (§2 or §3). Each year you hold him after that, the price rises one round — a 9th becomes an 8th, then a 7th. A waiver keeper runs 10th → 9th → 8th. The escalation caps at a 1st-round pick: once a keeper costs a 1st, it never climbs higher.
• §6Three keeper years, maximum. The season you drafted him plus up to three keeper years — four seasons total — then he returns to the draft pool.
• §7Tenure follows the player, not the team.Trading or dropping a player does not reset his clock. Acquire someone else's keeper and you inherit whatever years remain — and a player who has already burned all three keeper years cannot be kept by his new owner at all. You can take another manager's draft capital, but not his keeper eligibility once it's spent.
• §8Traded away the pick you owe? You forfeit your next-available pick instead.Dealt your 5th but want to keep a 5th-rounder? It costs your 6th — or the nearest pick you still own.

The draft runs enough rounds to fill every roster spot. What's unusual is how you get your slot: you don't inherit a pick number — you choose one.

Every team plays for something in Week 15. Two brackets decide the final 1–12 — and both feed the draft and the punishment.

Regular-season seeding ties are broken by total points scored. A tied head-to-head matchup — which has never once happened — is settled by the commissioner with a virtual coin toss.

The buy-in is $175, the same for everyone, due July 15. The commissioner holds the pot and pays out immediately after the championship game — weekly side pots settle each week.

How the league changes itself, and how it polices bad deals. The commissioner holds the money — not unilateral power. Everything of consequence goes to a vote.

• §1No unilateral trade veto. A trade is only reversed if it goes to a league vote and 10 of 12 teams vote against it. Reserved for genuinely egregious or collusive deals.
• §2All rule changes go to a league vote. Any manager may petition the commissioner to put something on the ballot.
• §3The sideline power. If a proposal is voted down by an 8 of 12 supermajority, the commissioner may shelve that proposal for multiple seasons.We are not re-voting on the same hated idea every single year.
• §4Offseason only. Rule changes may only be made in the offseason, before keepers are locked — which means the real deadline for any change is before August 1.
• §5Nothing changes outside the vote. If something looks fishy, it goes to the league. That is the whole process.

Every ring, auto-pulled from Sleeper season by season. Pre-Sleeper years are enshrined by hand once the archive is delivered.

This year's field, live from Sleeper — records, and each team's declared keepers.