by Mike Martinez
2024 Keeper League Historical News and Notables
Went down a rabbit hole the other day and found a few interesting tidbits of information regarding tendencies in the previous Bet the Rent Fantasy Football League drafts:
In the 9 drafts where there have been keepers (there were no keepers in 2015, it was our first draft), a total of 206 players have been kept …
Six players have been kept three times, but only one of them has been kept four times … think you know who they are? The answers below may surprise you …
Players have been kept in every round of the draft with 45 players having been kept in Round 14, by far the most of any round of the draft … 27 players have been kept in the 1st round, the second most, and 22 have been kept in the both 13th and the 2nd, the third most …
Only one player has ever been kept in the 9th round and two players have ever been kept in the 12th round, the least popular keeper rounds …
A player is most likely to be kept with the 8th or 10th pick of a round, each having been kept 17 times … the 7th pick of a round has been kept 9 times, the least of any pick in a round …
The 10th pick in Round 6 and the 11th pick in Round 3 have each been kept four times … No other pick outside the 14th round has been kept more than three times …The 3rd, 4th, 8th, 10th and 15th pick in Round 14 have each been kept 14 times …
The last pick in the draft has been kept 5 times, the most of any pick …
Austin Ekeler (19, 21, 23); Davante Adams (17,19, 22); Ezekiel Elliot (17,19, 21); Kareem Hunt (18, 20, 22); and Patrick Mahomes ( 19, 21, 23) have all been kept three times …
The record holder for most kept player in the Bet the Rent Fantasy Football League: Russel Wilson … He was kept in 2016, 2020, 2021 and 2022 …