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So wait... you're NOT keeping the entire roster intact (minus retirees) just starting your draft with a roster of one player of your choice from last year's team and then re-drafting entire new teams?
If that's the case, I've never heard of a league working that way. Sounds interesting. It falls kind of into a grey area then, since there's elements of a true keeper league and elements of starting from scratch.
In a true keeper league, last year's week 17 roster is this year's week 1 roster, minus retirees and any free agent moves or trades you make according to league rules. The draft order at the start of the next season, which is for incoming rookie players only, goes in the reverse order of final standings, and doesn't double back on itself. In other words, it goes 1234567812345678 and not 1234567887654321. Basically, this is more or less the way the real NFL works.
In a start from scratch league, ALL NFL players are completely re-distributed via a draft at the start of each season, and chosen randomly by whatever method, and then doubles back. This is how Yahoo does it.
It seems like you are playing a hybrid of these two systems. Imagine if each team in the NFL, after each season, released every player on their roster but one. Then, the GM's stood on a field in front of all the players and picked teams like on a schoolyard. But, they chose to do it in the order of last year's finish. The whole point of the best team getting last pick and vice versa is to try to achieve parity, in other words theoretically the shittiest team gets first crack at the top rookies. The best team doesn't need the top rookies, it has good veterans. To then award the first pick based on a roster that will be totally different than last year's doesn't make sense under the reason the draft exists the way it does. SO the way you are doing it is different. It's not right or wrong, just different, and if I understand you, it's what you're doing. In which case, what you want to do with your draft order is up to you guys, but it would make more sense and seem more fair to just determine your draft order randomly, since you have a new owner who was not even responsible for that team last year.
-Mikey
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