Keeper leagues allow Team Managers to keep players on their roster over multiple seasons without having to redraft them.  Keepers are only available in League Manager leagues.  Team Managers may select as few players or as many players as the league creator selected during league creation. For example, if your league allows 3 Keepers per team, a Team Manager may elect to designate between 0-3 players to stay on their roster for the next season.

League Manager has the ability to enable/disable Keeper settings via LM Tools. This link explains
How to Edit Keeper Settings. 

Few important facts about Keepers on ESPN Fantasy: 

• The default draft method in Keeper leagues is to draft/assign selected Keepers during the first rounds of the draft. 
  • • Keeper rounds are Non-Snake. (For Snake Drafts)
      This means if the league has 2 keepers allowed for this upcoming draft, the first 2 rounds would be non-snake. 1-10, 1-10 then from the 3rd round, 1-10, 10-1, 1-10 etc...
• The LM can also select to have Keepers drafted/assigned in the same round as they were originally drafted. This method rewards Team Managers who draft players in later rounds who proceed to turn into superstars.
  • • • Example:  Last season, a Team Manager drafted a player in the 5th round of the draft.  The Team Manager decides to mark that player as one of their team's Keepers for the next season.  When the next season's draft occurs, that Keeper will be drafted automatically in the 5th round.
• In FAAB leagues, Keeper salaries (values) for salary cap draft can be adjusted BEFORE it locks.
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• Keeper lock date can be changed at any time BEFORE the draft room opens 1 hour prior to the draft.
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• League Manager can select keepers on behalf of another team. 
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• Managers are allowed to keep as few or as many players up to the maximum limit set by LM. 

How to edit keeper settings on web only:

• League Managers should click on the "LM Tools" tab 
• Click on "League Settings"

• Click on 

• Scroll down to "Keeper Rules" and then click Edit.

• Click on the button to toggle Keeper rules on/off then click on Save Changes

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How to select Keeper draft type (web only):

League managers can manually determine which round and pick a player should be kept in. The League Manager must have their draft set to Snake or Autopick. NOTE: This feature is not available for Salary Cap or Offline drafts.

Within Keeper Rules, the League Manager can change the Keeper Designated Round to Manually Set by League Manager. Once this is set, on the Keepers page the League Manager can click on Edit Keeper Draft Rounds and select whatever round they want each player kept in.

IMPORTANT NOTE:

The Draft Keepers in the Original Round feature will not work with the Random Draft Order setting. The league’s draft order must be manually set by League Manager to utilize this feature. If a user changes the draft order after setting the rounds players will be kept in, they will be prompted that making this change will revert all of their selections.

• League Managers should click on the "LM Tools" tab 

• Click on "League Settings"

• Click on 

• Scroll down to "Keeper Rules" and then click Edit. Make your selection then click on Save Changes.
  • Two options: Draft at Beginning of Round (default) OR Manually Set by League Manager.

• Now click on Edit Keeper Draft Round button on the Keepers page. Here you will see each team's selected Keepers. Use the dropdown to select the Round and Pick for each Keeper. Then click Saves Changes.

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How to edit keeper salaries:

Keeper salaries are how much a manager will "pay for" out of their salary cap prior to draft in order to keep that player. Kind of how draft right works.
Most leagues use the player salaries from the prior season(s) but LM's can change that. 

For LM to change Keeper Salaries, visit League -> Keepers and click “Edit Keeper Salaries”

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How to change keeper lock date? What does it mean?

To check keeper lock date, LM can go to LM Tools -> Edit League Settings -> Transactions and Keepers -> Keeper Rules

Once keeper lock date passes, only the league manager will be able to modify a team’s keeper selection.
Alternatively, choose “Lock One Hour before Draft” to allow league members to edit their keepers in last minute fashion. 
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How to select keepers on behalf of another team as LM?

To do that, visit league -> Keepers and click the individual edit button on each team

LM can perform this action up till one hour prior to draft time (when draft room opens) 
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