Keepers:

1. DW teams keep players from year to year each team is allotted 3 (considering the larger roster, I suggest we consider 4-5 keepers.) keeper slots which may be used to keep any players on a teams’ actionable roster.
2. A teams actionable roster is composed of all players on its roster (including DLs) at the end of the regular season. Any trades that are made during the DW offseason may transfer players from one teams actionable roster to another. Keeper “slots” may also be traded. Should a keeper slot be traded, the team receiving the slot may keep an additional player from its actionable roster with the other team’s keeper slot.
3. Whenever a player is called at the auction, a team may have said player on its actionable roster. Should it have the player on its actionable roster, the owner must decide within an appropriate time frame whether or not to keep said player, and, if so, what length of contract to sign the player for. A player who was not kept the previous auction may be signed to a one, two, or three-year deal. The player’s new salary, which is immediately deducted from the team’s remaining salary cap, is the salary from the previous auction plus 10*(number of years). If the player was not auctioned off in the previous auction, his salary is simply 10*(number of years). Once a team has spent all of its keeper slots, it no longer has the option of keeping players from its actionable roster. The actionable roster remains actionable, however, and the team may either sell the players on its actionable roster (presuming there is a willing buyer) or purchase another keeper slot.
4. Whenever a trade is made during the auction that involves a player, this player moves to his new team’s actionable roster if and only if he was on an actionable roster before. If he had already been drafted or kept, he moves to the other teams active roster and his new team is now responsible for his salary.
5. If a player is called, is on an actionable roster, and was kept during the previous auction, the player must be returned to the auction if his keeper contract has expired. If the player is still under contract (which will be the case if his previous keeper contract was for multiple years) the owner must decide whether to spend a keeper slot on honoring this contract or whether to buy the contract out. If the owner opts to buy the contract out, the player is then auctioned off. If his new auction price is less than his price under the old contract, the DW team buying out the contract must pay a penalty equal to the difference between the two prices. If the new auction price is greater than or equal to the contract price, the old DW team pays no penalty. If a manager opts to buy out a three year contract in its second year, his team must pay the buy-out penalty both during the auction in which that contract is bought out and during the subsequent auction (which would have been the third year of the long-term contract, had this contract been honored). In this case, the penalty for the subsequent auction shall be determined by the difference between the price that the player goes for (or is kept for) in the subsequent auction and the price the player would have had had the original contract been honored (assuming the subsequent price is smaller, otherwise the penalty is zero). If a player is not auctioned off than his auction price is considered 0 for the purposes of this article.
6. If a player is not on an actionable roster but is under a long-term contract, the team that released him during the regular season is responsible for all buy-out penalties. The size of these penalties is determined by the process described in paragraph 5.
7. If a player suffers a career-ending injury, any DW contract he is under may be terminated without penalty, and the player may be dropped from whatever active roster he is on at any time. This supercedes paragraphs 5 and 6.