I have been part of a fantasy league for 25 years. Membership has evolved some, there are 3 of us left from season 1 and 5 from season 2. The current roster has all been together for a decade plus. It's a $100 league, and my brother and I drive from Austin to Oklahoma City for the draft weekend, play golf and poker, etc. So not a high stakes league, among friends and family.
This year, we decided to add keepers (and we do auction drafting). You can keep min 1, max 2. Value is this year's draft value plus $5 or 10%, whichever is greater. Free agents have value of $1. Some people wanted to have drafted players always keep draft value, but others didn't like that b/c if someone overpays, then cuts, the new owner shouldn't be bound to the old value. A potential loophole/issue got raised in Week 2 where the issue of players like Barkley came up. Either the player who had him has to keep Barkley all year in their IR spot, at their disadvantage, or cut him and someone can pick him up and keep for $6. So we implemented a rule where you can do what we call an "IR freeze" where you can drop a player on IR and they are frozen, and automatically in draft pool next year. We had a full discussion about if there were any other issues and none were raised.
We do FAAB bidding for the free agents. It has come to the league's attention that one player is saving all of his FAAB, so that he can cut a player (either Josh Jacobs or CEH) and then immediately resign him, so he can keep him for $6 next year. Wanted to get some outside opinions on this, thanks!!