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Swifty Salary Cap Slam

A ten-team Yahoo keeper league with a $200 auction budget, a fifteen-player roster limit and $1 held back for every empty slot. Keeper history runs from 2018 to 2025.

Source: reviewed keeper workbook. Championship history is not part of this workbook, so no Swifty champions are shown.

Budget and keepers by season

Keeper counts and spend by season, showing the Overview sheet total beside the total counted from player keeper marks.
SeasonOverview keepersOverview spendMarked keepersMarked spendRecords
202518$37518$375Agree
202419$31019$310Agree
202319$29919$299Agree
202219$26818$199Disagree
202119$31019$310Agree
202019$25719$257Agree
201917$23417$234Agree
201818$27619$314Disagree

Bargain Board

Keepers whose Yahoo average cost most exceeded what they were kept for.

  1. Nick Chubb2019$5 kept · $56.0 avg · +$51
  2. Justin Jefferson2023$15 kept · $65.0 avg · +$50
  3. Alvin Kamara2019$10 kept · $56.0 avg · +$46
  4. Justin Jefferson2022$10 kept · $54.0 avg · +$44
  5. Puka Nacua2024$5 kept · $46.0 avg · +$41
  6. Brian Thomas Jr.2025$6 kept · $46.0 avg · +$40
  7. Alvin Kamara2020$15 kept · $55.0 avg · +$40
  8. Nick Chubb2021$15 kept · $54.0 avg · +$39
  9. Garrett Wilson2024$10 kept · $48.0 avg · +$38
  10. Nick Chubb2020$10 kept · $48.0 avg · +$38
  11. Stefon Diggs2021$12 kept · $50.0 avg · +$38
  12. Amon-Ra St. Brown2024$19 kept · $57.0 avg · +$38

Keeper cost against Yahoo average — 2025

  • Keeper cost
  • Yahoo average cost
  1. Ja'Marr Chase$55 kept · $64.0 avg · +$9
  2. Jahmyr Gibbs$47 kept · $59.0 avg · +$12
  3. CeeDee Lamb$28 kept · $58.0 avg · +$30
  4. Justin Jefferson$25 kept · $58.0 avg · +$33
  5. Nico Collins$23 kept · $58.0 avg · +$35
  6. Amon-Ra St. Brown$24 kept · $52.0 avg · +$28
  7. Malik Nabers$27 kept · $50.0 avg · +$23
  8. Brian Thomas Jr.$6 kept · $46.0 avg · +$40
  9. Puka Nacua$10 kept · $42.0 avg · +$32
  10. De'Von Achane$11 kept · $41.0 avg · +$30
  11. Bucky Irving$5 kept · $37.0 avg · +$32
  12. Chase Brown$19 kept · $36.0 avg · +$17
  13. Ladd McConkey$11 kept · $34.0 avg · +$23
  14. Brock Bowers$9 kept · $33.0 avg · +$24

Keeper streaks

Players kept in three or more consecutive seasons.

  1. Justin Jefferson2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 · $75 total cost · +$200 total value
  2. CeeDee Lamb2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 · $90 total cost · +$150 total value
  3. Austin Ekeler2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 · $74 total cost · +$122 total value
  4. Alvin Kamara2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 · $50 total cost · +$121 across 3 of 4 seasons
  5. Dalvin Cook2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 · $134 total cost · +$51 across 3 of 4 seasons
  6. Nick Chubb2019, 2020, 2021 · $30 total cost · +$128 total value
  7. Stefon Diggs2021, 2022, 2023 · $51 total cost · +$93 total value
  8. Amon-Ra St. Brown2023, 2024, 2025 · $57 total cost · +$88 total value
  9. Davante Adams2019, 2020, 2021 · $75 total cost · +$82 total value
  10. Patrick Mahomes2019, 2020, 2021 · $39 total cost · +$59 total value

Fun facts

  • Justin Jefferson

    5 straight kept seasons (2021–2025), $75 total cost and +$200 total value.

    Source: Corroborated player rows; disputed blocks excluded

  • CeeDee Lamb

    5 straight kept seasons (2021–2025), $90 total cost and +$150 total value.

    Source: Corroborated player rows; disputed blocks excluded

  • Nick Chubb 2019

    Kept for $5 against a $56.0 Yahoo average — +$51 of value, the biggest bargain on record.

    Source: 2019 keeper marks

  • Tyreek Hill 2024

    The most expensive keeper on record at $61, against a $60.0 average (-$1).

    Source: 2024 keeper marks

  • 2025 was the priciest year

    $375 committed across 18 keepers — the highest confirmed annual keeper spend.

    Source: 2025 Overview sheet

Where the records disagree

Two independent records exist for each season: the Overview sheet, and the players actually marked as keepers. Where they disagree, both are shown and neither is chosen. Player rows in the identified disputed Budgets blocks are withheld from the charts above. After those blocks are excluded, the remaining season-level aggregates reconcile; no Overview-to-Budgets team-row join is asserted.

Source workbook SHA-256: 46061b280942fc47faac2bb346d144fae0e1ec19536fff8e1c4a255c6c9d0cfd

2018
Overview records 18 keepers, $276; player marks give 19 keepers, $314. The keeper block at slot 157 has both Davante Adams ($15) and Michael Thomas ($38) marked, while the Overview records only 1 keeper at $15.
2022
Overview records 19 keepers, $268; player marks give 18 keepers, $199. The Overview row for that team records 2 keepers at $74, but only Amon-Ra St. Brown ($5) is marked in its block at slot 18. Cooper Kupp ($27) plus Derrick Henry ($47) equals $74, but the workbook marks neither and no keeper pair is inferred here.
2026
Unpublished. The 2026 sheets are an incomplete copy-forward of the previous season and are excluded from all history above.