Every league has a story. Parli tells it.

1. 2 keepers per franchise.
2. Each keep costs $7 more than the year before.
3. A player can be kept at most 3 times; after that he goes back to the pool.
4. Minimum keep price $10. A $3 pickup keeps at $17.
5. Traded keepers: the price travels with the player, the clock does not.

The $7 escalator is the sheet’s own table; the three-year cap is read from the record, where no player has reached a fourth keeper year. Dez should confirm both.

It was over at 11:20 PM Monday, and not before. Down six going into the night game, Dez needed one player to do everything. He did.