If you get to keep 2000 points, ARod can take up 1/3 of those. I can think of several reasons not to keep ARod. For example: ARod costs me 700 points out of 2000. I draft first. I drop ARod, and keep more guys, then draft him. Or, I also have Garrett Atkins on my team, and my pitching was young and should be maturing into a great staff. I keep those pitchers, because ARod's value is not as high, relatively speaking. On my team, I got to keep 1800 points, and players with 3 or fewer years of service are points exempt. If I had had ARod, instead of Atkins (who is points exempt), keeping Alex would have meant dropping BJ Upton and Jake Westbrook. That would have been worth it. But, if it had meant dropping Jimmy Rollins and AJ Burnett, I don't think it would have been. Especially considering that guys like Miguel Cabrera and ARam were also released and available int he draft. It's all relative. Yeah, makes sense now. I didn't realize it was done by points. I thought you just got to keep a certain number of players.