Keeper League Question

[thedarrenestes]

Have been the Commissioner for a work FFL for over 5yrs now...
This current year I changed to a keeper league and a simple format of retaining 1 player for next year

The question is when should I make the managers state their keeper?
My initial thought was by or before the end of the current year...I feel like this captures the spirit of the keeper in assuming all the risk that comes with the offseason

But I also expect waiting until just before the draft next year would be the safest and therefore more popular opinion if I simply put it to a vote.

Wat say Misc?

[LyonGaultier]

The deadline should be a week before the draft.