And this not even a keeper league.
I played in a highly competitive keeper league on Sandbox for something like six years. For much of that time, my team was colossally bad. But that coincided with the Phillies laying the groundwork to finally get good, and with that being the team I followed at the time, whenever one of their hot prospects got called up (Chase Utley, Ryan Howard, Cole Hamels), I grabbed them up. And our keeper rules were such as a guy you took off the waiver wire you could keep for like six seasons, if you wanted to.
I finally won that league in 2007 (perhaps not coincidentally, the Phillies made the playoffs that year for the first time since 1993), and looked poised to be successful for several years to come. And rather conveniently, when that season ended, several guys decided they didn't have time to play anymore, and the league disbanded. Yes, I was bitter about this.