Well, Luck is built like a brick house compared to RG3...so yes...the more skillful player will take Luck.

The players are really inconsequential to the greater point I'm making though, & that's why I specifically said:

Note: I took Luck & RG3 as an example but, if you don't like that one we can point to a dozen others

(Side Note re: Luck v. RG3... At the end of 2012, after RG3 won rookie of the year, & helped the Washington Professional Football team to the playoffs for the first time in five years, & only the 3rd time in 13 years; we wouldn't have been so critical of Griffin's play. Hindsight is 20:20 afterall.)

And if you kept RG3 and he gets hurt...I don't see how there's any problem with simply dropping him.

Exactly!

Variance / luck has now cost you a franchise quarterback for years to come by being in a Keeper league. Conversely, this is just not the case in a Redraft league.

Overall, injuries punish us more in Keeper leagues because we must live with the consequences of bad luck longer.

But how about this scenario in one of my keeper leagues... But the guy who got D Murray got to keep him for nearly nothing... THAT is noticeable edge.

I don't see how keeping a highly touted back, for very low draft picks, shows us that someone was more skillful in their decision making? Would anyone not keep Murray for a final round pick?

For argument's sake, let's say this trade somehow an example a more skillful player at work. (We make trades in Redraft league too though?)

It still isn't enough of an edge to negate the long term effect of injuries, how well we drop & add players / spend our FAAB dollars, & the decisions we make when setting our lineups.