Thanks to everyone who suggested we set our lineups earlier! That's really helpful info, considering I have my lineup set by Thursday every week and occasionally need to make a last minute change. You could just be sympathetic that some fellow FBGs lost points due to this outage, but whatever.
I feel the pain of the managers that lost points because of this screwup. I have lost points on more than on occasion over the years due to various screwups,and it bites. But the site did not go down until roughly 15 minutes before kickoff, so a manager is cutting it pretty close no matter how you slice or dice it.
Again, I feel the pain of the affected managers, but I am struggling to put the entire blame on Yahoo.
I saw Hernandez was out 45 minutes before kickoff. Took me 35 minutes to pick up pettigrew because of the delays and still couldn't submit my lineup by the deadline. I texted the commish and emailed my opponent and commish the change I wanted before kickoff but they are rejecting it.... Yes, I can blame yahoo
Your commish and opponent are douchebags if you actually did notify them that long before kickoff. But, It seems not everyone had problems this morning. I had no problem setting my lineups up until about 11:35. Hernandez was a question mark all week though. Soooo, it is not as if you did not know ahead of time about the possibility of Hernandez not suiting up. Again, Yahoo is not entirely at fault here.
In this guy's case I say Yahoo is totally at fault. He is allowed to edit his players five minutes before their game starts. He went to bench Hernandez 45 minutes before the game, contacted league members and was not able to make the switch due to Yahoo.
I don't know. Crap like this happens on every site I have ever played on (Yahoo, ESPN, Fanball, etc. etc.). I have noticed over the years on Yahoo, that the closer it get's to game time, the slower the site is. Been like that for years, and it is understandable with the sheer amount of leagues they have. If a manager does not plan for the possibility of this happening, then it is bound to bite him/her in the #### from time to time. I had no problems today, but then again, I did not leave myself in a situation where I had to scramble either. Yahoo is not without fault, but neither are his leaguemates and the manager himself.