Hi all,
Yesterday our long established (17 year) league drafted via the snake format on a site for which we pay $150 per season. This is a 10-team league with 18 rounds. All of our owners are friends and experienced FFL players. One owner unexpectedly could not attend and autodrafted. The problems began in round 6 when the autodraft A.I. selected a defense for this owner. In round 11 a kicker was autodrafted. Kickers were subsequently drafted by the "A.I." in rounds 14, 16, 17 and 18. The autodraft system drafted 5 kickers for this single team.
The owner was obviously very upset by what happened and now wants to quit the league. The league's competitive balance is impacted. As commissioner in retrospect I should have stepped in and overruled the autodraft when the 3rd kicker was selected, but that ship has sailed. I contacted the site to inform them and complain.
The question is what if anything should be done? We've discussed allowing waiver transactions for only this owner prior to the start of the season (the rule has been no transactions before week 1.) We've thought about redrafting from the 14th round onward. We cannot redo the entire draft, as that would not be fair to the other owners who traveled.
One other note. We expected this owner to draft online. He did not respond to calls when the draft was about to begin, and later said he had an emergency.
Thanks for your input.
Yesterday our long established (17 year) league drafted via the snake format on a site for which we pay $150 per season. This is a 10-team league with 18 rounds. All of our owners are friends and experienced FFL players. One owner unexpectedly could not attend and autodrafted. The problems began in round 6 when the autodraft A.I. selected a defense for this owner. In round 11 a kicker was autodrafted. Kickers were subsequently drafted by the "A.I." in rounds 14, 16, 17 and 18. The autodraft system drafted 5 kickers for this single team.
The owner was obviously very upset by what happened and now wants to quit the league. The league's competitive balance is impacted. As commissioner in retrospect I should have stepped in and overruled the autodraft when the 3rd kicker was selected, but that ship has sailed. I contacted the site to inform them and complain.
The question is what if anything should be done? We've discussed allowing waiver transactions for only this owner prior to the start of the season (the rule has been no transactions before week 1.) We've thought about redrafting from the 14th round onward. We cannot redo the entire draft, as that would not be fair to the other owners who traveled.
One other note. We expected this owner to draft online. He did not respond to calls when the draft was about to begin, and later said he had an emergency.
Thanks for your input.