Used to be that if your opponent needed a kicker and waited too long to add one, on Friday you could add and drop every available kicker and then he'd be stuck with nobody to add.....Just tried this and found out now if you drop a guy in the same 24 hours he's still a free agent. LAME!! There's only so much control you have over outcome and this used to be a fun strategy. The rest is so much luck.
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When did ESPN change the add/drop rules? (1 Viewer)
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Don't Noonan
Footballguy
You think that is bad. On cbssports I was given commisioner authority earlier this year during the draft to help with owners picks that were not logged on to a computer. The commish forgot to take off my authority so the first few weeks I would change my opponents line up right before kick off without him knowing. It was working great until the Commish caught on and kicked me out of the league. Lame!
irish eyes
Footballguy
Everyone's entitled to their opinions. Was listening to Footballers podcast yesterday and an email question was about if it's wrong to add guys you weren't intending to start just to block your opponent from getting them. The unanimous response was "no, it's a strategy and it's within the rules".
Was listening to fantasy focus podcast this morning.....Berry needed to add a QB....Secret Squirrel, who is 1-9 and doesn't care about his team anymore added the maximum number of QBs his roster rules would allow of the wire so to screw over Berry and they weren't even playing each other. Everybody got a big laugh out of it. LIghten up.
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Ya, I think you're right about it being a long time. A buddy did with kickers in 2009 and I haven't seen it since. Most owners don't wait to the end of the week to make their moves so the opportunity doesn't come up often.
Vanilla Guerrilla
Footballguy
Shanking people in alleys and taking their wallets is a "strategy" for making some extra money.
Looks like there's a healthy percentage of posters in there that see it like I do. I'm going to do what I can, within the rules and parameters of the league platform, to give my team the best chance for success. If you add Spencer Ware before the Kareem Hunt owner can add him as a handcuff, is that wrong? What if you don't ever start Spencer Ware? Aren't you adding him just as much so that someone else doesn't add him and use him against you as much as anything? There's not a huge difference in my eyes. It's a dog eat dog world out there fellas.[scooter] said:
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[scooter]
Footballguy
That thread is from 10 years ago.
All I can say if that if you were in my league and you tried that, the entire league would instantly vote to kick you out. And if you were in our circle of friends, you would immediately get shunned. It's the kind of thing that only a d-bag does, and no one wants to hang out with a d-bag.
Kenag122002
Footballguy
jimmy b
Footballguy
glad you can't be that guy any more. And by that guy I mean a common women's feminine hygiene product.
Mark Football
Footballguy
Another vote for D Bag 
I don't get it. Unless you mean I'm a fool for listening to a ff podcast of people who the world leader in sports have hired and pay to research this stuff full time. What about the fantasyfootballers podcast? You know, the guys who have won multiple fantasy football and sports podcast awards and all 3 of whom are in the top 20 rankers on fantasypros? Do their opinions count as much as you guys on this board that has plummeted in users and traffic over the last few years? Haha, it's funny that the majority on here think I'm a d-bag for doing something that the above mentioned experts have no problem with....am i the fool or is it the guys who are playing a game for money who don't want to use all strategies WITHIN THE RULES to win said money? I understand that it is no longer within the rules and that's great. This has been a fun debate.
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How is it different? What's the acceptable number of players you add to keep your opponent from getting them before it becomes childish officer?
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You could absolutely change my mind! Just tell me how what you did in the past is different and what the number is that makes it unacceptably immoral.
?@ you not able to answer my question. The answer to your question is mostly yes, coupled with the high rate of success as rankers. I'm sure you know more than they do about how fantasy football should work.@ fantasy football expert. No one is an expert at a game that is mostly luck.
Are they an "expert" because they are getting paid to do something? Is that what makes one an expert?
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Andrew74
Footballguy
You add players to your roster if you think they may be useful or valuable to you. If I pick up Malcom Brown and I’m not the Gurley owner, that’s not a #### move. I’m doing it in the slight case Gurley goes down and now I have a starting RB.
If you pick up and drop every back up RB in the league so someone else can’t field a team, that’s a #### move. It does nothing to improve your team or add future value. It’s just screwing with the competitive balance of the league IMO.
If you pick up and drop every back up RB in the league so someone else can’t field a team, that’s a #### move. It does nothing to improve your team or add future value. It’s just screwing with the competitive balance of the league IMO.
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I did. I basically said that if you can't see the difference of picking up Spencer Ware as a handcuff for Kareem Hunt and never starting him and keeping him rostered all season versus waiver wire churning just so someone can't pickup a player to roster a complete starting lineup. There is nothing that I can say will change your mind.
Um, it absolutley improves my team's likelihood of WINNING and adding to my future chance of making the playoffs and WINNING money.
Why would I do that back when the rules allowed me to accomplish same without dropping everyone?
iamkoza gets it at least. The people I respect most in 20 years of FF, both local league mates and national "experts", see it the way I do so I'm gonna go ahead and move on in my life now. The socialists won on the espn platform and changed rules to protect the weaker owners from themselves and that's ok.iamkoza said:
