Those that disagree with me have valid points, lets agree to disagree and go back to sharing the love here on this board like we usually do
I agree. Some folks have tried to make this personal saying things like “you’re saying everyone who disagrees with you is unethical!” or other such projection.
To me it’s putting my commish hat on, looking at a set of known facts and making a determination.
People are welcome to disagree with my determination. If their argument isn’t logical, I’ll point that out. If it’s irrelevant to the topic I’m not going to sugar coat that either. It is what it is.
But there’s no love lost. Nothing I’ve typed in here has been with malice. Occasionally sarcasm, but I’m a sarcastic person, so that happens sometimes.
people are entitled to “plant their flag” on this subject like any other. As a decades-long commish of FF & FBB (going back to using USA Today box scores to calculate scoring days) I find topics like this fascinating - the spirit of the law vs letter of the law, ethics, judgement, transparency.
On a fascinating topic this has been one of the more interesting and intense discussions for sure. FWIW I don’t think a poll was necessary since this is clearly collusion, but it’s equally interesting to me that several will point to a close poll as though that argumatum ad populum proves the point of the topic one way or another, sort of like Trump yesterday, claiming he won the election because in a poll of his Twitter followers, 180k said he did (with 80,000,000 actual votes saying he didn’t). Yet another interesting element of this topic. What the masses believe vs the truth. Sometimes they’re the same, sometimes they’re not. But polls aren’t actually truth, they’re just what the respondents believe to be true.
The OP told us what the truth was. In my opinion, we can argue over who’s at fault, whether the league should have a specific rule or if it’s in the unwritten rules of every league to not collude, or whether the team getting MT was intending to throw the game or not. But it is indisputable that they colluded in this trade with a secret side agreement.
But if anyone disagrees with that, I’m not going to love them any less, and if people agree with that I’m not gonna love them any more. We’re just having a discussion.
They’re all just like, our opinions, maaaaaaan.
at the end of the day we all love fantasy football, which is why we’ll go 137 pages arguing over whether some trade in some random league that doesn’t affect any of us in the slightest is problematic or not. If that’s not love, I dunno what is.