Another Ridiculous Commissioner Question (1 Viewer)

[rvarnell]

I'm the commissioner of a longstanding league that recently added some new members because some of the old members didn’t participate consistently. With the new additions we have a highly competitive 14-team league. The problem is that we had a team owner stop participating immediately after signing up (his team was autodrafted by Yahoo). For the good of the league I stepped in and ran his team (the “computer team”) in addition to my own for the season. My intent was to minimize the chance of easy victories against the computer team. But now the computer team is #3 in the league & a lock for the playoffs (almost inconceivable with 6 total add/drops on the year, but there it is). My own team is sitting at #7, just out of the 6 team playoff. Two of the other owners have proposed removing the computer team from the playoffs so that one of the other 8 active owners will have a chance. I think its an OK idea, but the problem is that I might be the beneficiary. So, options at this point are to:

1) Leave things as is – the computer team makes the playoffs.

2) Zero out the computer team’s wins which might allow my team to make the playoffs (we have one more week in the regular season). This would also shuffle the playoff seeding as some teams records would improve & others wouldn’t.

3) Zero out the computer team’s wins and tweak my record to allow another owner to make the playoffs. This would also shuffle the playoff seeding as some teams records would improve & others wouldn’t.

4) Some other suggestion that the shark pool has.

So, what say you shark pool? What should I do?

 

[Kevin Ashcraft]

#1 without a doubt, and if there is $ involved and that team wins, throw it back in the pool next season.

 

[rvarnell]

#1 without a doubt, and if there is $ involved and that team wins, throw it back in the pool next season.

There is money involved but its a small amount. $20 per team/$280 total payout. Most of that would go to the winner of the playoffs.

 

[Kevin Ashcraft]

#1 without a doubt, and if there is $ involved and that team wins, throw it back in the pool next season.

There is money involved but its a small amount. $20 per team/$280 total payout. Most of that would go to the winner of the playoffs.

Yeah, I would almost say that if the Commish-run team won the deal, then use that money to pay entry fees next season....so each team could almost play for free whenever the next season is, assuming 2011 is wiped out.

 

[Hipple Long Ware & Peete]

you played the computer team so teams wouldn't get easy victories. Obviously you played it well. No 'tweaking' is needed. But I would drop the team from the playoffs. No need for that. If it gets your team in so be it. You said this isn't even an assured outcome. I don't see how anyone could have a problem with this, unless one of these other crazy scenarios improves their team, which is also bs too.

hell as commish you had to deal with another team management etc anyway. It's almost poetic justice if it bumps your team in.

 

[Chaka]

For the good of the league I stepped in and ran his team (the "computer team") in addition to my own for the season. My intent was to minimize the chance of easy victories against the computer team.

This was a bad decision. No one should control two teams in any one league. You will only compound the bad decision by knocking your second team out of the playoffs.If you second team wins it all just distribute the winnings to all the other teams that finished in the money according to the normal finisher % splits.

 

[FootballGuy22]

hell as commish you had to deal with another team management etc anyway. It's almost poetic justice if it bumps your team in.

The fact that he is commish should not get him any advantage IMO. Leave it as it and as others have said throw the money back if the "computer team" wins.

 

[rvarnell]

ttt

 

[Utter Chaos]

Send me your address. I'll mail you a check for $20.00 and take over the team. It's doing better than my team is.

 

[tunamelt warrior]

#1 without a doubt, and if there is $ involved and that team wins, throw it back in the pool next season.

 

[Bri]

comp team makes playoffs, stay the same-no changes

 

[kardplayer]

Leave the computer team in the playoffs, but don't throw the winnings into next year's pool... throw it into food and adult beverages for next year's draft

 

[Billy Costigan Jr]

#1 without a doubt, and if there is $ involved and that team wins, throw it back in the pool next season.

There is money involved but its a small amount. $20 per team/$280 total payout. Most of that would go to the winner of the playoffs.

If the ownerless team wins...then add the pot to next year's winnings.

 

[DoubleG]

Send me your address. I'll mail you a check for $20.00 and take over the team. It's doing better than my team is.

nicely played, sir.