Anyone ever lose an owner mid season (1 Viewer)

[Mjolnirs]

Has your league ever lost an owner during the season? How did you handle it? While it isn't a death in the league, imagine it is because the owner in question will be unavailable for the rest of this season and maybe longer.

The team in question is currently 6-4 and tops its division and a previous champion.

 

[flranger]

Has your league ever lost an owner during the season? How did you handle it? While it isn't a death in the league, imagine it is because the owner in question will be unavailable for the rest of this season and maybe longer.The team in question is currently 6-4 and tops its division and a previous champion.

I recommend locking his team and having the league agree to play the players on his team who are rated highest (good idea to use a ranking, like FBG for instance). That way it's fair competition for the teams playing him, so that the teams that have already played him aren't in an unfair spot. No drop/adds recommended.If the ghost team ends up winning then I suggest:

 

[kinghill]

Last year one of our owners died early in the season. I as Commish volunteered to take over his team for the rest of the year and set a lineup each week and pickup free agents when necessary. Whatever his team won we gave to his wife. We named our super bowl in his name and it worked out ok. During the offseason we found a new owner.

 

[PatrickT]

I had to boot an owner for non-participation, and simply found someone willing to run his team. Offered him free buy in. If I couldn't have done that, I probably would've just found a rankings site my league agreed with, and started all players based on that. No FA, no trades.

 

[David Yudkin]

We have had this happen before. I would suggest that the commish run the team until either the season is over or until a replacement owner is found. Having everyone in the league offer opinions on how to run the team is looking for trouble.

 

[Brewzers]

Just went through this in a redraft league (we've been together for about 7 years now). Out of frustration, one owner dropped all his players after starting 2-6. I immediately locked him out and fixed the sabbotage. I took over his team and found a new owner within one week. I made the new owner pay 50% of next years fee and gave him 2008 for free. Interestingly enough, this team has won 2 games in a row.

 

[Mjolnirs]

The entry fee for this team is paid up. I'm thinking of having an owner in the other league I commish run the team for the remainder of the year and possibly offering him a percentage of any winnings for his trouble. This other owner is a three time champion and would run the team well.

I have two other owners who I bounce ideas off of, rather than the entire league, and one idea being thrown out is to just have the team forfeit the rest of the games for the year. This would drop the team to 6-8 and eliminate its playoff potential and any earnings, but this also gives a free win to his next four opponents, three of which are division games.

Our rules have a section governing abandoned teams, but I consider a team to be abandoned when the owner quits. That is not the case here. Our rules also state that anything not covered in the rules is up to the Commisioner pending league approval (simple majority)

 

[pgreenfan]

Jail?

 

[PRE42]

isnt it fun being commish?

 

[TheFanatic]

In my main league (dynasty contract league running since 2000) we've had this happen twice. Once a guy flipped out and quit. We found an owner to take over right away and is one of the best owners we have. He currently runs that league with me.

Once we had a guy that was basically letting another owner run his team like it was a minor league team of the other team. The owner was basically the Expos and only traded his talent to the other owner. We booted the guy that relied on a single owner for all his advice and basically made a bunch of lopsided trades with him. We found an owner to replace him and he did pretty well for about 3 years and then he had too much on his plate and left the league in the offseason.

I basically try to keep a couple guys in the loop about how the league works who have interest in getting in. They can step in at just about anytime....

 

[Mjolnirs]

Jail?

Possibly.

 

[TC]

I had to boot an owner for non-participation, and simply found someone willing to run his team. Offered him free buy in. If I couldn't have done that, I probably would've just found a rankings site my league agreed with, and started all players based on that. No FA, no trades.

Fully agree. This is the way to go. Good luck!

 

[pfalvey]

The entry fee for this team is paid up. I'm thinking of having an owner in the other league I commish run the team for the remainder of the year and possibly offering him a percentage of any winnings for his trouble. This other owner is a three time champion and would run the team well.I have two other owners who I bounce ideas off of, rather than the entire league, and one idea being thrown out is to just have the team forfeit the rest of the games for the year. This would drop the team to 6-8 and eliminate its playoff potential and any earnings, but this also gives a free win to his next four opponents, three of which are division games.Our rules have a section governing abandoned teams, but I consider a team to be abandoned when the owner quits. That is not the case here. Our rules also state that anything not covered in the rules is up to the Commisioner pending league approval (simple majority)

I think having the team forfeit the rest of it's games is a horrible idea. At the very least, the team should have it's lineup maximized, regardless of how you determine the best matchups. I think bringing in the other owner would be a reasonable decision.

 

[ravnzfan]

The entry fee for this team is paid up. I'm thinking of having an owner in the other league I commish run the team for the remainder of the year and possibly offering him a percentage of any winnings for his trouble. This other owner is a three time champion and would run the team well.

I have two other owners who I bounce ideas off of, rather than the entire league, and one idea being thrown out is to just have the team forfeit the rest of the games for the year. This would drop the team to 6-8 and eliminate its playoff potential and any earnings, but this also gives a free win to his next four opponents, three of which are division games.

Our rules have a section governing abandoned teams, but I consider a team to be abandoned when the owner quits. That is not the case here. Our rules also state that anything not covered in the rules is up to the Commisioner pending league approval (simple majority)

I think having the team forfeit the rest of it's games is a horrible idea. At the very least, the team should have it's lineup maximized, regardless of how you determine the best matchups.

in that the idea is just really bad--how is that fair to the other owners who played this guy on his way to 6-W's?

If I didn't know better, I'd almost suspect the commish has a matchup against this club in the next couple weeks

 

[identikit]

The entry fee for this team is paid up. I'm thinking of having an owner in the other league I commish run the team for the remainder of the year and possibly offering him a percentage of any winnings for his trouble. This other owner is a three time champion and would run the team well.

I have two other owners who I bounce ideas off of, rather than the entire league, and one idea being thrown out is to just have the team forfeit the rest of the games for the year. This would drop the team to 6-8 and eliminate its playoff potential and any earnings, but this also gives a free win to his next four opponents, three of which are division games.

Our rules have a section governing abandoned teams, but I consider a team to be abandoned when the owner quits. That is not the case here. Our rules also state that anything not covered in the rules is up to the Commisioner pending league approval (simple majority)

Sounds like he abandoned it to me. Doesn't really matter what the reason is.

 

[Mjolnirs]

in that the idea is just really bad--how is that fair to the other owners who played this guy on his way to 6-W's?

This was my thinking also.

If I didn't know better, I'd almost suspect the commish has a matchup against this club in the next couple weeks

Nah, he demolished me in week 8.

 

[Winning IS Everything]

I would NOT do a max lineup. That is not fair to his remaining opponents as how often does someone get max points every week?. In my two league average coaching decisions is at about 80-85% of total points. Take his max each week, adjust to 80-85% of that and that would be his score for the week.

 

[rick6668]

I would NOT do a max lineup. That is not fair to his remaining opponents as how often does someone get max points every week?. In my two league average coaching decisions is at about 80-85% of total points. Take his max each week, adjust to 80-85% of that and that would be his score for the week.

I don't think anyone is recommending max lineup.Use a servive, FBG whatever for rankings and set his lineup each week accordingly.Unless you can get another owner to take over.

 

[hove]

Had this happen before. As commish, I ran the team using this to set the lineup each week:

http://www.fantasysportscentral.com/footba...fsc&sort=tw</a>"]fantasysportscentral.com

I never did any waivers for the team and everyone knew who I was going to start for the team based upon a list elsewhere and not by my guesses or biases. (Like, did I want to ghost team to lose to help me out in some odd fashion in the standings, etc.)

 

[footballsavvy]

Just take his average weekly score up to this point and use that for the rest of the season. This requires no managing of his team at all and is as fair as anything else proposed.

 

[Nate]

I just booted a guy in my keeper league but found a new owner immediately. It was easier for me because the delinquent owner has one of the best teams in the league. I offered the new owner the team for free with the chance to win his league fees for next year if his team won, or he could pay the league fees and keep all the winnings. He chose the latter and made my life easy.

 

[biggamer3]

Just take his average weekly score up to this point and use that for the rest of the season. This requires no managing of his team at all and is as fair as anything else proposed.

very bad idea

 

[dirty_martini]

Has your league ever lost an owner during the season? How did you handle it? While it isn't a death in the league, imagine it is because the owner in question will be unavailable for the rest of this season and maybe longer.The team in question is currently 6-4 and tops its division and a previous champion.

Find a owner from outside to take over the team. I think you have a few dozen people here who might be interested ...

 

[QUEZILLA]

I was in 2 leagues with a guy that just disappeared for a month. Turns out he was in jail.

 

[LionsFan78]

Had a member get deployed last minute week 10 or 11 last year. He asked if the league would let him give me one single lineup before he left for me to submit on his behalf each week (didn't use MFL at the time, otherwise would've just let the system do it), as well as 1 alternate player to substitute in the event of a major injury. The fact that he thought about our league during the 3 day span he had to pack and say goodbye to his wife/kids really spoke volumes, none of us even considered questioning it. He didn't have one injury to his lineup, and finished 2nd with a pretty nice bonus waiting for him when he got back.

 

[footballsavvy]

Just take his average weekly score up to this point and use that for the rest of the season. This requires no managing of his team at all and is as fair as anything else proposed.

very bad idea

I would be mildly interested if you elaborated on this comment.

 

[hook014]

Just take his average weekly score up to this point and use that for the rest of the season. This requires no managing of his team at all and is as fair as anything else proposed.

I had to do this last summer in a baseball league I commish. Worked very well. No whining and you knew the number you had to beat beforehand.Which was the same number, on average, that you needed when he played. Recommended.

 

[da_budman]

Just take his average weekly score up to this point and use that for the rest of the season. This requires no managing of his team at all and is as fair as anything else proposed.

very bad idea

I would be mildly interested if you elaborated on this comment.

Dont know why he thought it was a bad idea but I do as well. the reason is that earlier in the year scores should theoretically be lower due to bye week issues. after week 10 bye weeks are through so scores should go up. this would put the teams he faced later in the year at an advantage over earlier in the year because the absentee owners average would include downgrade in scoring due to the bye weeks.

 

[r0llin_game]

If you need an owner feel free to pm me. I'll run it for the rest of the season until you can find a new owner for the next season, unless I'm wanted back. I'll keep it active and I <3 fantasy football! lol. Like I said pm me and I'll get back to you tomorrow afternoon if I don't tonight (work 645-3 tomorrow so sleep ain't optional!)