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I commished several leagues,INTENT opens a can of worms,had 1 owner tell me he INTENDED to start QBA but couldn't get the site to work. His QBB scored 5 pts. that week,QBA scored 25. I told him he should have called me,he said he INTENDED to but his phone wasn't working either.
I tend to agree with this, if the owner could never have had a worse outcome by playing the defense than by benching them and the only way to fill the roster spot was with that defense. In other words, if benching the defense could only hurt him and never help him... that would indicate it was an oversight on his part and not intentional to better his game... and if the only way he could fill the missing roster spot was with that defense... then it's kind of a no-brainer that the defense should have played and adding that defense to the active roster would merely be a clerical or ministerial task (not a tactical decision)... if the owner could have filled that missing spot with something else that was available to him, though... then I don't think I would even consider giving giving him the D because the decision really wasn't "forced' but had to be actively made.
It's very straightforward.
Even if he didn't claim the Dolphins defense until waivers ran presumably on Wednesday morning, he had Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday morning to properly set his lineup. It's 2014 - Internet connections are everywhere. I can update my lineup while taking a #2 in a Starbucks bathroom. What exactly is his excuse? How is this fair to his opponent?
...the commissioner shouldn't be doing a thing after initially setting up the league until he needs to load playoff teams. It is the leagues where the guy thinks he can be more fair than the software running the league that ends up in constant turmoil. Every other team is playing on the same platform.
There's nothing really "ignorant" about assuming that if you drop your starting defense and pick up another defense, the new defense will replace the old defense in your starting lineup. It's a stupid flaw of the software that this doesn't happen. This happened to someone in our work league last year on NFL.com. The commissioner stepped in and put the defense in their starting lineup after the fact. No one batted an eye. That's what you do in a league of friends and reasonable people, IMO.
Yeah because it's so difficult, after acquiring the defense, to go through that 2 click process. 1-submit lineup, 2-check box next to defense you want to play. That's just way too much work for non-"Hardcore Sharks" who have lives outside of "magic football". That 2 seconds might make you late for work or raking the lawn or something."Reasonable people" take responsibility for their own magic football teams, you know, like everyone else.
Where did I ever say or even imply that it's difficult? Of course it would be easy to do so in two seconds. It's also reasonable to think that such a check isn't necessary if you're dropping your starting defense for another defense.
Of course, but I addressed this distinction in my first response and OP already mentioned that this is a friendly league with not a lot of money on the line, so the fact that a lot of people play in leagues with strangers online seems a bit irrelevant.
I'd be annoyed if a commish declined to correct what is obviously an honest mistake caused by poor software design, but there's always room for reasonable people to disagree on these things.
It's a little different when you only have 1 Defense and can play only one.
You implied it was difficult in your earlier post when you said something about people with lives outside magic football. Everyone has lives outside magic football.Ignoratio Elenchi said:Where did I ever say or even imply that it's difficult? Of course it would be easy to do so in two seconds. It's also reasonable to think that such a check isn't necessary if you're dropping your starting defense for another defense.If this was 1994 and we were still calling in our transactions to the commissioner on a landline phone, would you have to specify, "Oh by the way, when I drop my defense and pick up this other defense, I want the new defense to go into my starting lineup in their place"? Of course not. Has the standard of "reasonableness" changed in the last 20 years that now a commissioner can pretend that he has no idea what the owner's intention was?Gandalf the Grey said:Of course, but I addressed this distinction in my first response and OP already mentioned that this is a friendly league with not a lot of money on the line, so the fact that a lot of people play in leagues with strangers online seems a bit irrelevant.I'd be annoyed if a commish declined to correct what is obviously an honest mistake caused by poor software design, but there's always room for reasonable people to disagree on these things.In my two local friends leagues, it would be a no-brainer that the guy would get to start the defense. I can't imagine playing with "friends" who would argue otherwise. In 99% of cases I'm with everyone else, a commissioner shouldn't be messing with people's lineups. But this one's such a no-brainer that it's exactly the kind of exception that falls in the remaining 1%.
