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This happened in my now-defunct 12-team home league, the first FF league I was ever in.
Forever is a long time. I’m thinking if my friend dies 1st I’m gonna find a way to etch it into his epitaph.
Pretty confident if that happened in my league, the next year's draft we would have chipped in and presented him with a jersey for the wrong Adrian Peterson.
Even if it was a $500 league you let him change it. Mistakes happen. This was an obvious mistake.
agreed, but there are always a few owners who will cry about it.
This is the right answer
Who cares? It's obviously a mistake. No reason to not change it right when it happens. Now if he let it go for 5 rounds and then tried to have the commish change it that is a different story. In this case there is no harm no foul.
Strippers often need day jobs.
Sticker duty is an obsolete artifact. No need for stickers on a board ever.
We have a draft board and stickers every year. You can peel those stickers off of my cold, dead body.
We have never used stickers or a board like what you see in that video. Back in the old days when you created your own hand written cheat sheets off the final rosters listed in the USA today we just sat in a big room and yelled out names when it was our turn to draft and the commish recorded on a poster board at his desk. He still has all the poster boards from every draft and we look them over each year after the draft. It's quite interesting looking back to the draft board of the 80's
Ooh, now tell us about how the invention of electricity improved your draft— no more oil lamps, or fires to stoke, and indoor plumbing must have been a truly wild innovation!
I cannot imagine drafting live without one. I have every draft board from 2 decades of home league drafting.
Your imagination needs some work then....hahahahaha
Says the dude who took a horse and carriage to his 1st draft. “Boy howdy these buckboards are comfortable. What will they think of next I wonder?”
I did this once in CBS as well. My comment was like “not a chance in hell” but on my tiny phone at the airport i fat-fingered it and clicked accept.
This
I guess to me the thing is, if there are forgivable mistakes, and if there are non-forgivable mistakes, then there implicitly must be a line that separates the two, which means there could be tough calls sometimes. But I guess that's what good judgment is for.
Of course!
Bing!
No disrespect Joe, but is your next poll "Is the Pope Catholic?" Curious what percentages you anticipated when posting this?
There was a time on this board when this poll would be much closer.
I voted the opposite way, but if it is at the expense of the league I would absolutely reverse it.
Appreciate you putting your name on one of the non-majority votes here and giving an explanation; courageous thing to do after a full page of dissenting opinions. I think most of the strength of the stance I took in my post were if it was a 12 man league where the majority were firmly in the "No! The pick is the pick and that's final!" I wouldn't be so quick to up and quit if it was just some general discussion on it; but ultimately I would hope it would land on letting the guy switch his pick to who he actually meant to pick.
This is a good point. My expectations of others are often times not realistic which leads to personal frustrations.
I don’t know if it’s that simple. I think it comes down to what is in the rules/constitution of the league. If the league has a set of rules/constitution—it is the duty of each member to know those rules—and it is the duty of the commissioner to enforce them. If a situation arises that is not addressed in the set of rules—generally speaking—the constitution should have a guideline detailing if the resolution is up to the majority vote of the league—and/or the decision of the commish. If this was not addressed in the league constitution and the final decision was on the commish—if I was commish—I would let him change it—but I would also encourage the league to give him a hard time and bust his balls over it. If the league has a constitution where it says “once you pick—it stands”—I think that a commish overriding the established rule set of the league is a bigger problem. If an owner accidentally forgets to take out a player from a starting lineup that is on a bye week—that owner can then argue “hey—you let this other owner change his pick in the case of a clearly honest mistake”…etc.
