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Fantasy Football Ethics Question (1 Viewer)

What would you do ?

  • Take the backup.

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  • Leave the backup on the wire.

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Based on the Matt Forte / Adrian Peterson discussions. Lets assume your in a redraft league and in the championship game. Your opponent has a key player going Monday night, but he may be inactive and not play. Your opponent can grab the backup off the waiver wire any time he wants, right up until game time monday night.

You will never play this player, but you could grab him off the waiver wire and effectively ruin your opponents chance at the championship.

what would you do ?

Are there other factors at play in your decision ? Prize Money ? friends in the league ? Other ?

I would also be curious if these circumstances ever happened to anyone and what their feelings about it were.

 
Seriously. Nothing unethical about waiver wire defense. It's what makes a shark a shark. It's part of the game that is fantasy football.

 
Unethical? You follow the league rules, and all else is fair game.

I'm in a league championship. My opponent has Frank Gore, and he should have picked up DeShaun Foster last week, but didn't. This week I scooped up DeShaun Foster at the first opportunity. Do I have any intention of starting Foster? No. Absolutely not. But my opponent won't have that option. If he's lucky Gore will play. If not, well, you snooze, you lose. War is hell.

 
While I wouldn't want someone to do that to me but I can't say that I wouldn't employ such a tactic. Post #2 said it best. Peterson shouldn't have been on the wire right now but since he is you have to pick him up.

 
The best leagues I am in shut down trades and the WW once the playoffs start. Good rules prevent one from having to do something that seems like it might be unethical. That also makes for a more peaceful league IMO. Good rule sets make for good leagues.

 
Rovers said:
The best leagues I am in shut down trades and the WW once the playoffs start. Good rules prevent one from having to do something that seems like it might be unethical. That also makes for a more peaceful league IMO. Good rule sets make for good leagues.
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Then I guess we will agree to disagree.I think this is an awful rule
 
As long as no one tells you to pick up the backup - it's fine. However, if for some reason someone tells you to pick up "player X" when you didn't think of it, or even worse, posts that it should be done - I'd avoid doing it.

I once had a commish give an example on how to list conditional waivers on our new site, using my team picking up a QB. The fact that I had lost all my rostered QB's by end of week 1 and needed to pick up a replacement, and he listed the unrostered QB's in a sample transaction to everyone pissed me off, since I didn't lose my game, and had to make a deal when I couldn't get a leftover starting QB off waivers in a 12-team league after week 1 - and that was the year Green got hurt for the Rams, and Kurt Warner was out there - I had Green.

 
Chaka said:
This isn't an ethics question it's an intelligence test.
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:thumbdown: I'm not sure I've ever seen a poll break 100/0 before. And I used to work in survey research. You can find 5-10% of any population that will disagree.
 
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daniel501 said:
Unethical? You follow the league rules, and all else is fair game.I'm in a league championship. My opponent has Frank Gore, and he should have picked up DeShaun Foster last week, but didn't. This week I scooped up DeShaun Foster at the first opportunity. Do I have any intention of starting Foster? No. Absolutely not. But my opponent won't have that option. If he's lucky Gore will play. If not, well, you snooze, you lose. War is hell.
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Dang, sounds like me. I am in the championship game against a guy who has two questionable plays (Gore and Tatum Bell). Foster was the only decet option on the waiver wire. I grabbed him last night and the only way he plays for me is if DeAngelo can't go. The ONLY reason I picked him up was to limit my opponents rb options to choose from.That $1 was well spent if it means he will get diminished returns from any of his rb or flex positions.
 
I vote leave the backup on the wire, only because the OP would surely feel guilty in doing so. There's no reason to feel guilty of course, but I think it's best to err on the side that won't lead OP to alcoholism and depression should he become victorious by such normal tactics.

 
Is this a new league or are you a new owner? Pick the guy up and never feel bad about it. Does the guy want to save himself a transaction fee? Make him pay for not owning him already. This is a game and I bet you play with a bunch of competitive friends of yours who would do it to you in a heartbeat. ####footing doesn't work. Win the Championship.

If someone told you to do it...well I believe that doesnt matter at all, who cares if someone told you to do it? NOT your problem. WIN!

 
Nigel Incubator-Jones said:
We have a league rule that says that you have to play the player that you pickup that week...
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One of the worst rules for any game I've ever seen - if you drop a guy because he goes on IR, you need to wait to pick up a replacement until you want to use him. I've got Peyton Manning, but my backup QB went on IR - let me pick somebody up - wait, you say I need to start the new guy. Okay, I'll pick up someone when Peyton's on bye.
 
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