So, I started, Jay Cutler, who got me -0.6 points before being knocked out from the game. I'm probably going to lose because it, and I'm not alone in that.
Anyway, it got me thinking about a rule for in-game injury substitution in fantasy football. Say, each team gets one injury replacement per week. The player must be injured in the first half and not return for the rest of the game. You have to put some sort of time limit on this, so in my league say you have until the processing of waivers on Wednesday at 10am to make your substitution.
There are a couple problems I see in this. First, MFL doesn't seem to have a way to automate this in the settings, so it would have to be handled by the commissioner outside the system. Second, I can't seem to find an official in-game injury report from the NFL for the current week's games. You would need to have some kind of officially agreed upon record that lists when a player is injured, at what point in the game and whether or not he returns. I don't know if that exists.
This would make fantasy football more like real sports, take out some of the luck factor and make the game more fun. Come to think of it, I also had Eddie Lacy get knocked out of the game on the first play a few weeks ago. Anyone do this in their league?
Anyway, it got me thinking about a rule for in-game injury substitution in fantasy football. Say, each team gets one injury replacement per week. The player must be injured in the first half and not return for the rest of the game. You have to put some sort of time limit on this, so in my league say you have until the processing of waivers on Wednesday at 10am to make your substitution.
There are a couple problems I see in this. First, MFL doesn't seem to have a way to automate this in the settings, so it would have to be handled by the commissioner outside the system. Second, I can't seem to find an official in-game injury report from the NFL for the current week's games. You would need to have some kind of officially agreed upon record that lists when a player is injured, at what point in the game and whether or not he returns. I don't know if that exists.
This would make fantasy football more like real sports, take out some of the luck factor and make the game more fun. Come to think of it, I also had Eddie Lacy get knocked out of the game on the first play a few weeks ago. Anyone do this in their league?