Is it unfair/unethical as a commissioner, to see who owners are reques (1 Viewer)

[Rhaydon84]

Hi,

I run a 12 team standard keeper league on www.myfantasyleague.com. Earlier today, I clicked on the "process waivers" tab, just to get an idea of how everything works in case I have to manually process waivers at some point. This is my first year using the site, which is awesome by the way. Anyway, when I clicked on it, I was able to see what players each owner requested. I noticed that 3 owners had incorrectly submitted claims, because they didn't select a player to drop, if they were to receive the new player off waivers. This would cause them to not get the player(s), due to invalid rosters. I emailed the owners, letting them know this and one of them got a little salty about it. He said that I could just see who he's requesting, and if I was lower in the waiver order, take that player. That whole notion is silly to me though, because I don't need to depend on other owners to know who to target on waivers. I've been playing fantasy for 9 years and have won 3 titles in this league. After telling him this, he said that everything was cool, but it could cause a "conflict of interest with people."

I just wanted to get some thoughts from other owners/commissioners on this topic. I honestly don't see it as an advantage for me.

Thanks,

Ryan

 

[John Bender]

Gonna need to see your rooster first to make a recommendation here.

 

[hagmania]

Collusion

 

[Dan Lambskin]

You can (and should) turn this ability off

 

[jon_mx]

Yes it is unfair to check that.

 

[got_nugs]

Gonna need to see your rooster first to make a recommendation here.

pm sent

 

[Frostillicus]

You monster.

 

[spOOfy]

lol.

serious answer is yes, it gives you an advantage. let's say you were planning on picking up 2 players (eg., smith and jones) and you're 6th in order. you notice that the guy 7th in order plans 1 pickup this week and it's for jones. now you know that you need to pick jones in the 1st and smith in the 2nd to get both of them. if you pick smith first round, you won't get jones. that would be an unfair advantage.

that being said, if you are the commish, they should trust you to not cheat. in addition, you were going in to make sure people were doing correctly. you can the guy if you hadn't looked, he would have gotten no one because he is a ####### and doesn't know what he's doing.

so, he should be thanking you instead of crapping on you.

 

[Rhaydon84]

Gonna need to see your rooster first to make a recommendation here.

QB Ben Roethlisberger, Jake Locker

RB M Ball, E Lacy, J Bell, C Hyde, M Ingram, J Starks

WR A Jeffery, Michael Floyd, M Wallace, E Decker, M Wheaton

TE J Thomas, H Miller

PK N Novak

Def Chiefs, Bucs

 

[East Coast Bias]

You're a cheater.

 

[John Bender]

Gonna need to see your rooster first to make a recommendation here.

QB Ben Roethlisberger, Jake LockerRB M Ball, E Lacy, J Bell, C Hyde, M Ingram, J Starks

WR A Jeffery, Michael Floyd, M Wallace, E Decker, M Wheaton

TE J Thomas, H Miller

PK N Novak

Def Chiefs, Bucs

Couple of warts there on the rooster, but overall it looks pretty nice.

 

[East Coast Bias]

Gonna need to see your rooster first to make a recommendation here.

QB Ben Roethlisberger, Jake LockerRB M Ball, E Lacy, J Bell, C Hyde, M Ingram, J Starks

WR A Jeffery, Michael Floyd, M Wallace, E Decker, M Wheaton

TE J Thomas, H Miller

PK N Novak

Def Chiefs, Bucs

You should be starting Locker over Roethlisberger.

 

[spOOfy]

lol

 

[Binky The Doormat]

You can (and should) turn this ability off

Dan is right here. Go to the abilities set up and turn that off and only turn it on if you have to do commissioner duties.

 

[shuke]

rooster

Gates

Camarillo

It=info

Ball cancer

 

[Rhaydon84]

Gonna need to see your rooster first to make a recommendation here.

QB Ben Roethlisberger, Jake LockerRB M Ball, E Lacy, J Bell, C Hyde, M Ingram, J Starks

WR A Jeffery, Michael Floyd, M Wallace, E Decker, M Wheaton

TE J Thomas, H Miller

PK N Novak

Def Chiefs, Bucs

You should be starting Locker over Roethlisberger.

This week yes, I agree.

 

[Frostillicus]

Gonna need to see your rooster first to make a recommendation here.

QB Ben Roethlisberger, Jake Locker

RB M Ball, E Lacy, J Bell, C Hyde, M Ingram, J Starks

WR A Jeffery, Michael Floyd, M Wallace, E Decker, M Wheaton

TE J Thomas, H Miller

PK N Novak

Def Chiefs, Bucs

Why would you possibly need to pick anybody up with that squad?

 

[Fennis]

Gonna need to see your rooster first to make a recommendation here.

QB Ben Roethlisberger, Jake Locker

RB M Ball, E Lacy, J Bell, C Hyde, M Ingram, J Starks

WR A Jeffery, Michael Floyd, M Wallace, E Decker, M Wheaton

TE J Thomas, H Miller

PK N Novak

Def Chiefs, Bucs

why arent you using the Draft Dominator?

 

[Rhaydon84]

lol.

serious answer is yes, it gives you an advantage. let's say you were planning on picking up 2 players (eg., smith and jones) and you're 6th in order. you notice that the guy 7th in order plans 1 pickup this week and it's for jones. now you know that you need to pick jones in the 1st and smith in the 2nd to get both of them. if you pick smith first round, you won't get jones. that would be an unfair advantage.

that being said, if you are the commish, they should trust you to not cheat. in addition, you were going in to make sure people were doing correctly. you can the guy if you hadn't looked, he would have gotten no one because he is a ####### and doesn't know what he's doing.

so, he should be thanking you instead of crapping on you.

I see what you're saying...to be honest, I hadn't even thought of that. I play fair, and it's not worth it to me to lose the trust of the league. I definitely felt offended that he didn't trust me and questioned my integrity. Also, I did point out to him that I caught the mistake and it would've been a lot worse if 3 owners were all wondering why they didn't get their players when waivers were processed. I prevented a total ####storm here.

 

[Rhaydon84]

Gonna need to see your rooster first to make a recommendation here.

QB Ben Roethlisberger, Jake Locker

RB M Ball, E Lacy, J Bell, C Hyde, M Ingram, J Starks

WR A Jeffery, Michael Floyd, M Wallace, E Decker, M Wheaton

TE J Thomas, H Miller

PK N Novak

Def Chiefs, Bucs

Why would you possibly need to pick anybody up with that squad?

Thanks, I appreciate that I just want to cut the Chiefs def for the Dolphins. I like them better going forward and the Chiefs def is really banged up and has to play Denver twice.

 

[Fennis]

lol.

serious answer is yes, it gives you an advantage. let's say you were planning on picking up 2 players (eg., smith and jones) and you're 6th in order. you notice that the guy 7th in order plans 1 pickup this week and it's for jones. now you know that you need to pick jones in the 1st and smith in the 2nd to get both of them. if you pick smith first round, you won't get jones. that would be an unfair advantage.

that being said, if you are the commish, they should trust you to not cheat. in addition, you were going in to make sure people were doing correctly. you can the guy if you hadn't looked, he would have gotten no one because he is a ####### and doesn't know what he's doing.

so, he should be thanking you instead of crapping on you.

I see what you're saying...to be honest, I hadn't even thought of that. I play fair, and it's not worth it to me to lose the trust of the league. I definitely felt offended that he didn't trust me and questioned my integrity. Also, I did point out to him that I caught the mistake and it would've been a lot worse if 3 owners were all wondering why they didn't get their players when waivers were processed. I prevented a total ####storm here.

why would there be a ####storm? They wouldn't have gotten their players due to roster size limitation, that would have been obvious to anyone.

 

[Mario Kart]

Perfectly fair and legal to do. It is one of the perks of being the commissioner. If others have a problem, have them run the league.

 

[BroncoFreak_2K3]

Perfectly fair and legal to do. It is one of the perks of being the commissioner. If others have a problem, have them run the league.

 

[Psychopav]

lol.

serious answer is yes, it gives you an advantage. let's say you were planning on picking up 2 players (eg., smith and jones) and you're 6th in order. you notice that the guy 7th in order plans 1 pickup this week and it's for jones. now you know that you need to pick jones in the 1st and smith in the 2nd to get both of them. if you pick smith first round, you won't get jones. that would be an unfair advantage.

that being said, if you are the commish, they should trust you to not cheat. in addition, you were going in to make sure people were doing correctly. you can the guy if you hadn't looked, he would have gotten no one because he is a ####### and doesn't know what he's doing.

so, he should be thanking you instead of crapping on you.

I see what you're saying...to be honest, I hadn't even thought of that. I play fair, and it's not worth it to me to lose the trust of the league. I definitely felt offended that he didn't trust me and questioned my integrity. Also, I did point out to him that I caught the mistake and it would've been a lot worse if 3 owners were all wondering why they didn't get their players when waivers were processed. I prevented a total ####storm here.

Spoofy's right, which is why you shouldn't do it.

There's also the matter of you seeing which owners want which players, and correct me if I'm wrong but the other owners are not privy to that information. So you can see which positions owners may view as the ones that need attention and have an advantage in offering trades to align with those needs. Also, if owners attempt to drop players to pick up free agents but do not get their pick, thus retaining the players that they would have been willing to drop, you then have an advantage in knowing which players owners value less on their squads.

Both of these are real, but not great, advantages.

I run a league where I must process waivers manually, just because of the way our rules work. I run waivers simultaneously once a week, and no free agent pick ups are allowed at any other time. I make sure as commissioner that I input my waiver orders before looking at the pending transactions page, but it's totally on the honor system. Also, I have the small but real advantages that I describe above. I have considered sending out the list of pending transactions to the league every week but have not done that so far. Maybe I should.

 

[Psychopav]

Perfectly fair and legal to do. It is one of the perks of being the commissioner. If others have a problem, have them run the league.

This attitude is not the attitude of an ideal commissioner. I'm just saying.

 

[Plorfu]

First you get the power. Then you get the waivers. Then you get the women.

 

[Psychopav]

First you get the power. Then you get the waivers. Then you get the women.

And when they came for the women, there were no one to speak for them. Because the free agents were all taken.

:singletear:

 

[Rhaydon84]

lol.

serious answer is yes, it gives you an advantage. let's say you were planning on picking up 2 players (eg., smith and jones) and you're 6th in order. you notice that the guy 7th in order plans 1 pickup this week and it's for jones. now you know that you need to pick jones in the 1st and smith in the 2nd to get both of them. if you pick smith first round, you won't get jones. that would be an unfair advantage.

that being said, if you are the commish, they should trust you to not cheat. in addition, you were going in to make sure people were doing correctly. you can the guy if you hadn't looked, he would have gotten no one because he is a ####### and doesn't know what he's doing.

so, he should be thanking you instead of crapping on you.

I see what you're saying...to be honest, I hadn't even thought of that. I play fair, and it's not worth it to me to lose the trust of the league. I definitely felt offended that he didn't trust me and questioned my integrity. Also, I did point out to him that I caught the mistake and it would've been a lot worse if 3 owners were all wondering why they didn't get their players when waivers were processed. I prevented a total ####storm here.

why would there be a ####storm? They wouldn't have gotten their players due to roster size limitation, that would have been obvious to anyone.

Because people always blame it on something else, like the website. I just know it would be ugly and I'd rather prevent it before it happens.

 

[Binky The Doormat]

lol.

serious answer is yes, it gives you an advantage. let's say you were planning on picking up 2 players (eg., smith and jones) and you're 6th in order. you notice that the guy 7th in order plans 1 pickup this week and it's for jones. now you know that you need to pick jones in the 1st and smith in the 2nd to get both of them. if you pick smith first round, you won't get jones. that would be an unfair advantage.

that being said, if you are the commish, they should trust you to not cheat. in addition, you were going in to make sure people were doing correctly. you can the guy if you hadn't looked, he would have gotten no one because he is a ####### and doesn't know what he's doing.

so, he should be thanking you instead of crapping on you.

I see what you're saying...to be honest, I hadn't even thought of that. I play fair, and it's not worth it to me to lose the trust of the league. I definitely felt offended that he didn't trust me and questioned my integrity. Also, I did point out to him that I caught the mistake and it would've been a lot worse if 3 owners were all wondering why they didn't get their players when waivers were processed. I prevented a total ####storm here.

why would there be a ####storm? They wouldn't have gotten their players due to roster size limitation, that would have been obvious to anyone.

Because people always blame it on something else, like the website. I just know it would be ugly and I'd rather prevent it before it happens.

We get a couple of guys each year that swear they didn't do something and the system messed up.

It didn't.

 

[Mister CIA]

Perfectly fair and legal to do. It is one of the perks of being the commissioner. If others have a problem, have them run the league.

Sadly, my sarcasm meter doth detect.

 

[flapgreen]

You have a loaded rooster.

 

[jon_mx]

Perfectly fair and legal to do. It is one of the perks of being the commissioner. If others have a problem, have them run the league.

This attitude is not the attitude of an ideal commissioner. I'm just saying.

A friendly small dollar league is probably OK. I think anyone playing in like $1000 league would say otherwise. It is obviously an unfair advantage that absolutely is not a perk of being commissioner.

 

[roadkill1292]

Have you suspended Ray Rice in your league yet?

 

[heckmanm]

Non-shtick answer: While it was inadvertent, the best approach for this week would be either (a) do not make any waiver moves yourself; or (b) do not attempt to pick up anyone who was requested at the point that you saw the requests. Probably overkill, but if you want to alleviate any hard feelings, this should do it.

And as noted earlier, MFL will let you disable this capability for yourself (Abilities Setup), so you don't need to worry about accidentally seeing pending moves in the future.

 

[Rhaydon84]

Non-shtick answer: While it was inadvertent, the best approach for this week would be either (a) do not make any waiver moves yourself; or (b) do not attempt to pick up anyone who was requested at the point that you saw the requests. Probably overkill, but if you want to alleviate any hard feelings, this should do it.

And as noted earlier, MFL will let you disable this capability for yourself (Abilities Setup), so you don't need to worry about accidentally seeing pending moves in the future.

Thanks. I've decided to disable the capability to avoid any further issues. I don't want to pick up anyone that was requested, so I'm all set there!

 

[E Street Brat]

First you get the power. Then you get the waivers. Then you get the women.

Chi Chi. Get the yahoo.

 

[ntz08]

First you get the power. Then you get the waivers. Then you get the women.

Chi Chi. Get the yahoo.

Yeah, a bunch of cowboys. .Somebody ####ed up, Omar.

 

[Mr. Know-It-All]

Gonna need to see your rooster first to make a recommendation here.

QB Ben Roethlisberger, Jake Locker

RB M Ball, E Lacy, J Bell, C Hyde, M Ingram, J Starks

WR A Jeffery, Michael Floyd, M Wallace, E Decker, M Wheaton

TE J Thomas, H Miller

PK N Novak

Def Chiefs, Bucs

Why would you possibly need to pick anybody up with that squad?

He invalidated the other teams waivers by removing drop players so he could get Ingram and Starks....duh.

 

[-fish-]

rooster

Gates

Camarillo

It=info

Ball cancer

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[Ignoramus]

rooster

Gates

Camarillo

It=info

Ball cancer

Everything you ever wanted to know about fantasy football in one post.

Needs some motivational ploy.

 

[Jayrod]

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Gates

Camarillo

It=info

Ball cancer

Bump Finley

Something about Tatum Bell's Motivation

 

[Mr.Pack]

You can (and should) turn this ability off

Dan is right here. Go to the abilities set up and turn that off and only turn it on if you have to do commissioner duties.

 

[Chemical X]

Gonna need to see your rooster first to make a recommendation here.

you *******, you stole my shtick and Made it work. well played.

 

[Psychopav]

rooster

Gates

Camarillo

It=info

Ball cancer

Bump Finley

Something about Tatum Bell's Motivation

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