Birdie048
Footballguy
I am the commissioner of a 12 Team 3 Player Keeper league. We are in our 4th year and we have encountered a loophole in the system. Small $$ ($25 each owner). Friendly, mostly local to Raleigh, NC league.
Our rules state that if an owner fails to provide a new line-up for any given week, his previous week's starting line-up will be used - our line-up submission By Law is listed below. However, since we had a Thursday game and an owner did not have a chance to submit a new line-up, the system rightly assumed his previous line-up. However, it also allowed him to go in to modify his starting line-up and replace a player who was in the previous week's starting line-up - Pitt RB Willie Parker. His score of 3.70 pts has been removed from his current score.
I have issued a note to the league stating that any future occurances like this will result in the line-up being locked once any game has started. Basicly stating that if you fail to provide a new/updated line-up, once any game starts, you can no longer make any changes to your current starting line-up.
Note: The owner notified me of this situation prior to his making the new line-up submission move. I asked him to go in to see how much the system would allow. There was no intentional deceit on his part. He asked me to correct this.
THOUGHTS? How would you handle this? How can we prevent it in the future?
The official wording from our By Laws:
Our rules state that if an owner fails to provide a new line-up for any given week, his previous week's starting line-up will be used - our line-up submission By Law is listed below. However, since we had a Thursday game and an owner did not have a chance to submit a new line-up, the system rightly assumed his previous line-up. However, it also allowed him to go in to modify his starting line-up and replace a player who was in the previous week's starting line-up - Pitt RB Willie Parker. His score of 3.70 pts has been removed from his current score.
I have issued a note to the league stating that any future occurances like this will result in the line-up being locked once any game has started. Basicly stating that if you fail to provide a new/updated line-up, once any game starts, you can no longer make any changes to your current starting line-up.
Note: The owner notified me of this situation prior to his making the new line-up submission move. I asked him to go in to see how much the system would allow. There was no intentional deceit on his part. He asked me to correct this.
THOUGHTS? How would you handle this? How can we prevent it in the future?
The official wording from our By Laws:
Each owner is responsible for their own line-up submission each week. Failure to continually provide a competitive starting lineup each week could result in removal from the league. However, in the case of a "Family or Personal Emergency", the team owner can designate a friend to manage the team and make any and all necessary transactions to provide a competitive line-up. If they are unable to find a temporary replacement, the previous week's line-up will be used with the exception of Bye week players and players listed as Injured (I) or Out (O) who will be replaced with the highest rated player from the FBG weekly's projection. Notifying the league and/or Commissioner of the situation as soon as possible is recommended. This will be effective retro-actively for only 1 week and supersedes the Wednesday 12:00 pm "Official" Score ruling. Commissioner will accept phone calls to update line-ups and make a free agency acquisition, but will not make Waiver Wire bids or Trades on behalf of another player.