owner not paying attention (1 Viewer)

[fsufan]

what can a commish or league do to get an owner to manage his team all year, even when an owner is out of the playoff hunt. I commish a redraft league and a owner who was out of the playoffs left Jacobs and Heap in his line up. He had Ward on his bench, he could of picked up a TE. Plus the guy did not start a player at the flex position, he had Fargas on the bench. If he would of just started Ward and Fargas he would of won. This has affected one of the division winners and who made the playoffs, helped one owner and screwed another.

Just wondering what other redraft leagues do to make an owner manage his team all year.

 

[DarkManX]

get a league full of friends and ppl you know this problem wont happen. If it did I would probably warn him then possibly kick him from next yrs league if he didnt have a good excuse. I run a keeper and have this problem before and next yr, the owner was NOT apart of the league.

 

[stugnut]

That happened in my league once and I kicked the owner out of the league even though he was a good friend of mine. We also now have a toilet bowl and if you lose the TB the team that beat you gets to rename your team for the entire next year. That has helped keeping even the last place teams interested.

 

[Twilight]

Weekly scoring awards. Either $ for the best score, or costing $ for the worst won't cure it, but it does help.

 

[fsufan]

this is a big pet pieve of mine a s a commish, there is a good chance he will not be invited back next year.

I talked to the owner who made the playoffs because of this, my brother. He said it is not right as well. He said he would be OK if I as commish put Fargas in the guys line up giving him the win. do you think this is the right thing to do? if I do this my brother would not make the playoff(he is OK with it) and put the other owner in who got screwed. Should I do this? It seems like the right thing to do since my brother is OK with it.

 

[T Love]

Unless you have rules specifically addressing this situation, then I think you have to leave it alone. Put rules in next year to cover this, but I don't think that you can make a decision based on what you think is right, without a clearly defined set of rules.

 

[fsufan]

Unless you have rules specifically addressing this situation, then I think you have to leave it alone. Put rules in next year to cover this, but I don't think that you can make a decision based on what you think is right, without a clearly defined set of rules.

here are the rules I have in placeAt anytime, the commissioner reserves the right to take any action to correct any conduct that is determined to be detrimental to the competitive balance of the league Every owner must try to field his or her best team each week, no players in starting line ups that are on byes or knowingly out due to injury I do not think the guy did anything on purpose, just stopped managing his team since he was out of the playoff hunt

 

[Nemesis]

what can a commish or league do to get an owner to manage his team all year, even when an owner is out of the playoff hunt?

First of all, you're not going to like my response. I put the blame on YOU, the commissioner. YOU should have posted the rule again on the website & reviewed ALL lineups during the last 2 or 3 wks of the regular season BEFORE the lineup deadline & contacted any owner that didn't make sense. Attack the problem, BEFORE it becomes a problem. If that owner doesn't repsond to your request then you make the changes and have the rulebook on your side.Second, as someone else pointed out, you should probably have a wkly high score $ winner. In my league, it goes like this:

NFL wk 1-4: $5 per wk

NFL wk 5-8: $10 per wk

NFL wk 9-16: $TBD per wk.....where "TBD" is the total transaction pot divided by 8.

Most years, "TBD" comes out to ~$30-$40 per wk. You better believe a 1-10 team willl still try to get lucky and recoup some of their $ losses.

 

[Black]

Unless you have rules specifically addressing this situation, then I think you have to leave it alone. Put rules in next year to cover this, but I don't think that you can make a decision based on what you think is right, without a clearly defined set of rules.

here are the rules I have in placeAt anytime, the commissioner reserves the right to take any action to correct any conduct that is determined to be detrimental to the competitive balance of the league Every owner must try to field his or her best team each week, no players in starting line ups that are on byes or knowingly out due to injury I do not think the guy did anything on purpose, just stopped managing his team since he was out of the playoff hunt

Seems like you have rules in place to update the lineup, at least with the minimum roster that is competative (also that your brother is ok with that). I would do that.You have rules so you don't have to babysit your league. The teams can read. If a team is 'not paying attention', they are upsetting the balance of the league. If you do have to go in and change the roster, I would either not ask that player back next year, or allow it only once as a warning, and email the league highlighting the issue.

 

[SaintArnold]

I just don't invite people back to leagues when they don't manage their team. It takes a few years to weed out the losers and find suitable replacements, but when you get a really solid, competitive league going, it's a lot of fun.

I have a special yahoo league for all my slacker friends that want to do FF.

 

[Warpig]

This is the case in every league I am in! Once people realize they suck they give up. Hell, in my 32 team league I'm 4-9, or something atrocious like that, and I still manage to put out my best possible starting lineup every week. It's not fair to the other owners if you start tanking your season.

As someone else has mentioned, in one of my leagues we have a toilet bowl and if you lose that, you have to buy the keg the next year (redraft). If you win the toilet bowl, you get your entry fee back atleast.

In the other leagues, we just boot them out and invite other people in to see if we can find a keeper.

I do agree that as a commish, you should probably try to contact the tanking team and see if they have any desire left. If not, then you should take on the responsibility of fielding that teams best lineup...as well as stressing the league rules on tanking. Weekly payouts are an option too, but my league likes to have more money in the pot for playoffs.

 

[fsufan]

what can a commish or league do to get an owner to manage his team all year, even when an owner is out of the playoff hunt?

First of all, you're not going to like my response. I put the blame on YOU, the commissioner. YOU should have posted the rule again on the website & reviewed ALL lineups during the last 2 or 3 wks of the regular season BEFORE the lineup deadline & contacted any owner that didn't make sense. Attack the problem, BEFORE it becomes a problem. If that owner doesn't repsond to your request then you make the changes and have the rulebook on your side.Second, as someone else pointed out, you should probably have a wkly high score $ winner. In my league, it goes like this:

NFL wk 1-4: $5 per wk

NFL wk 5-8: $10 per wk

NFL wk 9-16: $TBD per wk.....where "TBD" is the total transaction pot divided by 8.

Most years, "TBD" comes out to ~$30-$40 per wk. You better believe a 1-10 team willl still try to get lucky and recoup some of their $ losses.

I did ask owner to set their best line up before the start of week 12 games. I did my job as commish, owners have responsibly as well.

 

[Nemesis]

what can a commish or league do to get an owner to manage his team all year, even when an owner is out of the playoff hunt?

First of all, you're not going to like my response. I put the blame on YOU, the commissioner. YOU should have posted the rule again on the website & reviewed ALL lineups during the last 2 or 3 wks of the regular season BEFORE the lineup deadline & contacted any owner that didn't make sense. Attack the problem, BEFORE it becomes a problem. If that owner doesn't repsond to your request then you make the changes and have the rulebook on your side.Second, as someone else pointed out, you should probably have a wkly high score $ winner. In my league, it goes like this:

NFL wk 1-4: $5 per wk

NFL wk 5-8: $10 per wk

NFL wk 9-16: $TBD per wk.....where "TBD" is the total transaction pot divided by 8.

Most years, "TBD" comes out to ~$30-$40 per wk. You better believe a 1-10 team willl still try to get lucky and recoup some of their $ losses.

I did ask owner to set their best line up before the start of week 12 games. I did my job as commish, owners have responsibly as well.

You never stated that in your previous posts. If that is the case, then why didn't you make the change on Sunday BEFORE this became a problem?IMO, if you had told the other owners on Sunday morning, "Here's the problem, here's the rule, here's the change".....nobody would have blinked an eye. In fact, they would have respected you even more for taking action in the best interests of the league. Then, you could shift your attention to address what the penalty is for that delinquent owner. Would also have set a precedent to the others to always keep their lineups current.

and BTW....Go noles! (too bad they extended Bobby)