Penalty for Starting a Player on BYE (1 Viewer)

[pollardsvision]

one of those 2 teams had to get the win. if i was in the league, i'd have no problem with the team that actually set their lineup being the one to get it.

unless you feel like this sort of behavior is/will become a pattern, there's nothing to do.

 

[Paddy O'Seanessy]

Here's how our league deals with it (from the rules)

You MUST field a complete lineup. In the event that you fail to give a complete lineup (based on byes only) you are given the lowest applicable score at that position among that week's active players (i.e. if you only carried one K, you will be given that kickers score).

So if you blow off submitting your lineup or even stack your byes and don't have a body to play you still get 'the lowest applicable score at that position among that week's active players'? That seems like an incentive to me.

I assumed it went without saying that he meant "that week's active players" that are on your roster, not from any team.

and that makes it all better???

Ummm... yeah.

Uhhhhh... noYou give someone points for doing something to which you object. What do you get if you start a QB in place of a TE? Double the points?

You seem to be missing the point, intentionally or not.The point is to keep teams from overtly throwing a game by intent or lack of interest. The rule substitutes the lowest scoring player at that position on your team if you start a player on a bye. It would give the team in question the worst option of the players whose teams were actually playing that week.

In my league, we instituted the rule when a team who had locked up a playoff spot clearly threw a week by starting bye week players, as he was jockeying for playoff position. Because of this, the team that "beat" his team that week got into the playoffs and another team didn't. (If the guys started his starting players, he would have easily won).

To us, this was not in the spirit of fair competition and we set the rule.

To each his own.

See what I mean. Now I get to control this guy in order to help other teams. That is outside of the nature of competition altogether!Again, why not award him the HIGHEST scoring player from the same position? If you want the lowest then what could be better than the zero? The point is that this whole theme a so specifically about interfering where it is not your business that you can't even see how fickle and crazy your remedies sound!

 

[thesurfshop19]

Our league does it slightly differently. We have a keeper league where the draft the following year is not a serpentine draft.

Our rules state that you cannot have an active player who is on his bye week. However, if you want to field less than the 9 max players possible to strategically deal with bye weeks, you are free to do so. Therefore, there is literally no excuse for starting a player on a bye, as you could just have an empty position instead. The penalties:

1st time -- warning

2nd time -- 10-pt penalty from that week's score AND all your draft picks the following year are 2 spots lower in each round

3rd time -- 20-pt penalty from that week's score AND all your draft picks the following year are the last pick in each round

It's worked fairly well so far.