Possible rule change re player injuries in game (1 Viewer)

[Hipple Long Ware & Peete]

I was thinking about something for a rule change, but the idea is still in it's infancy stage (as mine usually are ;_)

Nothing sucks more than having a player hurt on the first series of a game and losing all those points, as your guy gets injured. But that is so not like football. If your player gets hurt, you sub another one in. This is what I would like to see in FF. When a player goes down with a game ending injury (ie if they come back in in OT to run one play this does not apply) you are allowed to sub your back up at that position, IF you have a backup. The points could be added in manually after the fact, and say start at the time of injury (ie preist goes down at 3:00 in the first quarter, your other back up running back gets whatever points they accumulated from 3:00 to the end, ergo if they scored at 2:30 no points as your first RB was in then)

This would also help to discourage hoarding at positions as if you don't have a back up TE or K etc, then you can't get those points if that would happen. I think this would also make it more fair, as it just plain sucks when you are playing somone and you are essentially a man down after an injury.

I think that in any league that did this it should be incumbent on the player making the change to notify the league and commish of said injury and the adjusted points as that would be way too much work for any commish to have to deal with absent that caveat.

thoughts?

 

[tkoffl]

You would need to have your possible backup named before the game. You dont want to have the owner picking the backup player that had the best game, no very fair.

However, this takes away from the fun IMO. Seems like a lot of extra rules & commish headache to cover something that has always been part of the game. Losing players is part of the game.

 

[Mungo Burrows]

1) you would need to have clear definition of when a player is down for injury or not. It would be too easy to take a player with a big 1st half and claim he played the rest of the game hurt and replace him with someone who scored late in the game.

2) This is a recordkeeping nightmare. No commish would want to verify stats on a timed basis (the play-by-play's don't always match exactly with the stats anyway). Even if the owner submitted it, the commish would need to verify. Unless league management software does this, it won't happen. Even the live stats feeds are often corrected after the game is over so I don't know if any "official stats" are timed.

 

[reg]

There was a league service that was advertised pretty heavily on local radio. Not sure if they ever took off or not, but it was called Game Day Sports. They would allow you to make changes at any point during the games.

IE: You have Shaun Alexander, TJ Duckett, Chester Taylor. Vikings are on offense so you have Taylor playing. Seattle is on defense so you change Shaun to your bench and sub in TJ, who is on the field.

Seemed like a lot of work, but I know ALOT of people on this site like to sit with their laptops running while watching multiple games.

 

[Chaka]

There is also the problem that the two players may not be playing at the same time so time of injury becomes irrelevant.

Perhaps the number of carries/rec/yards/TDs accumulated by the injured player could be subtracted from the totals gained by the backup?

 

[glen5839]

I support any rule that makes my league more difficult for our commissioner to run. This rule seems virtually impossible to enforce; therefore I am in full support of it.

 

[my man otis]

Seemed like a lot of work, but I know ALOT of people on this site like to sit with their laptops running while watching multiple games.