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Rules every league should consider having (1 Viewer)
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nerangers
Footballguy
I started another thread...looking for rules that leagues might have about substituting Sunday/Monday night players that are listed as game time decisions.
Substitution Rules?
If your league has any, can you post it in that thread?
Thanks...
Substitution Rules?
If your league has any, can you post it in that thread?
Thanks...
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We have an injury rule that reduces Sunday morning headaches. Basically, regardless of the injury report, you can stipulate or "stip" 3 players in your lineup with a backup player. In the event they don't play as per the gamebooks on NFL.com, you get that repalcememnt player retro-put into your lineup
Helps immeasurably with gametime decisions.
Helps immeasurably with gametime decisions.
Mario Kart
Footballguy
I like this type of rule. Wish my leagues had something like it.
FairWarning
Footballguy
Most leagues I have seen always had problems with pickups. We make all waiver claims on Thursdays (Wednesday for Thursday games). Much simpler. Also go by record/starters points and not total points.
Department 400
Footballguy
Besides the standard fare of what hot player will break out, and pick up this guy before the guppies find out, this must be one of the absolute BEST threads I've seen in years. I completely agree with most of what is said here and wholeheartidly concur that league rules must be written down. Prior to internet options, I used to hand out a rulebook every freakin' year to the owners. If there was drama, the commish refers to the rules ... he doesn't just wing it. In my opinion, the most important thing a commish must do is remain completely transparent and maintain a high, high degree of integrity -- even if that means taking one on the chin in regards to rosters, picks, etc.Brilliant thread. I'll be redoing our rulebook this off-season.
Irish
Footballguy
I'm in one league that the non-playoff teams are in a weighted lottery like the NBA's. Only half the time has the bottom team won the 1st pick. Adds a little excitement for the end of year party too.
corpcow
Footballguy
Another rule that should be addressed: how FA/WW works in the playoffs.
I've seen some leagues lock entirely at the end of the year (I don't personally like this). Others keep the same regular season rules. I've had others where it was only open for active teams. In another, we did the same, but because it was a keeper league we decided that 1) a keeper must be on your week 13 roster and 2) a keeper must be on your final roster when you are finally eliminated. (Consolation round does not constitute elimination).
In general, just a good thing to address because it can get hairy
I've seen some leagues lock entirely at the end of the year (I don't personally like this). Others keep the same regular season rules. I've had others where it was only open for active teams. In another, we did the same, but because it was a keeper league we decided that 1) a keeper must be on your week 13 roster and 2) a keeper must be on your final roster when you are finally eliminated. (Consolation round does not constitute elimination).
In general, just a good thing to address because it can get hairy
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GregR_2
Footballguy
Adding as a result of this thread:
20) Provide clear guidance on the situation where an owner is not able to manage his team. It could be due to illness/hospitalization, family tragedy, etc. Some things to consider in crafting your rule might include:
Who makes the decision this is in effect?
What guidelines should be met for alternate ownership to go into affect?
Who will make management decisions for the team until the owner can take back over?
If it is the draft/auction that the owner cannot make, and he cannot have someone cover for him, how will his team be selected?
-- This isn't an owner calling in a lineup on the phone. This might be an owner who is hospitalized. In a league of mine, an owner had no ability to run his team for a short time because of having to help his parents whose home was demolished by a tornado.
Who decides a situation warrants the team being temporarily managed by someone other than the owner? What sorts of situations should be included? If an owner had 4 days to submit his lineup then had someting happen on Saturday, does he get the benefit of a change? I suggest limiting this to general guidelines as you cannot foresee every possibility. But do include language that makes clear whether you include things like "no internet connection" or "travelling for work".
Then once that decision is made, how will the team be managed? Will a person outside of the league be brought in to temporarily take over? Will a website's ranking be used each week? Will the commish use his best judgement? Will the commish use the previous week's lineup? If so, does he take into account byes? Injuries? Obvious choices like benching a RB who lost the starting job? Subtle choices like a preference for one plyaer over another? Just be clear enough in your guidelines that anyone following them would come to the same answer every time for starting lineups, waivers, etc. Also realize that you might find out after the fact of an owner's situation, such as in the case of a hospitalization. So you especially want a process for setting his lineup that can be applied fairly even after results are known.
20) Provide clear guidance on the situation where an owner is not able to manage his team. It could be due to illness/hospitalization, family tragedy, etc. Some things to consider in crafting your rule might include:
Who makes the decision this is in effect?
What guidelines should be met for alternate ownership to go into affect?
Who will make management decisions for the team until the owner can take back over?
If it is the draft/auction that the owner cannot make, and he cannot have someone cover for him, how will his team be selected?
-- This isn't an owner calling in a lineup on the phone. This might be an owner who is hospitalized. In a league of mine, an owner had no ability to run his team for a short time because of having to help his parents whose home was demolished by a tornado.
Who decides a situation warrants the team being temporarily managed by someone other than the owner? What sorts of situations should be included? If an owner had 4 days to submit his lineup then had someting happen on Saturday, does he get the benefit of a change? I suggest limiting this to general guidelines as you cannot foresee every possibility. But do include language that makes clear whether you include things like "no internet connection" or "travelling for work".
Then once that decision is made, how will the team be managed? Will a person outside of the league be brought in to temporarily take over? Will a website's ranking be used each week? Will the commish use his best judgement? Will the commish use the previous week's lineup? If so, does he take into account byes? Injuries? Obvious choices like benching a RB who lost the starting job? Subtle choices like a preference for one plyaer over another? Just be clear enough in your guidelines that anyone following them would come to the same answer every time for starting lineups, waivers, etc. Also realize that you might find out after the fact of an owner's situation, such as in the case of a hospitalization. So you especially want a process for setting his lineup that can be applied fairly even after results are known.
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Marc Levin
Hangs out with Oscar Zeta Acosta
Considering the amount of commish thread during the season, I see no reason not to pin this now.EXCELLENT list, GregR.nice post Greg. not this is what your rules should be, but this is what your rules should cover
should be pinned during the offseason
Uruk-Hai
Footballguy
In the same vein, what to do if there's a no-show at the draft.This happened to us this year in our 18-year redraft. One of the owners was going to be in Atlantic City in one of those WSOP tourneys. He had enlisted a friend (experienced in FF we were told) to draft for him. Well, the friend never showed up & we couldn't reach our poker-playing friend by phone. We had no rule in place to cover this. We've had absentee drafters a few times before, but the provisions made to cover them always worked. This time, not having some type of "in-case" written caused problems. The owner who wasn't there is the least-liked member of our league (that shouldn't have mattered, but I think it did in what happened next). There was a vote to remove him, along with a phone call to someone who had been wanting in for years. The "new" owner wasn't available, so there we were: no 12th owner & guys royally pissed. Cooler heads eventually prevailed & the league decided to do the following:GregR said:
One owner offered to draft the ghost team, with the caveat that if he felt a conflict at any ghost team pick, the league would vote on which position to take & would give him the next highest player on CBS' rankings (this guy is as honest as the day is long). Then we would offer the team to the absentee owner; even though he's an ******* he's been in the league 15 years & we felt we owed him one screw-up. If he didn't want the team, he was out & we'd give it to the replacement owner (he called back mid-way through the draft). Well, Poker Boy took the team the next day after pissing & moaning about certain players he got "stuck" with - told you he could be an ***. Anyway, the dude wins high team/high player (both get weekly payouts) the first three weeks & has alomost won his entry fee back already!
We'll have something written up after the season to cover this. There was some bad blood caused by this, but it should never have gotten to that point.
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GregR_2
Footballguy
Good one, I'll add an edit to cover it.
tommyboy
Footballguy
a rule that covers illegal tradebacks, loaning players, pre-Playoff loading up via trading/dumping is
make your official trade deadline the same as the NFL's official trade deadline, usually mid OCT.
make a rule that says no tradebacks of players either directly or third party within 1 calendar year.
make traded players zero value for one calender week
make your official trade deadline the same as the NFL's official trade deadline, usually mid OCT.
make a rule that says no tradebacks of players either directly or third party within 1 calendar year.
make traded players zero value for one calender week
Sister Havana
Footballguy
Great thread. I'm a first-time commish this year and this is very helpful information!
Utter Chaos
Footballguy
Don't know if this has been mentioned yet but it has come up in our league before.
Six teams make our playoffs and are seeded 1 through 6. The first week of the playoffs have #3 vs #6 and #4 vs #5.
The problem that comes up is if #6 beats #3 which can cause two different scenarios. Now for week two does the #1 seed play the winner of the 4/5 game (pre-determined scenario) or do they play the #6 seed (worst team left scenario).
This caused a problem in my league a while back because the #1 seed lost to the #3 seed in the second round. Of course he didn't complain until after he lost so there was nothing I could do at that point.
edit: I've consider rewarding the #1 seed by giving them the option of which of the 3 remaining teams they want to play for the second round of the playoffs but I haven't instituted it yet.
Six teams make our playoffs and are seeded 1 through 6. The first week of the playoffs have #3 vs #6 and #4 vs #5.
The problem that comes up is if #6 beats #3 which can cause two different scenarios. Now for week two does the #1 seed play the winner of the 4/5 game (pre-determined scenario) or do they play the #6 seed (worst team left scenario).
This caused a problem in my league a while back because the #1 seed lost to the #3 seed in the second round. Of course he didn't complain until after he lost so there was nothing I could do at that point.
edit: I've consider rewarding the #1 seed by giving them the option of which of the 3 remaining teams they want to play for the second round of the playoffs but I haven't instituted it yet.
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Uruk-Hai
Footballguy
Why not just have the #1 play the lowest remaining seed? It's not like there's travel/TV arrangments that can't be changed.
bryhamm
Footballguy
This is what we do ... and what the NFL does.
GregR_2
Footballguy
If you just want one to add to your rules, but haven't had this problem, I would probably go with something like the following:In the event of an illegal roster, the most recent player(s) added to the roster who contribute to the roster being illegal will be dropped until the roster is again legal. Any starter points during the period the roster was illegal from players dropped in this fashion will be removed for any fantasy games whose results are not already final.Bri said:
Depending on your rules for the practice squad, you could instead make it so the practice squad player (or most recent practice squad player) has to be cut. Same thing for leagues that have problems with guys being left on IR after their injury status improves... you could require the IR player be the one who is cut if your deadline for fixing it is missed after the injury status changes.
Now if this is actually happening right now in your league, and your rules give no guidance on the penalty, I would probably tailor the penalty to the situation. If the guy didn't gain anything by it I'd just tell him to cut someone. If he gained a lot by it, or it was intentional, then I'd have to consider removing the points to be fair to the team he played. However I decided though, I'd make it clear this is how we're resolving it this time since we didn't have guidance in the rules, but henceforth we're going with (insert your rule here). People will accept a penalty with teeth to it a lot easier if it was in the rules to that effect, than if you just make it your decision that way when the rules gave no guidance.
Hope that helps?
Mario Kart
Footballguy
I had this exact scenario happen to me. I was the #1 team and before my game the MFL setup had me facing the #4 team instead of the #6 team that had won before. I was the #1 team in scoring and my opponent was the #2 team in scoring... we were in the same division. The other semi game pitted somethine like the #7 and #9 in scoring... they were in weak divisions. I was given the reason that the games were not switched due to seeding was because the commish set it up like the NCAA. Stupidest reason I ever heard.Needless to say I lost the semi game which should have been the championship game since our game would have defeated the other opponents easily if it was set up like the NFL. The "real" championship game would have been a good match with me winning it in the end instead of me winning the 3rd place game. The real difference was $250 loss for me because we were playing NCAA rules and not NFL rules. I was paid my money and promptly left the league. Dumbest rule EVAH!!
fsufan
Footballguy
Starting line up ruleI was wondering if your league had a rule in place for owners that start player(s) that are on byes. I already had 2 owners start players on a bye in the past 3 weeks. I do not know why they did this. This is a 9 year, $150 dynasty league. Both owners have been in the league for 7 and 9 years. One of the owner cost himself a win last week because he started A. Johnson and left Burress on the bench. I do have this rule in place.
But how do I enforce this rule?I have sent both of these owners a personal email asking them to check their line up each week. One owner did reply saying she thought her line up was set for that week. I do not think it is good for the league for a owners to starting a player on a bye. Does your league have a rule in place for starting players on a bye? Just looking for rules for next year?
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steviey
Footballguy
Any suggestions for the unlikely scenario if there is only one division, more than 2 teams finish with the same record, they all had the same number of total points and the head to head matchups are split. With 2 teams eventually you go to the coin flip. But what do you do with more than 2?
GregR_2
Footballguy
You could go to a random number generator, draw numbers from a hat, or have them all flip a coin and anyone with a result not in the majority is eliminated until it's down to 2.I think as long as you establish that the final tiebreaker is a random event, your owners shouldn't have much problem with changing the method if a regular coin flip won't work.steviey said:
GregR_2
Footballguy
I think this can be a hard rule to set a good penalty for. If a team is starting players on bye to throw a game, penalizing him points just makes the matter worse. If the owner just isn't caring enough to run his team then there really isn't any penalty that is going to work as a deterrent. The only time the penalty is going to be a deterrent is if it is an oversight.One situation I think you could do someting about is if you are in a league with payouts for weekly high scores, etc, perhaps you could have that teams who start players on bye are ineligible for payouts for some number of weeks. Or another option for money leagues is the penalty is a cash penalty with the money going into the prize pool.But for non-money leagues it is a lot harder. I would hesitate to say something like, "If you start a player on bye, then that lineup spot will be left empty the following week too," because some owners will think it's unfair that two teams got to play against this weakened lineup when they had to play against a full lineup. I'd rather go with something neutral in who it helps, like losing a draft pick the following year, or losing waiver priority, etc.Oh, one other thought... some league management sites like MFL allow you to make it so players on bye can't be set in a lineup. Then the only way it would happen would be if they didn't set a lineup at all and the software used the previous week's lineup.fsufan said:
habman
Footballguy
A couple of things that our league rules cover that haven't been mentioned:
1)What to do in case of a work stoppage by the NFL.
2)What to do if the NFL season is cancelled
3)Human Error by the Commissioner (ie covering the commissioner's ### in a money league)
Our rule on this matter:
If there was a human error made by the commissioner all attempts shall be made to retroactively
correct that error and its subsequent ramifications. The commissioner accepts no responsibilty and
shall not reimburse any team for any error that he unknowingly committed. These errors include but
are not limited to accepting starting line ups that had errors in them, erroneous assumptions on the
part of the commissioner, miscalculations of money at the auction draft and unknowingly allowing a
roster to exist that doesn't meet the minimum roster requirements.
1)What to do in case of a work stoppage by the NFL.
2)What to do if the NFL season is cancelled
3)Human Error by the Commissioner (ie covering the commissioner's ### in a money league)
Our rule on this matter:
If there was a human error made by the commissioner all attempts shall be made to retroactively
correct that error and its subsequent ramifications. The commissioner accepts no responsibilty and
shall not reimburse any team for any error that he unknowingly committed. These errors include but
are not limited to accepting starting line ups that had errors in them, erroneous assumptions on the
part of the commissioner, miscalculations of money at the auction draft and unknowingly allowing a
roster to exist that doesn't meet the minimum roster requirements.
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One thing we've tried to prevent in our keeper league is owners tanking it to get the first pick next year. There are obviously a number of problems with this, not the least of which is the reprecussions to the playoff standings. Its tough when two teams are battling it out for the last playoff spot and one team is playing an owner who's thoughts are only focussed on next year's draft choice position.
We have instituted the following penalty for owners that submit lineups for players on bye weeks or don't submit lineups every week to try to deter this -
An owner that submits an illegal lineup will be awarded zero points and will be given a loss for the purposes of playoff seedings. Said owner will be awarded a victory for the purposes of draft order seeding for the next season.
We also make this the first tie-breaker for determining playoffs and draft seedings. An owner that submitted an illegal roster will lose the playoff tiebreaker and will either be awarded the lower seed or possibly bumped from the playoffs.
Just a quick example using a 6 team league (four teams make the playoffs) -
Team A - 9-5
Team B - 8-6
Team C - 8-6
Team D - 7-7
Team E - 7-7 (didn't submit lineup one week)
Team F - 6-8
So teams A, B, C, D would advance to the playoffs because D has the tiebreaker over E. The seeding for next years draft (based on these records) would be F, D, B/C, E, A because the adjusted record for the draft order seedings is -
A - 9-5
E - 8-6 (didn't submit lineup one week, loss changed to a win for draft order standings)
B - 8-6
C - 8-6
D - 7-7
F - 6-8
It requires a little more tracking on the commissioners part but it corrects most of the easily avoidable illegal lineup submission. For big money/highly competitive leagues you could extend this to include starting a guy that is listed on the injury report as OUT and starting guys that are on either the PUP or the IR.
This doesn't take into account an owner benching a stud or their best players to try and lose the game. For instance an owner that starts Losman over Peyton Manning in hopes of gaining the loss. If your league has problems with this move to a lottery type system like the NBA/NHL. The worst teams gets 10 balls, the next team gets 9 balls, the next team gets 8 balls etc.
We use a lottery type system in a redraft league for the weekly waiver wire and it works out nice. The worse team usually picks in the top 5 spots and typically winds up with the top pick 2 to 4 times during the season.
We have instituted the following penalty for owners that submit lineups for players on bye weeks or don't submit lineups every week to try to deter this -
An owner that submits an illegal lineup will be awarded zero points and will be given a loss for the purposes of playoff seedings. Said owner will be awarded a victory for the purposes of draft order seeding for the next season.
We also make this the first tie-breaker for determining playoffs and draft seedings. An owner that submitted an illegal roster will lose the playoff tiebreaker and will either be awarded the lower seed or possibly bumped from the playoffs.
Just a quick example using a 6 team league (four teams make the playoffs) -
Team A - 9-5
Team B - 8-6
Team C - 8-6
Team D - 7-7
Team E - 7-7 (didn't submit lineup one week)
Team F - 6-8
So teams A, B, C, D would advance to the playoffs because D has the tiebreaker over E. The seeding for next years draft (based on these records) would be F, D, B/C, E, A because the adjusted record for the draft order seedings is -
A - 9-5
E - 8-6 (didn't submit lineup one week, loss changed to a win for draft order standings)
B - 8-6
C - 8-6
D - 7-7
F - 6-8
It requires a little more tracking on the commissioners part but it corrects most of the easily avoidable illegal lineup submission. For big money/highly competitive leagues you could extend this to include starting a guy that is listed on the injury report as OUT and starting guys that are on either the PUP or the IR.
This doesn't take into account an owner benching a stud or their best players to try and lose the game. For instance an owner that starts Losman over Peyton Manning in hopes of gaining the loss. If your league has problems with this move to a lottery type system like the NBA/NHL. The worst teams gets 10 balls, the next team gets 9 balls, the next team gets 8 balls etc.
We use a lottery type system in a redraft league for the weekly waiver wire and it works out nice. The worse team usually picks in the top 5 spots and typically winds up with the top pick 2 to 4 times during the season.
heckmanm
Footballguy
Our websitedoesn't allow bye week players to be selected. You could have a bye-week player carry over from a previous week, but we have a rule that each team must submit a lineup every week, even if it didn't change from the week before. The website notes if a carry-over lineup was used.
The first time you don't submit a lineup, you just get a friendly reminder note from the commish. For subsequent offenses, draft penalties ensue (e.g., your first pick drops to the end of the round).
In the 1-1/2 years we've had this rule, we've had maybe 5-6 warnings sent out, and nobody's missed a second time.
GoBears84
Footballguy
Great List!
We amended two rules this year:
In one league we have one IR spot. To keep guys from abusing it we instituted a number of rules: The Player must be listed as OUT to be on IR. Last year we added the Whizzinator Rule: A player must be out due to injury and not because he's a bonehead or malcontent. This year we added that a player put on IR must stay on IR for a minimum of 2 weeks.
The other dealt with Waiver Wires: Our Fanball setup was such that a player dropped less than 24 hours prior to Sunday at 12:00 CST would not be available until FA Claims on Wed. Guys who were busy during the week were waiting until Sat to drop players (not maliciously) so we changed the rule that starting Saturday morning, any player dropped is immediately available.
Joel
We amended two rules this year:
In one league we have one IR spot. To keep guys from abusing it we instituted a number of rules: The Player must be listed as OUT to be on IR. Last year we added the Whizzinator Rule: A player must be out due to injury and not because he's a bonehead or malcontent. This year we added that a player put on IR must stay on IR for a minimum of 2 weeks.
The other dealt with Waiver Wires: Our Fanball setup was such that a player dropped less than 24 hours prior to Sunday at 12:00 CST would not be available until FA Claims on Wed. Guys who were busy during the week were waiting until Sat to drop players (not maliciously) so we changed the rule that starting Saturday morning, any player dropped is immediately available.
Joel
fsufan
Footballguy
I have an owner that just does not care about playing FF anymore. Most likely I will replace him next year.
steviey
Footballguy
It would appear that the default on MFL is that it doesn't matter if it's a defensive touchdown, the team that is scored against is credited with a touchdown against. For example, if Joey Harrington throws an interception and Charles Woodson runs it back for a touchdown it counts as points against Miami's defence. With no specific rule in writing I don't see any way I can deviate from this can I?
Milwalkeysbeast
Footballguy
I always thought it would be interesting to make the last place person be banned from the league for 1 year following their last place finish.
GregR_2
Footballguy
If that's how you set it up at the start of the season... and it isn't otherwise in conflict with your written rules, I think that would be the case. You shouldn't deviate from a scoring system once set unless it is because of an error which makes it not follow your other rules.But I also imagine most people assume all points against a team count against the team defense regardless of how they are scored, unless it's said otherwise.
AhrnCityPahnder
Yinz-o-riffic
heckmanm
Footballguy
Ours always worked this way, and I think that's how the rules are written, because that's what our software supported.This year we moved to a new provider and I think it's now calculating only points scored against the defensive unit. So I think the site is out of sync with our rules, but it's been consistent through the season.
Agree though that you can't change how you apply the scoring in mid-season.
GregR_2
Footballguy
Made a thread on playoff specific issues. Figured it was better to have in a new thread for the time being as I know I don't always keep up with new posts in pinned threads. But maybe we can merge it into here after it has run it's course.
http://forums.footballguys.com/forum/index...howtopic=285281
http://forums.footballguys.com/forum/index...howtopic=285281
Greg,
BTW this has been an interesting read and great work on your part.
Here's a scenario-
Team A highlights the wrong player and drops a stud RB. Commish says(correctly IMO) there's no rule about reversing waivers, nothing he can do.
This is obvious that he made an oops.
What type of rule would you come up with to allow the commish to reverse such a move and yet avoid 10k "I didn't mean to drop him" emails each week? Need a corrective rule but am guarded about openning the floodgates with BS.
Any thoughts?
Oh one more thing-there is a rule about server side site problems stopping all moves until an agreed upon time to reschedule.
The rule on client side problems is simply that they'd better find another computer.
The feeling is neither applied here
BTW this has been an interesting read and great work on your part.
Here's a scenario-
Team A highlights the wrong player and drops a stud RB. Commish says(correctly IMO) there's no rule about reversing waivers, nothing he can do.
This is obvious that he made an oops.
What type of rule would you come up with to allow the commish to reverse such a move and yet avoid 10k "I didn't mean to drop him" emails each week? Need a corrective rule but am guarded about openning the floodgates with BS.
Any thoughts?
Oh one more thing-there is a rule about server side site problems stopping all moves until an agreed upon time to reschedule.
The rule on client side problems is simply that they'd better find another computer.
The feeling is neither applied here
GregR_2
Footballguy
I guess the things I would try to include in such a rule are the time limit that you have to say it was a mistake, and the means of communication, and what all is or isn't covered under it. Time limit is up to personal tastes. I would personally go with like 15 minutes, which would require everyone to verify their transactions immediately if they want to catch a mistake. But one could make an argument for longer being allowed.Means of communication... time stamping and availability to the league are the important points. A league message board might be the best means of time stamping since it shows the time the post was made. But, it doesn't actually notify everyone necessarily that the post was made. A leaguewide email provides better notification, but the time stamping can be lacking and may not reflect when it was actually sent. So if it were me, I might require a post on the league message board, and then a league-wide email.As for what is or isn't covered under it, I imagine you allow it for drops and/or FCFS waivers. Do you allow it for draft picks? (If you're in a league that does a slow online draft, you don't want someone making a pick and 10 pre-drafted picks after him firing, then he takes it back now he knows who everyone else is picking.) Do you allow it for starting lineups submitted right before lineups lock? Do you allow it for queued up waivers if noticed immediately after processing?Myself, I'd just have it be for drops and FCFS waivers. I have rolled back slow online drafts because of mistakes before, and I think in retrospect taking a harder stance and calling for personal responsibility on them is a better way to go.Bri said:
lions327
Footballguy
This is a great idea.
steviey
Footballguy
Any thoughts on what to do with a player who is currently only on a team's practice squad (and as a result not on MFL's player database)? I've had one owner inquire about this particular player. It appears that he could be added to the team's 53 man active roster shortly. Do I just add him as a custom player to the league and if so do I notify the rest of the league or just let the interested owner know? I'm thinking I could just add him prior to the processing of waivers and not say anything. If anyone else is interested they will be looking for him and can put in a waiver claim for him. Any suggestions?
GregR_2
Footballguy
If you don't have any rules to handle it, if it were me I'd let the website handle it and they can pick the player up when MFL adds him. Then you don't have to worry about notifying other owners, etc.If you go the other route, my 2 cents is that you need to notify all owners if you as commissioner are adding players. Owners would have a legitimate gripe if they are waiting on the website to add him according to the website's posted rules, only to find out that you added him without giving any notice.
5thQuarter
Footballguy
I have posted a link to a PDF document with our league rules, if anyone would like to check them out or let me know if you see any room for improvment let me know. Here is the link:
The Fifth Quarter Fantasy Football League Rules
Responses are greatly appreciated.
The Fifth Quarter Fantasy Football League Rules
Responses are greatly appreciated.
