Scoring System Changes (1 Viewer)

[trelle1]

Looking for some feedback:

Ten team league, with this scoring system as of draft day:

Completions (2 pts), Incompletions (-1 pts)

Passing Yards (25 yards per point; 5 points at 250 yards; 10 points at 350 yards; 15 points at 450 yards) Passing Touchdowns (6) Interceptions (-2) Rushing Yards (10 yards per point; 3 points at 100 yards; 6 points at 150 yards; 10 points at 225 yards) Rushing Touchdowns (6) Receptions (1) Reception Yards (10 yards per point; 5 points at 60 yards; 10 points at 80 yards; 15 points at 95 yards) Reception Touchdowns (6)

Seeing that this system CLEARLY favors QBs and receivers, I draft Manning in 1st, T. Henry in 2nd, and load up on WRs (T.O., J. Walker, A. Johnson, Coles, Chambers), even getting Winslow at TE. With flex positions, you can start five WRs in this league.

Week 1 -- I outscore the closest guy by 67 points. The commish and a few others in the league decide that the QB scoring needs to be adjusted, so it's changed to .25 pts per completion, nothing for incompletions. It also becomes obvious to all that high-yardage WRs/TEs are the dominant scorers in this system. Talk begins to change the RBs scoring to more closely match that of the WRs/TEs.

Week 2 -- Mid-week, the commish says that he'll change the RB scoring if a majority of the owners (6/10) agree. No majority is reached prior to Sunday's games. I outscore the closest guy by 80 points, and the league's message board starts blowing up with comments clamoring to have the RB scoring changed. I receive a e-mail from the commish telling me that he's going to change the RB scoring after Monday night's game, as this change will make the league "much more fair".

Question: Fair to whom? Certainly not to me, in my opinion. As I wrote earlier, the original scoring system CLEARLY favored QBs and receivers, yet eight owners drafted RBs in the first round. If they didn't study the scoring system prior to the draft, and failed to pick players that best fit the system, the fault lies with them -- not me!

I end this long ramble with a simple question: Fair, or not fair?

 

[rick6668]

What a joke.

Scoring cannot be changed for any reason during the season unless EVERY owner agrees.

Is this a $$$ league?

If not, I'd probably just drop all my players and forget it.

 

[mdog1967]

What a joke.Scoring cannot be changed for any reason during the season unless EVERY owner agrees.Is this a $$$ league?If not, I'd probably just drop all my players and forget it.

 

[the hairy scotsman]

What a joke.Scoring cannot be changed for any reason during the season unless EVERY owner agrees.Is this a $$$ league?If not, I'd probably just drop all my players and forget it.

People who don't understand this are not worth playing ff with.

 

[wombat104]

What a joke.Scoring cannot be changed for any reason during the season unless EVERY owner agrees.Is this a $$$ league?If not, I'd probably just drop all my players and forget it.

Totally agree with this no changes during the season ever!Had a similar issue with a baseball H2H league where saves became much more important. I drafted premium closers very early and dominated the first couple of weeks. Then the other people who didn't bother analyzing the scoring before the draft started complaining and the scoring was changed which ruined by team. I dropped every player on my roster and quit.

 

[Mr.Pack]

What a joke.Scoring cannot be changed for any reason during the season unless EVERY owner agrees.Is this a $$$ league?If not, I'd probably just drop all my players and forget it.

Seriously, this league and the commish is a total joke.

 

[Squinting Cyclops]

these are not minor changes...they are MAJOR changes....either way this goes it will not end well

you are right to hold your ground, though it may result in the league demise

if that is worth it then fight back, if not then concede

if it is a money league, then concede with half the winnings being paid to you immediately

 

[The Reytheist]

I end this long ramble with a simple question: Fair, or not fair?

You KNOW this is completely unfair. You shouldn't need us to tell you that. I'm guessing you went in with a group of new players, and were not expecting to dominate so completely.The key is that the commissioner is not trying to make things fair, he is trying to make things EVEN. Fair is letting the excellent excel, and the lesser learning from it.

You're better off without them... and them without you.

If it's a pay league, warn them that you will not stay if any more rules changes are made.

If they go forward and it's a pay league, demand all of your entry fee back. You agreed to a scoring system and researched to that end. You may not get it back, but that's what you should aim for as a minimum. In either case, tell them just how little integrity the decision has, that you won't be back, and that you'll make sure people hear about it. Then leave.

Don't drop all your players. Let the crappy commissioner sort out how to distribute those players.

If they do keep the league together and decide not to go forward with the changes, teach them where they went wrong on draft day. Teach them how to read and learn scoring rules for next year. Maybe they'll be a more competitive bunch then.

 

[PatsFan72]

Your commish should know, once the draft starts, all scoring rules are set in stone, and any changes to other rules must be unanimous.

One year that I was a commish, about 10 years ago, we had changed the scoring before the draft. We made a mistake with defensive scoring saying TD 1 - 9 yards are 6 points, instead of TD 0 - 9 yards are 6 points. Of course one week there is a recovery in the end zone for a 0 yard TD. I ended up having to give the guy no points for it because that was the way the point system was written. He was a little upset, but respected that the rules are the rules no matter what, and everyone will be held to the same ones. Later that year, I had a guy (a very good friend) who was arrested on Saturday, and didn't get his line-up in (we had a Saturday at midnight deadline), called me Sunday morning and explained what had happened, I said sorry, but no exceptions.

It may seem harsh, but people actually respect that no one is getting special treatment, and the rules are being followed equally. It was a great and very fun league, I was commish for about 6 years, we eventually rolled it into another league when I started working 70 hour weeks (this was before most the automated internet run leagues).

 

[BroadwayG]

I'd have dropped all my players and quit the league after the first scoring change.

 

[bkterps]

YOU ABSOLUTELY CANNOT MAKE SCORING CHANGES AFTER THE DRAFT HAS OCCURRED. When most people draft, at least I think most, they take the scoring into considerations as to when to take certain positions. You obviously did a GREAT job checking that before the draft. You're just in with a bunch of whiners.