My friend is in the first year of a work league, $160ish buy in. I help him with a few tips on managing his team from time to time, and have been noticing some very shady commish behavior. I appreciate your input - please let me know if I'm overreacting.
1) Waivers run on Thursday and Saturday mornings. There is no FA period. On Sept 21, he changed this to make the 2nd waivers of the week run on Sunday morning. I told my friend that it is not fair or ethical to change any rules when the draft has happened (let alone part way through the season).
2) Thurs 10/27 Waivers run as normal at 1:45 AM, SD has first priority and grabbed Tashard Choice. 3 teams did not make any waiver pickups. Later that day, at 12:01 pm, commish allows SD to pick up Jared Cook and a Kicker. All players are on waivers, next available chance should have been Sunday morning. I tell my friend to talk to the commish about it, and he said that it's a glitch in the CBS system that if you add/drop 2 people it'll give you the top 2 on your waivers list automatically. I haven't played CBS before, but this seems far fetched to me. Commish also says it doesn't matter because ER would have first priority anyways (untrue because he picked up someone during the waiver period when not every team did). I feel that it is unfair that he is allowed to pick up players outside the normal waivers process.
3) Sun 10/30 I am looking at the matchup, at 1PM the opponent "DH" has an illegal roster. He is starting 3 flex options (Lance Moore, Robert Meachem, and Ricky Wiliams), when we are only allowed 1. He has an open WR slot and an open TE slot. These 3 flex players are all playing at 1PM. Under the league rules page, illegal rosters are scored as zero points. At 8:28 PM, Ricky Williams was moved from Flex to Bench, Meachem was moved from Flex to WR, and Jermichael Finley (on bye - his only TE) was moved from Bench to TE. He now has an active roster and scores 66 points. My friend ends up winning the matchup regardless. However, total points are a tie breaker for standings. Regardless of the outcome, I feel that this was wrong because it may affect standings due to the extra 66 pts this team received.
4) Sun 11/6 I see that the opponent "WW" has not picked up a DST for the matchup after the sunday morning waivers have already run. WW's IDP is on bye, and does not have another DST on the team. I check the matchup when the games start, and see that Falcons DST is now on WW's team bench, manually awarded at 11:41 AM. Lion's DST is still Active, and Falcon's are already playing the Colts. Mon 11/7 6:29 PM the commish manually moves Lions DST to WW's bench and activates Falcons DST. This is more than a full day after Falcons DST has played. It will probably not end up affecting the machup outcome, but I feel it is unfair for the same reason as #3. This is 18pts someone should not have, and could be the difference later.
I apologize for this being so long, but I wanted to lay out all the evidence out there for my friend. I think it is unfair that some people get special treatment, and that the commish abuses his powers. It's my friend's first year in a fantasy football league and he may not fully understand how bad these commish moves are. Or am I overreacting (wouldn't be the first time)? A sanity check would be nice. What would you do? This is a work league, so rocking the boat has to be done the right way. But it's also a money league for a good amount of money.
Thanks.
EDIT: to correct #2
1) Waivers run on Thursday and Saturday mornings. There is no FA period. On Sept 21, he changed this to make the 2nd waivers of the week run on Sunday morning. I told my friend that it is not fair or ethical to change any rules when the draft has happened (let alone part way through the season).
2) Thurs 10/27 Waivers run as normal at 1:45 AM, SD has first priority and grabbed Tashard Choice. 3 teams did not make any waiver pickups. Later that day, at 12:01 pm, commish allows SD to pick up Jared Cook and a Kicker. All players are on waivers, next available chance should have been Sunday morning. I tell my friend to talk to the commish about it, and he said that it's a glitch in the CBS system that if you add/drop 2 people it'll give you the top 2 on your waivers list automatically. I haven't played CBS before, but this seems far fetched to me. Commish also says it doesn't matter because ER would have first priority anyways (untrue because he picked up someone during the waiver period when not every team did). I feel that it is unfair that he is allowed to pick up players outside the normal waivers process.
3) Sun 10/30 I am looking at the matchup, at 1PM the opponent "DH" has an illegal roster. He is starting 3 flex options (Lance Moore, Robert Meachem, and Ricky Wiliams), when we are only allowed 1. He has an open WR slot and an open TE slot. These 3 flex players are all playing at 1PM. Under the league rules page, illegal rosters are scored as zero points. At 8:28 PM, Ricky Williams was moved from Flex to Bench, Meachem was moved from Flex to WR, and Jermichael Finley (on bye - his only TE) was moved from Bench to TE. He now has an active roster and scores 66 points. My friend ends up winning the matchup regardless. However, total points are a tie breaker for standings. Regardless of the outcome, I feel that this was wrong because it may affect standings due to the extra 66 pts this team received.
4) Sun 11/6 I see that the opponent "WW" has not picked up a DST for the matchup after the sunday morning waivers have already run. WW's IDP is on bye, and does not have another DST on the team. I check the matchup when the games start, and see that Falcons DST is now on WW's team bench, manually awarded at 11:41 AM. Lion's DST is still Active, and Falcon's are already playing the Colts. Mon 11/7 6:29 PM the commish manually moves Lions DST to WW's bench and activates Falcons DST. This is more than a full day after Falcons DST has played. It will probably not end up affecting the machup outcome, but I feel it is unfair for the same reason as #3. This is 18pts someone should not have, and could be the difference later.
I apologize for this being so long, but I wanted to lay out all the evidence out there for my friend. I think it is unfair that some people get special treatment, and that the commish abuses his powers. It's my friend's first year in a fantasy football league and he may not fully understand how bad these commish moves are. Or am I overreacting (wouldn't be the first time)? A sanity check would be nice. What would you do? This is a work league, so rocking the boat has to be done the right way. But it's also a money league for a good amount of money.
Thanks.
EDIT: to correct #2
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