Should the commish take action? Looking for unbiased opinions (1 Viewer)

[Jello_Biafra]

A team (second to last) dropped Tony Gonzalez last week to pick up another TE for his bye. I (second place) was able to pick him up off the waiver wire today as the #2 position. My current TE is Bennett.

Out of curiosity, who did the guy with the #1 waiver position pick up?

 

[habsfan]

This is nonsensical.

The team that dropped Gonzalez gets to reap the reward of having a usable tight end during his bye week. He received compensation if you will.

It is not fair to allow him to add him back thereby circumventing bye week strategy, via a commissioner move.

If so, shouldn't other teams that have to drop even marginal players for bye week replacements be able to add them back once the bye is over?

To alleviate this problem, the commissioner could have added a larger bench.

Show him this thread and put him on notice that he is managing the league poorly.

So Tamme>Gonzo? Is it cool if the guy benches Rodgers for Tebow this week?

At some point the commish needs to stop the bleeding. He should have done it earlier judging by the OP's edits.

Standing by and "letting the players play" no matter what sounds great in theory but sometimes it's just not practical. I don't know when "at some point" is for this particular league but I agree that notionally "at some point" it becomes appropriate to take action. Fantasy websites automate the day to day operation of a league and now they have sites to handle the money so why have a commissioner at all if not for things like this?

 

[Quibbler]

The guys is new to our league.

He dropped VJax after week 1 with no reaction.

He dropped Stevie Johnson after week 3 with no reaction.

All of a sudden, there's a reaction

3 strikes you're out. At first he got the benefit of the doubt. Now he doesn't. Also, those earlier drops are more plausibly rookie mistakes--Stevie hasn't been great, and I can imagine someone dropping VJax for Ogletree after week 1 out of stupidity. Dropping Gonzo when he also had Tamme on bye is pretty obviously tanking.

 

[dhockster]

I take the hard line here:

-if this is a money league (no matter how small, because small is very subjective to different owners)

-if there was no intential tanking

-if there was no collusion

Then commissioner should leave it alone, other than advising new owner what he should have done so that he hopefully does not continue to make bad decisions. Even if I agreed he should have stepped in, it would have only been in the week of the drop.

In the off-season drop the noob owner and get a more competent owner.

As for the competitive balance, the commissioner (as well as the other owners) failed in the off season when they didn't recruit a more knowledgable

FF owner. The Commissioner can't pick and choose when he is going to step in, unless there is a rule that is clearly spelled out (like collusion) for him

to do so. By stepping in randomly, the commissioner, by his actions, is upsetting the competitive balance of the league.