Thrown Game - drastic impact (1 Viewer)

[kegger]

yet another thread for the "there's no rule against being a d*ck, so I can be a d*ck" types!no, wrong, flush, goodbye, #######.

How is improving your draft position for next season based on the way the rules are lined up being a ####? He's doing what's best for his team. If draft order wasn't predicated on previous year's record, you could say he's being a ####. However, there was nothing in the rules that said you cannot start injured players. He did. Got the better draft order. The commish pulled a blatant abuse of power after 4 days of whining from a few others in the league and now we have chaos. Rules that are not written, are not rules.

The guy had no shot at winning it this year, and within the "written on non written" ruleshe did what was best for his team, I see no problem with what the guy did an if someonedid that in a league I was in with the way this one was/is setup I'd say more power to him.The guy did what was best for his team with nothing saying or implied that he could'nt do it.(yep there are many that wouldn't do what he did, but also many that would if able to do so)The commish over stepped his bounds.. (if he didn't like it then put in some kinda rule/rules for it next year).

 

[pittstownkiller]

There is no rule against throwing game and nothing there to protect against issue like this.

Of course throwing games isnt a classy move.

Is there really nothing about illegal lineups, or playing competitively? If there's nothing that could be construed as an anti-tanking provision, I don't think the commissioner has any authority to change the guy's lineup.Your league is set up in a way that rewards tanking (higher draft picks for the worst teams). If you don't have a rule in place against it, then I don't see how this owner can be blamed. He's just managing his team in the way that he thinks is best for it within the rules, even if that means playing for a higher draft pick next year rather than winning this year.

Personally, I think that's a bad way to set up a league, and I'd recommend changing the rules next year. But I don't see how you can meddle with the guy's lineup now. Under your current rules, what he did is perfectly legal.

What would an anti tanking rule look like? I am thinking that the owner should be bumped one place higher in the rookie draft order for every injured player he starts in a playoff round. Would a rule like that work? Would the owner just quit rather than suffer the consequences?

We have an anti-tanking rule, though it is rather lite; you must start an active lineup (if Hunter was on the I\R for example) then the commish will insert the lowest scoring active player you had. Our rule is not perfect but it solves some problems.