Sunday@1
Footballguy
This is the time of year that fantasy players occasionally give in to bad decisions and give FF a bad name. Here is an overview of the league and situation.
3 year old 10 team work league with all moderate to serious fans. All 10 are friendly and no jerks in the league.
Non keeper league with basic scoring.
$100.00 buy in and $2.00 per waiver, free trades
Payouts are mostly for the final teams with no weekly payouts.
$25.00 payout at end of season is given to whoever holds the category leader – QB, RB, WR , TE, K, DEF
*Note – Most owners didn’t want this but the Commish is lazy and never wants to do anything.*
The trade deadline has always been week 10 but the Commish moved it to week 13 without once the season started without telling anyone.When it was questioned, he said everyone knew which is false. This is key to the story.
Team “A” has a good team and is off to a good start and is 10-1. He is a waiver freak and add/drops players at an alarming rate. In fact, 54 waivers to date at $2.00 each not including 5+ trades. He was helped by McNabb& Willie Parker. So when McNabb went down he was left with scraps as a QB – Jason Campbell and other back up / fringe starter types. There isn’t anything to claim so he tries to trade – without success. I told my league mates to let him add a Charlie Frye type via waivers but do not help him.
He then turns to the worst team in the league “after” the original trade deadline and offers him Robbie Gould for Chad Pennington. I know CP isn’t great but he owns Jerricho and is better than what he has. Robbie Gould is the leading kicker so the bottom feeder would get $25 as a nice bonus to a bad year.
I am not involved in the trade but see this as “purchasing” a player and then when you add the fact that the trade deadline was moved, has a few owners pissed. Team “A” thinks of it as tactical warfare and everything is fair game. He contends that it isn’t a guarantee that Gould will win the high points so he sees it as just another trade. Gould has about a 20 point leading with 2 weeks to go.
How would this be good for the league when someone who is out of the playoff race is “acquiring” a kicker in week 11? Yes, it was supposedly within the rules but was it good for the league? This would be like kneeing an opposing player in the groin but since the ref didn’t see it and no flag was thrown it was okay. Remember, it isn’t the result it is the intent.
I blame the Commish for never stepping in after week 10 trade deadline confusion and even more so to allow this trade to go through.
I am a Commish of another league and I would at least question the move and as a team owner I wouldn’t stoop as low.
What say the FF community on this cheesy move?
Note - He has since moved Pennington for Phillip Rivers.
3 year old 10 team work league with all moderate to serious fans. All 10 are friendly and no jerks in the league.
Non keeper league with basic scoring.
$100.00 buy in and $2.00 per waiver, free trades
Payouts are mostly for the final teams with no weekly payouts.
$25.00 payout at end of season is given to whoever holds the category leader – QB, RB, WR , TE, K, DEF
*Note – Most owners didn’t want this but the Commish is lazy and never wants to do anything.*
The trade deadline has always been week 10 but the Commish moved it to week 13 without once the season started without telling anyone.When it was questioned, he said everyone knew which is false. This is key to the story.
Team “A” has a good team and is off to a good start and is 10-1. He is a waiver freak and add/drops players at an alarming rate. In fact, 54 waivers to date at $2.00 each not including 5+ trades. He was helped by McNabb& Willie Parker. So when McNabb went down he was left with scraps as a QB – Jason Campbell and other back up / fringe starter types. There isn’t anything to claim so he tries to trade – without success. I told my league mates to let him add a Charlie Frye type via waivers but do not help him.
He then turns to the worst team in the league “after” the original trade deadline and offers him Robbie Gould for Chad Pennington. I know CP isn’t great but he owns Jerricho and is better than what he has. Robbie Gould is the leading kicker so the bottom feeder would get $25 as a nice bonus to a bad year.
I am not involved in the trade but see this as “purchasing” a player and then when you add the fact that the trade deadline was moved, has a few owners pissed. Team “A” thinks of it as tactical warfare and everything is fair game. He contends that it isn’t a guarantee that Gould will win the high points so he sees it as just another trade. Gould has about a 20 point leading with 2 weeks to go.
How would this be good for the league when someone who is out of the playoff race is “acquiring” a kicker in week 11? Yes, it was supposedly within the rules but was it good for the league? This would be like kneeing an opposing player in the groin but since the ref didn’t see it and no flag was thrown it was okay. Remember, it isn’t the result it is the intent.
I blame the Commish for never stepping in after week 10 trade deadline confusion and even more so to allow this trade to go through.
I am a Commish of another league and I would at least question the move and as a team owner I wouldn’t stoop as low.
What say the FF community on this cheesy move?
Note - He has since moved Pennington for Phillip Rivers.
trade deadline was moved later in the year, not earlier, and supposedly without notice.No notice is an issue, but you said everyone's friendly and there are no jerks, so no reason to doubt the commish. This issue sounds like a he said, she saidThe rest is 
for which I have to say:
and 
Gould for Pennie, regardless of motive, is a fair trade. Pennie for Rivers, regardless of motive, is a fair trade. There is no evidence of cheating. McNabb owner needed a QB and he got one. Pennie owner got the #1 kicker. The fact that $$ is associated with the #1 K in four weeks is not relevant - he could end NOT the #1 K.
great point.
Willie
