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Wow, this just got a lot worse.And the answer is yes. You're going to have to make some tough decisions here, but if it's more than one owner, this is clearly your fault and not theirs.
The smart move is to check it at least once the day the first game(s) of the week take(s) place, to make sure everything is correct. If you don't, then you have no one to blame but yourself. It takes about two minutes to get online and make sure your lineup is correct.No way this is the commish's screw up not his. Like others have mention while our lives may revolve around fantasy football others do not. How often does a guy need to check in to make sure he has a lineup submitted?
Lame example.
:11:I'd eithera) Force everyone to start players in order they were pickedb) Throw out week 1 resultsand thenc) Immediately relieve yourself from commish duties
This is the correct answer. I was looking to make sure it wasn't already stated but here it is. Sending out an email is not 100% effective. You as commish had everyone's original lineups and should have loaded them accordingly. Take your beating. Everyone knows this is as application error and not someone cheating. The rest of the league should understand. HTH.BTW- I have been an FFL commish for over 20 years, FWTW.
This is pretty much what happened. The commish messed with the starting lineups and didn't set them back.
I would give this owner a mulligan and ask him immediately who he intended to play before any of the games start on the weekend or else this will get even uglier.Similarly, I would contact ALL the owners to make sure that their lineups are as they want them for the remaining games. If there are CLEAR errors in the starting lineups I would let people change them to a REASONABLE substitute. For example, I WOULD NOT allow the Brees owner to now say "but I really wanted to start Alex Smith this week."
Wow. Do you have anything in your rules to help you out with this?
You're in a tough situation because owner #2 is acting like a jack### rather than doing what seems just, which is unfortunate. It's also, IMHO, a situation where there is no single best answer. Yes, every owner received an email they needed to reset their lineup and that is their responsibility, so despite being a jerk, Owner 2 has a legitimate beef. But it's also a little unreasonable that random players got put into people's lineups rather than having them default to any original lineups since those were recorded in the transactions, so Owner 1 has a legitimate beef too.As a result, I would go with a solution that would try to lessen the impact on both teams and on the league as a whole, and avoid further strife over the matter. Allow Manning in the lineup for owner 1, but have both teams play against the league average this week rather than play against each other. Owner 1 won't be affected by the random players changed into his lineup. Owner 2 won't be affected by Manning being in the lineup since he doesn't play that team now. Both will face reasonable scoring opponents so the rest of the league isn't overly affected by it either.
I would not allow a mulligan for anyone at any time. The Manning owner is not getting a mulligan here - for all he knows (unlikely as it may be), Trent Green could blow up and throw 5 TD's on Sunday. Letting him pick which QB to start after that happened would be a mulligan. Right now, all you are doing is putting back in the QB that everyone on the face of the earth knows he intended to start. It's not even like it's a surpise that Manning went for 280 and 3 TD's last night, and he's trying to take advantage of an unusually good start or something.I don't know your league dynamic, but it's fuzzy who is at fault here. It's partly the owner's fault for not checking the commish's email and resetting his lineup. It's partly the commish's fault for not making sure that everyone did reset their lineup. It's partly the opponent's fault for throwing a childish hissy fit. It's partly foxsports.com's fault for having some asisine system that would put Green in as a starter after the draft. Without clear and definitive evidence that this owner is trying to pull something shady, do as the other poster said and live by the Golden Rule.
Building on the solution I just suggested, if this problem is widespread you could either allow teams with claims you consider legitimate to also play the league average, or just punt and say the entire league is playing against the league average this week.
Exactly. You don't draft Peyton Manning with the high draft pick required to attain him and then sit him out for Trent Green when he is playing vs. New Orleans at home in what was billed to be one of the highest scoring games in recent memory.He was clearly messed up by the re-draft reset and etc. His opponent is being a real jerk here. Period.
This is the way to do it.
That is not what happened. Upon further thought, I like the idea of making everyone start the players in order of how they drafted them, just for week 1. That would be the fairest thing to do.
That's exactly right. Definitely no on part 2. I assume your rules don't allow these changes normally. At the same time, he may have been away on vacation for the holiday weekend, didn't see the e-mail until it was too late, and was acting on reliance that he had put his #1 overall pick in.
Another good solution.
I actually like both suggestions that you made.Another possibility is to use the average score at that position for his team. So if Manning scored 32 points and Trent Green scores 18, he gets 25 for his QB spot for the week. That way it splits the difference. Same for the other owner.
The problem is, what happen if a team that is in no one involved in the NO/IND ends up getting to max out his scoring with players that he would never have started and ends up winning a game he otherwise would have lost? Most teams still have the ability to submit a legal lineup and likely did not have any players in the NO/IND game.I think this basically impacts owners of Manning, Wayne, Harrison, Addai, McAllister, Bush, Colston, and Brees. IMO, those guys would have been in the starting lineup pretty much no matter what. I suppose Bush/McAllister owners may have had other options, but they certainly seem like they would have started. There may be other fringe players that may have been in someone's lineup in larger leagues (Clark, Henderson, Johnson, etc.) so there are really only about a dozen NFL players that this would really have an impact on.And it doesn't sound like this effected many other owners. There are still two full days to fix this.
All did a draft..he puts his lineup in...draft had to redo (was the redo draft same players picked as first draft? he got manning again I see). If so Manning is in! Like the rules if you don't place a lineup in for any week..it falls back to the past weeks lineup ..this case his very 1st lineup he did...since this is week 1
Sorry, but I think this is a horrible idea. We are talking about players from 2 teams and you are suggesting to open the entire Pandora's box to players on every team.As someone pointed out, virtually all offensive players on NO and IND would have been starters since these were two very potent offenses and I'm the draft results indicated this. The players that you would have a tough time making a decision on are:Gonzo2Henderson
You should put some dates down instead of saying last Thursday/Wednesday. Did they have 7 days to change their lineup or less than 24 hours?
I think for this week you need to trust your teams and allow them to say who they would have started and who they would have sat. If some ahole team wants to try and take advantage of it, so be it. This is a commisoner mess up, not the teams.
This has been debated before in the FFA about the usage of "last" here, but after this post it is clear that you are talking about the Wed of THIS week (i.e. the day before the IND-NO game). No way would I hold the Manning owner accountable for him being on his bench.Manning = start
Yes, wed. 9/5. I agree with your list, and Vinaterri and Henderson started so they will stay in. A. Gonzo owner will get to replace him w/Willie Parker or Thomas Jones, obv.
It should be easy then to tell who set their lineups and who didn't, unless all your best players are at the beginning of the alphabet.
I agree, contact the all owners immediately BY PHONE. Not all owners get to make changes though. Look at the transaction logs and let any owner that did not modify their lineup since the "redraft" and the Thursday game. I agree with the person that said, you can only make the change to swap in a player that was taken higher in the draft, the real draft. That should help resolve the Gonz. issue. ANyone that DID make a roster change had obviously looked at their lineup.You should take the heat on this but to force a team to sit Manning is insane. I would leave the league if you did it to me.Also, make it clear ot the whole league that this is the only time this will happen. No mulligans allowed.
