I commish a dynasty league that's going into its 10th season and have tabled a bunch of suggestions to my leaguemates about some suggestions to refresh the league in terms of new rules etc. for 2011 and one of them was increasing the roster sizes from 19 to 22 because I felt the roster size we had now was too close to that of a redraft league, not a dynasty and that it was hard to grow and develop talent with a small bench.
A few people were very upset with some of the suggestions but our league champion was especially unhappy with the roster increase suggestion saying that it dried up the free agent pool too quickly and made it more difficult for a struggling team to get better without any viable free agents to choose from and mentioned one owner's name as an example. I can kinda see his point, but at the same time, this owner he mentioned is hardly ever active on the waiver wire. I went back through last season's transaction history and I didn't count a single waiver claim even though he had one of the highest waiver priorities week after week. There was players like Sidney Rice, Miles Austin, Mike Wallace and Pierre Garcon sitting out there for anybody to grab all of which would have improved his team, he didn't attempt to get any of them. Most of his "transactions" involved replacing kickers.
To me, the size of the rosters or lack of free agents has nothing to do with this team's struggles and everything to do with simply not caring enough about his team or the league to try and improve and it's frustrating as a commish to have one team acting as a league anchor. He's a virtual guaranteed win every week.
Now, going back to the suggestions, I put up a poll on the league home page to ask people if they liked the proposed changes or not and 9 of the 12 owners have already voted, one of which is myself who is abstaining from casting a vote, the other is an owner who I know has already unofficially voted by discussing the changes on the message board. The only other owner not to vote...you guessed it. To me, it seems like he doesn't care enough about the league to participate in an important league discussion or enough to actually attempt to improve his team.
There's more too. We are in the middle of our draft, we have a 24 hour time limit on picks with a rule that if your pick is skipped 3 times you lose it. He's currently on the clock with his 3rd round pick for the thrid and final time with 3 hours to go. He hasn't logged in since July 6th. This makes me furious as a commish to have somebody not check in for that long in the middle of a draft and hold things up for everybody else.
It's sad because this guy has been in the league since day 1 and is close friends with the league champion (who is one of our best and most active owners). If it wasn't for that fact, I would kick him out of the league and find somebody who actually gives a damn.
As far as I'm concerned, if you can't check in in a 24 hour time when you know for a fact that there's a draft going on, you shouldn't be playing and if he refuses to put in an effort to improve his team, the only person he has to blame for having an awful team is himself and no amount of roster spots will change that.
A few people were very upset with some of the suggestions but our league champion was especially unhappy with the roster increase suggestion saying that it dried up the free agent pool too quickly and made it more difficult for a struggling team to get better without any viable free agents to choose from and mentioned one owner's name as an example. I can kinda see his point, but at the same time, this owner he mentioned is hardly ever active on the waiver wire. I went back through last season's transaction history and I didn't count a single waiver claim even though he had one of the highest waiver priorities week after week. There was players like Sidney Rice, Miles Austin, Mike Wallace and Pierre Garcon sitting out there for anybody to grab all of which would have improved his team, he didn't attempt to get any of them. Most of his "transactions" involved replacing kickers.
To me, the size of the rosters or lack of free agents has nothing to do with this team's struggles and everything to do with simply not caring enough about his team or the league to try and improve and it's frustrating as a commish to have one team acting as a league anchor. He's a virtual guaranteed win every week.
Now, going back to the suggestions, I put up a poll on the league home page to ask people if they liked the proposed changes or not and 9 of the 12 owners have already voted, one of which is myself who is abstaining from casting a vote, the other is an owner who I know has already unofficially voted by discussing the changes on the message board. The only other owner not to vote...you guessed it. To me, it seems like he doesn't care enough about the league to participate in an important league discussion or enough to actually attempt to improve his team.
There's more too. We are in the middle of our draft, we have a 24 hour time limit on picks with a rule that if your pick is skipped 3 times you lose it. He's currently on the clock with his 3rd round pick for the thrid and final time with 3 hours to go. He hasn't logged in since July 6th. This makes me furious as a commish to have somebody not check in for that long in the middle of a draft and hold things up for everybody else.
It's sad because this guy has been in the league since day 1 and is close friends with the league champion (who is one of our best and most active owners). If it wasn't for that fact, I would kick him out of the league and find somebody who actually gives a damn.
As far as I'm concerned, if you can't check in in a 24 hour time when you know for a fact that there's a draft going on, you shouldn't be playing and if he refuses to put in an effort to improve his team, the only person he has to blame for having an awful team is himself and no amount of roster spots will change that.
