So we have a deadbeat team owner who has run out of time paying his league dues. To top that, he attempted to trade away his best players to the friend who got him in the league. I think he is officially out of the league, but what is the precedent for dealing with a team like this? Do we have our commissioner manage it with the roster locked? Do we leave it in place as a sort of bye week team? Thanks for your thoughts.
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What to do with a dead team? (1 Viewer)
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Sudoku_in_the_Bathtub
Footballguy
Offer discount on team to someone else. That owner shouldn't have been allowed to draft period...
Captain Hook
Footballguy
Agree with both of the above
BUT if you can't immediately find someone who wants to take over the team, I would have a friend of anyone in the league but who can't/won't join the league but knows what they are doing manage the team for the rest of the year.
BUT if you can't immediately find someone who wants to take over the team, I would have a friend of anyone in the league but who can't/won't join the league but knows what they are doing manage the team for the rest of the year.
Bruce Hammond
Footballguy
Bury it?
Seriously, I'd see if someone you know, or someone here online, would be willing to manage it just for fun. Adjust payouts to account for the reduced league fees. This is the preferable option because he can then be active on the WW and keep the team competitive. If the new freebie owner wins something, so be it. He's doing you a favor by coming in.
Absent that, have the Commish set lineups based on FBG or some other establihsed set of projections/rankings, announced to the league as the source to be used for the season, and just go forward with that. No WW activity because of possible conflict of interest issues. Adjust payouts based on the reduced league fees. Obviously, this team would be ineligible for payouts but would at least remain somewhat competitive.
What you don't want to do is make this a bye and give an edge to teams that have not already played the vacant team, while in the first 5 weeks other teams have had to earn a win.
Seriously, I'd see if someone you know, or someone here online, would be willing to manage it just for fun. Adjust payouts to account for the reduced league fees. This is the preferable option because he can then be active on the WW and keep the team competitive. If the new freebie owner wins something, so be it. He's doing you a favor by coming in.
Absent that, have the Commish set lineups based on FBG or some other establihsed set of projections/rankings, announced to the league as the source to be used for the season, and just go forward with that. No WW activity because of possible conflict of interest issues. Adjust payouts based on the reduced league fees. Obviously, this team would be ineligible for payouts but would at least remain somewhat competitive.
What you don't want to do is make this a bye and give an edge to teams that have not already played the vacant team, while in the first 5 weeks other teams have had to earn a win.
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Bruce Hammond
Footballguy
Nice in theory, not that simple in real life. Guys sometimes forget in my in person draft and send me the money later. Guys in my online dynasty do too. Generally a Commish will just wince, say OK get it to me ASAP, and the draft begins. Especially in live in person drafts, what are you gonna do, tell the guy he can't participate and then draft with 11 owners when he's telling you he forgot his money but he'll pay? It's not very often you get a true deadbeat. 95% of the time it works out fine.
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Sudoku_in_the_Bathtub
Footballguy
Takes 5-10 minutes to PayPal (among other things), use online banking to send money on their phone, run to bank/ATM (if you draft at a bar, many have ATM's inside). If they have 3+ hours to spend at a draft, they've got minutes to pay you. Did they leave their checkbook at home?
It wasn't that simple. 5+ years ago.
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GregR
Footballguy
That's exactly why you don't wait until the draft to collect money. You require payment 2 weeks before the draft starts, or some time frame like that. Anyone who hasn't paid by then, you have time to find another owner to take their spot. There's no better incentive to get your money in, than finding out your league has started looking for someone to replace you because you haven't paid yet.
Johnny Blood
Footballguy
It is easy as pie to collect money before the draft. You tell everyone that they must pay by a certain number of weeks before the draft. At that date, invitations go out to new people. The league then fills up first-come, first-served.
What did you do with the winnings? Roll over to next year? Split between owners? Donate to a worth cause?
Jewell
Footballguy
Rollover to next year. It's a super small money league. More for the fun of it.It was the 2010 season. Dude was pissed going into the season because we wouldn't go along with his insistence that we switch to decimal scoring. His team was blowing early in the season so he up and quit. Then Michael Vick, who was on the departed coach's bench, took the reins in Philly. Suddenly, it was a perfect storm where all his underachieving players hit stride and took the Loser's team to his only championship sans him.
