Would you do this? (1 Viewer)

[plyka]

I hear this all the time, but I don't understand. Why would you tell another owner who you're looking at on the WW? makes no sense

I'm not sure how you do it in your league, but in our league we are all good friends and love to talk about fantasy football. If a friend of mine comes up with a name and tells me, I'm not going to run out and pick him up before my friend can. It is as simple as that. It is an unwritten rule. Why? It is not very sporting now is it. If you could cheat to win fantasy football would you do it? Why if you said yes? Where is the fun when you win while cheating? If we're talking about winning a job, or getting the hot chick, etc., i understand that the reward is there to make you want to cheat. But in fantasy football, cheating devalues the reward into nothing. Anyways, if we didn't abide by the unwritten rule to be sporting, then no one would talk with anyone about anything, and where is the fun in that? Most of the fun in FF is talking to your buddies about strategy, players, etc. If you don't use their info against them, then the more you guys can talk and have a good time.To the original poster, i would ask you: if it was your intention all along that you were going to pick up Donald Brown, then why didn't you say something? He said Brown, you didn't say anything like: "geez, i was thinking about Brown?" You said nothing, instead you quitely got off the phone. slithered over to your computer and stole your friend's player. Pretty shady if you ask me. If you really had Brown on your mind you would have spoken up and said, "hey, i was thinking of Brown too," etc.

1) it wasn't his friend's player - the guy was in the FA pool (or on waivers) . . .2) there IS a conflict between friends when competing in the same league . . . the friend was silly to talk about a player NOT YET on his team . . . it's cool to talk trash about an upcoming game , that's part of the fun - but the commish was foolish to talk about Brown before acquiring him . . .

That's a good point. But it kind of brings up an inconsistancy in the original story. If the guy was a FA, then why hadn't the guy picked him up already? I know if i'm high on a guy, I pick him up immediately, I don't just leave him be on the FA list while i go on about my day. It's possible that the original poster kind of twisted the facts on this one. The guy may have been on waivers and the original poster simply had a higher WW priority.

 

[The Kansas Comet]

Loose lips sink ships. Commish should have kept his Brown move to himself.

 

[DropKick]

wrong on every level. his prior intent is irrelevant. If I know someone's going after a player (and had the room) I'd pick him up and trade him to them.

However assuming he was targeting him, it's not incumbent on him to disclose who he is going after. Certainly not punishable by not allowing him to pick up a guy because the other guy expressed his intention first. This ain't shotgun.

I find this wrong on a moral level. If I had my eye on Brown, I wouldn't NOT take him because the guy opened his mouth. But... if I had no interest, I wouldn't jump his pick and - worse still - try to trade him. How better to ruin a friendship?

 

[eefflrat]

I hear this all the time, but I don't understand. Why would you tell another owner who you're looking at on the WW? makes no sense

I'm not sure how you do it in your league, but in our league we are all good friends and love to talk about fantasy football. If a friend of mine comes up with a name and tells me, I'm not going to run out and pick him up before my friend can. It is as simple as that. It is an unwritten rule. Why? It is not very sporting now is it. If you could cheat to win fantasy football would you do it? Why if you said yes? Where is the fun when you win while cheating? If we're talking about winning a job, or getting the hot chick, etc., i understand that the reward is there to make you want to cheat. But in fantasy football, cheating devalues the reward into nothing. Anyways, if we didn't abide by the unwritten rule to be sporting, then no one would talk with anyone about anything, and where is the fun in that? Most of the fun in FF is talking to your buddies about strategy, players, etc. If you don't use their info against them, then the more you guys can talk and have a good time.To the original poster, i would ask you: if it was your intention all along that you were going to pick up Donald Brown, then why didn't you say something? He said Brown, you didn't say anything like: "geez, i was thinking about Brown?" You said nothing, instead you quitely got off the phone. slithered over to your computer and stole your friend's player. Pretty shady if you ask me. If you really had Brown on your mind you would have spoken up and said, "hey, i was thinking of Brown too," etc.

I'm with this guy, if you wanted brown so bad why didn't you just pick him up before you guys talked, the guy should have been snatched off the waiver wires anyway. A guy tells you he'll be home in 15 minutes to pick up Donald brown and you go and pick him up first that's Bush league. I think he should come over to your house and punch you in the mouth in front of your family.