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Would you quit a league over this? (1 Viewer)
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Disco Stu
Confirmed FBGal
That's awesome."If you don't agree with me you're a great big doodie head!"I'd guess the other owners are quietly hoping this makes you quit the league. You sound like a huge PIA.
northern exposure
Footballguy
Probably not getting alot of support for your side of the debate because most of us on these boards don't live at home with our Moms.12 team league, $200 buy in, league has been around for maybe 8 years, all of us are friends.
We have huge rosters, due to using IDPs, and no limit at any position, half the time I keep an empty roster spot. Every week for as long as I've been in the league there are 6-8 free agent QBs on the waiver wire. With Brady's bye approaching I was content starting one of those guys, or possibly making a trade for someone's 3rd stringer. Well, last weekend, over a week before Brady's bye, 3 teams (including 1 team I play this week, and the commish) went ahead and picked up 7 or 8 of the free agent QBs, in an obvious attempt to prevent me from having a legitimate starter.
In the years I've been in the league there have been a couple opportunities to hoard, and it's probably crossed peoples minds, but it takes a low person to actually go and do it. I can say with certainty I would never do it; I mean if you were playing against someone who didn't care enough to replace players on a bye, it wouldn't be any fun. So, why would actively preventing him from replacing those players be considered good strategy?
At this point there are maybe 2 free agent Qbs available, and I could still trade for one, but I've really lost interest in the league. For a league of friends to stoop so low is embarassing.
Comparable to: Knowing your mom has to use the bathroom, running to it 1st and locking the door. When she knocks and asks you to hurry you respond, "Mom, you should have planned ahead," and continue taking your time while reading thru the latest Maxim magazine.
John 14:6
Jesus is Lord!
Wait a minute... You knew the thread was going to go this way but you started it anyway?
CravenM
Footballguy
Nate
Footballguy
neener
CravenM
Footballguy
'Xactly - he knew he was the most logical, forthright, sportsmanlike, admirable and personable owner he could be and everybody who didn't agree with him would be wrong.Welcome to Obama-world.
home alone
Footballguy
I had to go back and add this to the 1st post: *Since everyone here is so literal, I have to explain that the above statement is a humorous analogy I took from this thread: http://forums.footballguys.com/forum/index...;p=9271827&Probably not getting alot of support for your side of the debate because most of us on these boards don't live at home with our Moms.12 team league, $200 buy in, league has been around for maybe 8 years, all of us are friends.
We have huge rosters, due to using IDPs, and no limit at any position, half the time I keep an empty roster spot. Every week for as long as I've been in the league there are 6-8 free agent QBs on the waiver wire. With Brady's bye approaching I was content starting one of those guys, or possibly making a trade for someone's 3rd stringer. Well, last weekend, over a week before Brady's bye, 3 teams (including 1 team I play this week, and the commish) went ahead and picked up 7 or 8 of the free agent QBs, in an obvious attempt to prevent me from having a legitimate starter.
In the years I've been in the league there have been a couple opportunities to hoard, and it's probably crossed peoples minds, but it takes a low person to actually go and do it. I can say with certainty I would never do it; I mean if you were playing against someone who didn't care enough to replace players on a bye, it wouldn't be any fun. So, why would actively preventing him from replacing those players be considered good strategy?
At this point there are maybe 2 free agent Qbs available, and I could still trade for one, but I've really lost interest in the league. For a league of friends to stoop so low is embarassing.
Comparable to: Knowing your mom has to use the bathroom, running to it 1st and locking the door. When she knocks and asks you to hurry you respond, "Mom, you should have planned ahead," and continue taking your time while reading thru the latest Maxim magazine.
LittlePhatty
Footballguy
Plenty of us, myself included, offered you a rational opinion as to why you can't cry about this.Those teams had to drop players to pick up 8 QBs, right?Your team has the same number of roster spots as their team, right?You have the same opportunity to pick up players that they do, right?Tell us who those teams dropped. It's not the same as churning. They are keeping them on their teams and using up roster spots. If you're playing for money, why would you ever leave a roster spot open?Thank you for proving there are at least a few rational people on this board.
Itchy Amos
Footballguy
After reading some of this thread, I can see why they did this to you.
home alone
Footballguy
Yes, am I supposed to be scared of being in the minority when compared to a bunch of fantasy nerds?
Money league.. I've seen lower moves. It's part of the fantasy game. You win some, you lose some.
My real suggestion on this thread instead of finding a QB, find better friends. I'm in a league with friends myself I'm pretty sure not one of us would do that. I've been in the position to be able to.. I've actually called my friend that I was facing and said "dude, you forgot to insert your lineup". We all talk trash and see who the better "manager" is, but in the end it's really not fun to trash talk when your fighting handicapped.
Beating a friend after screwing him over really isn't the coolest scenario, I don't think I would mention the W when I saw him next. It's like challenging him to a game of one on one bball and making him tie his left arm behind his back... would you take credit in that win?
at the end of the day, meh, sounds like you need to get on myspace lol.
My real suggestion on this thread instead of finding a QB, find better friends. I'm in a league with friends myself I'm pretty sure not one of us would do that. I've been in the position to be able to.. I've actually called my friend that I was facing and said "dude, you forgot to insert your lineup". We all talk trash and see who the better "manager" is, but in the end it's really not fun to trash talk when your fighting handicapped.
Beating a friend after screwing him over really isn't the coolest scenario, I don't think I would mention the W when I saw him next. It's like challenging him to a game of one on one bball and making him tie his left arm behind his back... would you take credit in that win?
at the end of the day, meh, sounds like you need to get on myspace lol.
Nate
Footballguy
No kidding. I would terrorize a little whiner like this. Maybe they want him to quit the league...
LittlePhatty
Footballguy
What the #### kind of idiotic comment is that?
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Gettin' Ziggy Wilf It
Footballguy
You keep saying this is immature and unsportsmanlike thing to do. However you have failed to acknowledge that you have only ASSUMED that collusion has actually occurred. Several people have given perfectly reasonable explanations for why the QBs would have been taken.
home alone
Footballguy
I'm a broken record here...Plenty of us, myself included, offered you a rational opinion as to why you can't cry about this.Those teams had to drop players to pick up 8 QBs, right?Your team has the same number of roster spots as their team, right?You have the same opportunity to pick up players that they do, right?Tell us who those teams dropped. It's not the same as churning. They are keeping them on their teams and using up roster spots. If you're playing for money, why would you ever leave a roster spot open?Thank you for proving there are at least a few rational people on this board.
It's absolutely comparable because the outcome or objective is the same; you're adding players you will not start in an attempt to prevent a team from having a bye week sub...end of story.Gettin' Ziggy Wilf It
Footballguy
Exactly, and nobody likes listening to broken records.I'm a broken record here...Plenty of us, myself included, offered you a rational opinion as to why you can't cry about this.Those teams had to drop players to pick up 8 QBs, right?Thank you for proving there are at least a few rational people on this board.
Your team has the same number of roster spots as their team, right?
You have the same opportunity to pick up players that they do, right?
Tell us who those teams dropped.
It's not the same as churning. They are keeping them on their teams and using up roster spots.
If you're playing for money, why would you ever leave a roster spot open?
home alone
Footballguy
Exactly what I thought...
For the record, I nullified my vote, I viewed the results before doing anythingI had to go back and add this to the 1st post: *Since everyone here is so literal, I have to explain that the above statement is a humorous analogy I took from this thread: http://forums.footballguys.com/forum/index...;p=9271827&Probably not getting alot of support for your side of the debate because most of us on these boards don't live at home with our Moms.12 team league, $200 buy in, league has been around for maybe 8 years, all of us are friends.
We have huge rosters, due to using IDPs, and no limit at any position, half the time I keep an empty roster spot. Every week for as long as I've been in the league there are 6-8 free agent QBs on the waiver wire. With Brady's bye approaching I was content starting one of those guys, or possibly making a trade for someone's 3rd stringer. Well, last weekend, over a week before Brady's bye, 3 teams (including 1 team I play this week, and the commish) went ahead and picked up 7 or 8 of the free agent QBs, in an obvious attempt to prevent me from having a legitimate starter.
In the years I've been in the league there have been a couple opportunities to hoard, and it's probably crossed peoples minds, but it takes a low person to actually go and do it. I can say with certainty I would never do it; I mean if you were playing against someone who didn't care enough to replace players on a bye, it wouldn't be any fun. So, why would actively preventing him from replacing those players be considered good strategy?
At this point there are maybe 2 free agent Qbs available, and I could still trade for one, but I've really lost interest in the league. For a league of friends to stoop so low is embarassing.
Comparable to: Knowing your mom has to use the bathroom, running to it 1st and locking the door. When she knocks and asks you to hurry you respond, "Mom, you should have planned ahead," and continue taking your time while reading thru the latest Maxim magazine.
Jewell
Footballguy
northern exposure
Footballguy
When do you finally drop it and admit you are in this thread?
in this thread?Let me guess, its a 13 team league? Jesus and his 12 disciples?
joeski
Footballguy
You picked these friends but not a backup? And it only took you eight years to notice.
Dude, your just a big baby that would quit because your boys got over on you. In our league that would win you cred if you got over on the other fellas.Waaaahahahaha. I quit, you guys aren't fair. I bet you got picked last in elementary school.
In all seriousness, I really hope you don't come off to others as you have in this thread. Regardless of your original topic, or your position on it, the way you handled this thread speaks volumes about you as an individual. And, it's not flattering.I don't expect you'll take a look in a mirror (Mom's probably using it), but I would suggest you think about how you appear to others.I'm a broken record here...Plenty of us, myself included, offered you a rational opinion as to why you can't cry about this.Those teams had to drop players to pick up 8 QBs, right?Your team has the same number of roster spots as their team, right?You have the same opportunity to pick up players that they do, right?Tell us who those teams dropped. It's not the same as churning. They are keeping them on their teams and using up roster spots. If you're playing for money, why would you ever leave a roster spot open?Thank you for proving there are at least a few rational people on this board.
LittlePhatty
Footballguy
When you put it that way, it sounds perfectly legit and fair. Most people would agree, and have probably done it. I've done it.
I'm not sure if this is better if this is actually someone in home's league or just shtick, but either way
home alone
Footballguy
Maybe I should call David Caruso...
John 14:6
Jesus is Lord!
No, I guess I just don't understand the point other than fishing...
I'm hoping that he's going to turn this around and say that he is actually one of the guys who picked up the QBs and someone else was whining to him about it.:money: move to save face at this point.When do you finally drop it and admit you are
SmoovySmoov
The Way of the Samurai
This is like that cell phone commercial that talks about how the one fantasy owner takes that one exact moment to call the guy he is playing and tell him that his star player is on a bye. I always think "What kind of owner doesn't know his player is on a bye?" Now I know.
John 14:6
Jesus is Lord!
I don't think that would work after switching the poll options...I'm hoping that he's going to turn this around and say that he is actually one of the guys who picked up the QBs and someone else was whining to him about it.:money: move to save face at this point.When do you finally drop it and admit you are
shuke
Black Ice Skeptic
LAUNCH
Footballguy
Next on CSCry!Maybe I should call David Caruso...
BustedKnuckles
Footballguy
we need a Spilt Milk smily for just these occasions
northern exposure
Footballguy
One thing you have not addressed is: how big are the rosters, how many players are you carrying at each position and how many do you start at each position every week? If guys are dropping IDPs and crap RBs and WRs to pick up these QBs, then you must be hoarding players at least at one position or you would have dropped an IDP or crap player to pick up a back-up QB long ago.I'm a broken record here...Plenty of us, myself included, offered you a rational opinion as to why you can't cry about this.Those teams had to drop players to pick up 8 QBs, right?Thank you for proving there are at least a few rational people on this board.
Your team has the same number of roster spots as their team, right?
You have the same opportunity to pick up players that they do, right?
Tell us who those teams dropped.
It's not the same as churning. They are keeping them on their teams and using up roster spots.
If you're playing for money, why would you ever leave a roster spot open?
Shouldn't you go find a qb first?Maybe I should call David Caruso...
John 14:6
Jesus is Lord!
And a smily racing past his mom to use the bathroom...we need a Spilt Milk smily for just these occasions
Just out of curiosity, how big is your perfectly legal QBBC?
home alone
Footballguy
Everyone's benches look pretty similar...but last Sunday all of a sudden a few teams had 3-4 QBs, and one of the culprits even boasted on the chat room something like "Quite the run on QBs this morning, I think that's the 1st time in league history that every starting QB was on a roster." Hardy har...One thing you have not addressed is: how big are the rosters, how many players are you carrying at each position and how many do you start at each position every week? If guys are dropping IDPs and crap RBs and WRs to pick up these QBs, then you must be hoarding players at least at one position or you would have dropped an IDP or crap player to pick up a back-up QB long ago.I'm a broken record here...Plenty of us, myself included, offered you a rational opinion as to why you can't cry about this.Those teams had to drop players to pick up 8 QBs, right?Thank you for proving there are at least a few rational people on this board.
Your team has the same number of roster spots as their team, right?
You have the same opportunity to pick up players that they do, right?
Tell us who those teams dropped.
It's not the same as churning. They are keeping them on their teams and using up roster spots.
If you're playing for money, why would you ever leave a roster spot open?
Gettin' Ziggy Wilf It
Footballguy
Ok, so over 200 posts and no one has actually answered the OP's question in the title.
The answer is YES, you should most definitely quit this league. Because you are clearly not capable of playing in a $200 league.
The answer is YES, you should most definitely quit this league. Because you are clearly not capable of playing in a $200 league.
northern exposure
Footballguy
If that is truly the case why didn't you drop one of your scrub players and pick up a back-up QB? Isn't that what you said the other colluding teams did?Everyone's benches look pretty similar...but last Sunday all of a sudden a few teams had 3-4 QBs, and one of the culprits even boasted on the chat room something like "Quite the run on QBs this morning, I think that's the 1st time in league history that every starting QB was on a roster." Hardy har...One thing you have not addressed is: how big are the rosters, how many players are you carrying at each position and how many do you start at each position every week? If guys are dropping IDPs and crap RBs and WRs to pick up these QBs, then you must be hoarding players at least at one position or you would have dropped an IDP or crap player to pick up a back-up QB long ago.I'm a broken record here...Plenty of us, myself included, offered you a rational opinion as to why you can't cry about this.Those teams had to drop players to pick up 8 QBs, right?Thank you for proving there are at least a few rational people on this board.
Your team has the same number of roster spots as their team, right?
You have the same opportunity to pick up players that they do, right?
Tell us who those teams dropped.
It's not the same as churning. They are keeping them on their teams and using up roster spots.
If you're playing for money, why would you ever leave a roster spot open?
TheDirtyWord
Footballguy
Not to mention...when you reach a certain age/stage in life, popularity and nerd designations really cease to matter since more important things like family/friends/job/financial security take precedence over 'coolness'.
Ok, i'm late to this thread. Not reading 5 pages so hope this hasn't been posted.
Anyways this poll is flawed. Obviously, there was a use to hoarding players they have no use for. To mess with the OP so he'd feel compelled to register on a FF message board to whine about it. Now there are 11 of his buddies watching this thread and laughing their collective rear ends off. Can we pin this?
Anyways this poll is flawed. Obviously, there was a use to hoarding players they have no use for. To mess with the OP so he'd feel compelled to register on a FF message board to whine about it. Now there are 11 of his buddies watching this thread and laughing their collective rear ends off. Can we pin this?
I only roster enough players to field this week's team. I can always pick up starters for next week.
Spin-off thread... "Would you quit a message board over this?"
home alone, I will give you this. At least you keep coming back for it. Most posters would have run to the bathroom ahead of their mom's by now.
Spin-off thread... "Would you quit a message board over this?"
home alone, I will give you this. At least you keep coming back for it. Most posters would have run to the bathroom ahead of their mom's by now.
