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I commission my league, and brought options to the table knowing this could happen. My league mates said “let’s just embrace the chaos” and voted to just keep our short 5 person bench and not add IR spots.
Also, 50+ yards in each game thus far with Jax, Atl, Min and Was coming up after the bye.
I'd have to disagree. One owner in our league would have 7 guys out this week between PIT TEN KC & NE. Saturday injuries happen to ONE player. Not a whole team. Obviously his opponent would benefit tremendously. Thats not only unfair to that owner but its also unfair to the rest of the league when one owner is essentially granted a gift win
I'd have to disagree. One owner in our league would have 7 guys out this week between PIT TEN KC & NE. Saturday injuries happen to ONE player. Not a whole team. Obviously his opponent would benefit tremendously. Thats not only unfair to that owner but its also unfair to the rest of the league when one owner is essentially granted a gift win
And for those really desperate: Saints rookie TE Adam Trautman is getting the start tomorrow for a hurt Jared Cook. Trautman won't turn into King Kong, but there's little film on Trautman and Sean Payton likes to take advantage of an opponent failing to account for someone. Trautman did receive a few targets in the Raiders game and showed a little promise (not apparent in the stats, of course).
I get what you are saying, this last minute thing really pissed him off. Our league is very QB heavy with 6 pt TDs so it really matters for him. I can pose the option to the whole league if they want to best ball the QB in situations like this but I don't know where to draw the line here. Best ball the whole team if they are missing a flex player? How do I even do that? What if someone has a garbage Wr3 or backup RB that doesn't play. Do I also give them best ball for that spot? Do I have to keep a list of stud players and use that to decide what I'm going to best ball for them?
Agreed with KP ... this stuff is well outside the "injuries happen!" ethic. Plus, the point in red carries a ton of weight for me.
In your league's situation ... I really do think the fairest action (not "100% fair", just "fairest") is to let teams with Patriots and Chiefs submit provisional lineups. One lineup for if KC-NE gets played in Week 4, and a back-up lineup for if KC-NE is scratched.
As comish in one of my leagues, this is what I'm doing.
Yes this is how I am handling for my local leagues I run. People will post on our message board something like Mahomes (Cousins).
Okay, does anyone have rules in their constitution for something like this so I can properly convey this as an option for the league to vote on? I feel like there are certain issues with this that could pop up (i.e. people dropping players before kickoff / people changing their lineups in ESPN from their pre and post communications / people submitting late lineups) etc. And it's just one game this week. What about future weeks when we have 4 or 5 games in flux. Do they do several provisional lineups?
Not that many leagues have firm constitutions. Instead, you try to communicate to as many owners as possible what's going on and ask for input/feedback/opinions.
If all these positive tests start to cascade and teams don't have time to get their rosters clear of COVID via quarantine ... the NFL is going to have to consider a moratorium. All practices and games called off for 13 days (one game week), or two game weeks, or something.
Agreed...we definitely planned for coved nonsense...we increased rosters and prior to this supplemental draft we allowed owners the opportunity to claim the backup QB for their QBs (we are Super-flex) in exchange for forfeiting a supplemental pick...we also were very open that this season had a chance to be crazy so things could change which is exactly what is happening by whole teams possibly not playing instead of just players (and possibly not knowing until after all the games are played)...due to that we are going with the contingency thing I listed above and everyone is totally onboard and good with it...it is always about the integrity of the league first.
Given the incubation period of the virus it's very possible players could test positive a few days after the game is played even if they are getting negatives now. Atlanta was able to play last week with a positive but that was with a non QB. Maybe they got lucky to not have other positives.
This is best for fantasy as well. We're all built around a 17 week regular season. What happens if the NFL has to go 18 or 19 because teams are stacking up multiple bye weeks? Our leagues can't just increase the length of the FF season on the fly.
But this isn’t really a solution, because players/coaches/staff are absolutely positively going to test positive down the road during this season. So then what? Push the schedule back again? Just not seeing them go this route.
Meh....i've had 4 starters get injured the same week and its marked down as #### happens.
Appreciate the input. It is a living breathing constitution but usually changes are made in off-season for next season as mid-season changes aren't fair because people didn't know them going into the season.
But you’re talking about 4 healthy players. These are apples and oranges.
The bolded is true of our live leagues, too, where everyone knows each other. I've already sent an email to our commissioner (a longtime family friend) to get the discussion ball rolling. Might need to text him, too -- time is of the essence.
And to riff off Hot Sauce's point -- another confounding issue is that the NFL itself is indefinite as to whether the real-life game will be played Week 4 or not. So that throws things more into chaos -- fantasy owners don't actually know yet whether or not those guys will be available to their fantasy teams' Week Four lineups.
As was already pointed out Chiefs and NE will be getting tested tomorrow but also for sure players on Vikings and Texans will be getting the less accurate POC tests tomorrow morning.
Right - like an apples to oranges comparison to a BYE week. While these may be treated like BYEs (see: PIT/TEN) they’re not. A BYE is a planned event. Owners prepare for BYEs as far back as draft day.
Weird - I had unanimous support for a contingency sub. First vote in decades-long league history to pass 12-0.
Check your weekly scoring histories; it’s possible that the waiver pool is the best play for several positions. With 12 teams/17 total players I’d expect a lot of kickers, D/STs, and QBs on the WW, and probably a lot of mediocre starting TEs. I’d take the best ball results from that group any day.
Wait - why would it ever be too cold in Green Bay? I could see that happening to MN fans.....but GB?
