GoldenBear
Footballguy
Interesting story:
This year, there was a rule proposed in our 12-team redraft money league: no transactions between 6:00am - 6:00pm...the rationalization: people who work at a computer aren't able to pilfer the waiver wire this way.
This week: me and my father-in-law make a trade on Thursday night, I send an e-mail that night confirming it. That night, the Commish sends an e-mail saying that the trade will be valid "pending the other owner's response". Today, I find out that when my father-in-law confirmed the trade at 7:50am in Friday, it wasn't official because of the 6:00am - 6:00pm rule.
Fine. We both confirm the trade today, and the commish says the trade is official, but both rosters are frozen Fri. at 5:00pm, per league rules. Consequently, the players were traded, but any players involved in the trade are no longer in our line-ups.
Had we known that confirmation was required between 6:00am and 6:00pm (keep in mind this is a new rule), my father-in-law would have confirmed the e-mail IMMEDIATELY Thursday night.
To make matters worse: in our league, rosters are due at 5:00pm on Thursday and 4 teams broke the rule this week...the commish sent a "warning" e-mail.
So I have one method of retaliation: the commish is unbending, even though the intent of the rule was not violated. So I forward everyone in our league an e-mail earlier this season, where he submitted a roster changed that allowed him to win at 10:06am (6 minutes after the deadline). No one had noticed the discretion, and it allowed him to win unfairly. I just figured that if he was going to enforce our trade "to the letter of the law", then he should retroactively give himself a loss. After all, it's the rules...
This year, there was a rule proposed in our 12-team redraft money league: no transactions between 6:00am - 6:00pm...the rationalization: people who work at a computer aren't able to pilfer the waiver wire this way.
This week: me and my father-in-law make a trade on Thursday night, I send an e-mail that night confirming it. That night, the Commish sends an e-mail saying that the trade will be valid "pending the other owner's response". Today, I find out that when my father-in-law confirmed the trade at 7:50am in Friday, it wasn't official because of the 6:00am - 6:00pm rule.
Fine. We both confirm the trade today, and the commish says the trade is official, but both rosters are frozen Fri. at 5:00pm, per league rules. Consequently, the players were traded, but any players involved in the trade are no longer in our line-ups.
Had we known that confirmation was required between 6:00am and 6:00pm (keep in mind this is a new rule), my father-in-law would have confirmed the e-mail IMMEDIATELY Thursday night.
To make matters worse: in our league, rosters are due at 5:00pm on Thursday and 4 teams broke the rule this week...the commish sent a "warning" e-mail.
So I have one method of retaliation: the commish is unbending, even though the intent of the rule was not violated. So I forward everyone in our league an e-mail earlier this season, where he submitted a roster changed that allowed him to win at 10:06am (6 minutes after the deadline). No one had noticed the discretion, and it allowed him to win unfairly. I just figured that if he was going to enforce our trade "to the letter of the law", then he should retroactively give himself a loss. After all, it's the rules...
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good idea. i can't think of a good reason to have these unnecessary rules and they smell slightly fishy to me. so, if you can't be at a computer often enough to acquire free agents, why are you in the league? maybe join another league. or lengthen the draft so that there are fewer big free agents to acquire. i really don't understand how this is so difficult when it could be overcome with some flexibility in the rules to make it so much more straightforward.
and this is ######ed "rosters are due at 5:00pm on Thursday"aside from GTDs and new injuries, etc. - any decent league will enable lineups up till game time. THAT would have solved your problems. All league hosting sites allow for this (CBS, MFL, Yahoo, etc.)
good idea. i can't think of a good reason to have these unnecessary rules and they smell slightly fishy to me. so, if you can't be at a computer often enough to acquire free agents, why are you in the league? maybe join another league. or lengthen the draft so that there are fewer big free agents to acquire. i really don't understand how this is so difficult when it could be overcome with some flexibility in the rules to make it so much more straightforward.
ugh, for my own sanity i should just ignore posts like this, but i don't. the cross i bear in life.my whole friggin point was that people have lives outside of football. that is why rules should be straightforward and that is why if this is a problem, just lengthen the draft so that there aren't so many available free agents that are desirable. why do i waste my time repeating the same points? i'm destined to waste time like this in life. back to the more serious discussion...
when was i referring to you in that entire post? your league yes, but when to your concern, specifically? when did i quote anything that you wrote?if it wasn't clear, i was responding 100% to wrigley's misinterpretation of my post. ease up.
