Will You Be Acting As League Commissioner In A League This Year?
Will You Be Acting As League Commissioner In A League This Year?
I agree with all of this. I know the job is done right if I do it myself.Commish in 2 leagues. One for 20+ years and the other I took over for the old commish about 2 years ago. In 3 other leagues (fpc, ffpc, and another home league)
The job is just fine if you have the right group of players who understand this isn’t my day job and stuff will come up that we didn’t prepare for (ie COVID) and that I am more interested in running a fair league than winning the league.
sometimes you get an owner who wants to litigate everything or wants to see something nefarious in any commish ruling. Those years are not very fun and running a draft room while running your own draft can sometimes lead to mistakes, but, truth be told, watching someone else commish when I know I can do a better job is more maddening than just doing it myself.
This is where I'm at now, but there was a time about 15 years ago when we had a couple of PITA league members. They never seemed to get it. If someone in their division made a trade that wasn't perfectly balanced they'd accuse folks of collusion, or they'd claim a rule that had been in place for years before they joined the league somehow didn't apply to them. End of the year when they were eliminated they'd stop setting lineups, and take my request to do so as some kind of hostility.Commish for about 8 years & love it. But the folks in my long time redraft make it easy. I’m pretty hands off bc we have great people.
I'm also a FBB commish. COVID has made that one more challenging that it once was.4 leagues (3 football and 1 baseball). All long running leagues.
I used to do this for fantasy baseball way back in the day. Good old USA Today. Good god I look back and can't believe I ever did that.In the old days, that entailed manually scoring each game from newspaper box scores,
This is where I'm at now, but there was a time about 15 years ago when we had a couple of PITA league members. They never seemed to get it. If someone in their division made a trade that wasn't perfectly balanced they'd accuse folks of collusion, or they'd claim a rule that had been in place for years before they joined the league somehow didn't apply to them. End of the year when they were eliminated they'd stop setting lineups, and take my request to do so as some kind of hostility.
We long since cleaned house of those two & it's been pure harmony since. Now it's competitive people who don't get hurt feels over trash talk, almost every matchup every week has a side bet (I've got an executive 9 bet this week, including beers & travel to the other's home course), and for the last 12 years or so, the winner of the league brings a bottle of super premium bourbon to the draft every year to toast their victory.
The best part about that last part? No one asked anyone to do this - it just sort of evolved organically. Now every year it's a game of one-upmanship, with each new league winner using part of their winnings to find a more rare/interesting/delicious bottle every year. My last LCG win I brought the single batch Booker's, back when they hand-numbered the proof. I searched 10 stores to find the highest proof I could (128). It's a cool tradition, because everyone sort of gets to enjoy a little of the winnings. It's a sizable kitty, so it's not like it creates a hardship on the winner. And hey, if a winner didn't want to do it, that's cool too - this isn't a rule, just a fun thing we do.
I love my league.
At that point I'd probably be having my black suit cleaned & pressed.Gatorman said:lmk when someone drops out.. LOL.