The issue today is whether by doing right by me I did wrong by my league.
Here goes.
Pissing Off Your League's Owners
Did I do the right thing, that is the question....
There are 20 teams in a daily league where the stats come down to the last day, the last inning, the last at bat.
Four teams are fighting for second to fifth place.
Myself, I am in a five way battle to finish between seventh and eleventh place.
For the first five teams, their whip is at 1.34 and CBS Sports can only find a winner by carrying it out to not a hundredth of a point, but a thousandth. The winner could be by 1.345 to 1.347 to 1.348. Thus, a walk, a hit, a bunt single can shift the standings. Can decide who gets $500 for finishing second, or $50 for finishing fifth.
That is how tight the league is. My race is over. I am going to finish 8th, 9th or 10th, out of the money. The others can win or lose hundreds of bucks, depending on how some of my players perform in the one game playoff between Minny and Motown. A SB there, a HR here, can move other teams final stats.
The season ends and after a really bad week, I drop from 7th to 9th by a half point. I want to stay there. In the one game playoff, the only guy I have starting is Orlando Cabrera. I would just as soon not play him as add him into a roster, and use his stats, because there is a league loophole I want to take advantage of.
After the season ends, you cannot add or drop. But you can have up to five disabled players. So those teams that have extra disabled players on their team get to keep them and carry them into the offseason, giving them extra players to trade and deal. I do not.
Did I do the right thing, that is the question....
There are 20 teams in a daily league where the stats come down to the last day, the last inning, the last at bat.
Four teams are fighting for second to fifth place.
Myself, I am in a five way battle to finish between seventh and eleventh place.
For the first five teams, their whip is at 1.34 and CBS Sports can only find a winner by carrying it out to not a hundredth of a point, but a thousandth. The winner could be by 1.345 to 1.347 to 1.348. Thus, a walk, a hit, a bunt single can shift the standings. Can decide who gets $500 for finishing second, or $50 for finishing fifth.
That is how tight the league is. My race is over. I am going to finish 8th, 9th or 10th, out of the money. The others can win or lose hundreds of bucks, depending on how some of my players perform in the one game playoff between Minny and Motown. A SB there, a HR here, can move other teams final stats.
The season ends and after a really bad week, I drop from 7th to 9th by a half point. I want to stay there. In the one game playoff, the only guy I have starting is Orlando Cabrera. I would just as soon not play him as add him into a roster, and use his stats, because there is a league loophole I want to take advantage of.
After the season ends, you cannot add or drop. But you can have up to five disabled players. So those teams that have extra disabled players on their team get to keep them and carry them into the offseason, giving them extra players to trade and deal. I do not.
But since the one game playoff for the title counts towards the standings, you can still add and drop players. However, if your lineup is not legal, the league rule is you get no stats for the day. So obviously no one wants illegal lineups. But what have I got to lose from just one player on one day? If I can pick up three rookie prospects for the entire offseason if I do not drop anyone, I would rather be illegal for one day since I am losing the at bats from one sole player. And yet I snare three rookies to deal or reserve, who may or may not pan out.
I could care less about the stats for that day. Again, all I have to sacrifice is the stats from O Cab. He is the only guy I have playing that day, and I would rather have an illegal lineup but pick up three guys to hold over the winter and see how they do in the spring.
The teams from second to fifth are livid. Some other owners too. They say I am altering the league results by having an illegal lineup. They are insisting I make O Cab active and my lineup legit arguing my greed is changing the end results of the league. What if O Cab goes 0 for 4 and I don’t use him, that stat could push me down a fraction in b.a., and that could change the final standings by a thousandth of a point for the third place team. So I should play the guy, everyone argues. And give up my three extra players. I say Why?
I thought I was playing for my team, not others. Should I care how the others finish? Some of these guys are calling me every name in the book and I did not really want to hurt anyone. I just wanted to help myself.
I could care less about the stats for that day. Again, all I have to sacrifice is the stats from O Cab. He is the only guy I have playing that day, and I would rather have an illegal lineup but pick up three guys to hold over the winter and see how they do in the spring.
The teams from second to fifth are livid. Some other owners too. They say I am altering the league results by having an illegal lineup. They are insisting I make O Cab active and my lineup legit arguing my greed is changing the end results of the league. What if O Cab goes 0 for 4 and I don’t use him, that stat could push me down a fraction in b.a., and that could change the final standings by a thousandth of a point for the third place team. So I should play the guy, everyone argues. And give up my three extra players. I say Why?
I thought I was playing for my team, not others. Should I care how the others finish? Some of these guys are calling me every name in the book and I did not really want to hurt anyone. I just wanted to help myself.
Do I have an obligation to play with a legal lineup when only one or two players is affected? I mean, I could reserve them to begin with.
The point is am I under an obligation to abide by a legal lineup? I am getting penalized for not doing so; I am losing stats for a day. But really, since it is only one player, why should I care? Does my decision impact the others, or the final standings? Who is to say? The league policy does frown on illegal lineups, but on this the last day of the season, isn't it worth the sanction to score the extra players?
Why are the other owners so angry? Do they have a right to be? Am I being unfair to the integrity of the league? It is a competition. I don't want to risk losing the place I am in or the extra players I am socking away
The point is am I under an obligation to abide by a legal lineup? I am getting penalized for not doing so; I am losing stats for a day. But really, since it is only one player, why should I care? Does my decision impact the others, or the final standings? Who is to say? The league policy does frown on illegal lineups, but on this the last day of the season, isn't it worth the sanction to score the extra players?
Why are the other owners so angry? Do they have a right to be? Am I being unfair to the integrity of the league? It is a competition. I don't want to risk losing the place I am in or the extra players I am socking away
Would you ? Do you think I have a greater moral duty to the league?
You make the call. I chose to keep the players and have an illegal lineup, doing what was right for me and not what others say was good for the league. I don't think it mattered either way, but was I right? Was I wrong?
You make the call. I chose to keep the players and have an illegal lineup, doing what was right for me and not what others say was good for the league. I don't think it mattered either way, but was I right? Was I wrong?
Was I being unfair to others by being too fair to myself?
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i say keep the players, again this is your team and not anyone else's. If they have a problem with what you did then they need to get out of your league or shut up!!
ReplyDeleteof course you are right norman, who are you playing for you or them, what if one of those rookies you picked up earns a starting job and you kept him over the 1 for 5 that cabrera had in the playoff game. just ask if the shoe was on the other foot, did those guys with five guys on the dl put players back in the pool to even up the numbers they could protect, or just tell you that you should not add on........
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ReplyDeleteOur league's issue with this situation had more to do with the lack of sportsmanship or balls, as i phrased it, then it was with the rules. clearly the rules left this loop hole open. With the playoff game nearing, norman was given a heads up that his choice WAS going to affect the top 5 (basically who was 4th or 3rd). He openly opted not to give a rats ass about not playing out the season. Not one person has issue with him having the extra players (funny he left their names out) as they are inconsequential. Noone wants to see the final standings be effected by one owners classless call to not finish out the season. norm actions were basically a big FU to the rest of the league but mainly the top 5 contenders. One day your dear Norman "may" creep into a position where the championship standings and integrity matter, but in 5 years so far he remains a non factor.
the league opted to let norman keep the 3 "Studs" he picked up but made the stats count as to not effect the leagues outcome (3 and 4th flipped as a result)while Norm finished 10th vs 9th....still his best finish in years! Cudos Norm.
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ReplyDeleteMr. Kent, I'm sure opinions will be divided on this but when you join a league I think you have a certain obligation to play out the season.
ReplyDeletePart of "playing for yourself" is never giving up. If you quit on your team because you aren't winning and you don't care how it impacts anyone else, then you've lost sight of what fantasy sports is all about. You should always have "something to play for", in my opinion. When a MLB team goes into rebuild mode they don't stop playing. Trying to upset the contenders is what drives them at the end of the year.
Keep in mind, though, that the only way to play spoiler is to "play" spoiler...let your guys do their thing and hope they out perform the others.
I think ya done wrong.