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(Message started by: The_Dog on Nov 3^rd, 2005, 5:35pm)

Title: Fantasy unwritten rules
Post by The_Dog on Nov 3^rd, 2005, 5:35pm

I was an innocent bystander in a rather unfortunate fantasy football argument that resulted in one player dropping all of his team members. The argument started since the league vetoed player 1's trade and player 2 was the commissioner and he would not push through a seemly fair trade between the 2 last place teams. In order for a trade to be vetoed 4 members of the league have to deem it unfair. Well this happened and the trade did not go through. The Commish stood by his guns and refused to let the trade go through. One week later the trade was submitted again and the trade went through with no veto. Player 1 was crying about this even though it did not affect the outcome of his next game, which he won and it happened to be against me. Others in the league were riding Player 1 rather hard about the whole deal so he said screw it and dropped his whole team in a money league.

What is your opinion on this matter.........just curious on an outsiders prospective.

I don' t know if I should be angry or just blow it off.....but he definately affected the outcome of the league, which I do take seriously.

Title: Re: Fantasy unwritten rules
Post by Oakland4life on Nov 3^rd, 2005, 6:21pm

That is rather unfortunate. But, crap like this does happen. I'm surprised to see it happen in a money league though.

I say just blow it off. If he was a last place team in the midway point, he probably had little to no chance to make it into the playoffs anyway. Which probably is the main reason he blew his top.

Your commissioner does have his hands full now though, simply trying to figure out what exactly to do with the players he dropped on his team. And the outcome of future players games who do get to pick them up.

I am curious as to why so many people were riding player 1 when it should have been the commissioner who should be getting the blunt of the hate mail. If the trade was vetoed in the league, there should be no way in hell it would happen the very next week. Unless of course there was a player change. But that doesn't sound like the case as you described.

He already has his money in the pool, so it shouldn't effect the outcome of the weekly, monthly, championship pools.

I would honestly say shame on your league for allowing this much drama to enter into the league. If it was two last place teams, and the trade somewhat seemed fair, there should have been reason for a veto.

Sorry to hear this happen. :-[

Title: Re: Fantasy unwritten rules
Post by The_Dog on Nov 3^rd, 2005, 8:43pm

Oh I do agree that the trade should have gone through, but we always have had the veto power in our league so I can't blame the others for vetoing the trade for whatever reason.

I just think it was a childish act......there was 2 or 3 people out of the 12 that were riding the player. The odd thing is that we are all friends and he got picked on a little bit and stuck it to everyone in the league because he said his hand was forced..........

Title: Re: Fantasy unwritten rules
Post by MordecaiCourage on Nov 3^rd, 2005, 10:11pm

Dog..this happened to me in a league I was in a few years back...almost verbatim! Our commisioner took over the team and put all dropped players back on the roster. The decision was made to give the cry baby all his money back with exception to trade and WW monies he had spent. We followed ONE websites weekly ranking as who to start for that team. If players were questionable or worse they sat and we started the next highest ranked player. This team made the playoffs as the 6th seed of 6 spots. By default the 7th place finisher took the playoff spot. It worked out fine. The cry baby owner was never invited back again.