collusion with who?

his best friend commisionaire in 7th he wants to let into playoffs?

Depends what you're talking about. Your brother benching his whole team is def clear collusion (though if the wording the commish used in his ruling was really that stupid, then I guess collusion isn't against the rules in your league). Throwing a game for a better playoff matchup isn't collusion at all.

He thinks he has a better chance in playoffs vs 7th then 6th, and can throw his matchup, to make it better. What collusion is going on?

what is he getting in return? if there's some sort of under the table deal then yeah shoot both of them. if not then hes trying to help his matchup in the playoffs. the only collusion seems to be you and your brother

besides who wants to help their friends in fantasy? that's who you want to beat the most if you have any self respect.

told brother not to tank
just was wondering thoughts sounds like what he is doing is fine
thx

+1

its douchey but its not collusion.

Ya it's not collusion but it's anti competitive and against the spirit of the league. My league would not allow that. If your league is cutthroat anything goes it could be fine.

he can still get a bye if he wins and 2nd loses so i think this matters in discussion

A few things have come up in my leagues in the past which im curious about the takes in here about where they fall on the clear problem vs totally fine gaming scale.

1. Close match between two people after Sunday night game. A has RB on team monday thats questionable. Monday he gets ruled out and B picks up the backup for the bench, drops him for waivers next week never playing him.

2. A is playing B and B's kicker is on bye. Waivers are for 3 days, so on Friday night A picks up and drops every kicker on the wire forcing B to play without a kicker.

3. In a keeper league, A is out of the running in the last week of the regular season. You can only keep people based on their draft position the year before (new position is draft round last year -3, so person drafted in rd 5 can be kept for a 2nd). Once FA hits for the last week, A drops all of their players that can't be kept and picks up a whole bunch of flyers/people on IR for keepers next year.

4. A and B end up tied for their division (winner gets a bye). Due to a scheduling error (initially 3 divisions with 12 teams turned to 2/10 last minute after schedules were set), A ended up 5-3 vs the division and B ended up 4-3. B had more points, but the settings were set to Divisional Record as the tiebreaker (apparently the default). Commish declares since the extra game was unfair, he's changing it to points and B gets the bye instead of A.



My takes are:

1 Fine
2 Won't happen unless you have some awful settings, usually you have to keep a player for 24 hours before dropping him onto waivers.
3 Fine, it's a keeper league.
4 Settings cannot be changed after the draft without being unanimously agreed upon.

+1 to all answers.

I have no problem with this if it's a YPL or some other redraft with a bunch of randoms. Pretty douchey to do it in a league like that.

1 is fine and A deserves it not handcuffing a questionable MNF player.

2 is legal/douchey but those are some LOL rules

3 bleh. I get it's a keeper but it seems wrong to allow somebody to drop a bunch of starters.

4 is terrible. You don't change the settings mid year. Commish needs to suck less.

sounds like ****ty rules are the cause of all those problems except 1 in which case A is a buffoon

If its a stable, longterm league, then draw up a constitution. Also, form a 3-5 member rules committee to address things like issues/trades involving the commish, and proposed changes to the rules. Dont make mid-season rule changes at all, but if situations arise, make them with transparency, input, and clarity.

Its not that hard.

This. 1 is actually hilarious. The guy who got screwed on it should only be mad at himself.

Lions added a WR from practice squad today, doesn't seem promising that Jones will play tomorrow, be prepared

I agree with 1, 3, and 4. #2 is douchey, and legal, and shouldn't happen if the site defaults were better.

yeah, i dont think #2 is even possible anymore. was an older espn league where it happened.

thanks!

How much you guys trust Kaep to play in 32 degrees today? Played college in the heat, pro game in the heat. I'm trying to figure out how much that discount him today. I guess a runner would have a much better chance in the cold, correct?

This report on the bear's banged up D makes it interesting though: http://www.ninersnation.com/2016/12/...rd-floyd-49ers

Reno isn't really playing in the "heat". It's like 27° there right now, & Tuesday night it's going to get down to 15°. I would look more at his actual results in cold weather games more so than vague statements about playing "in the heat". San Francisco isn't the warmest place either & often had bitter winds, at least before changing stadiums.

Thanks Murder!

Also you Eagles folks, with Matthews out today we like Green-Beckham to lead in targets right?

Jeff Fisher extended 2 years. LOL Rams and say good bye to Gurley's prime years. If I'm Aaron Donald I'm not very happy right now either.

Yep.