Wow, this makes them colliding even dumber. If my underlings did this I don't know what I would do, please report back with the results.

I'm sorry, but massive lol @ this.

because of these.

I do agree with your point in a nutshell though that it's best to have one of the backups, even if your not sure who would take over the starting job.

lol these people. Tell the commissioner it's bull****, tell the league it's bullshi before they try to delete the messages, and then next year when then try and recruit you to play laugh in their face and tell them hell no.

not even sure I'm joking when I say u should consider firing them.
do u really want ppl who are so clearly devoid of ethics and common sense working for you?

Pretty sure "they colluded in a fantasy football league" would not suffice as reason for termination.

Firing them seems harsh but it would definitely make me wary of what other shenanigans they're up to, people in this thread obviously take fantasy football more serious than the general population so maybe they thought it was some sweet new strategy like when morons attempt to pull off one week trades.

No, but now the slightest future misstep and...

Of course but if they are this dumb at colliding then I assume finding fireable offenses would take about 3.5 seconds.

One of my league managers tried to trade Amari Cooper for Antonio a couple days before the playoffs started. Lol at not setting a trade deadline, at that trade period, and for doing it with his father-in-law who was not in the playoffs. It quickly got reversed thankfully as I am facing him in the championship.

Ya, I'm definitely not tying together ff league shenanigans with job performance. I work for a fairly large corporation and it is hard enough to terminate people anyways. Not fair to them and would not reflect well on myself.

Just planning on winning this league 2 years in a row and retire undefeated.

That's the way to do it.

Post this memo up in the break room:

"Dropping a couple people off my work force, don't need them either way, I foo sho have to make sure my friends get hired.

Positions becoming available:
List job titles of colluders

Sincerely,
GoDevils"

sadly, at a large corporation that's called creating a hostile workplace

I'm all-in on firing scumbag colluders in a work league. It's a no-lose situation.

You rid yourself of someone who is completely devoid of common sense and humanity from your office. There is no way that anyone who does that has enough redeeming positive qualities to overcome open collision. Fantasy football is sacred - no exceptions for ignorance.

They will learn something when they lose their job and stop being a despicable POS in their fantasy leagues.

Everybody wins.

Of course if you can't make it happen because of corporate red tape, that's too bad. Definitely humiliate them for their pathetic actions in the office though. Nothing better than a good public shaming to teach them a lesson.

This. It's not as easy to fire ppl as some here apparently think it is.

I still like this route. Or... Keep the money, don't pay out, and if they ask, be like, "Well I was going to lose with open colluding anyway..."

It'll be interesting to see next year's ADPs of DeAngelo/etc. Knile Davis was the highest-ADP handcuff in 2015, at about round 10-11. Wouldn't surprise me to see in 2016 some additional handcuffs in that range as a result of folks overreacting to 2015 RB injuries.

If you're going to draft a backup (which I think is a good idea), best to do so in the super-late rounds. RBs drafted in rounds 9-12 should be guys who you know are already getting a % of the workload - maybe in 2016 that'll be passing backs like Bilal Powell and/or bellcow-potentials like Jay Ajayi.

Freeman averaging 3.4 ypc since early Nov while at the same time Coleman averaging over 5.0 ypc. Sometimes it takes a while but talented players normally push bad players out of the way. Atlanta just keeps marching hot garbage Freeman out there though.........next year should be different.


Another RB situation that may hold some hidden value next year in redrafts is in KC. I never saw Spencer Ware play in college or paid much attention to him in the pros until he got the start in KC this year. He looks amazing. Good chance he pushes West out of the way and ends up being 2nd on the depth chart next year for KC behind Jamaal Charles. JC is one of the best RB ever but 1320 career carries and counting. Plus coming off a second severe knee injury. Would it surprise anybody if he fell off a bit?

Why have two different people called colluding, colliding?

I assume their fingers have just been colluding with the wrong buttons.

Then you can get them as FA's over time, and the vast majority of the time you should have the correct backup at the time of injury.

In previous years the likes of Knile Davis behind Jamaal have been relatively straight-forward to see. Some teams automatically default to an RBBC when they lose their #1 guy, some teams don't. Looking up RB split %'s under certain coaches makes it relatively straight forward to go that route.

Obviously pairing Gio and Jeremy Hill you are going to have a bad time.

Going non-RB's early based purely on the injuries received by the current crop of top 6 players is pretty lol.

Is Donald Brown a top 20 option tonight for RB's? Can't figure out where to slot him and it's varying across all sites. I saw someone rank him as high as 13th and somewhere else slot him in the 40's.

My friend bought 20% of my fantasy team earlier in the year only if I ship the title. I'm in finals and my opponent wants to make a chop arrangement. My friend is claiming he's still owed 20% if potential first prize if he wins regardless if I make a chop deal. Is he right?

I don't think you can chop away his mutually bargained for interest without his consent...

You're not changing your own EV by chopping part, presumably, just lowering variance, so the value of his 20% investment shouldn't be dependent on your outside deal.

Of course you could always make an even chop, bench all of your players & pay him $0.

I'd think he has a right to it, but "technically" it was for shipping it. What happens on poker with backers when almost every final table has deals/chops going on. Then again, those aren't for shipping it all, only.

Everyone thought Fred Jackson was Lynch's backup, Davis was Charles', Carey was Forte's etc. Nobody knows until they're actually injured