Reader Questions
Hey all!
We asked twitter for a few questions for a newsletter… let’s go!
Now that we are through the new 17 game schedule including how it affected byes, what adjustments are you planning for next season?
This all depends on the bye weeks. If there are byes in Week 14 again, I plan on having my fantasy regular season be Weeks 1-14 and playoffs be Weeks 15-17 in the majority of my leagues again. Because I have a lot of 14 teams leagues, if there are no Week 14 byes, I may consider sliding back. Having 14 teams and playing everybody once each was a nice schedule. I may end up doing a two week championship or even just having it end after Week 16. At the end of the season there was a lot of sentiment out there for that (thoughts that the season was a bit too long and stretched past the holidays and into the new year) and I’m somewhat on board with that.
What is your general level of making changes to a league without a vote vs with a vote. For example, 1QB to SF would be vote but maybe removing IR and adding 3 roster spots would be OK if executive decision. What type changes should be just made?
I’m pretty clear about this in my personal leagues. I put this in my bylaws:
Almost everything is done by executive decision. I will discuss with and possibly poll leaguesmates. These polls are not league votes to decide things unless stated so. I will make the decisions. I will try to make decisions in the best interest of the league. The rules below are to be treated as the spirit of the rules and not necessary the letter of the rule in case there are loopholes.
I also have my best interest clause that has become very popular and many add to leagues now:
Should circumstances, issues, or problems arise for which a remedy is not stated in the Rules... the Commissioner reserves the right to take whatever actions he deems necessary in the best interest of the league.
In general, I feel a league runs better this way. Too often people in a league will only want what’s best for their team and almost all vote that way. Few care about what is truly best for the league. That said, as Ryan has mentioned on the show. You create a new league by either having rules you want to play with and find the people or have a group you want to play with and figure out the rules. If in the latter, it’s probably best if you have a voting policy in your by laws and exactly how those play out and how they finalize decisions.
In a keeper league, should managers be allowed to draft a player that is out for the season (preseason injury ie Dobbins, Akers) and stash them on IR (expanded slots for Covid) for the entire season and have player eligible the following season?
YES. They generally go late in drafts and it’s fun strategy. This is especially a yes with drafts, but I don’t have much of a problem with it in season either but I can see the feelings changing on that for some in that situation. If you have unlimited IR, that can get rough where people are picking up and placing players on IR (IR hoarding) whenever they get hurt each week. That might be the one situation I’d be more hesitant. Allowing it changes no rules. Not allowing it is adding extra rules that could have more grey area concerning when the player is injured, level of injury, lack of consistency (why can you do this with a player injured in season, but not before the season) and other things. Like many rules, if all know the rule and go in knowing it… it’s fine.
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