NWO -- Why aren't you starting a full lineup this week? You're two players short. Did Sam pay you off or something?
I was seriously expecting negative points from Leinart tonight and possibly regretting not starting Leftwich who was on Bye.
Just so I don't have to hear any complaints when I finish the season ahead of your team in the standings, I'm going to point out the obvious - in a game I won by 37 points, another 2 players off the waiver wire wouldn't have been enough to beat me anyway.
Congrats to Finn*, ended my streak this week and looked strong in the process! It's Sunnyvale that's looking unstoppable right now, though.
Ok, who went in and reset my lineup? I had picked up Lawrence Tynes on tuesday and set my lineup. I go back in today and he is gone and Akers (Bye week) is in. The time stamp on my lineup is Saturday 22:00 WTF is going on?
Finn, It shows you dropped Bryant Johnson and picked up Lawrence Tynes on 11/1, then turned around and dropped L. Tynes and picked back up B. Johnson. Going through the transactions this year, you seem to do that a lot, not sure why? Then I picked up L. Tynes on the waiver wire Friday to replace my kicker on a bye this week. As for your line-up can't answer that not sure, but if you tell me another kicker to add to your line-up and who to drop I can do that for you. I can't give you Tynes now, cause I have him and would make no sense since I am playing Sorry for the problems, but got to figure out why you keep adding/dropping and then turn right around and reverse it.
It's very simple Rook. I do that to fill spots for players on Bye weeks. I waive a player, pick up a player and then set my lineup. Then I waive the player I picked up and pickup the player I had waived. It looks very shady to me that my lineup was reset WITH Akers back in my lineup about 6 minutes after you set your lineup. Not accusing you of anything, but it just looks that way to me.
That process you described seems like the shady thing to me. Are you telling me you have guys in your starting lineup who aren't even on your team anymore? I can see waiving the replacement guy after his game for the week has already started, but to do so before the Sunday games even begin seems like a bug in the system. You shouldn't be able to start someone who isn't on your roster.
Well first off if anything sounds shady, is what you are doing. Basically, you have found a loop hole allowing you to go around the league rules on how many players you are allowed to have on our rosters at a given time and that is something I should have been watching for. Basically, giving you in extra player each week, while everyone else drops somebody then adds somebody to replace a player on a bye - you just add another roster spot. Then after the game is over they can go back and pick that player back up. We set rules and roster limits for a reason - so now I am not sure I have much sympathy for you. Bottom line the way you did it, we both could have had Tynes in our line-up, which makes no sense. What's next, one team drops say player A, I pick them up and put them in my starting line-up, then drop them. Then let that team pick them back up so they can play them too......... The only thing I did was take Tynes out of your line-up, since he was on MY team as I added him correctly (dropped somebody to pick him up and won't switch till the game is over) and I would have done that for anybody in this situation that asked (can't play a guy that is not on your roster). That is the right thing to do..... If anyone disagrees, let me know..............but my feeling is we got to play by the rules...
No, I admitted I removed a guy that was not on your roster that you were trying to cheat the system to start. You have to play by the same rules everyone else does............
LOL, yeah that's how I go undefeated. Pick up guys from the waiver wire (like everyone else does) to play during bye weeks. Look, the only difference is that I do it early in the week, instead of waiting until saturday or sunday. I fail to see "cheating the system". Going undefeated has nothing to do with my drafting the top players at every position.
Looks like Rook gave you a fill-in K, Hanson, who scored 12 points for you. I think that was a very fair result in these circumstances. I don't know what the official rules are, but I'd ask that in the future nobody be allowed to start players who are not on their actual roster when the first kickoff for the week begins (don't need to keep them all weekend, just through the roster deadline). I've been dumping players when I need replacements for bye weeks, and have risked losing (and actually lost) some pretty decent guys as a result. I think Finn's method lets people avoid this dumping problem, and I guess you could say good for him and dumb for me to not have followed his lead. But the possibility of 2, 3 or more teams having the same player starting for them under this method makes a mockery of the fantasy system, imo, and is pretty silly if you think about it. I think the baseball game would automatically remove players from your starting lineup when the Monday or Friday deadline came up if they no longer were on the roster.
I picked up Hanson right before kickoff. Sam hit the nail on the head. That is the EXACT reason I did it that way.
Dealing with byes is part of the game. I lost Rod Smith a while back because I had to dump him to cover bye players and someone else snatched him up. That's just part of the game. Exploiting a bug in the code which allows you to start players not on your roster in order to overcome this aspect of the game is pretty unethical, I think.
Super Bowl Playoffs: The playoffs will be weeks 14, 15, and 16 with the top 6 making the playoffs, and the top 2 divisional winners (1 & 2 seeds) getting a bye the first week. The tiebreakers are the following: 1. Overall record 2. Division record 3. Total points 4. Head to head 5. Coin flip* *If I am involved in a coin flip with someone, I automatically lose. Schedule will be the following after each team is ranked: Week 14: 3 vs. 6, 4 vs. 5, (1 and 2 have byes) Week 15: Highest rank vs. 2, Lowest rank vs. 1 Week 16: Championship game Toilet Bowl Playoffs: We will be doing the same for the bottom 6 teams, so they can at least have something to play for.
Blech... Division record is a gay tiebreaker. It's not like you can do anything to make your team get fired up and play better for division games. It should be all about the total points, baby. Of course, I am completely biased, and for good reason.
