For those of you ClutchFan brothers who are, have been, or want to be commissioners in a Football Fantasy League on Yahoo!, help me out sorting this, and let me know if I did this right or no: So this dude claims he made a mistake and dropped a guy he didn't want to drop. I was made commissioner a couple weeks before this situation and, for that week, I had control of the league and its teams, etc. The previous commissioner said to me "nothing ever happens." Well, this did. The manager dude calls me and says: "hey, man... I thought I clicked such and such button, but then I checked and I had dropped Xyz player. Can you put him back on the roster for me?" Now, I'll leave out whom the player was, because I think it's funny, but the situation wasn't. I heard the dude's pleas. I took into consideration where the dude was as far as standings, how "good" his team was, and if he was doing anything sneaky, so I made a couple moves. What I did was that I froze the dude's team, edited the waiver wire so that he was 1, to enable him to pick up Xyz once given up for waivers, and moved everyone down one spot. Naturally, I was also taking into consideration someone would pick the player up, so I sent the league a message saying what happened and what I did, and that as a punishment, the dude wouldn't be able to make any trades or pick ups or drops until I fixed his team until after the week's games were over (MNF HOU @ IND). In the message, I said plain and simply: "DO NOT PICK UP XYZ." One dude DID pick up the player because he claims he didn't see my message until AFTER picking up the Xyz player. I had to re-arrange his team, freeze it, drop the player, put him on the first dude's team, and give back the second dude the player he dropped to pick up the first dude's player. Still with me? So I freeze the second dude's team and the first dude's, and I send a message to the league again. Basically, this reverts to the way it was BEFORE the first dude dropped the player. My reasoning was that, no matter what happened after this week, I had a gut feeling the player dropped initially wouldn't make a difference. Currently, the Fantasy team is not even near playoff contention, or in the bubble. I thought that putting the player he dropped back into his team wouldn't hurt anyone else's chances. Questions: Did I do well in listening to a manager's please? Should I have said "you dun goofed, consequences are never the same, F U", or should I have "punished" the manager even more than I did? Take a guess as to which player the manager dropped. IT'S FUNNY. ADDITIONALLY: One player is threatening to leave the league, because he claims I shouldn't have done that. If anything, I believe he isn't entitled to his full amount back, because he's been playing in the league and we're already almost halfway through.
You should not have intervened in this situation. Before you drop a player it asks "Are you sure you want to drop this player?" If you make that mistake you shouldn't be playing in a $$ league in the first place. I'd be pretty ticked off if I was in your league too. You were a dumbass enabler.
Yeah, I heard this from people and knew this already. Someone said "you probably don't care because your team is almost OUT without contention"... Care to take a guess at whom the player was? Just for fun? :grin: Here's where I think everyone ELSE won.
Happened last Wednesday, the team was frozen through tonight, and you're Spoiler right. Player Xyz is Randy Moss. Now the mistake dude feels like a dummy. I admit I may not have handled it well and told the guy threatening to leave the league to think it over tonight. Is the guy entitled to all his money back, though? How would you handle it?
Hah, all this over Randy Moss. Is the guy threatening to leave the league in contention? How much was the buy in?
Latecomer to the thread, but as commission you have the power to add/drop players on any team. You didn't have to do the waiver thing. Could have just reversed the move.
I'm a commish for a Yahoo league. You have to go through 3 steps to drop a player. For that level of stupidity, I wouldn't have helped. It's happened in my league in the past and I've told everyone that I would not get involved. If you were dumb enough to hit "Continue" more than twice w/o realizing who you're dropping, it's your own damn fault.
I have commissioned in a lot of leagues. And to be honest there are too many steps to drop a player these days where you would "accidently" do it. You first pick him to drop then you go to a confirmation page. I personally would have not intervened in this. The player who picked him up legit so he should be allowed to keep him in my eyes.
