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Post by Copperfields on Dec 19, 2007 12:58:35 GMT -5
This goes along with owner-entry of transactions. Unfortunately, I've never seen Sportsline's FAAB, so I can't speak to what it can and can't do. From what I've read on message boards, it does a good job of awarding players and making the associated moves, but you are limited in terms of contingency bids/moves so we'd be giving up a little on that end.
I’d appreciate any input from owners who have used Sportsline FAAB.
One possibility would be to do something like this:
1. Have a FAAB-only deadline on Sunday evening – teams simply submit bids for the players they want (including contingency bids in case they don’t get their first choice). Bids would be e-mailed in as they are now. They do NOT indicate who to reserve, activate, waive, etc.
2. Players would be added to the Reserve Roster of the teams that won them.
3. Have a second transaction deadline on Monday during which teams could activate their newly-acquired players, indicate who they’re releasing, and make any other moves they want. This shuffling would be done by each owner on the Sportsline site.
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Post by stones on Dec 19, 2007 23:41:48 GMT -5
I would be in favor of this but I am not sure I see the benefit to the Secretary on the retaining of emailing moves. I hope we can find an easier way so David doesn't have so many emails to read and act upon once again.
I have no knowledge of how the FAAB process works with CBS Sports.
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Post by Nick's Picts (archived) on Dec 21, 2007 12:53:31 GMT -5
If completely automated FA transactions cannot be handled in an acceptable manner by CBS, then I like the idea of having a bid-only email transaction with a free-for-all roster move transaction the following day.
Otherwise, I'm willing to go along with the EC/league consensus here.
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Post by kenndoza (archived) on Dec 21, 2007 23:03:34 GMT -5
I don't think I'd trust CBS to do this right, so the alternative idea suggested sounds good. I think this would cut down on weird contingency bids if we just temporarily add FA pickups as "41st players", but there would be a few issues I foresee:
1) Between Sunday night and Monday, rosters would be larger than the maximum. CBS would have to account for that. The only other thing I can think of is that we just e-mail to the league the winning bids, and then new players are only added after it's decided who will be released. We'll have to set up a few rules in place for this to work.
2) If, after receiving a player Sunday night, can we actually release that player again, or do we have to hold him for a week? Not that I expect this often, but I could see it happening.
Additionally, I would be willing to take this task off David's hands if he would like, or at least be the one who goes through all the bids and figures out who gets who. I already had to do this for my wife's Fantasy US Weekly league (seriously), and this would probably be more fun. In the interest of making David's life easier, I would do this on a probationary basis for 2008.
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Post by stones on Dec 22, 2007 2:32:11 GMT -5
Yeah....but I thought we were trying to make things easier!
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Post by Copperfields on Dec 22, 2007 11:45:59 GMT -5
Yeah, I'm not sure I'm comfortable going into Sporstline FAAB "blind", without knowing in advance exactly how it works. I can try trawling around some of the message boards for comments.
In terms of having a FAAB-only transaction date with bids submitted via e-mail and whether that would involve more work -- yes, it would mean that there would still be some work for me (or someone else) in terms of transactions, but since it will be bids only the work will be minimal. There won't be all the other roster shuffling, waiving, etc. to play around with. It'd be 5 minutes of work rather than the usual 2-3 hours (which also included entering all the moves at Sportsline, updating the Excel rosters, writing and posting the new transaction report, etc). So, no, it wouldn't totally alieve the Secretary's burden, but would simplify it quite a bit.
However, Kenn mentions a good point -- we wouldn't be able to add the acquisitions to the Sportsline rosters without releasing a player at the same time, so the process may not work as smoothly as originally envisioned. However, there may be some work-arounds we can build in in order to get around the Sportsline roster limitations.
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Post by Copperfields on Dec 22, 2007 11:48:35 GMT -5
Ooops -- sorry about that reference to Kenn. A while back when we were all playing around with the language filter, I set up a rule to replace "K*nn" with "The Incredible, Stupendous...". I thought I had shut it down after a few weeks, but it looks like it's still out there. I will get this fixed in a little while.
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Post by MGrage on Dec 22, 2007 16:15:06 GMT -5
I'd have to vote against using their FAAB if we lose the use of contingency bids. I probably put in 3/4 of my bids with one sort of contingency or another. While it would be a good thing to help lessen Dave's work load, I think the loss of functionality more than negates that positive. Mahalo
Matt
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Post by MGrage on Dec 22, 2007 20:06:27 GMT -5
FYI, the football league on CBS I play in has the commish do all the add/drop roster moves. I'm in a free league on NFL and I think they use CBS to run all their leagues. On that one, I did all my adds/drops myself and you can't add someone without dropping a player if you're at the roster limit. Mahalo
Kenn Ruby
Kenn Ruby
Kenn Ruby
Kenn Ruby
Kenn Ruby
Kenn Ruby
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Post by MGrage on Dec 22, 2007 20:06:46 GMT -5
He he he
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Post by Nick's Picts (archived) on Dec 23, 2007 8:12:03 GMT -5
I set up a rule to replace "K*nn" with "The Incredible, Stupendous...". Like Newton in that moment just after being conked in the head by an apple, so too do I feel as if the scales have been scrubbed from my eyes. It is a brave, new world out there. One in which Matt is no longer inexplicably insane. Again he is merely league-average insane. And I'm happier for that. |
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Post by Copperfields on Dec 23, 2007 16:48:39 GMT -5
Thanks for digging up and highlighting that explanation Nick.
For those that missed it while it was live, the full replacement phrase was something like "The Incredible, Stupendous, Totally Awesome 2007 CFCL Champion Kenn Ruby". I felt bad after doing it because in addition to making the replacement within the text of posts, it also did it on Kenn's user name and I didn't want people to think he had suddenly gotten cocky and was bragging in his user name.
Actually - maybe that's a possible idea for a last place penalty -- whoever finishes last has any reference to their name in the Forum gets replaced with a suitably shame-inducing name. I once heard of a league with a rule that the last place team had to change their team name to "Ass Monkeys" for the following season...
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Post by kenndoza (archived) on Dec 24, 2007 7:50:20 GMT -5
I vote for the stupendous ass monkeys.
Funny we can say "ass", but if we refer to Justin Timberlake's SNL skit, it would appear as "Thingy in a Box".
At least now I understand why Matt has been signing my name to his posts.
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Post by MGrage on Dec 27, 2007 18:48:01 GMT -5
Well, it was fun while it lasted. I woke up X-mas morning to find the Dave grinched my fun by removing that rule. While being known as the Ass Monkeys would tickle my funny bone, I'm contractually obligated to keep Graging Bulls at least another season. *sigh* Mahalo
Crotch Rocket
boy thingy Chaney
boy thingy Gephart
boy thingy Durbin
boy thingy Trickle
boy thingy Cavett
boy thingy Martin
Dicky Dunn (Major kudos to anyone who gets this reference)
boy thingy's Sporting Goods
Moby boy thingy
Philip K boy thingy
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