Fantasy Football Commisioner dilemma

[PurplePride92]

Okay.....I have been commissioner of a pay league for 5-6 years now and this year we expanded to twenty owners and migrated from ESPN.com to the myfantasyleague.com site that the BGP league is played on. We drafted on Sunday and the waive process went through and someone dropped Marques Colston for Darius Heyward Bey and someone picked up Colston and dropped the Saints defense. As commissioner I hadn't edited the can't cut list and Colston would have been on that list. I assumed the site already had a can't cut list but I have to manually make it. Question.....do I allow his waiver process to proceed as it did and start my can't cut list starting today or do I rescind this waiver process and put Colston back on his original team?

 

I have asked the owner who cut Colston why they did so and I am awaiting the answer.

 

All opinions are appreciated. I want to do right for my league. I have mixed emotions about this as commissioner and a paying owner as well.

[UKMustangFan]

My personal feeling is there shouldn't be a can't cut list. I've never understood the point of them.

 

However, if you've put in the league rules that their is one, I think you have to put Colston back on his original team, and cancel out both transactions. It's situations like these that I hate being the commish. You're always going to make someone upset regardless of your decision.

[MJAlltheWay24]

My personal feeling is there shouldn't be a can't cut list. I've never understood the point of them.

 

However, if you've put in the league rules that their is one, I think you have to put Colston back on his original team, and cancel out both transactions. It's situations like these that I hate being the commish. You're always going to make someone upset regardless of your decision.

 

I completely agree with UKMF, I don't understand the can't cut list at all either. So if you had to have one, I think I'd say you let it go through and make it now.

 

I'm the commish for the first time in a pay league, thankfully the fee isn't too high so if there is an issue its not like there is a ton of money on the line.

[Godot]

I'm another one that doesn't understand a cut list (maybe you can explain it to us). But I agree with UKMF and MJ

[UKMustangFan]

^If I'm not mistaken, the point of it is so that a team that is eliminated can't go and cut it's top 2-3 players (ex: AP & Rivers), so that a friend who has the first waiver priority can pick them up. In short, it's there to prevent collusion from what I've gathered, although I still see it as useless. Who's going to join a league with owners that would do that anyways?

[5wide]

I believe I'd let the transaction stand assuming the owners weren't in collusion to make the team that got Colston better.

 

I'm with the other guys on the can't cut list. I suppose I get it with generic public leagues like Yahoo and ESPN. It's probably the easiest way to prevent cheating. However, there are other ways to prevent it in a league of friend's and acquaintances. A good commish can nix those moves himself.

[SSC]

Colston is severely overrated. For the purpose of this issu though what round was he drafted in? If he went in the top 6 rounds it shouldn't be allowed.

[UKMustangFan]

Colston is severely overrated. For the purpose of this issu though what round was he drafted in? If he went in the top 6 rounds it shouldn't be allowed.

 

Top 6 rounds??? That's insane. I've never seen a league with a CC list of more than the first 3 rounds.

[Auxier RiverRat]

"dropped Marques Colston for Darius Heyward Bey".............................wow this owner just hands his money out before the season starts.

[Bengals>Steelers]

There is no reason for not having a can't cut list. It prevents collusion and makes things much easier on the commissioner. You should never be cutting the people on the can't cut list anyway so it shouldn't matter.

[UKMustangFan]

There is no reason for not having a can't cut list. It prevents collusion and makes things much easier on the commissioner. You should never be cutting the people on the can't cut list anyway so it shouldn't matter.

 

Oh, so when your 1st round pick tears his ACL in week 1, you're stuck with him on your bench the whole season. Doesn't make much sense to me.

 

Like I said, if you're playing with a group of friends, this doesn't become an issue. It's a pointless measure put in to prevent something that rarely happens and more often than not harms teams with injuries.

[Godot]

"dropped Marques Colston for Darius Heyward Bey".............................wow this owner just hands his money out before the season starts.

That's what I thought

[HammerTime]

My personal feeling is there shouldn't be a can't cut list. I've never understood the point of them.

 

However, if you've put in the league rules that their is one, I think you have to put Colston back on his original team, and cancel out both transactions. It's situations like these that I hate being the commish. You're always going to make someone upset regardless of your decision.

 

I agree with all points.

[SSC]

Top 6 rounds??? That's insane. I've never seen a league with a CC list of more than the first 3 rounds.

 

I have too, but that doesn't mean he was drafted that early. Also, he's insanely overrated IMO. I wouldn't use a top 5 pick on him. Too many options there.

[Bengals>Steelers]

Oh, so when your 1st round pick tears his ACL in week 1, you're stuck with him on your bench the whole season. Doesn't make much sense to me.

 

Like I said, if you're playing with a group of friends, this doesn't become an issue. It's a pointless measure put in to prevent something that rarely happens and more often than not harms teams with injuries.

 

In that case the commissioner can just drop him for you. Obviously if someone is out for the year then he is allowed to be dropped. I thought that was a given. There is just no downside to not having that rule. It eliminates all problems that could arise in that area, even if there is a miniscule chance of there being a problem.