I may have screwed myself this week on inattentiveness. I forgot about the Thursday night game until literally 1 minute after kickoff. Denver’s D is the obvious play and I logged into yahoo to switch them in and the game clock was at 15:00 still in the first quarter but the game had officially started. They ended up scoring 18. I’m forced to start the Chargers with a much worse situation. I hope that doesn’t end up being the difference in a loss.
I have been Jonathan Stewarted.
Things change quickly, but at this moment, in every single matchup the team with the worse record is projected to win. I wonder if that has ever happened before
I somehow missed that BTJ was out / inactive for today’s game so as per the recently discussed rule I’m going to unstart him from my roster. I’ll have to replace him with someone who has a later game that hasn’t started yet, probably Kendrick Bourne.
I enjoy owning Josh Allen.
Sean Tucker is having the one day a year where he just randomly completely goes off and then scores 2.4 points per game for the rest of the year.
Which goes to show how idiotic this stupid game is. Josh Allen was pretty terrible today on the field, but fantastic in fantasy
I was under the impression that the new “I was sleeping in and didnt notice one of my players was inactive, so I get to retroactively change my lineup” was only for the international Sunday morning games. Am I wrong about that?
And, for the record, BJT was inactive last week with the same injury and wad a limited participant listed as questionable all week. This wasn’t a surprise inactive.
This is the wording of the rule, and me unstarting BTJ qualifies. While the early international games might be a good reason why someone didn’t see a player was inactive, there’s nothing in the rule about that being a requirement. A few days later Justin Bailey requested and was granted an inactive player started in a Sunday afternoon game.
And in response to that post that laid out the rule, you said:
That’s on me. I read the problem post, skimmed the rest, didnt pay really attention, and trusted we’d solve the problem of not waking early enough. I could have paid much more attention.
On the plus side, this let me turn off my 45 minutes before games start alarms named “Inactives” on my phone, so there is that.
So what’s your problem with it now? Just that it was used by your opponent this week?
The whole point of the rule was that it removed subjectivity and special circumstances and made it clear. You make it sound like it’s only valid if you personally approve their excuse. It’s an international game early? Okay, you pass. Oh, you just couldn’t make it because you were at work, unavailable, sleeping? Not good enough. You also introduced the idea that it shouldn’t count of the injury was expected. That introduces things that are complicated and subjective to enforce, and why? What harm does it do?
Yahoo could easily make it an automated feature that starting an out player automatically sticks them on your bench and it would be a pretty reasonable quality of life feature without much downside. No one would actually want to start an out player in a bench slot.
You had the chance to object to it when it was written (very clearly). You had the chance to complain about it when Justin used it a few weeks later for something that didn’t match what you claim you thought it was for (he used it for 1pm eastern games). But now your opponent uses it and suddenly it’s sketchy and you have a problem with it?
You know it’s still better to set your roster, right? Even if you use this system, you can’t use most of the players you would’ve otherwise swapped in if you had checked before the game, you’re limited to only playing players from later games. No one is gaining some sort of competitive edge by doing this.
Quentin Johnston continues to confound me with another 0.00 points, though at least this time he was targeted three times instead of none so I guess that’s progress.
In other news, pressing DJ Moore into service netted me a grim 2.6, meaning I got a grand total of 2.6 out of my flex spots. This makes me sad. He used to be better in Carolina, I feel like.
Luckily the rest of my team performed well enough for the win. 20/20 hindsight, I should have started Devin Singletary and Hollywood Brown in my two flex spots for 23.20, but oh well.
Around week 4 or 5 I was talking about how polarized the scores and records were but it has actually tightened up significantly since then.
9 players are between 4 and 7 wins. The score gap at the top is relatively small.
Teams sorted by score:
- Re-Peteys 1379
- Ol Gaffer 1366
- SenorBeef 1336
- RNATB 1324
- Hamlet 1320
- Ellis Dee 1272
- Jules Andre 1268
- Justin Bailey 1258
- Spiritus Mundi 1239
- dalej42 1138
- Omniscient 1135
- Retrovertigo 1062
I think it’s only a matter of time until we get a season where everyone finishes either 6-8, 7-7, or 8-6.
I thought I was eliminated (despite having the fourth highest overall score), but it turns out I can still make the playoffs. I am eliminated from the division because I need to win every game and have Beef and RePete los every game. That can’t happen because they play each other.
To take the wild card I would need RP and Jules to lose every remaining game, which is obviously quite unlikely anyway.
I have to imagine this my lowest score ever in this league though with it being almost two decades only maybe it isn’t. I could barely field a team with all the injuries and byes. I even correctly picked Maye over Allen, who socred 6 points, otherwise my score might’ve been in the 30s.
Almost 136 points and nothing to show for it. This season really is cursed.
A fussy baby kept me from noticing that Josh Jacobs was ruled out yesterday. I caught it an hour after game started but I didn’t want to cause a stink considering it wasn’t an international game.
I’m still winning this week but this mistake may cost me the Petey Memorial Scoring Championship
That is clearly a valid use case given that just a few days ago we specifically discussed that it has no requirements as to game time of day or anything like that. In fact, it’s still valid – if you want, I will unstart Jacobs from your roster and you can pick up someone for the Monday night game.
If people are really struggling with this we could just not do it and scrape the whole rule.
In fact, let me put it to a vote. I will remind people that this system cannot possibly be used to gain an advantage. It’s just a quality of life thing. It undoes the scenario where people who, for whatever reason, could not or did not remove a player who as out from their starting spot. They can’t swap them with a player who played at the same time, only players who played later, as if they left that starting spot empty in the first place and could only fill it with players who had not yet started.
- Allow players who are OUT for their games to be removed from starting roster slot
- Do not allow players who are OUT for their games to be removed from the starting roster slot
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The change would take effect next week.
If it’s being allowed, then please put in Xavier Legette for Jacobs. If not, it’s not that big of a deal.