With the vast unpredictability and imbalance in the NBA season schedule, the number of players a certain fantasy team has playing throughout the week can have a very significant impact on the outcome of that week. I think a weekly start limit option needs to be seriously considered. Similar to the weekly start limit for starting pitchers in fantasy baseball. If you set the limit at, let's say, 40 or 42 starts per week, this guarantees that each team will have the same number of players playing for the week, and benching one of their worst players once or twice in a week shouldn't bother anyone. It is an easy fix for an important problem. And adding it as just an option for commissioners to enable or not, doesn't force it on leagues unwilling to add this feature.

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i remember reading that smack was coming back but am seeing no evidence on the 2018-19 league pages... any information as to what is happening there??

with regard to the messenger feature, we rarely use it... that just feels like a text message somehow, which i can easily do on my cell phone. not the same. what we miss is being able to comment directly on the matchup pages! always seemed to liven things up when it felt like everyone was engaged & paying attention to each other's teams... made for a HUGE difference in involvement

yahoo team- we appreciate the improvements in the stat accumulation dept, but please please consider enhancing that interpersonal aspect! more places in which to communicate... seems easy from a coding standpoint & is so very beneficial to the liveliness of leagues

THANKS

I am sure that everyone here can appreciate the function of a mock draft. It lets us prepare for the real deal, but I find one major flaw in this system. It does not actually give a real life mock draft and this is mainly caused the by the large number of people leaving the draft. There is such an abundance of mock drafts happening every few minutes (not a bad thing) that a large number of people tend to leave mid draft if their draft is not going their way. But in reality that is going to happen in a real draft situation. I hope that there is a way that you can limit this from happening and issue some sort of penalty for leaving the draft or limiting them from joining another draft until the one that they are in is finished. I feel like that would help people to stay within the draft until it is finished.

Best Regards,
Dan

P.S. Can you add the standings function in mobile draft?

For leagues with limited number of games, when a player gets injured at the beginning of a game (like Oladipo) the punishment is double: you may lose a good player for future games but also you consume a game for almost nothing. So I propose that Yahoo implements a league-defined threshold for time played (e.g., a league could choose 10 or 15 min) and when a player plays (for whatever reason) less than that, then the game will not count. Also, please stop rounding-down the minutes and just round them. 25'59'' should be rounded to 26, not 25 as you do now!

I got crushed last week because I had three guys who missed multiple games (one as many as 4 games - Elfrid Payton), and remained listed as "out," therefore I couldn't place them on the IL. These guys are too good to drop for the extra roster spot, and I predictably ended up losing in every counting stat (I attempted more than 100 fewer FGs than my opponent).

I'm assuming Yahoo doesn't allow "out" players to be placed on the IL because the NBA doesn't allow it, but fantasy =/= real life and there are different challenges. If this were to happen in the playoffs, it would be a shame.