Dynasty/Keepers - Leave league open to allow trading, adds, and drops during the offseason.
This would allow managers to make all league transactions within the platform, including adds, drops, and trades, throughout the year.
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Jake commented
I've made this request several times since last year. Not being able to utilize the trade block in off-season fro dynasty/keeper leagues is a joke. C'mon Yahoo! pull your head out. The people have spoken.
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Sherlock commented
true. I made the same request each year for the last 3 years to no avail. We're all wasting our breath here. Yahoo doesn't give 2 s***s about its users.
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Anonymous commented
B: They are better at deleting posts and removing offensive language than they are at listening to any suggestions or acting on them. You give them way too much credit. Do yoou realize that this request has been made and discussed on this forum over and over again for the last 5 years? Each time they "gather feedback", all of which is logical and mirrors the rationale in this thread, and they NEVER change anything.
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Billy Ray commented
+1
Come on Yahoo... Wake up and listen!!!
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Jo commented
It seems so simple and common sense for those that play a keeper/dynasty league to have the ability to have those offseason changes logged and tracked year round. Little help here yahoo.
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B commented
Nice work Yahoo!! Delete any posts are necessary for anyone impersonating Yahoo!. Kudos!
Now people can get back to actually making suggestions regarding the need to edit rosters so that keeper leagues can keep their rosters up-to-date months away from the NFL schedule. Opening the trade feature all year will allow for the off-season trades to be put through as well. As long as there are options to custom any cut-off dates that each league chooses, we can easily have this problem solved.
Eg. If a league chooses to have no trade deadline at all, we should be able to trade players all the way though the playoffs (even though we don't as a "gentleman's agreement" in my leagues to try to have the longest extended trading timelines), but we should be able to trade after championship week as well, instead of it closing right away. We purposely chose "No Trade Deadline" for this feature, but it disappointingly cuts off. "No trade deadline" apparently means "3 more weeks" currently.
If a commissioner chooses the option the import last years rosters (as it prompts you to choose when renewing a keeper league) it should automatically have the option imported to edit rosters at any time. Then the keepers can be set, then the league can draft the correct players. Even if the trade feature is off, the commish should always be able to edit things. Now, the commish has to set the draft manually, but I don't know how you set a keeper that is not currently on your roster, and the commish cannot put them onto your roster.
As far as the trade timelines, I suggest a beginning and end date to have the commissioner set and edit up until the draft occurs, then it freezes, just like most options. In a perfect world, I would set my league to be able to trade from the day the league is renewed (or possibly start when all teams are finalized if all teams need to be present first). Then I would have the trades suspended for a certain amount of weeks during the playoffs (which we do as gentlemen currently), then open again when a champion has won, and then open until the league actually closes. I know that Yahoo! opened earlier than ever this year, and are probably aiming to have as little downtime as possible between seasnons. If this suggested way with a hiatus isn't possible, we would gladly have the trades never close, and have a "gentleman's agreement" to not trade in weeks 12-16. A commish can reverse any shenanigan's with this anyway, but that hiatus in the middle of a fully open trading league would be fantastic!
Either way, our league has been staring at our teams that don't even have the correct players on them since the day the league opened with no recourse. It's not awesome, and a third party site we are forced to use daily alongside to chat and make offers because it contain all of the information and correct rosters, is I'm sure the opposite of what Yahoo! wants to see.
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B commented
A sarcastic thank-you to the jerk of a user posing as "Yahoo! Product Support" on multiple Feedback topics. I'm sure we all impressed by your cowardly rouse to deter people that honestly help to make these sites better for everyone. I'm sure we'll hear from you again, being that you have enough time in your sad, pathetic life to seek out new ways to throw wrenches into the proverbial gears of progress.
To others: keep posting to show Yahoo! that we as users need more functionality with the site constantly as our Fantasy leagues continue to grow in numbers and creativity. We'll continue to suggest the options we need to see, or what other free Fantasy Sports sites can do currently that Yahoo! does not.
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Ronald Reagan commented
Well Yahoo...? THis suggestion is shooting up the charts yet you've made no moves to open up rosters or allow trading. Let's go. Please stop sucking so bad.
p.s. When are you going to finally fix the Pre Draft rankings? It still is HORRIBLE despite your feeble attempts. Just put back last years. Once again... please stop sucking so bad. You really are the worst fantasy site the last 2 seasons. From best to worst. You must be so proud.
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Jack Bauer commented
The original post makes sense.
So you can count on Yahoo NOT to implement it. LOL
Yahoo sucks.
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Mike K commented
actually the tool should be available if your league is predraft and your rosters are imported and it's before your keeper deadline OR the league is post draft. If you give me a league id I can check why it is not available for your league.
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Mike K commented
It is available now but you have to make sure to finalize teams and set the keeper deadline to an earlier date, I believe by default it is set to sometime in late August.
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I've had enough of this crap from Yahoo commented
Bravo for the original suggestion. In my leagues the commish has to keep track of all off-season trades because Yahoo for some inexplicable reason doesn't understand that the leagues have player trades and transactions throughout the off season. It's as if the people at Yahoo have no idea how keeper leagues function. Yahoo seems to be completely in a fog.
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geoff Nickerson commented
this is long over do Yahoo. We need this added in Dynasty/keeper pools.
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hippoman commented
Agree 100%
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Hurry Up Yahoo! commented
Hey Yahoo: This would be a Very important change for all keeper and dynasty leagues. Make it happen!
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Chief Wild Eagle - Hekawi Tribe commented
Agree 100%
Why is Yahoo so ignorant about how Keeper and Dynasty leagues function? It is a year round activity and trades are made in the off season. Why make us keep track of all that separately? Makes no sense.
When it comes down to it, Yahoo essentially sucks and we'd be better off going elsewhere.
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Hairy Palms commented
my yahoo keeper leagues have to keep all the off season roster changes on a spread sheet with continual edits throughout the off season because for some inexplicable reason Yahoo prevents trades, roster edits and all of the things most leagues do in the off season. It's ridiculous that we have to keep track of all of this on the side and not directly on our league page. Makes no sense. We are probably moving to RTS or something similar where we have year round access and roster change capability. Simply put, there is not one logical reason why roster edits by the commish, trades and the like can not be permitted. Just lock add/drop and waivers if you want, but definitely allow trades and commissioner edits.
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B commented
From what I can gather, it won't let you edit rosters as a commissioner or trade players between teams until the Keeper Selection Date has past, which just handcuffs leagues that play all year and trade players and picks constantly. I ask, is the keeper declaration that important? It isn't in Custom Private leagues, because the commish sets each keeper into draft position manually in a Custom Order. I know as manager, I set the entire draft manually with keepers and traded picks I have logged. So, it is puzzling why I cannot edit rosters with the trades that we have already made off line, and let players know whom is on which team to begin with.
Maybe that is the difference that needs to be looked at. For custom private leagues, all abilities of trading and editing rosters should be open all the time. Maybe not for public Keeper/Dynasty leagues, because it might cause problems when people don't know each other at all, and there could be collusion and cheating. Declaring Keepers in an auto-draft may be important too for both Private and Public leagues, but that should be a stipulation of an auto-draft, not all leagues.
Again Custom Leagues should have the ability to alter anything they see fit, and the league should be closed for the least amount of time possible a year. That is the fun of a custom league, being active on Yahoo! everyday!
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I Don't Care commented
Thank you. I made a similar post here for the last 3 years about this. It bears repeating..... are you finally listening Yahoo?
Trades and Editing rosters are needed by dynasty/keeper leagues 100% of the time!
Trades and Editing rosters are needed by dynasty/keeper leagues 100% of the time!
Trades and Editing rosters are needed by dynasty/keeper leagues 100% of the time!
Trades and Editing rosters are needed by dynasty/keeper leagues 100% of the time! -
Kevin commented
Totally agree!!