Rosters/Designations - Option to lock players (including benched players) when their game begins.
This option, when turned on, will prevent managers from dropping players from their bench or IR slot when their game begins. Currently, you can drop any player from your non-starting roster, even if their game has started.
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Mike Caputo
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Provide the option to lock players on the bench once their game has started. You should not be able to drop bench players after their game has started to pick up players who have not played yet. The starters are locked of course, but so should the bench players.
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Chris Cipriano
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Please enact this. This has caused so many issues over the years in my leagues. Friendships have literally ended because of this
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Tito Quintero
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Yes, this can easily be manipulated and opens itself to "legal" maneuvering. I call BS, remove it or at least give us the option to allow or not allow this in our own leagues.
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Jason Crawford
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I fully agree with this please!!!!! The current setting is not good.
#fixit. If the team has played the players on the team are locked for the week -
Sam Albright
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When a player is on the bench and the game is going or has ended you can still drop the player a pick a new one that hasn’t played yet (hit waivers). This is a horrible rule. Make it like ESPN so the player is locked. This way a manager can’t play wheel of fortune and try to hit a breakout player before waivers hit. This defeats the purpose. I have seen managers drop a player from Thursday on their bench then pickup a player for Sunday 1pm then drop that player and pick up a 4:30p player and the. Drop and pick up an 8:30 player and so forth. It comprises the integrity of the game.
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Michael Wonderlich
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We had a team drop a player who played on Thursday AFTER the game, but before the Sunday games. I thought that was not allowed. It shouldn't be allowed.
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Oh M
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i disagree
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Bryan Teagle
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Another vote.....Yahoo should not allow this as the DEFAULT setting.
It allows an owner to pick up the back up RB on the Thur Night Game and hold on to their bench.
If the Starter RB goes down with an injury, you keep the pickup.
If the starter doesn't get hurt......then drop and pick up a back up RB for a SUN 1pm game.
and so on, for the 4pm games, SNF, and MNF.So technically, an owner trying to take advantage of this bush league setting could get 5 stabs in the dark at a player. Just fix the default, Yahoo
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Tomer Langer
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As of now, the default is that Yahoo will allow you to drop players on your bench even after their game has been played (and pickup any non-waiver players in the free agency pool). I'd love for there to be an option to turn this setting off or on based on league preference!
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Derek Ivory
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This was an issue in my league as well. While I don't mind the ability to drop a player on your bench after his game has started, the corresponding 'Add' should not be available to be inserted into a starting spot until the following week.
The way it is set up now is essentially a loophole that allows for extended roster size.
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Vincent
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I think not having this optionality allows for a sort of exploit that straddles the line of making the game equitable in terms of waivers/free agencies.
Example: Manager A fills a spot on his bench with a handcuff that's slated to play in the earliest Sunday games. After the game is nearly done, Manager A sees that the main RB has not been injured. He then cycles that roster position to a handcuff that's playing in the next slate of Sunday games and so forth. This 'strategy' allows for them to not really place value in a particular player but more of a hope to get increased value by getting a player before they hit waivers.
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Vincent
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I think not having this optionality allows for a sort of exploit that straddles the line of making the game equitable in terms of waivers/free agencies.
Example: Manager A fills a spot on his bench with a handcuff that's slated to play in the earliest Sunday games. After the game is nearly done, Manager A sees that the main RB has not been injured. He then cycles that roster position to a handcuff that's playing in the next slate of Sunday games and so forth. This 'strategy' allows for them to not really place value in a particular player but more of a hope to get increased value by getting a player before they hit waivers.
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Kevin Burbach
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Lol, so much butt hurt in this thread. How is it unfair if everyone can do it?
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John P
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Ya WTF happened this is the first year this is happening??? I am seeing people pick up people off of Waivers that played on Thursday night?
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Alex Rapp
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Currently my league is allowed to drop a player that already played and was in a starting lineup. I'm already not happy about that fact that yahoo allows you to drop a bench player that already played for a player that did not but allowing someone to start a player and then drop them once they've already played and pick up a new player to then START is outrageous.
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Alex Rapp
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You absolutely SHOULD NOT be able to drop a player that played on Thursday night to pick up someone that plays Sunday. That's ridiculous. You can just watch someone have a bad game then drop them to pick up someone that plays Sunday and START THEM Sunday?? It makes no sense why a player wouldn't lock to your roster, bench or starter, after their game starts.
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Brian Palcko
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It's called managing, you should be able to make any move until they play. Every manager has this option, don't whine because others are smarter.
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Michael francis
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Couldn’t agree with this more. This is the only platform that operates this way and is a massive headache for commissioners. No idea why they do this, 0 reason to not lock players at their kickoff, bench or starting. Moved a league to another platform bc of this.
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Michael francis
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Yahoo needs to lock all
players at the time of their kickoff. Currently you can make a transaction, with a bench player, even though their game has started or is over. It’s impossible to police as a commissioner and every other platform doesn’t operate this way. Lock players all at their game times or at least give the option in the commish tools. Basically it allows owners to make moves during games and can drop players that get injured in their game for a late start player, which is a sketch, and is the reason waivers exist. It also increases strategy as you can’t go into the 1’ o’clocks knowing you can just drop a bench player for a player’s back up if he’s questionable ina late start time. -
Randolph Kim
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I think that this should be an "optional" setting. As a commissioner, I like the yahoo setting. I think u should be able to drop any player at any time.
What I hope everyone realizes is:
1. yahoo teams cannot drop a player who's real-life team has already played AND that you had in your starting lineup. U can only drop players who's real-life team has already played AND is on ur bench. Im not 100% on that, but i'd bet on it. At the very least, the score of that player would count, that I know.2. That, you can only pick up players that are available (ie, that haven't played their game that wk). So, it's not like a straight add/drop. The only benefit is that u get to hold a player a little longer than being forced to make that decision before the player to be dropped plays. Its not like Thur night game happens, u have a wr3 in the game, but have him on ur yahoo team's bench...starting rb1 goes down with torn acl, and then u can drop ur wr4 for the handcuff rb.
This only really comes into play for players that play Thur night games. With Sun and Mon night games, there will be very very limited players available for pickup, as most every teams has already played (majority of the times ~75% of teams have played in the early sunday afternoon games and are all locked from being added). And if there are players to pick up, even more limited as most of the "startable" players are probably already on rosters.