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Heading into week # 9 there's a few important announcements. First, the deadline for all trades is Friday November 18th as displayed in Yahoo. Second, the regular season is only 14 games long BECAUSE week 17 usually has alot of elite players resting for playoffs. That being the case, we want to make sure the 4 teams that earn playoff spots here don't get handcuffed losing some of their best players. Third, the Thursday Night Games begin on November 10th (next week) so please plan accordingly.
Understanding there are only 4 playoff slots offered to 12 teams, the team currently holding the 4th spot has a 4-4 record with only 4 points seperating them and the next team. In addition, that means teams with 2 wins are only 2 games back. Point? ALL 12 teams are still alive with 6 regular season games remaining. For the arithmetically challenged, there's 14 regular season games. EVERY point counts so make sure you think about that before you allow yourself to be that team that starts someone who is injured or on a bye week. There's 4 playoff teams and 4 more pool teams (deciding rankings from 5 to 8).
I received alot of positive feedback about our 2 leagues remaining competitive from start to finish last year. That would NOT have been possible if we had a bunch of participants giving up early. Because I'm also competing in the league, you NEVER want me to take over someone's roster as Commish that didn't honor their commitment. Reason? What if I have to ADD a player for that person that somebody I'm competing with also needs? Conflict of interest? You bet it is. I've been fortunate because our leagues here and on our previous board also remained competitive from start to finish. Unfortunately, this got complicated for the guy running a money league I was in 1 year because he thought he needed to step in and do the right thing. When $ is on the line, you can't make rules as you go if it wasn't clearly spelled out ahead of time. HOWEVER, the teams that already benefitted from beating a vacated roster full of inactives wanted the person in charge to start making the vacated roster compete so they could maintain that unfair 1 game lead established via beating the unattended to roster. Turns out, that Commish had to leave a bellyup roster for all opponents to enjoy once a precedent was already set and he realized he never spelled things out before the season. Rationale was the commish couldn't could't just reward 1 or 2 opponents and then yank it away for all the following opponents especially if there was money riding on it. Luckily, we haven't had to worry about this last year or previous years for all you that came from the old board.
That's why Hiway and me take the time out to make the extra step and post the results and writeups here. She's done a fabulous job writing up the Kevin Mack league for Riffer Goodell. Above all, remember these leagues don't belong to 2 commissioners. They belong to 24 participants.
ON DECK:
Drink Beer vrs WOOF WOOF WOOF
Warren Dawg vrs Ramrods
BrownOut vrs FML
BIG Dawgs vrs Da Comets
TheNoblePhilSavages vrs Iron Haden
Taint Me vrs Team DangeRuss
STANDINGS:
1. Iron Haden 7-1 1227 pts
2. Drink Beer 7-1 1051 pts
3. BrownOut 6-2 1060 pts
4. WarrenDawg 4-4 998 pts
5. WOOF WOOF WOOF 4-4 994 pts
6. Taint Me 4-4 860 pts
7. Da Comets 3-5 1042 pts
8. Team DangeRuss 3-5 938 pts
9. BIG Dawgs 3-5 862 pts
10. Ramrods 3-5 819 pts
11. FML 2-6 976 pts
12. TheNoblePhilSavages 2-6 951 pts
Understanding there are only 4 playoff slots offered to 12 teams, the team currently holding the 4th spot has a 4-4 record with only 4 points seperating them and the next team. In addition, that means teams with 2 wins are only 2 games back. Point? ALL 12 teams are still alive with 6 regular season games remaining. For the arithmetically challenged, there's 14 regular season games. EVERY point counts so make sure you think about that before you allow yourself to be that team that starts someone who is injured or on a bye week. There's 4 playoff teams and 4 more pool teams (deciding rankings from 5 to 8).
I received alot of positive feedback about our 2 leagues remaining competitive from start to finish last year. That would NOT have been possible if we had a bunch of participants giving up early. Because I'm also competing in the league, you NEVER want me to take over someone's roster as Commish that didn't honor their commitment. Reason? What if I have to ADD a player for that person that somebody I'm competing with also needs? Conflict of interest? You bet it is. I've been fortunate because our leagues here and on our previous board also remained competitive from start to finish. Unfortunately, this got complicated for the guy running a money league I was in 1 year because he thought he needed to step in and do the right thing. When $ is on the line, you can't make rules as you go if it wasn't clearly spelled out ahead of time. HOWEVER, the teams that already benefitted from beating a vacated roster full of inactives wanted the person in charge to start making the vacated roster compete so they could maintain that unfair 1 game lead established via beating the unattended to roster. Turns out, that Commish had to leave a bellyup roster for all opponents to enjoy once a precedent was already set and he realized he never spelled things out before the season. Rationale was the commish couldn't could't just reward 1 or 2 opponents and then yank it away for all the following opponents especially if there was money riding on it. Luckily, we haven't had to worry about this last year or previous years for all you that came from the old board.
That's why Hiway and me take the time out to make the extra step and post the results and writeups here. She's done a fabulous job writing up the Kevin Mack league for Riffer Goodell. Above all, remember these leagues don't belong to 2 commissioners. They belong to 24 participants.
ON DECK:
Drink Beer vrs WOOF WOOF WOOF
Warren Dawg vrs Ramrods
BrownOut vrs FML
BIG Dawgs vrs Da Comets
TheNoblePhilSavages vrs Iron Haden
Taint Me vrs Team DangeRuss
STANDINGS:
1. Iron Haden 7-1 1227 pts
2. Drink Beer 7-1 1051 pts
3. BrownOut 6-2 1060 pts
4. WarrenDawg 4-4 998 pts
5. WOOF WOOF WOOF 4-4 994 pts
6. Taint Me 4-4 860 pts
7. Da Comets 3-5 1042 pts
8. Team DangeRuss 3-5 938 pts
9. BIG Dawgs 3-5 862 pts
10. Ramrods 3-5 819 pts
11. FML 2-6 976 pts
12. TheNoblePhilSavages 2-6 951 pts
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