Fantasy Football Ethics Question

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I don't see anything wrong with it. Team A by clinching the playoffs earned the right to try and work around possible playoff match-ups. I would be more concerned with a team that is already eliminated tanking his lineup against a team battling for a playoff spot.

If I was Team A I would not be messing with the fantasy football Gods and try to pave a playoff path. hat is just asking for bad karma.

I remember one year in Fantasy Baseball a pulled what I called The George Steinbrenner". We had a Add/Drop limit of 75 transactions per season in place one year. There is also a 1250 inning limit you have for your pitchers per season. However there was and still is a glitch with Yahoo where if you have just 1/3 of an inning left on your innings pitched limit and if you start a full slate of pitchers that day Yahoo doesn't know which pitcher to assign that 1/3 of an inning to so Yahoo just credits you with all of the pitching stats for that day. Everybody in the league takes advantage of that little glitch in the system and maxes out that last 1/3 of an inning in the last week of the season. Well I was in first place and still had about 45 transactions left in my bank and decided to add and drop 45 pitchers that were scheduled to start the last week of the season just so those free agent pitchers would be on waivers and wouldn't clear waivers until the season ended. It reminded me of that one year when George Steinbrenner claimed Jose Canseco off waivers just to block the Blue Jays from picking him up. Poor Joe Torre didn't know what to do with that extra OF/DH.
 

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Complete shithead, but legal nonetheless
 

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Thanks for the replies guys. I was team D, and although I wasn't worried much because of the 60-point cushion, I still thought it wasn't right. I am not friends with anyone in the league, but we all know eachother from within the poker community. I suppose if we were all friends it would be different, but I just can't see myself doing this at any time, regardless of league makeup. Everyone else had to play against his tough team throughout the year, and then the guy Team F gets a free pass. After posting in a couple forums, I guess there are mixed feelings on this.
 

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In the league I run, nobody can tank a game. If somebody put in a lineup with the obvious intention of tanking a game, I can and will change the lineup, even after the game as started.

I actually had to do this twice this year with the same team, but never before in our 6 or 7 year history. Everybody knows of this rule beforehand, and nobody has a problem with it.

The team in question will not be back next year.

I suggest you implement a similar rule or quit the league.
 

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