ZAN
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Okay guys. The background is this. I'm in a Yahoo Fantasy Basketball league with 11 other guys I know. It's your typical 10-cat h2h league.
All season long, I had an excellent, but very injured roster. Going into the last week I was out of the last playoff spot by 2 games; the reason being that I held onto guys like Brook Lopez, Gerald Henderson, and Spencer Hawes through their injuries and played less games per week than my opponents (even though my team was better).
Well, needing to win my matchup by 2 more games than the next highest seed in the final week...I played Waiver Wizard, and sacrificed my players in favor of fielding a full roster every night. I won my matchup 8-2 while losing players like Trevor Ariza and D.J. Augustin (who've been struggling anyways).
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Well, this week, I went with the same mentality vs. the #3 seed (I'm the #6). On Monday night (last night) I made 4 moves and started a full 10 man roster vs. his 4. So I jumped out to a 8-2 lead.
Tonight, he had a 10 man roster playing vs. my 5. So I planned on making 3-4 more pickups so I could keep my lead. Also, he has a net games played this week of +6...this assuming Ray Allen (who's day-to-day and undroppable for me) plays all his games this week.
What do I wake up to find?
This motherfucker I'm playing went ahead and dropped his worst player (Steve Novak) to have a spot open. Then he proceeded to add and subsquently drop EVERY WORTHWHILE PLAYER on the Free Agent list. This, I assume, was because he thought that he was being sly and that adding and quickly dropping would send them into the waiver wire for 2 days, meaning no add/drops for me until THURSDAY NIGHT (with an already much less talented roster...outside me having LBJ and Nash).
Well, this MF didn't realize you must keep a player for a day before dropping them, in order for them to be Waiver fodder. This is a Yahoo loophole, I guess. So his plan failed.
Now, I've haven't seen shit HALF AS SCUMBAGGISH, attempted in leagues that I've been in that pay out TEN TIMES as much as this fantasy NBA league is paying out. And I played in 500 dollars worth of NFL leagues last fall. I've heard of adding players and storing them to keep them off other rosters. But this MF added literally 20 players with no intent of playing them, LET ALONE KEEPING them.
Had this worked in a high dollar league and every single player was on waivers until Thursday, I'd be calling tampering and be demanding 1 of 2 things:
1. Either I get auto advanced to the semi-finals
or
2. I get my money back and leave the league
But this league is low dollar, and I wasn't going to beg for my 20 bucks back. I called him out on it today and he said "If you're going to play the system, so am I. It's not illegal, per the rules, so I'm going to do it."
I say it's complete bullshit, illegal (even if the rules don't literally say "A player may not add/drop every Free Agent to keep his opponent from keeping a 'games played' pace").
What do you guys think?
All season long, I had an excellent, but very injured roster. Going into the last week I was out of the last playoff spot by 2 games; the reason being that I held onto guys like Brook Lopez, Gerald Henderson, and Spencer Hawes through their injuries and played less games per week than my opponents (even though my team was better).
Well, needing to win my matchup by 2 more games than the next highest seed in the final week...I played Waiver Wizard, and sacrificed my players in favor of fielding a full roster every night. I won my matchup 8-2 while losing players like Trevor Ariza and D.J. Augustin (who've been struggling anyways).
_____________________________________________________________
Well, this week, I went with the same mentality vs. the #3 seed (I'm the #6). On Monday night (last night) I made 4 moves and started a full 10 man roster vs. his 4. So I jumped out to a 8-2 lead.
Tonight, he had a 10 man roster playing vs. my 5. So I planned on making 3-4 more pickups so I could keep my lead. Also, he has a net games played this week of +6...this assuming Ray Allen (who's day-to-day and undroppable for me) plays all his games this week.
What do I wake up to find?
This motherfucker I'm playing went ahead and dropped his worst player (Steve Novak) to have a spot open. Then he proceeded to add and subsquently drop EVERY WORTHWHILE PLAYER on the Free Agent list. This, I assume, was because he thought that he was being sly and that adding and quickly dropping would send them into the waiver wire for 2 days, meaning no add/drops for me until THURSDAY NIGHT (with an already much less talented roster...outside me having LBJ and Nash).
Well, this MF didn't realize you must keep a player for a day before dropping them, in order for them to be Waiver fodder. This is a Yahoo loophole, I guess. So his plan failed.
Now, I've haven't seen shit HALF AS SCUMBAGGISH, attempted in leagues that I've been in that pay out TEN TIMES as much as this fantasy NBA league is paying out. And I played in 500 dollars worth of NFL leagues last fall. I've heard of adding players and storing them to keep them off other rosters. But this MF added literally 20 players with no intent of playing them, LET ALONE KEEPING them.
Had this worked in a high dollar league and every single player was on waivers until Thursday, I'd be calling tampering and be demanding 1 of 2 things:
1. Either I get auto advanced to the semi-finals
or
2. I get my money back and leave the league
But this league is low dollar, and I wasn't going to beg for my 20 bucks back. I called him out on it today and he said "If you're going to play the system, so am I. It's not illegal, per the rules, so I'm going to do it."
I say it's complete bullshit, illegal (even if the rules don't literally say "A player may not add/drop every Free Agent to keep his opponent from keeping a 'games played' pace").
What do you guys think?
