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0 Subject: RIFC 2020: Getting started

Posted by: Guru
- [330592710] Tue, Aug 04, 2020, 15:43

I am pleased to announce the managers for the 2020 RIFC.

Typically, I invite the top 6 teams from the RIFC plus myself, the top 3 from each of the AAA leagues, and the winner of the AA playoffs. For purposes of ranking teams in each league, the winner of the playoffs is assigned a rank of #1, and then the playoff seedings are used after that.

One of the AAA qualifiers has decided not to play this year. So I evaluated the three bubble teams (one from each of the RIFC and the two AAA leagues), and selected the team which had the best W-L record and also the most points scored during the regular season. Thus, here is the list of invited managers, all of whom have accepted:

RIFC returnees (6+me); twilson, Da Bomb, Philly Busters, Toral, Doug, Swinganamiss, Guru
AAA#1 (3): Jaydog, Promize, Crabby Bills
AAA#2 (3): Woody, Valkyrie, Demaryius Targaryen
AA (1): Loki

I expect to start the draft selection process around August 17, and the draft itself on or about August 28.

In light of the pandemic, I can think of a few rules adjustments that we might want to consider.

1. For the past few seasons, we have allowed for only one RB and an extra receiver during bye weeks. We might want to extend that to all weeks - to compensate for potential Covid outages (either individual players or even teams)

2. We might want to add 1-2 extra bench slots - for the same reason.

Any thoughts? Any other ideas - related to Covid or anything else?

1Tree
      ID: 571142323
      Wed, Aug 05, 2020, 18:43
Alas, bumped down to the minor leagues! I'll be back soon enough!
2Doug
      ID: 16731712
      Fri, Aug 07, 2020, 13:31
I'm almost always in favor of depth so 1-2 extra bench slots I'd certainly be open to... but I would think that should also allow teams to cover the RB spots on non-bye-weeks. Prefer bench slots because that helps provide slack that you should be able to have coverage at all positions.

But if it's supposed to be just for Covid-specific purposes, you could also add IR slots and say players who are out due to Covid or have their team's game cancelled due to Covid are also temporarily eligible for the IR.
3Toral
      ID: 9541311
      Sat, Aug 08, 2020, 09:28

1. I oppose extending the one-RB rule. I do not see COVID disruptions as especially relevant to RB availability. Actually I would be for eliminating the one-RB rule entirely. Extending the one-RB rule to all season would be a significant dumbing down of the game.

2. I would add 3 bench slots to compensate for COVID disruptions -- but not lengthen the draft, i.e., at the end of the draFt, the extra slots would be empty.
4Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Thu, Aug 13, 2020, 13:41
I just set up the RIFC managers in myfantasyleague, and sent out invitations.

I see that MFL will have a Covid-IL designation this season. Here's a link to the description:
https://www54.myfantasyleague.com/2020/support?L=34198&FAQ=1139

I haven't studied it yet, but this may be the best way to adapt our league(s) to the Covid era.
5jaydog
      ID: 18328613
      Thu, Aug 13, 2020, 16:57
I am, in general, not in favor of expanding the bench unless there is some way to have a COVID style designation. With 3 extra bench spots, what's to stop a manager from holding 4-5 QB's, thus keeping them unavailable to other managers who may need them for injury/bye week fill ins.

The only way I'd be in favor of an expanded bench is if we could put some restrictions on the max number of players per position, to prevent hoarding.
6Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Fri, Aug 14, 2020, 13:02
I think this is the best approach to handle Covid:

We can establish a taxi squad (for each team) with virtually unlimited players. We can set this up so that the only players eligible to go on the taxi squad are those on the NFL Covid list (designated in MFL as COVID-IL).

We'll need some rules about how soon a COVID-IL player must be removed from the taxi squad. In the absence of any MFL standards for this (and I doubt if there are any, though I'm not sure), our typical rule is that once a player has been eligible to play one game (i.e., his team has a game scheduled after he loses COVID-IL status), he must either be activated or released by the following Wednesday.

We should also institute a rule (manually enforced) that a player who is already designated as COVID-IL cannot be picked up and then immediately added to the taxi squad. I think I'd prefer that once a free-agent player is designated as COVID-IL, he cannot be added to a taxi squad for the duration of his COVID-IL status. A team can pick him up, but not relegate him to the taxi squad.

Sound reasonable? With this approach, I don't think there is a need for any other adjustments to roster size or bench players.

7jaydog
      ID: 18328613
      Fri, Aug 14, 2020, 16:21
I think Guru's proposed solution is perfect (well, perfect for these imperfect times).
8Philly Busters
      ID: 311122313
      Sat, Aug 15, 2020, 11:19
I'm also in favor of the taxi squad solution provided by MFL as described by Guru in #6.
9Toral
      ID: 9541311
      Sat, Aug 15, 2020, 12:08

Seems well designed, should work.
10 Valkyrie
      ID: 337101618
      Sun, Aug 16, 2020, 19:10
Ditto
11Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Tue, Aug 25, 2020, 13:19
I believe our COVID language can be parallel to our existing IR language, except that there is effectively no limit on the number of COVID-IR players that can be placed on a team's taxi squad. (The MFL system has a max limit of 50 players on a taxi squad, which should be tantamount to unlimited.)

I don't think any players are currently designated on MFL as COVID-IR, and I don't know when that status will start to be tracked. My understanding is that as of last Friday, only 4 NFL players were on the official list.

Here are the rules (for both our regular Injured Reserve slot - unchanged from prior years) and for the new COVID taxi squad.


Injured Reserve
Each team will have one slot available for injured reserve. A player may only be placed on injured reserve when he is so designated by the NFL and the hosting site reflects that IR status.

If a manager adds a player who is already designated as IR at the time of his pickup (either through priority claiming or free agent pickup), that team must keep the player on its active roster until the following week. Players who are already designated as IR when drafted are not subject to this limitation, and may be placed in the IR slot immediately after the draft.

Once an IR player has returned to active status by the NFL, that player must be removed from the IR slot no later than the Wednesday following his activation. If an ineligible player remains in an IR slot after this time, the commissioner may forcibly drop such player after a 24-hour notice (via email) to the manager.

COVID-IL
Each team will have a taxi squad available to hold COVID list players (designated on MFL as COVID-IL). A player may only be placed on the taxi squad when he is so designated by the NFL and the hosting site reflects that COVID-IL status.

If a manager adds a player who is already designated as COVID-IL at the time of his pickup (either through priority claiming or free agent pickup), that team may not place the player on the taxi squad unless he has subsequently been cleared of his COVID-IL status. Players who are already designated as COVID-IL when drafted are not subject to this limitation, and may be placed on the taxi squad immediately after the draft (as long as they are still eligible at that time).

Once a COVID-IL player has returned to active status by the NFL, that player must be removed from the taxi squad no later than the Wednesday following his activation. If an ineligible player remains on the taxi squad after this time, the commissioner may forcibly drop such player after a 24-hour notice (via email) to the manager.


If anyone has questions or issues with this, please speak up.

If a team's game is cancelled or postponed due to multiple COVID positives on the team, I don't know how the COVID list will be handled. But for our purposes, we'll need to live with the listed status for each player on MFL.
12Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Tue, Sep 29, 2020, 12:24
Tennessee has had several positive COVID tests, and their facility is currently shut down.

Minnesota - their opponent last weekend, has also closed their facility, although no positive tests are yet reported.

Suffice it to say that this is a developing situation. Monitoring...
13Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Thu, Oct 01, 2020, 09:40
Copied from the MFL site:

What will happen if the NFL postpones a game to Monday/Tuesday or to a later week?
Answer: The NFL has announced that the Week 4 game between the Steelers and Titans on Sunday has been postponed until Monday or Tuesday (or possibly later). We will have a formal announcement with guidance on how all of this will work as soon as the NFL makes the official decision about when the postponed game will be played. In the meantime, some general guidance:

- If the game is rescheduled for Monday night, then nothing will change with regard to the NFL players in the game. It will be similar to week 1 when there were 2 Monday night games.

- If the game is rescheduled for Tuesday night, then it will still be counted as a game in Week 4 of the fantasy season. But there may need to be adjustments to your league depending on your league waiver calendar. However, PLEASE DO NOT TRY TO MAKE ANY CHANGES to your league settings now. We will provide more guidance as needed if the game ends up being played on Tuesday.

- If the game is rescheduled for a future week, then the game will be counted in that future week. This means that players involved in the game will now be considered as BYE week players. Franchises will need to replace the Steelers and Titans players in their lineup for week 4, just as they would do if the Steelers and Titans had a bye week.
14Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Thu, Oct 01, 2020, 10:25
Game has now officially peen postponed to another week.

I'm considering opening the Covid taxi squad to any player on either Tenn or Pitts for this week. Any dissenting opinions?
15Toral
      ID: 9541311
      Thu, Oct 01, 2020, 10:27
Good idea.
16Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Thu, Oct 01, 2020, 10:35
Just added this as a league poll.
17Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Thu, Oct 01, 2020, 11:59
I predict that the Pitt-Tenn game will be moved to week 7, and the Pitt-Balt game will be shifted from week 7 to week 8. Baltimore's bye week would be advanced from week 8 to week 7. That seems to be the cleanest option, requiring only one other game to be shifted.

This suggests that trying to advance plan for your bye week players may be a fool's errand.
18SwinganaMiss
      ID: 27546716
      Thu, Oct 01, 2020, 20:07
It's basically a switch of the bye week at this point. Why should bye week players be allowed to go on Taxi squad? Makes no sense to me.
19Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Thu, Oct 01, 2020, 21:04
Because it's an unplanned/unexpected bye?
20Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Fri, Oct 02, 2020, 09:02
In the absence of much reaction one way or the other (see limited discussion above), I'm going to leave things as they are for this week. Since no other teams are on bye this week, missing only one game is unlikely to create major disruption. However, I'm keeping the option open for future weeks.

However, since our rules allow for only one RB (with an extra flex) for bye weeks, I will enable that setting for this week.
21Doug
      ID: 495528
      Fri, Oct 02, 2020, 09:55
Agree with 18
22Toral
      ID: 9541311
      Fri, Oct 02, 2020, 13:16

I disagree with the comments of of Swinganamiss and Doug.

Guru, I accept your decision, of course. As I must.

I should have spoken earlier -- although it probably wouldn't have made a difference -- The reason for allowing affected players to be put on the Taxi Squad is that there are going to to be numerous players sidelined by COVID issues who are not on the COVID-IR list. As I anticpated. As MFL obviously recognized, as shown by the size of its taxi squad.
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Guru, I urge you to declare now that players in future postponed games may be placed on the Taxi Squad. This can't be decided on a week-to-week basis, as unfortunately there are too amy people who will decide based on their personal interest, and not what is good for the league. There is no guarantee that the season will even be played in the first 17 weeks.

Also -- by implying that you will make future decsions on a week-to-week basis, you are inviting players to give input based on their week-to-week situaltion. And that is something no good commissioner should do.

BTW -- Guru, your decision to treat this as a BYE week re RBs -- with a late announcement -- was wrong too. You're 0-for-2 this week on important decisions. Bad process too.

[Note: I have no idea who my opponents have on their roster this week. I have found that looking at that impedes my real-time enjoyment of football.]

Toral
23Nerfherders
      ID: 56261418
      Fri, Oct 02, 2020, 15:01
Jeez. I'm not even in this league but that's uncalled for. You can disagree without personal attacks.
24Toral
      ID: 9541311
      Fri, Oct 02, 2020, 17:17
I'm sorry. Where was the personal attack?
25Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Fri, Oct 02, 2020, 17:56
FWIW - I do plan to announce a policy regarding future covid-postponements prior to next week's waivers.

I decided not to enact a taxi-squad relaxation this week because:
1- no policy had been announced in advance,
2- there was no apparent consensus on the best approach,
3- there were no other byes this week, so the roster disruption should be fairly minimal

I decided to impose the normal bye week flex standard this week because we now had two teams with byes this week, and without any other relief, our existing rule seemed to call for it.

I freely admit that there was no perfect solution. I accept that some will disagree. I have no regrets about my decisions.
26Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Fri, Oct 02, 2020, 18:06
If anyone has a different recommendation on how covid-related postponements should be dealt with in future weeks, please speak up now. I don't expect to be able to put a range of options to a vote, but I am open to hearing other's opinions.

It does seem that we need to make some accommodation when this happens. Suppose we hit a week when 6 teams are already on bye, and two more games end up getting cancelled?

Going into the season, we knew that Covid could very well create some issues. So far, those issues have been pretty tame. But if we are indeed heading toward a second wave of infections, I think we need to consider the potential ramifications of more significant scheduling dislocations.
27SwinganaMiss
      ID: 27546716
      Fri, Oct 02, 2020, 23:59
A wise person once said.....Toral is the original crankpot... you do a kick a$s job of running this league.
Fitting description then, fitting now as well.

28Toral
      ID: 9541311
      Sat, Oct 03, 2020, 09:39

I recognize that there was no obviously clear solution. I am glad to hear that a decision will be made before waivers next week.

There was nothing "personsl" in my comments, and I certainly meant no "attack". My observations were meant as light-hearted -- I did not even ask that the decision for this week be reconsidered -- and I am sorry if anyone (in good faith) took them otherwise. It is fortunate that (as far as I know) no-one was put in the position of having to start someone like Frank Gore on Thursday because he didn't know that only one RB would be required this week.

I have made my recommendation and will be happy to live with whatever decision is made for future weeks.

29Toral
      ID: 9541311
      Sat, Oct 03, 2020, 10:24

Further note:

With an additional Titans player reported testing positive for COVID today, Rotoworld reports that there are "increased questions" about Bills-Titans in WEEK 5. I would suggest that not allowing players from those teams to be put on taxi squad would produce some strain on rosters, although bthere is only one bye scheduled for next week..

I also note that FootballTwitter last week was awash with comments suggesting that one or two "make-up weeks" might be scheduled after week 17, either by delaying the playoffs for one week, cutting the period between the conference championships and the Super Bowl to 1 week, or both. I will leave it to others to suggest how fantasy leagues would handle that.

30Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Sat, Oct 03, 2020, 11:15
It is likely that I will amend the rules starting with next week (week #5) to state that the taxi squad will be available as a place to stash any player on a team whose game for that week has been canceled or postponed due to Covid.

Of course, the rule will continue to allow the taxi squad to hold players with a (C) Covid designation.

Unfortunately, the system will not allow me to set up this taxi squad standard, so I will need to set it up to allow all players (or perhaps all players on bye). However, players on a regularly scheduled bye will not be eligible for the taxi squad. I will need to monitor compliance manually - but any player who is inappropriately added to the taxi squad must be reinstated to the active roster ASAP after notification, or else that player will be released to free agency.  Also, any breach of the rule that appears to be done to provide a temporary roster slot during the week may be subject to the same penalty.

Any player added to the taxi squad through the "Covid-bye" allowance will need to be reinstated to the active roster prior to the next week's game freeze - or else I will release that player to free agency.  If the next week is a regular bye for that player, he will still need to be added back to the regular roster prior to the Monday night freeze, subject to the same penalty for non-compliance.
31Nerfherders
      ID: 56261418
      Sat, Oct 03, 2020, 11:54
Now Cam Newton has tested positive and Chiefs-Patriots is in doubt.
32Da Bomb
      Donor
      ID: 487112814
      Sat, Oct 03, 2020, 11:57
As someone with 2 Titans starters, I’m not quite understanding why the Taxi squad would likely go into effect next week but not this week. I could see the reasoning of installing the taxi squad under commissioner review going forward if there are multiple games postponed due to Covid, but if it is going to go into effect going forward for even 1 Covid postponed game, then I feel it should go into effect now.
33 DT
      ID: 187283016
      Sat, Oct 03, 2020, 17:24
Likely too late to the party on this, but will say that from a personal perspective, this will have a substantial impact on my roster. I will have to make multiple drops in order to accommodate this being an unexpected bye to submit a complete roster. It is what it is and no easy decision obviously, but it is painful to have to do that knowing this will be treated differently in coming weeks.
34Doug
      ID: 77541115
      Sat, Oct 03, 2020, 17:47
My sense is unless a team's game is outright cancelled and they're just rescheduling their bye week as a result of Covid, that's no different than if it was rescheduled due to natural disaster or anything else... it's just a rescheduling, and allowing them to taxi squad would basically mean that players from that team have NO bye over the entire season (whereas others do). Put another way, what week is TEN's bye week this season, assuming no more games are cancelled? Week 4, right? But they would get to go on taxi squad for their bye, but other teams wouldn't?

Basically either all byes count for taxi squad, or none of them do IMO... the fact the scheduling change wasn't known weeks in advance is unfortunate and annoying, but that's "less unfair" to deal with that than to allow certain teams to essentially having no bye week (in terms of roster management) by making them selectively taxi squad eligible.

We should proactively consider two additional issues though:

1) If a team has a game outright cancelled (not rescheduled), and thus essentially has their "second bye week" of the season, that to me is different than a rescheduled "first bye week" of the season. In that case I'd argue for taxi squad eligibility because it amounts to a second bye.

2) It's also possible the NFL might reschedule games such that a team has two games in a given week (seen this discussed on other sites, generally considering "Weds through Tue" to constitute a game week, hence delaying a game until Weds and then playing the next game on Sunday as planned, or Mon/Tue, would result in effectively 2 games in the same "game week"). It's weird/unfortunate but the question is how to handle that... (1) add players scores for that week, basically giving them double-scoring, (2) use the originally scheduled game, (3) use the better of the two scores for each player, (4) average the scores for each player, (5) other? MFL may have their own default policy in place for this, I don't know, but we can choose to abide by that or come up with our own policy, but regardless we should be clear on what the plan is for that situation.
35Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Sat, Oct 03, 2020, 20:53
The other issue is that, as of tomorrow, we do not know whether NE/KC will play by Tuesday or not. How should that be handled? They may or may not have a bye this week.

My ruling that we are not making any changes for this weekend stands. I know that it impacts some teams more than others. It sucks; deal with it. It's the nature of a covid-impacted season.

The bigger question is how to proceed for future weeks. And if we make allowances, should they apply any differently for teams with definite postponements (like Pit-Ten) vs. those with contingent postponements (like NE-Kan).

36Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Sun, Oct 04, 2020, 09:33
Given the vagaries of the NE/KC situation, I'm becoming more persuaded that any taxi-squad type of concession is fraught with difficulties, especially since it would need to be manually administered and monitored.

It may be that the fairest policy is simply to allow the status quo to remain, and any other game rescheduling - for any reason - has to be dealt with using traditional means.

As Joe Bryant says in this morning's email from footballguys.com: "Don't be mad about it. Roll with it and be flexible. It's an underrated key to life."

Having said this, I'm still open to differing points of view. Please express them here. I don't expect to make a final call until Tuesday.

For the latest news from myfantasyleague.com, click on the "What's New" link in the HELP dropdown menu at the top of any page on that site.

37Toral
      ID: 9541311
      Sun, Oct 04, 2020, 10:18

I think that Doug has a strong argument that a single cancellation should be treated just as an unexpected BYE requiring no special measures.

If Titans-Bills is cancelled next week, however, it will be different. That would be two games missed for the Titans, beyond anything that could be considered as a mere schedule adjustment. I would suggest that players on any team facing a SECOND (or Third, Fourth...) cancellation should be eligible for the taxi squad.

There was more talk yesterday about the NFL having a "Week 18". I would imagine that our league would be finished then and any stats compiled then would be useless to their owners.

38Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Sun, Oct 04, 2020, 10:55
Yes, I would think that our league should stick with a regular season of weeks 1-13, and playoffs for 14-16, regardless of any potential league extension.

Clearly, there is a risk that some teams will be off during our playoffs, which is not supposed to happen. Byes are supposed to be finished by then. Whether that necessitates a roster adjustment at that time is something we may need to consider.

But in the near term... Suppose that either Ten or Pit have a future situation like this week's NE/KC game, setting up the potential for a second bye for one of those two teams. The game may be postponed, or may be played as late as Tuesday. We may not know until Tuesday whether the game is on or off. Do we make an allowance to add those players to the taxi squad? If so, how soon (in the week) do we allow it? If we allow players to be "taxied" and the game ends up being played after all, do we allow teams to "un-taxi" those players prior to gametime (assuming all starting slots are not already locked)?

It's entirely possible that we could be faced with this exact situation next week.


39Toral
      ID: 9541311
      Sun, Oct 04, 2020, 11:17

Patriots-Chiefs to be played Monday at 7 P.M. on CBS so that issue settled.

But some hypothetical answers to the above questions:

If so, how soon (in the week) do we allow it?

As soon as the game is postponed, i.e., the original date for the game is changed.

If we allow players to be "taxied" and the game ends up being played after all, do we allow teams to "un-taxi" those players prior to gametime (assuming all starting slots are not already locked)?

No. Once you're put on the taxi squad, you're there for the week. They can't be "un-taxied". In practice, in most cases I would guess that a player would be immediately picked up and someone slotted into the hole, so the problem would not arise. But the owner would still assume the risk of guessing wrong.
40Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Sun, Oct 04, 2020, 11:46
Patriots-Chiefs to be played Monday at 7 P.M. on CBS so that issue settled.

Not completely settled, from what I have read. Another positive covid test could still postpone to Tuesday or later.
41Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Sun, Oct 04, 2020, 11:51
Still thinking through the possibilities.

Suppose a game is postponed, and it would be the first bye for both teams. However, the NFL decides not to shift bye weeks around, and instead pushes the game to week 18. And we may or may not know the ultimate rescheduling decision when the original game week closes.

Now, what happens when those teams reach their regular bye week? Should those players be eligible for the taxi squad that week, as it will effectively be their second bye?
42Toral
      ID: 9541311
      Sun, Oct 04, 2020, 12:30

That is a tricky one. A possible answer is "Yes, because the teams will have missed two weeks of play because of the effects of COVID."

The order of events is different, but the disadvantage to the affected teams is the same.
43Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Mon, Oct 05, 2020, 13:07
Subject to further review and consideration, here's my suggestion. Please comment if you think anything is unclear or needs rethinking.



Background: All teams are scheduled to have exactly one bye week during the first 13 weeks of the season, which period coincides with our regular season. No byes are scheduled beyond week 13. Therefore, managers should expect to work around one bye week for each rostered player during the regular season, but should not need to make such adjustments during the playoffs.

Premise: Positive covid tests can result in games being postponed. Some of these games may be rescheduled by shifting future bye weeks around. In these cases, the team may still end up with only one bye week during the season. However – especially if a team has already had its bye week – a covid-related rescheduling may result in a team having more than one bye week.

Current taxi squad rule: our current rule only allows players to be added to the taxi squad if they have tested positive and are designated by the NFL for the covid list. These players are designated on MFL by a (C). If a team has a game postponed due to positive covid tests, players who are not so designated cannot be added to the taxi squad.

Proposed adjustment: If a team has a game postponed due to covid and that team has not yet had a bye week, then no relief is granted. Although the short notice may create management difficulties, the postponement will be considered like any normal bye week.

If a team has already had a bye week, then a subsequent postponed game due to covid will be eligible for relief, as follows. Any rostered player on the postponed team may be added to that team’s taxi squad. Once on the taxi squad, that player may not be reactivated during that week, even if the postponed game ends up being rescheduled for later in the same week (i.e., Monday or Tuesday). However, all players added to the taxi squad under this special relief rule must be added back to the active roster prior to that player’s next scheduled game. Failure to reactivate a player will result in that player being released into free agency.

Similarly, if a team encounters a previously scheduled bye week that becomes a second bye (because an earlier game was already postponed due to covid), then players on that team are eligible for the same taxi squad relief at that time.

Also, if a team has a postponement or bye for any of weeks 14-16 (our league playoffs), players on those teams will also be subject to this special relief.

A list of all teams eligible for this special relief will be posted in a separate thread at the RotoGuru Football Forum.

Of note: this special relief for teams missing a second week cannot automatically be handled by the MFL taxi squad rules. As such, the system may need to be set to enable any player to be added to the taxi squad. In the event that a player is inappropriately added to the taxi squad, the commissioner shall notify the manager of the breach and require that the player be immediately transferred back to the active roster. Failure to comply with the request (on in a timely basis) will result in the player being released into free agency. As such, all managers are asked to be careful when adding any players to the taxi squad.
44Doug
      ID: 77541115
      Mon, Oct 05, 2020, 20:48
Sounds good to me
45Philly Busters
      ID: 311122313
      Tue, Oct 06, 2020, 13:05
Seems fair and a reasonable way to handle an unknown and possibly unreasonable set of circumstances.
46Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Wed, Dec 09, 2020, 09:42
Here is a reminder of this year's rules for add/drop transactions during the playoffs.

1. All teams will be locked out of add/drop moves starting at 8:30 Tuesday night. This will allow me to determine the brackets and get everything set up properly before "re-opening".

2. Once league standings are updated after the Tuesday night game, playoff brackets will be assigned. Remember that the Championship bracket includes the top 6 teams by W/L standings plus the remaining top 2 teams in total points. Seeds 1-4 will be based on W/L standings. Seeds 5-8 will be ordered based on total points.

3. Once brackets are established and entered, add/drop moves will be enabled according to the following guidelines:
- Blind bidding will take place at 3pm ET Thursday afternoon for teams in the Championship brackets. Blind bid dollars will be zeroed out for teams not in the championship bracket, so they will be unable to participate in blind bidding. (Note that in the unlikely event that Thursday morning scoring corrections result in a change in brackets, the bracket adjustments will be made before the 3pm blind bidding on Thursday afternoon.)
- There will be a general lock out for all add/drop transactions from 3-6pm ET on Thursday.
- Starting at 6pm ET on Thursday, all teams will be allowed to make F/A pickups.
- Taxi squad and IL moves will be allowed for all teams.
- There will be a usual Sunday morning blind bidding (8am ET) for dropped players.

Note that, due to the additional strain of covid-related player outages, we are NOT locking out playoff transactions for teams that are no longer in the championship brackets. Those teams will not be able to participate in blind bidding, but other transactions will be allowed.

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47Doug
      ID: 77541115
      Wed, Dec 09, 2020, 16:15
Are we also going to revert to 2 RBs required now that bye weeks have passed? Same question for K14 league.
48Philly Busters
      ID: 311122313
      Sun, Dec 13, 2020, 10:39
Doh! My WR "corps" for the 1st round of the playoffs will NOT be Julio Jones, DJ Moore and Brandin Cooks. Instead I get to run out Sterling Sheperd, Michael Pittman, and Russell Gage. Good Luck Toral but you may not need it. Maybe Aaron Rodgers can score 40...

Thank goodness Fantasy Hoops is ramping up!
49Toral
      ID: 9541311
      Mon, Dec 14, 2020, 13:01

I needed more than luck; I needed the brains to start Mike Davis instead of Singletary. Although with your having 2 players going tonight it probably wouldn't have mattered.


Good luck the rest of the way, Philly Busters.
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