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0 Subject: Special Covid rule for all 2020 RIFC leagues

Posted by: Guru
- [330592710] Tue, Oct 06, 2020, 11:00

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 this thread.

Of note: This special relief for teams missing a second week cannot automatically be handled by the MFL taxi squad rules. Therefore, in the event that this special rule needs to be activated, the system will 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.
1Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Tue, Oct 06, 2020, 11:12
Currently, no teams are eligible for this special exception in NFL week #5. However, Pittsburgh or Tennessee players would be eligible in the event of a postponed game this week.
2Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Fri, Oct 09, 2020, 09:23
The NFL announced some changes to the NFL Week 5 Schedule because of COVID related safety issues:
  • The Broncos-Patriots game has been rescheduled to Monday night at 5:00pm ET. This means there will be two Monday night games again this week.
  • The Bills-Titans game has been tentatively rescheduled to Tuesday night at 7:00pm ET. This is not final and is subject to further test results over the course of the weekend. If the game is played on Tuesday night, then it will be included as part of Week 5 scores.
Because New England, Denver, and Buffalo have not yet had a bye week, players on those teams MAY NOT be moved to the taxi squad this week.

Because Tennessee had a bye in week 4, players on Tennessee MAY be moved to the taxi squad this week. Any Tennessee player moved to the taxi squad may not be reactivated until week 6.
3Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Fri, Nov 27, 2020, 14:39
If the NFL postpones the Balt @ Pitt game past Sunday, then players on both of those teams will be eligible for taxi squad. But until the postponement is official, you must wait to implement. Apparently, the NFL will be meeting later on Friday to consider this.

Once it is official, you may taxi those players. Be aware that if you move sny of those players to the taxi squad, you cannot reinstate them to your active roster until week 13, even if the game ends up being played on Monday or Tuesday.

4Toral
      ID: 9541311
      Fri, Nov 27, 2020, 15:41
There was earlier unofficial news on Twitter, but NFL.com confirmed the move at 3:25 P.M. That seemed to me an official source: https://www.nfl.com/news/ravens-steelers-game-moved-again-from-sunday-to-tuesday
6Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Mon, Nov 30, 2020, 20:23
First...
The Baltimore-Pittsburgh game has been moved until Wednesday afternoon. It will still count as a week 12 game on MFL.

I will be deferring blind bidding until Thursday evening (7pm) this week, since there are no Thursday games. The usual Thursday blind bidding will be deferred until Friday.


Also...
With the playoffs now in sight, I’ve started thinking about how our Covid taxi squad rules should be applied during the playoffs.

I can think of no reason that we shouldn’t continue these rules throughout the playoffs. But for teams that are not still alive in the championship bracket, this creates a dilemma. Usually, those teams are precluded from making any add/drop transactions during the playoffs. But without being able to drop a player, there is no way to enable the reactivation of a taxi squad player – nor could a player be added to replace a covid-impacted player.

Given the recent spike in Covid-positive tests, it seems that we should make some allowances. Therefore, I’m going to rule that any team that is still active in any sanctioned game (championship bracket or consolation bracket) will be allowed to continue to make add/drop moves. Blind bid dollars for these teams will be zeroed out, so blind bidding will only be available to teams alive in the championship bracket. But free agent add/drops and taxi squad moves will be allowed to continue as long as a team is still involved in some sanctioned game.


I will make the necessary setup adjustments for all of these rule adjustments in the RIFC leagues (incl. AAA leagues) plus the Keeper 14 league.

7I_AM_CANADIAN
      ID: 384502818
      Wed, Dec 02, 2020, 10:47
RE Guru (6):

I really appreciate having a "heads up" on how things are going to be handled at this critical part of the fantasy year.

This just adds to the professionalism and longevity of this league structure. Thanks again!
8Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Tue, Aug 24, 2021, 10:58
Reiviewing this rule for possible 2021 applicability.

While some of the NFL's protocols have been adjusted this year, I see no reason why our special covid rules implemented last year cannot apply this year as well.

Any other opinions/thoughts?
9Philly Busters
      ID: 311122313
      Tue, Aug 24, 2021, 20:18
We made it through last season reasonably smoothly so I don't see any reason to change anything. Thanks for keeping this rolling without a hitch!
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