Ok, here's the deal, and we cant figure out how to stop it in our league:
Our league is a H2H weekly matchup league, lineups due by monday at 10am for the coming week. Our waiver wire also utilizes a waiver priority order, and anyone who is waived is put on wiavers for 3 days to allow eveyrone equal access to the freshly waived players. We start six pitchers, so many of us (me included), normally try to pick up a average two start pitcher to flesh out our pitching lineups for the week. The guy in our league who drafted five pitchers with his first five picks (awsome pitching, fielding sucks), kept losing to people who did this, so came up with a strategy. At 10:01 am on friday, he goes through and picks up, then immediately drops every pitcher that is available thats scheduled to have two starts that week, one at a time. They are then stuck on the waiver wire till 10:01 monday morning --- to late to pick them up and use them. THe only way around this is to pick up a player on wed or thurs, but rotations are often fluid, and that doestn work. What can we do? (Other than take the jackass out in the field and beat him). We dont want to limit add drops, or charge for them, that's just stupid.
a manager is supposed to use moves to improve his team, not to inhibit the improvement of other teams.
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seems to me you need to contact CBS sportsline and explain the situation and then wait for their verdict.
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Sounds to me like the guy is pretty smart. you gotta use the system to your advantage. Last time i checked , winning was the name of the game. Sounds like sour grapes coming from the rest of the league.....
And before you say he's breaking the "rules" , consider that by making these adds/drops he actually is improving his team's standing in the league---he's giving it a better chance at winning.
That's his arguement too, but hes not doing anything to improve his team, nor is he being ethical (I see nothing wrong if he kept these players), all he's doing is mauling the waiver system. And I know its a dumb analogy, but you dont see this thing on waivers in the major league----think of how much money teams would lose. Anyways, we just turned him into cbs, we'll see what they have to say.
JamesBond007 wrote: And before you say he's breaking the "rules" , consider that by making these adds/drops he actually is improving his team's standing in the league---he's giving it a better chance at winning.
that's BS. the main purpose of his moves is to prevent others from being able to pick up players. the players he touches have no direct impact on his stats. That is unethical, unsportsmanlike and most likely will be ruled illegal by cbssportsline.
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