How can I teach my leaguemates to stop vetoing trades??

[Box]

I HATE that Yahoo started allowing league wide vetoes. Some idiots will hold personal grudges all season for dumb crap. My advice to you: get in a real league next year. It costs money but you don't have to put up with that BS. Commish-only vetoes are the only way to get anything done.

[biller24]

I wouldnt be in a league like this. First of all, letting owners have veto power on every trade is wrong, as personal opinions come in to play. Secondly, judging by the responses from your league mates to your essay, they are not your friends. Move on. Find another league with people who may not agree with you all the time, but who at least respect your opinions.

[lbbaseball14]

The same thing is happening in my league. No trades go through and my friends vote against every single one of my trades just because I won the league last year and because before the start of the season i traded kevin brown and armando benitez for halladay and burnett and now they all think im just trying to rip everyone off....

[Jmon]

Could you imagine if major league trades were subject to a veto? Now that would be interesting. One possible solution on a Yahoo league is to allow only the commish to veto a trade. We did that in one of my league only to speed up the trade, the commish can process it immediately rather than wait.

Another solution is to setup a committee of three owners to review trades only disallowing them for collusion.

[MMoNeY24]

Yeah, I'm in a $50 league with my friends from school with 14 teams where it's commish only that passes/vetos trades. There have been a bunch of trades this year with only one veto, it wasn't that unfair but borderline veto. Almost anything goes through, so you really don't have to worry about that. The only thing I'm worried about is my team blowing chunks.

[Mazz]

In my yahoo money league we have commish only veto. It really is the only way to get things done. My advice is for next year pick someone who is mature and not an idiot in the ways of fantasy baseball and make him the comissioner with veto power.

[TheYanks04]

Trade hostile leagues are nothing new, esp. if trade voting instead of Commish authority is in place. I would not waste my time arguing. Cliches and people vetoing for the sake of screwing over one another are also nothing new.

When you end up in a league like that it is best to just strop arguing with people, go about your business on the wire and be done with it. The more you argue the more they are going to have incentive to vote against you and reason has nothing at all to do with anything.

I find it best to work the wire harder, spend virtually no time trying to formulate deals because they will not get through anyway, and vote against EVERY deal that is made by others yourself so as to return the favor and hopefully even the playing field so that no one gets any deal through.

Do not post comments, criticize or otherwise even reply to people on any trade or trade offer by others. And ones made to you that you either have no intention of accepting or are ridiculous you do not reject either...you leave them out there unanswered... Really annoys some people.

Then next year you obviously play in another league.

[bleach168]

Agree with the previous posters. Commish-only veto leagues offer accountability which forces the Commish to do the best job he/she can.