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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2017 15:25:22 GMT -5
Regarding the inactive owners. I agree that we need an active Commissioner or even 2 or three.
Maybe we need one person that is responsible for reviewing if owners are active and they use the various boards to find replacements. Maybe determine different tasks that need to be done ie. waivers, replacement GM's etc. Unfortunately I already run a another league so cannot volunteer in this one.
It is inevitable that you are going to be replacing GM's in a 30 team league on an ongoing league. I run an 11 team league and replace a GM ot two every year or so. IMO, contracting the league will not solve the problem.
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Post by ottawagm on Jan 17, 2017 17:08:09 GMT -5
New here, but agree owner activity does seem to be a problem. Maybe a monthly roll call or something of that sort would help monitor teams?
I also have no problem with weekly lineups.
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Post by CatsGM on Jan 17, 2017 17:11:55 GMT -5
Happy to help where needed.
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Post by ursanator on Jan 17, 2017 21:06:35 GMT -5
I myself do not like weekly changes with all the injuries, if not daily should be at least twice a week
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Post by johnnybower (Det GM) on Jan 18, 2017 0:55:29 GMT -5
Zaph and I are admins in another league...some other GM's here are in that league as well and know us from there.
We know firsthand how frustrating it is for league admins to have to police lineups, GM activity, roster eligibility, etc. It gets to the point when it is no longer enjoyable to be in a league because it becomes a job instead of a hobby. I think most people join these leagues with every intention of being active and participating as needed, but I have found that a lot of those same folks don't bother to learn the league rules, get frustrated and fade from view.
I would like to see a reduction in the number of games a prospect stays a prospect...40 games for F/D, 25 for G. This would put a lot more interesting FA's in play.
I would also like to see the league go back to 5 rounds in the draft. I think it would increase trading. I think it would also force GM's to make some interesting decisions regarding what prospects to keep and who to let g
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Post by njdevils on Jan 18, 2017 7:44:41 GMT -5
My two cents:
1) If you want more active GMs, streamline the player claim/waivers/signings process. The current process is so onerous and convoluted that I have actually foregone player movements just because I didn't have time. All of these player movements can be easily managed in fantrax without having to post in different threads on the message boards. We have an enforced inefficiency that is completely unnecessary.
2) Also, there really is no need to have 25 prospects slots. I pay a lot of attention to prospects (ahem, Hockey Prophets), and I have a decent sense that most prospects on most of the teams have less than a 5% of ever being meaningfull NHLers, much less fantasy players. Cut the prospect bench in half and release the marginal longshot players into the wild for rebuilding teams to take on the risk.
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Post by JetsGM on Jan 18, 2017 15:15:42 GMT -5
in less than 24 hrs we've had 2/3rds of the league check-in. I'm not sure completely inactive gm's are a problem in this league.
I believe a greater issue is what NYI spoke of in his initial post in this thread-
"not setting your line-up to be the optimal roster to accumulate points (IE sitting active players on your bench or in your minors) is tanking. It's bullshit and it's insulting to anyone who spends the time to make trades to improve their team or who spends the time making sure their best possible line-up is active."
active teams are not fielding full active lineups and/or setting their lineups on a daily basis. teams are leaving IR players in active slots. this is not acceptable. This effects all teams thru draft position and standings based on inflated w-l of opponents in a H2H league. Allowing this activity to continue unchecked is a recipe for league decay as teams will see what others are getting away with without penalties and either imitate or lose interest and drift away leading to a dead league.
i echo what NYI and others have said- we should field 4-8 admins who will check 1-2x week the lineups in their assigned divisions(not their own) to look for issues/problems.
going forward we might also explore a gp minimum(1 for skaters and 1 for goalies) over the summer for next season.
some of the examples i'm talking about are(this is not a comprehensive list):
TOR went weeks leaving active players on the bench, and then later for 3 weeks didn't receive any stats becuase he had left Edler on IR who was no longer elgible. I changed that last night. But that is 3 weeks of not a single counting stat.
ARZ has 4 non nhl'ers in active slots, including 3 who have not played a single game all year
CLB has 4 non nhl'ers in active slots, 2 of whom have only played 2 nhl gp all year and 1 who has played only 7 and will never play again(bickell)
There are NHL players in the FA pool currently just as there have been all year. There are NHL players who hit waivers that can be claimed. It is also not difficult to make trades to acquire NHL talent.
Situations such as these and others need to be monitored and penalized to ensure that we are all playing by the same rules and that GMs are adhering to competitive standards.
to balance the rosters as PHI said, we should prob drop a d slot. would we then lower the cap floor? I think we also might have to revert to allowing cap on IR to count towards total cap.
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Post by Penguin on Jan 18, 2017 18:35:06 GMT -5
My team was bottom of the league last 2 years. Here's 3 things I think will stop so many teams from having issues dressing full lineups while rebuilding:
1) Remove a F spot and change one of the D to F/D utility. This will maintain the inflated value of D (which is necessary as many leagues don't value defense) and create an opening. 2) Remove a bench spot...5 reserves seems excisive in a 30 team league. That's potentially 150 NHLers on bench. 4 is enough IMO. 3) Reducing the games limit for minor eligibility for NHLers significantly. Absolutely no reason to be so high when the rules allow you to send players in minors/europe IRL to minors. If they are in the NHL after 65+ games...they shouldn't be sitting in the minors.
Make these 3 changes and I fairly certain no team will have issues dressing a proper lineup. Furthermore, it will increase player movement since the teams with depth will purposely go after the teams who need active roster players. Right now, it's a dynamic where if you don't have active players, you have to buy high even for scrubs. As a rebuilding team, makes no sense.
I don't agree with going roto style, main reason I join this league is because it's H2H with cap.
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Post by JetsGM on Jan 18, 2017 22:50:00 GMT -5
teams are going weeks/months with inactive players in act;ve slots when they easily could have signed players available in fa, made waiver claims, or made reasonable trades.
Enforcing the rules and penalizing teams will stop this behavior.
Buy high for scrubs? I'm sorry, but I don't think that is the case at all. I think adding more players to the fa pool would decrease player movement as teams would not trade for role/depth players
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Post by njdevils on Jan 19, 2017 8:17:46 GMT -5
Here's a couple of issues that lead to IR guys on the active roster:
1) There are only three IR slots. I currently have seven (7!) players eligible for IR, with no place to put them. 2) Salary doesn't count for players on IR. That means teams with salary floor issues have to have some IR players on the bench or active in order to have their salary count.
Policing rosters is always difficult, especially in a league that has daily lineups. My attitude has always been that if the GM is using the best possible lineup from the players that he has, then no action is warranted.
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Post by johnnybower (Det GM) on Jan 19, 2017 22:56:23 GMT -5
Leagues trying to imitate RL (NHL) are always going to have issues relating to eligibility/ineligibility, IR, salary, etc. RL teams will always have ways to hide salary and eligibility as per their collective agreements that we in fantasy-land just can't duplicate.
I think for fantasy leagues to succeed they need to allow GM's flexibility as to how many "eligible" players they have at their disposal. So we need to find a way for teams to maintain workable lineups as far as eligibility goes, and be able to maintain a minors system and allow for a decent FA pool so that GM's can access players if need be.
I think most of this can be easily addressed by reducing "prospect eligibility" to 40 games for F/D and 20 games for G. GM's would not be able to hide performing prospects for extended periods of time. We all know that prospects can quickly go from top-ranked to busts and vice-versa so more prospects would be subjected to FA. I don't think we need to alter our present lineup numbers.
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Post by ursanator on Jan 21, 2017 1:20:52 GMT -5
teams are going weeks/months with inactive players in act;ve slots when they easily could have signed players available in fa, made waiver claims, or made reasonable trades. Enforcing the rules and penalizing teams will stop this behavior. Buy high for scrubs? I'm sorry, but I don't think that is the case at all. I think adding more players to the fa pool would decrease player movement as teams would not trade for role/depth players ***************************************************************************************************** NJ Devils Here's a couple of issues that lead to IR guys on the active roster: 1) There are only three IR slots. I currently have seven (7!) players eligible for IR, with no place to put them. 2) Salary doesn't count for players on IR. That means teams with salary floor issues have to have some IR players on the bench or active in order to have their salary count. Policing rosters is always difficult, especially in a league that has daily lineups. My attitude has always been that if the GM is using the best possible lineup from the players that he has, then no action is warranted. I agree with Devils because having to have a certain number of players some teams have to put IR or minor players to have enough players . I do not want to trade my good players away to just get couple of players that will get me less production. It is not as if I did nothing , last year in January I traded my fist round pick to get instant help . Luckily it ended up 7th pick . In another league(salary) I had 2nd pick for 2016 draft (Laine) and traded it for Ekblad , Ehlers and Donskoi because my team needed help and figured no matter how good Laine did the 3 players I got would help me more . If we made it so less players had to be dressed it would give weaker teams a better chance of competing plus I agree that minor rosters should have a lower cap on games played and less players
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Post by Oilers GM on Jan 24, 2017 11:29:24 GMT -5
I would like to see rosters contracted as well. Maybe a smaller bench and minors roster.
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Post by zaphod (NYI) on Jan 26, 2017 18:42:15 GMT -5
Toronto's roster has been illegal since Jan 21st. The team is accumulating no points playing against their opponent. The GM last logged into proboards on the 24th. This is the kind of thing that will kill a league.
I can get behind not announcing waiver drops or claims or even trades on proboards but free agent signings are limited in the league.
the roster sizes are fine. the league doesn't need sweeping changes, it needs more activity from the GMs and help on the Admin side to make sure all teams are active.
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Post by zaphod (NYI) on Jan 26, 2017 18:46:40 GMT -5
I have since gone through to make toronto's roster legal.
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