Cleveland-Kansas City Suspended Game Tonight

[Greg Ambrosius]

Tonight Kansas City and Cleveland will finish the suspended game from Aug. 31st. Just so you know, that game will start at the regularly scheduled start time (7:05 pm ET) of tonight's game, so please set your starting lineups at that time for this week. NFBC owners have to set their lineup for players on those 2 teams by the normally scheduled start time of 7:05pm ET even though today’s regularly scheduled game won’t actually start until the suspended game is finished. Thanks all and good luck.

[Cocktails and Dreams]

The suspended game starts an hour early than the scheduled game.

[Bronx Yankees]

As of 6:25, the results of the now-completed suspended game are not showing up in live scoring. Is this a problem or am I missing something? Thanks.

Mike

[DOUGHBOYS]

Do many remember who they had in the lineup for that suspended game?
Something that really should be addressed for the coming season....

[KJ Duke]

Danny Duffy owners get 3 starts this week - the suspended game which finishes today so those stats will be added tonight, the Royals second game today which he starts, and a third probable start later in the week.

[KJ Duke]

Do many remember who they had in the lineup for that suspended game?
Something that really should be addressed for the coming season....

I believe it was week 23, Dan, so we can go back and check. Before I checked, no idea.

[Cocktails and Dreams]

Batters very difficult to tell. If you had them in for one period or the other it is a real pain to find out. Can't really stand anything about how these suspended games work. If lack of technology is the major problem then I think it would be better to put the suspended game stats in when it was suspended, and then don't give anyone the resumed stats. I really struggle to see how someone deserves stats for guys that they don't have playing the time period when they put up the stats. The reason that is logical is that it works for the technology in place. I fail to see another one.

[Greg Ambrosius]

Batters very difficult to tell. If you had them in for one period or the other it is a real pain to find out. Can't really stand anything about how these suspended games work. If lack of technology is the major problem then I think it would be better to put the suspended game stats in when it was suspended, and then don't give anyone the resumed stats. I really struggle to see how someone deserves stats for guys that they don't have playing the time period when they put up the stats. The reason that is logical is that it works for the technology in place. I fail to see another one.

This is an Aug. 31st game and all stats are attributed to players as if this is Aug. 31st. MLB scores it this way as well. To Dan's point, yes, I wish this would have scored in Live Scoring like it was the first game of a doubleheader yesterday and retained in today's stats so that you could remember all of the stats that were going to flow into your team scores that night, but those stats were going into the Week 23 period for that Sunday game. Still, I'd like to find a way where we could make those stats visible to you owners on that night because those were a lot of new stats coming from that suspended game.

I hear your point Chad, but if we prevented all stats from going to teams who had these starters in their Aug. 31st starting lineups do you think we'd hear the opposite opinion from those owners who say they are being penalized for this game ending at a later date? Wouldn't the other argument be that since MLB is calling this the conclusion of the Aug. 31st game that all owners who had players in that game should get all of the stats from that game? I mean, that is how Major League Baseball scores that game, even though it was completed 3+ weeks later. It seems like we'd hear a whole lot more people being upset of doing it the way you are suggesting than the way we are doing it now. Again, last night was the completion of the Aug. 31st game.

These suspended games that are completed weeks later are very rare, but we had two of them this year and they were frustrating. But we are handling them just like MLB does and making sure that all teams that had players in their starting lineups at the time of that game are rewarded with stats from that complete game. Now maybe we can display those suspended game stats better, but I don't agree that we should stop scoring the rest of that game for owners who had those players in their starting lineups and instead give those stats to anyone who had them in their Sept. 22nd games. It's a difference of opinion rather than what can be done technologically.

Hope this helps.

[DOUGHBOYS]

Greg, I strongly disagree with your reckoning.
Fantasy baseball over a 26 week period is a season of ebbs and flows.
Having Willingham or Chisenhall in a lineup one week early in the season is not the same as having Willingham or Chisenhall later in the season.
As players, our job is all about choices.
Do I keep a player? Do I drop a player? Do I start a player? Do I sit a player?
Why, if starting Willingham three weeks ago should an owner be tethered to start Willingham for a suspended game three weeks after the fact?
This is not a choice, it is a mandate.

As the owner of a KC-CLE player, let ME decide if I want to play them, or keep them, or drop them until the rest of that game has been played.
Throw in the fact that all scoring would be up to date daily and we have a doubleheader of goodness.
Give the owner of players involved in suspended games the choices.
That is as fair as it can be for a fantasy owner.


....edit....
I understand Chad's angst about IT.
The continuation of the game would be unlike any other games.
The part of the game played earlier and already deposited in fantasy stats would have to be ignored.
Although the box score would show a complete game in our newspapers, our fantasy stats would/should only show action from yesterday's part of that game.

[ToddZ]

I'm not interested in debating the point since quite frankly, no one is going convince anyone to change their mind, but I feel the NFBC is doing it properly.

When I start a player, I'm not starting him for that transaction period, I'm starting him for the games within that transaction period. These suspended games are completed after the transaction period, but I still expect the players I started for those games to get the points they deserve for those games.

[KJ Duke]

I'm not interested in debating the point since quite frankly, no one is going convince anyone to change their mind, but I feel the NFBC is doing it properly.

When I start a player, I'm not starting him for that transaction period, I'm starting him for the games within that transaction period. These suspended games are completed after the transaction period, but I still expect the players I started for those games to get the points they deserve for those games.

Agreed. It's an annoyance, but going with how MLB official stats are awarded seems best.