Between the Rock and a Hard Place
Posted: Tue May 11, 2010 3:31 am
The "negativity" on this board has reached the previously unreachable. It has created an impossible problem.
I'm tired on all the bickering but without actually reading this board there are too many fantasy relevant situations you do not discover.
I personally don't care if it was STATs fault or Fanball's that Holland was available. The fact was he was available in many leagues where he should not have been. There were some who probably bid, and bid big, on him only to discover at 8:30 Sunday that he was removed. The site sometime late in the day posted an urgent message but if you bid on him early in the morning and left for the day, you did not have any way of knowing what was going on. The reason that the Sunday morning Free Agents were frozen a few years back was because of this. OK, this is isolated but it wasn't the first time this year.
There are probably still people unhappy about incorrect eligibility assignments and if Jeff Clement would have become a fantasy stud catcher, this would have been louder. And thanks Greg for showing me where the eligibility list resides. I knew it was there somewhere but had not checked it for some time. If I would have know where it was, I may have bid differently last week but I do know whee it is for future weeks. I was considering Eric Chavez who has 3B eligibility but looking at his past few years, I was not 100% certain if it was right so I did not put him as a lower contingency.
Features we need are missing but they are on the punch list. At least for those I can check my leagues and see if they are there. MLB YTD is the biggie to me and that has been far too long on the punch list. Without reading these boards, I may have never noticed the "Free Agent Quick" option. Clearly a reason to read the boards as new features are pretty much only identified to those who read these boards. An occasional mass email giving new features and soon-to-be-added features would be nice.
The worse thing is having to read all the personal attacks on people. Some posters push the envelope on issues and, in turn, they get personal responses that further push the envelopes.
I've reached a point I don't want to read these boards but failure to do so can adversely effect my teams.
[ May 11, 2010, 09:33 AM: Message edited by: viper ]
I'm tired on all the bickering but without actually reading this board there are too many fantasy relevant situations you do not discover.
I personally don't care if it was STATs fault or Fanball's that Holland was available. The fact was he was available in many leagues where he should not have been. There were some who probably bid, and bid big, on him only to discover at 8:30 Sunday that he was removed. The site sometime late in the day posted an urgent message but if you bid on him early in the morning and left for the day, you did not have any way of knowing what was going on. The reason that the Sunday morning Free Agents were frozen a few years back was because of this. OK, this is isolated but it wasn't the first time this year.
There are probably still people unhappy about incorrect eligibility assignments and if Jeff Clement would have become a fantasy stud catcher, this would have been louder. And thanks Greg for showing me where the eligibility list resides. I knew it was there somewhere but had not checked it for some time. If I would have know where it was, I may have bid differently last week but I do know whee it is for future weeks. I was considering Eric Chavez who has 3B eligibility but looking at his past few years, I was not 100% certain if it was right so I did not put him as a lower contingency.
Features we need are missing but they are on the punch list. At least for those I can check my leagues and see if they are there. MLB YTD is the biggie to me and that has been far too long on the punch list. Without reading these boards, I may have never noticed the "Free Agent Quick" option. Clearly a reason to read the boards as new features are pretty much only identified to those who read these boards. An occasional mass email giving new features and soon-to-be-added features would be nice.
The worse thing is having to read all the personal attacks on people. Some posters push the envelope on issues and, in turn, they get personal responses that further push the envelopes.
I've reached a point I don't want to read these boards but failure to do so can adversely effect my teams.
[ May 11, 2010, 09:33 AM: Message edited by: viper ]