2018 - 2019 Meeting Minutes
Attendees: Skullcrushers; Dog Pound; Barracudas; Gladiators; Oopsie Daisies; Storm Troopers; Jelly Rolls; 33s; Ninjas; Raiders; Bench Mob; Chewbaca; Diggers; SMYTDs; Tigers; Jokers; Stalkers; Bruisers; Cougars
Non-Attending: Fumbduckers; Dragons; Bullett; Maniacs; Anacondas
Picks:
2nd Place: Skullcrushers - 166-88-2 - .652
1st Place: Diggers - 169-85-2 - .664
Tournament:
Mid-Bowl Champion - Chewbaca
Your Team Sucks Ass Bowl Champion - Skullcrushers
Beer Bowl:
Champs - Stalkers
2nd Place - The Bench Mob
3rd Place - Raiders
4th Place - Tigers
Trophies:
Executive of the Year - Greg Ventris, Stalkers
GM of the Year - Drew Pate, Oopsie Daisies
Coach of the Year - Kevin Yodts, Fumbduckers
Comeback Team of the Year - Bob Myers, Dragons
Rookie of the Year - Greg Ventris, Stalkers
Meeting
Trade Deadline: Trade deadline is now Midnight of the Wednesday of the 11th week. The thought was this will eliminate the issues we saw with the grab and trade that was said to be “shady” whether it was or not.
Contingency Trades: Contingency trades are fine the way they are ran currently and will continue until it raises an issue. The problem is there’s nothing in the rules talking of contingency trades and this needs to be addressed. A contingency trade is when a player is traded before game time during a week with the idea that other players will be traded with that same trade the following week. This has come up when a team is putting a player in a trade but due to bye weeks or injuries, needs that player for that week or because a player being traded played on Thursday and the trade happened on Wednesday.
Website Issues: The app was a problem this year, but we are keeping it for one more year. There were a few issues with IR changes and such. Please do these changes on the website and not the app if you are having difficulties. This seemed to resolve the issue. According to their site, they are trying to get their app upgraded so it works better this coming season.
We are going to continue using this site for 1 more season and look at other options if this does not improve. We are also going to look at creating our own RSS feed into the NFL for stats and develop our own site/app that we can use. Ryan Behrens will be heading this up with some help from others.
The new newsletter format had great approval from those who read it. The only request was for more nudie pics, so I will work on that next year. I will also be trying to save a little money connecting the domain to the new newsletter site and making them work together.
A long discussion on changing the time of lineup changes to “real time” so you can swap out a 3pm player before they start at 2:59. The final decision was to keep it the same, but I will say it’s getting a little more traction as the NFL continues to fuck with fantasy people.
IDP: Individual defensive players had a big change. We are still using them, but you will NOT draft them, they will be tied to the defensive team and you can swap them out for free. This will bring an intriguing strategy to your defensive decision making. As an example, if you draft the Bears and the Panthers defenses, you also have all the IDPs from both teams, so you can have Keuchly, Roquan, Mack, whoever to be your starter and they are changeable each week for no cost. So, if the Bears play the Vikings who like to run the ball, you may want to play Roquan but if they play the Packers who like to throw, you may want to play Fuller. Again, you can make these changes for free. If you change a defensive team, it’ll cost you the normal $2 transaction fee.
Scoring Changes: No scoring changes were made.
13- or 14-Week Season: Everyone decided they like staying at 14 weeks and prefer it that way.
Waiver Wire: Another long argument for the waiver wire occurred but it was still voted out. We’re struggling to figure out why people are against it, but nobody had a good answer for that.
Trading Protected Players: The biggest and hardest argument was the protected players, they are now locked to the PICK, not the round. This came about when a few were upset about a pre-season trade last year. The Barracudas traded their 4th overall pick for the 10th overall pick and an early 2nd round pick. Then kept David Johnson in the first round so he slid into the 10th overall pick when he should still be a 4th overall pick. Basically, he got what he wanted and gave up nothing. The new rule will state that trade is made now, David Johnson goes with. If you trade an early pick and keep someone in that round, that player goes with now. This will KILL a lot of preseason trading but was deemed the fairest.
Draft Time Trading: NO TRADING DURING THE DRAFT!! Last season we had a trade that took an extra 20 minutes to complete because a team wanted an RB but had a full roster for that spot. They then traded a RB and WR to someone who wanted the WR and gave them that pick, this took a while to complete and frustrated owners. The way to solve this would be to ask the owner to draft the RB wanted and then after the draft they’ll complete the trade.
Preseason Trades:
Dog Pound 3 & 5 from Tigers
Tigers get Thomas & 7 from Dog Pound
Tigers will protect Thomas
Gladiators trade leagues with StormTroopers.
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