This morning I woke up to an interesting post in my league's message boards. The league commissioner wrote a lengthy post regarding a change in the rules for next season. Commissioner Pete stated that next season there will be a limit on the amount of moves that a team can make.
This proposed cap would devastate a team who had a weak draft... Which is exactly what happened to my team this year...
Hey Commish, maybe you forgot (since your team is at the top of the league), free agency is a crucial part of the fantasy football experience. Any factor limiting me from building the strongest team possible with the players available to me seems cruel to a struggling team! I mean if your team is already having a rough time, making it harder to get off the ground is just salt on the wound.
Commissioner Pete thinks that this proposed cap would "give the draft more validity." Now let's remember, the draft takes place before the season even starts. How am I supposed to know that an unknown rookie like Giovani Bernard is going to take the starting position from a seasoned veteran like BenJarvus Green-Ellis in week four of the season? Some things just can't be foreseen. And what about injuries? Last time I checked, those can't be predicted either. Drafting back-ups has never proved to be a profitable addition to a roster.
Now, you may be thinking that it's a little early to be thinking about next season. However, when a decision like this is being considered, it needs to be shot down as soon as humanly possible. This is especially true when you find yourself making more free agency moves than any other team on a consistent basis...
So far, I like this post best of your posts because it addresses a legitimate Fantasy issue. Does movement affect the validity of a season?
ReplyDeleteThe writing is really good, especially pertaining to this subject matter. It is clear, and yet the vernacular is understandable to me because this is probably one of three things my boyfriend likes to bring up to me in conversation as of late.
Some of the other posts have a few noticable grammatical errors, as well as a lack of direction aside from being sort of a "Fantasy journal," but this post was particularly interesting to me. It addresses an issue in Fantasy theory, and it could easily be the subject of many a debate in forums, comment threads, workplaces, and happy hours across the nation. Well done!