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Originally posted by Stobie
That was my fear and frankly pisses me off people would game the system....

Have to come up with something...

I do see he benched him once already this season, but really hard to keep track of that kind of manipulation if that is the case. Actaully looking at my numbers 2 people selected a different QB, so someone else can beat him if that is the case.

did he play his other QB in fantasy?

Originally posted by HayRow
did he play his other QB in fantasy?


Yes but looking at this...

He has a rushing QB and a passing QB. He benched his rushing QB for his passing QB. Not sure how I really feel about this as its a viable tactic in a real game despite fantasy.

Originally posted by Stobie
Yes

yeah see that is dirty and should somehow be policed...shitty for you to try and figure it out. Bhall's idea isn't too bad. Or perhaps just punish the player/coach that did it and nulify his QB. So the one guy that did pick QB C is the only one that gets points

Penalty doesn't necessarily work though as you still run into the possibility a player doesn't play just based on a game plan. So best possible scenario is to default imo.

Originally posted by bhall43
So today those 21 screwed guys would have defaulted to the joker as a qb.

Stobie's site/code shouldn't have to police that.

I think the Salary cap is too high creating too many similar lineups.

The issue isn't that he wasn't played. It's that 21 of 22 people picked him.

Lower the Salary Cap. Make it much harder to pick multiple elite players. Force people to use innovative lineups.

Originally posted by Xars
Stobie's site/code shouldn't have to police that.

I think the Salary cap is too high creating too many similar lineups.

The issue isn't that he wasn't played. It's that 21 of 22 people picked him.

Lower the Salary Cap. Make it much harder to pick multiple elite players. Force people to use innovative lineups.



Not playing is an issue tho as we have no inside information on whether a guy is going to play in the game. Defaulting to the next best salary player in those cases makes the most sense or its just an easy way to screw with people.

Even if only 1 guy picked spastics qb today that really sucks for that guy.

Yeah to be clear I didn't do that for the purpose of messing with people's fantasy teams. That was a fun side effect though.

The fact is we have 2 QBs and I switch them in sometimes as a legitimate tactic unrelated to fantasy.

Seems to me like the best solution is what's been suggested, a default swap to another option if your player doesn't play at all.

coincidence that game #2 after Stobie has offered FREE rewards to fantasy players (total bro move) - someone games/cheats/exploits the system and is grinning about it in the forums? No.

I propose you ban all players on spastic's teams from fantasy consideration for the rest of the season. No place for exploiters!

Salary cap isn't so bad when we have a players at +7000 but this week was unique that all the BEST players are not playing. This probably gives me the motivaition to go ahead and do what I was going to do and evaluate the salary after the filtering rather than before.

Stobie - would be nice if when looking at my fantasy team that I selected -- there was a column showing me what time they play (and a possible link or something)

Originally posted by Cuivienen
Guess who 22 is?

After checking my roster, I'd say its not who you think it is.



OK, maybe I was wrong. I was just lucky to not get sucked into the trap.

Lets introduce 2 concepts into light here and I can work on the solution.

1. The salary issue where it calculates the salaries based off "ALL" players rather than eligible players played a part in the selection process that people had no fear to select the top QB. This can be solved, but not sure how fast I can solve this, but essentially I believe I solve this I solve the problem with the masses picking a certain player.

2. Implement a 'if' a player doesn't play, then use the best scorer approach which isn't a GREAT option because I could see that being exploited with people benching players to get the best score in leiu of their player.

I think we have to keep things simple and as Xars mentioned I believe the salary cap caused this problem as it didn't give any diversity to picking players. I believe I should solve that first and then evaluate if another change is needed at that point.

Originally posted by TxSteve
Stobie - would be nice if when looking at my fantasy team that I selected -- there was a column showing me what time they play (and a possible link or something)

Ohh look at you adding crap while I am in a midst of a swapgate!!! HOW DARE YOU!

Good idea, I will see what I can do while in the code over the next few days.

Originally posted by /

2. Implement a 'if' a player doesn't play, then use the best scorer approach which isn't a GREAT option because I could see that being exploited with people benching players to get the best score in leiu of their player.



No it wouldn't be exploited because it would default to the next highest salary available. Not the best scorer that day. In such case the joker would have been the qb today as a default which would have been pretty fair.