2014 SOI Keeper Fantasy Football League

[Kid]

So I picked up a player who was allowed to be picked up even when I had nothing to play for and I'm being penalized for it?


Should we lock pick ups for teams that aren't in contention?


Should we not be able to pick up players who are injured for the second half of the season to keep them?

 

Here's what you're missing:  because of what Ace did a few years ago, if a team out of contention signs a good player who's injured or whatever, they have to keep them in the round in which they were drafted, not the 7th round.  You have, effectively, a one-time situation where a player was never going to be drafted because he was suspended for the entire season.  This is not like an injured player where, if you sign them, you're stuck keeping them based upon draft status the year before.  If Gordon had been drafted by anybody last year, and you were stuck with that draft pick, I'd have no objection.  You're trying to skate through what is a situation we've effectively already dealt with.  

 

To be clear, I'm not saying you did anything wrong.  I'm simply saying this keeper should not be allowed.

 

I'm not sure what I did wrong here. I picked up a player that anyone could have picked up at any time and now I want to keep him. If I would have held him on my roster since week 4 would that have been fine? I being penalized for not being dumb?

If you - or anyone else - had kept him on your roster for most of the season, including while you were still trying to win, I think we'd have a different situation, then stashing a player on your roster in the next-to-last week of the season (and, in particular, when you were already eliminated and had nothing to play for).  It's not that you're being penalized for not being dumb.  It's that you shouldn't be rewarded for taking Gordon when you did under the circumstances.