Adding positions to players
League, you probably have noticed that Yahoo has been especially dumb this season when it comes to which positions players are eligible for. Luckily, Yahoo has added an option in the commish tools for us to do the work for them, to add position eligibility to players.
I thought a fair way of adding positions to players would be using Daily Faceoff. I think they do the best job at updating line combinations daily. Here's a link to their site if you're not familiar with them: https://www.dailyfaceoff.com/teams
So the process would be if you want a position added to a player, you post the request, and if Daily Faceoff corroborates it, shows the player in that position, then I'll add the position in Yahoo.
What do you guys think? Anybody have a problem with us doing things this way?
I am fine with Yahoo. Don’t have any complaints regarding position eligibility.
If this was to be discussed, the correct time is in the off-season as a rule change
There are quite a bit of logistical changes which would need to be taken into account eg) player not playing in position, who monitors? Qualifying games in position?
This is a bigger undertaking than perceived.
I think Yahoo not updating players positions is killing rosters and making them less valuable to trade or sign. For example I have Alex Barre-Boulet on my roster. He is listed as C only and has played every game this year on RW. If Yahoo was going to make these changes itself we wouldn't need to consider it but are we supposed to go all year without them making updates? Apparently Yahoo has laid off a bunch of people and since it is Fantasy Football Season they put all their resources there.
In baseball it is 5 appearances at a position to gain eligibility. Couldn't we just implement that ourselves since Yahoo is broken?
My biggest gripe would be the mid-season rule change. I am 100% against it.
I'd normally agree with you Alex, that when we implement new changes, it be discussed preseason, but I think this warrants an exception because Yahoo is not following their own rules. Yahoo is supposed to be adding positions to players when players hit the criteria and Yahoo is not doing that. Off the top of my head, I had Luke Kunin, which Yahoo has as a center. And he hasn't played center a single game this season. Wing only. But Yahoo still has him as center only.
The only thing that would be happening here, is us doing the job Yahoo was supposed to do
I don’t blame Steve or yourself for looking out for your best interests in this. I further agree Yahoo is trash when it comes to assigning positions.
I question the implementation of this rule from a few different angles;
Players, especially forwards are extremely flexible positionally, they can play different positions on different lines throughout the game. This is much different than baseball from a positional sense.
So with an implementation, how many games do we qualify? I suggest we have to look at each player and question whether actual position which Yahoo has assigned is correct. This sounds like a massive undertaking in itself.
Further, If player A plays minimum required games, does the position change stay with him forever? What happens if he never plays the position again?
While I am not against said rule, the timing of it is better suited for an off-season project, where we have time to hash out the inner workings and what suits the league best.
This has nothing to do with me looking out for my best interests.
I'm posting about this because we're a month into the season and Yahoo is not doing the job they're supposed to be doing. Bottom line.
I think we have a decision to make here either way. That doing nothing is a decision in and of itself. And I don't think it's right that we go the whole season with players not picking up any position eligibility the whole season, when they should be.
I thought using Daily Faceoff would be an easy way of doing it because they update line combinations on a daily basis.
I wish I had the time to track how many games each player has played at each position, but I don't have time to do that right now.
The position eligibility stuff doesn't impact my team one bit. I'm good. But at least one team has brought it to my attention that this is effecting their team and I can imagine that some teams can be short centers or wings because of this.
Anybody else have an opinion on this?
the problem i have with it is i don't have time or motivation to check everyone on my roster and see who is/isn't listed at the right positions. Then if others do, that's a potential advantage. It's one thing if it was just a few guys to check but we have so many.
I understand your point. You don't want guys with more time picking up any advantage when you don't have the time yourself to check.
But in my opinion, if another team has a player, that deserves to be eligible at, for example, both wing positions, I don't see that as a team getting an advantage, I see that as something getting made right.
And if your team Ted was short on centers or right wings or whatever, it would take just a few minutes to check your forwards on daily faceoff to see if someone was eligible for more positions.
This doesn't matter either way to my team. Vast majority of my players have the right position eligibility. I'm just stating my opinion as what's best for the league as a whole. But if majority doesn't want us to add positions to players mid season, then we won't do it
I have 3 players missing proper eligibility. Some I drafted assuming Yahoo would update it but they’ve decided not to and given it over to Commishs in each league. It effects me being able to field a proper lineup on nights.
Checking to see who I playing where is a very simple process using the site Chris provided. Does not take much time. I’d even be willing to do it for the entire league so each owner doesn’t have to.