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2020-21 Season and Draft Discussion

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So now the whole Panther/Canes series is scrapped due to Covid. I’m wondering if we shouldn’t revisit weekly lineup changes for this year only. You set your lineup by Sunday then by Tuesday you hear 3 of your guys are not playing and can’t swap them out.

Thoughts on daily changes for this season only?

 
I'd maybe, maybe say if we had really tight gp limits per position it would be possible, but a lot of managers in this league barely do more than the weekly changes.

So are we better off creating a situation where more active teams will have a clear advantage or staying with weekly where each team runs a risk of having a shit lineup for a week.

Or alternatively, maybe there is a situation where if a team goes down for covid we can allow managers to make emergency changes to their lineups. idk.

but I'm probably leaning no to switching to daily changes.
 
Is ut difficult to manually make a change? Hopefully we get few of these scenarios so maybe an admin can make the changes
 
We can’t expect ADMIN to do all this extra work and be available daily to see if managers need to make emergency changes.

Also this is creates a situation where a lot of potential conflict arrises :

For example let’s say a game is scraped on a certain day for Habspatrol and ADMIN is here to save the day and make emergency changes. Great.

Then some other day ADMIN is not available to do the same for Thunder or Kritter or any other teams...

Any fix would need to be completely automated by Fantrax and accessible to every managers without the help of admins.

Either change it to daily or leave it to weekly in Fantrax.
 
We’re talking about one season people but whatever. Once it hits you hard you’ll all of a sudden agree that it’s a massive independent variable that can’t be accounted for. We’re not talking about one player getting injured but two whole teams getting sidelined. Consistently.
 
I wouldnt say it needs to be done daily... post here prior to game who your sub will be and then retroactivly add it in.

Ive never been an admin (and dont want to be) so i dont know how much work it will be. Either that or since this isnt a head to head league we wait until the end of the year and hope all games are played. If they are not then pt totals for players who would have played are added in at the fantasy pt average
 
You can’t add points for missed games at a league average to teams fighting for a championship.

The battle is underway at the top, can’t change the rules of engagement in a money league like that.

Even if you want to entertain it, going through every single game missed : was it covid, was it shoulder, this, that. That’s just too much.

We had a whole lot of time before the season to prepare and we all knew that this is how the season was going to unfold re covid.

Games and series scrapped like baseball and football.

I’m not a fan of making changes because we are already into the season, and we have an even playing field : it’s the same for everybody.

It seems to me Daily lineups would solve the issues/problems brought forward by Habsy.

Now of course we don’t need to have Daily lineup changes available, but it’s a simple solution, it’s fair to everybody AND it doesn’t change the rules of engagement by adding way to calculate fantasy points and such.

We need a simple fix.
 
Thunder said:
You can’t add points for missed games at a league average to teams fighting for a championship.

The battle is underway at the top, can’t change the rules of engagement in a money league like that.

Even if you want to entertain it, going through every single game missed : was it covid, was it shoulder, this, that. That’s just too much.

We had a whole lot of time before the season to prepare and we all knew that this is how the season was going to unfold re covid.

Games and series scrapped like baseball and football.

I’m not a fan of making changes because we are already into the season, and we have an even playing field : it’s the same for everybody.

It seems to me Daily lineups would solve the issues/problems brought forward by Habsy.

Now of course we don’t need to have Daily lineup changes available, but it’s a simple solution, it’s fair to everybody AND it doesn’t change the rules of engagement by adding way to calculate fantasy points and such.

We need a simple fix.
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Not league average but player average...

As an example if the canes only play 53 games instead of 56 and you owned aho. You take his fppg pace and add 3 games worth to the total.
 
trujaysfan said:
Not league average but player average...

As an example if the canes only play 53 games instead of 56 and you owned aho. You take his fppg pace and add 3
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Not a fan.

I want to be able to know at all times where I stand in the standings as opposed to my opponents.

Planning for trades, sell, buy, etc

I don’t want to have to calculate all this stuff to know my real point total and my opponents real total every time I want to assess my situation.

And I definitively don’t want the winner to be a surprise only confirmed after all those calculations.

But more importantly games have been lost already and the season is underway and we can’t fix the decisions teams have already made.

I knew Florida was not going to play so I left Verhaegue on the bench.

He’s on the 1st line with Barkov right now, I would have played him instead of Namestnikov if I had knew that his lost games could have been counted at his average or something like that.
 
It's a tough situation - but I look at the COVID cancellations in the same vain as "injuries". It's going to be unpredictable for everyone.

Best you can do is stay up on NHL news right up until the deadline for line-ups.

Maybe load up on players in the Canadian division?
 
BG said:
It's a tough situation - but I look at the COVID cancellations in the same vain as "injuries". It's going to be unpredictable for everyone.

Best you can do is stay up on NHL news right up until the deadline for line-ups.

Maybe load up on players in the Canadian division?
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Injuries rarely sideline entire teams. This is different.
 
I'm generally on the side that says it's better not to change rules partway into a season. I think it's unfair to switch once we've started up because each manager has already planned ahead in the way they think is best for eventualities such as this (or, they haven't planned at all, in which case why shouldn't someone who HAS benefit instead?).

COVID sucks and it does make things unfair both for us and for teams in real life. But I think, like the NHL, we just have to accept that for this season and be glad we're playing at all. We know it won't be perfect, but we're all on the same playing field and bad luck could hit any of us.

I'm also generally in favour of weekly changes over daily...that's just a preference.
 
Yeah, I don't really see a great solution. Makes the most sense to ride it out, most games that are canceled should be replayed at a later date so at least the GP should even out over the course of the season. As BG said, it's unpredictable for everyone. Just an aberration of living in a pandemic.
 
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Yeah, I don't really see a great solution. Makes the most sense to ride it out, most games that are canceled should be replayed at a later date so at least the GP should even out over the course of the season. As BG said, it's unpredictable for everyone. Just an aberration of living in a pandemic.
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The issue is that it doesn’t matter in the NHL but absolutely matters in fantasy hockey where your “wins” are gauged weekly. Huge difference.
 
Just to clarify something about daily changes over weekly :

It would not be an obligation to set your lineup daily. Teams would not have to confirm everyday and could set it up once or twice a week if they want to.

But the option to do it daily would be there.
 
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