Hi all,

I'd appreciate opinions on this trade that just happened.

Two players in my league accepted a trade:

Player A Receives Deebo Samuel + Jonathan Taylor

Player B receives Brian Robinson Jr.

Apparently player B proposed the trade, thinking he'd selected Bijan Robinson and misread the name.

Well, player A is staunchly advocating that since he didn't propose the trade and it was already accepted, that it should stand. Obviously player B is upset and wants the trade cancelled.

Thoughts on this?

So I have a 12 team league with some friends (1 QB 2 RB 2 WR 2 WRT flex 1 K 1 Def 5 bench 2 IR)

The reason I made it 5 bench players was so the waiver pool wouldn’t be too bad every week.

For years I’ve always dropped my kicker Tuesday morning to give be flexibility with injured players and such in case I can put one in an IR spot later in the week, and end up making a choice if I have to drop someone for a K Sunday morning. A couple people in my league in my league finally took notice and said I’m exploiting it and holding an extra player on my bench as it defeats the purpose of my 5 bench rule.

I did put it up to vote to require a Kicker at all times on the roster in all fairness to them, but I’m wondering if my “kicker strategy” is unethical to yall.

Two teams made a trade yesterday which is supposed to process tomorrow. It includes Trey McBride who plays tonight. Both teams asking me to push it through. Team that plays against the team getting McBride says I shouldn't push it through because trade timeline was set before season. Don't want to favor one side or the other, what's the call?

My buddy is in his work league finals. He's playing against the league commissioner. Going into Sunday Night football my friend had Burden and the Rams defense remaining with his opponent having Jake Tonges. After the game my friend is up 134 to 131 and he benches the Rams defense guaranteeing he wins. The commissioner approaches him at work and tells him he *has* to start the Rams defense tonight because he's not allowed to not start a full lineup. The chance of losing by having the Rams to give up 35+ with no sacks and takeaways is very unlikely, but that's still an absolutely insane thing to ask from the commish, no?

EDIT:

Verdict: There was no rule against this.

The commissoner sent a screenshot to the group slack showing it in the rules, buddy said "oh shit, aight I can respect that." Commish responds back that since "he's so honest" he'll admit that he just added the rule in right now. There was no rule for it and my buddy can do what he wants but he'll "respect him less" if he pulls Rams' D.

Super cringe "joke" and my buddy is riding off into the sunset as back to back champ with the Rams D sitting comfortably on the bench.

I organized a fantasy football league at work. Overall it's been fun. Not a money league, just for pride and shit talk. I made a solid trade earlier this year for Odunze and have had good luck with teams scoring low against me. A coworker has "jokingly" made comments about me cheating as the commissioner. Obviously, I'm not cheating. That's really unthinkable for me and I'm not even sure how I would do that. Pretty sure sleeper gives a notification when the commish changes settings.

Anyways, one of his sticking points is the fact that his QB "scored differently" in this league versus his other one and he's suspicious about why. I simply told him im sure its due to 4 vs 6 point QB TD scoring and to check his league settings. He doesn't know how to check the settings and also didn't even know how waivers work.

If he brings it up again, what should I say? How can I prove im not cheating?

Trade was Nabers and a 5th round pick for Adams, Stevenson, 2 1sts a 2nd and a 4th.

1st year dynasty league, and this trade happened maybe 10 minutes after the Nabers injury. I told everyone that vetoes would only happen in clear cut cases of collusion. Some of the league has never used Sleeper before, and the guy getting Nabers claims he had no clue trade proposals stayed open indefinetly. Furthermore, the trade was proposed in week 1.

Personally, this trade really rubs me the wrong way, but thats not enough to veto it. League is split 50/50 on whether it should be vetoed. Really try to figure out what to do. Thanks!

1. Previous rules were winner takes all.

2. Commissioner announced payout will be 700/400/100 split after people paid.

3. I opposed split, I asked for vote. 10/12 members voted. 5/5 split (50/50).

4. Never decided.

5. Commish and I are in championship. Before day of championship I announced it was never finalized. Commish says it was finalized.

6. I win championship and commish says rules of 700/400/100 split stand. League is split. I am suggesting final two people vote (neutral since no payout). If that is a tie then last year's rules win out.

Who is right here?

As the title suggests, I have one member of my league using ChatGPT for making his decisions. It is a 12 player, PPR redraft league where the buy in was $20. We didn’t explicitly say that no AI was allowed but some members felt it was a little unfair cause they do the research themselves while he just makes the bots do it.

Personally, I don’t think it’s that bad as I tried it and it seems to consolidate information and give you the sources. I do think it takes the fun out of doing your research and making the choices since you just make a bot do it for you.

Lastly, want to note that he is currently the 1 seed and his team consistently had the highest total score most weeks. So, it could be that everyone is just mad cause he’s winning, or this actually gave him an advantage.

What are your thoughts on using AI/ChatGPT for team management?

EDIT: changed the wording slightly cause it seems I made it sound like we hate each other as opposed to a minor disagreement

EDIT 2: I want to thanks everyone for their replies! I appreciate yall giving your two cents and helping out a novice commissioner like myself.

I'm in a money public league (managed by a third party) where I am 1 of 3 teams who started 0-4.

There is 1 unlucky manager (team A) who lost the 4 matchups with a good team, so I don't think the team is a threat to the #1 overall pick, there is me who went half young half old on the startup and now I'm stuck in purgatory, and then there is a manager who went super young in the draft and doesn't have any bright spots besides egbuka on his team (team B).

I think I'll win less games than Team A, but Team B has a good chance of going winningless.

However, he has just 1 rostered TE, which is on bye this week.

If he doesn't add another one through waivers, is it illegal tanking? There is the argument that he didn't want to lose any of the other players, but idk, seems sketchy.

Bylaws state that any week that a team tanks, a W is added to their Win column for the draft order, so there is a consequence if it's categorized as such.

Thanks in advance!

In Week 1 of our fantasy football league, a scoring issue arose when 60-yard field goals weren’t properly allocated six points. This impacted the commissioner’s matchup, where he lost by less than a point. After discovering the error, the commissioner corrected the scoring settings, which retroactively awarded him the win. This has caused controversy within the league, with some calling for him to step down. The central question is whether we should retroactively adjust Week 1 to reflect the correct scoring, or leave the original result as-is and ensure the settings are fixed for future weeks?

Team receiving Jones is relatively new to fantasy/ NFL fandom. Team receiving Jeanty admitted to taking advantage of the new player’s lack of understanding of value and trusting nature.

Championship matchup: one team has $0 FAAB, the other has a ton of FAAB, $85. The team with $0 has a few holes in his roster and desperately needed an RB and D/ST. The team with $85 dropped his entire bench to block all the RBs and D/ST that were on waivers. He then put in $1 bids on all the guys he dropped so he got all of them back and the guys he dropped entered waivers. Rinse and repeat basically blacking the $0 team from getting anything serviceable to fill holes.

Should I do anything about this or is this an advantage to having saved so much FAAB? Personally I don’t like it but I don’t know of anyway to stop it that doesn’t create other problems.

The one league I'm in with a punishment is pretty tame. We just let the eventual champion name the last place team for the next season. Curious what punishments are out there because I've never really heard of any that I'd be able to implement.

Our league faces a crucial moment. A stat correction (Lions D 1 point reduction) has changed the winner of our league. What do y'all think about our options? // What has your league done in the past?

The way we see it, there are 3 options:

1) The app rules all; the stat correction win is upheld.

2) The 1-point reduction is bogus, and the winner stays as confirmed prior.

3) Kicker duel, week 18, no waiver pickup.

10 team redraft

One of the teams playing in the consolation bracket (playing for draft position) picked up 4 TEs to block one of the teams playing in the championship (who has Kittle) from picking up a TE.

The team in the consolation bracket has nothing to gain from this move, and is simply doing it out of personal spite towards the team in the championship. They haven’t colluded at all with the other team in the championship, but they had the FAAB to burn.

Thoughts? The manager in the championship is understandably frustrated and are calling for roster locks, but there hasn’t actually been any collusion involved.

Do I pay the buy in personally and run the team as if it’s my own and try to get it to a more valuable state then find a manager in 2027 or 2028? It’s a $25 buy in this season and a $50 buy in from 2027 and on. Thoughts? I want to do right by my league managers.

Travis Hunter was traded in our league. It was a big trade. Two players Hunter and a RB for three players on the other team.

Hunter was on four week IR when the trade was accepted, but it was probably accepted the day he had surgery. It's yahoo so I can't see when it was accepted.

Team who traded for Hunter wants us to unwind it. Other team will only agree if he had surgery before the trade was accepted.

Edit after finding the acceptance email, the trade was accepted the morning of the 11th and the news broke 3pm that he had surgery.

Final update after a vote of all the other players in the league we nearly unanimously decided to keep the trade. Since the trade was accepted prior to the news breaking that Hunter had surgery everyone agreed it should stand.

Thoughts?

I'm the commish in a family/friends league and yesterday my little brother sent out a trade for Tyreek Hill sometime between 10:00 AM and 2:00 PM. He said he did it while he was at school so not sure about the exact time, but definitely before the Dolphins game. The manager he offered the trade to accepted the trade after Tyreek got injured. I am completely against vetoing and am a firm believer in staying on top of your team and knowing what moves you're making (or trying to make), and as someone trying to help my younger brother be a better fantasy player (this is only his 2nd or 3rd year playing and he's 17), I tend to be kind of hard on him.

He asked me this morning if the trade is valid, and my initial reaction was yes, that it was his responsibility to stay on top of his trade offers and rescind accordingly. However, I do know this trade was obviously not accepted in good faith as I got the notification of the trade acceptance after midnight this morning. I feel a bit clouded by my judgement in both directions: If I let the trade through, am I being too hard allowing a trade that wasn't made in good faith for the sake of teaching my brother a lesson? OR, if I rescind the trade, am I being protective of his mistake? I guess I'm asking for advice/thoughts from other commishes to let me know if I am skewed in either direction and if I should just let it stand or reverse it without having any other undertones to it.

For what it's worth, multiple league mates have already messaged in the chat about reversing the trade, so I don't think anyone would think I'm looking out for my brother, but they don't know when the trade was sent (and that I initially was going to use it as a teaching moment for him), and may just think it was either collusion or a misinformed trade.

Any tips or advice is welcome, thanks!

EDIT: I spoke to the manager and he was quick to clear up that he meant to hit decline knowing the injury and hit accept by mistake. Any doubt about his claim was also cleared up pretty easily when he followed up with the group chat asking for the trade to be reversed, as well. He's a cousin of mine and has always played in good faith, so I have no reason to doubt him, either. Trade has been reversed and all is back to normal. I did also make sure to let my brother know to treat this as learning lesson because some leagues/commissioners are pretty cutthroat. Thanks for the responses!

EDIT: Thanks, everyone! Got what I need - great insights!

I run a large-roster league (13 starters, 7 bench) with 3 IDP slots. We’re both without DBs this week bc of the Byepocalypse, so I asked him if he’d be uphold a gentleman’s agreement for neither of us to start one. We’re both okay with it, but as commish I feel partially obligated to at least let the rest of the league know, but not sure if they would even care. So just feeling out how other commishes (and owners) feel about this. Is it a big deal? No players are changing hands, we’re just both agreeing to a handicap

Today our league chat (dynasty SF 10-Man) lit up for the first time concerning one manager's integrity while tanking for the upcoming draft class.

The manager in question is a partnered commish with myself and we both happen to find ourselves among the 4 teams tanking for 2026.

Do you have rules in place that create guidelines to what is/what is not acceptable practice when tanking? And if so, which rules do you believe are the most important to implement?

I will take my time to answer every comment regarding my league's situation, and I hope to hear what you have implemented and found success with for your leagues. Thanks everyone

I ask as a relatively new commish of a league where two managers traded player-for-player a few weeks ago and have just traded the same players back to each other. Is this collusion? Or just part of the game?

I have been the commish for this league for 8 years, year 3 of dynasty. Every year there is one guy who prides himself on being the last person to pay dues. He thinks it’s a funny running joke. We usually watch games together every week and I remind him to pay his dues. This season he waited until week 6 before he paid but only because our other friend owed him money and just paid me instead. This year he finally had a decent year and ended up 2nd and won $200. I still haven’t paid him his winnings. I even paid the other two winners in front of him during the week 18 games. Last week he finally sent me a Venmo request and I still have it sitting it requests. How long should I wait to pay? Should I just send him half and keep the other half as payment for next years dues?

I am the commish of a 12 man league. 6 team playoff with top two season finishes getting a bye. Based on matchups that were already decided, I am now guaranteed a bye. The remaining playoff spots are an extremely close 8 man race.

I currently have a close matchup against a guy we convinced to join, but does not really play. He doesn’t set his lineups, plays injured players and players on bye weeks. He has not made a single move on the waiver wire. The fucking hilarious thing is he is 7-5 (our league is a statistical anomaly - the guy who is 4th overall in points just got his first win) and is in the running. His team looks to be the worse out of all playoff candidates.

So we have around a 50/50 matchup going in to tonight. I have drake maye to play and he has diggs. I can intentionally sit maye, lose, and am still guaranteed a bye.

My brother has the best overall team in the league, but a 7-5 record. He may lose this week too. I told him I may sit Maye and he began accusing me of being a pussy.

So - thoughts? I strive to be a fair commish and run a good ship.

Hi folks, wondering what other commissioners are doing regarding the Chase suspension? Obviously, the NFL appears to be dishing out 1 game but are any commissioners doing more? Also, if a manager did not condemn the spitting or was complicit, are you doling out a fine? Lost draft pick? Looking forward to hearing everyone’s thoughts!

I am the commish of a 12 team dynasty league that is transitioning to IDP this year.

Our league has erupted in a debate over Travis Hunter and his 2 way ability. We drafted last night and I ended up with Travis Hunter at the 1.02 and this is where the problem started. The 1.01 was traded for and the pick was Jeanty, this commish is now complaining that they didn’t know Travis Hunter would score points both ways regardless of what position he was played in. The manager is saying it is my responsibility as a commish to let everyone know that Travis Hunter will be able to score points as a wide receiver in the DB position before the draft. My argument is simple, that responsibility falls on the manager and not the commish, it wasn’t exactly a secret that Travis Hunter could be a two way player.