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Post by Moscow Red Army on Dec 20, 2021 1:07:35 GMT -5
Hey everyone,
What a volatile week it's been around here. It sure is hard to be running a fantasy team right now with things shifting on an hourly basis around the NHL. So with that in mind, I'm going to make the executive decision on how transactions are going to work for the time being.
1) Initial IR transactions will not cost against your weekly totals right now. Please still make a post about it, so it can be documented, but placing a player on IR and selecting an IR Replacement is free. This is only for when STARTING an IR Replacement. If you are choosing a new IR Replacement for an existing IR transaction, this will still cost 1 transaction as per usual. Hopefully, this will give some easy relief to everyone having issues getting bodies onto the ice.
2) Even though it's not a full 14 days of competition in this double-week match-up, I'm going to keep things at 6 transactions per team, to help with flexibility around here.
3) Despite it being a double-week, we will maintain a simple 3-minimum goal start requirement. Hopefully this isn't out of reach for anyone, even with everything going on.
That's it for now, but I have some other ideas in mind should things get worse, or this proves to not help make things a little more manageable around here over the next little while.
Now, the other thing that we face is all these postponements.. Who knows when they will be made up. Maybe the NHL doesn't go to the Olympics and makes missed games up then, or maybe things get pushed to the end of the season again. Maybe the whole season gets shortened again... Whatever the case I'll try and stay on top of things and adjust the schedule as needed. Fairness will be accounted for whenever I can, but I'm certain things will be far from perfect. I hope you can all be understanding!
If anyone has questions, feel free to ask here.
Thanks everyone, I hope you all have a happy and safe holiday season.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2021 8:01:32 GMT -5
Long time listener, first time caller…
I think we should go back to 2 goalie starts for the minimum.
We’ll all have weird Covid stuff to deal with, but that eases the additional worry/strain of punting all 4 goalie categories due to things entirely outside of our control.
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Post by Morweena Reimnoceri on Dec 20, 2021 8:20:57 GMT -5
So, I'm plum out of players on my roster to replace IR players. I have 5 players on IR already, 3 more who are eligible, two more who are in protocol but not technically able to go on IR yet, and one guy who just had surgery but hasn't been placed on IR.
Can this extend into FAIR territory for non-goalies?
I understand that's its a slippery slope here and that yes I *COULD* have constructed my roster in such a way that I wouldn't necessarily be in this pickle, but at the same time, I'm not sure most teams are carrying 8 replacement skaters and 3 replacement goalies.
Either way is fine, I realize most teams are likely in this same jam, but thought I'd ask.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2021 8:57:33 GMT -5
Sounds like first place problems to me… I’ve had more than half my LW out for most of the season.
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Post by Morweena Reimnoceri on Dec 20, 2021 9:50:36 GMT -5
Lol, definitely.
Just asking the question, if it's a no that's totally cool.
Figured there might be other teams might be in a similar spot.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2021 17:05:37 GMT -5
I vote we allow the FAIR rule for all but the top 2 teams. Competitive balance!
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Post by Moscow Red Army on Dec 20, 2021 19:43:49 GMT -5
So, I'm plum out of players on my roster to replace IR players. I have 5 players on IR already, 3 more who are eligible, two more who are in protocol but not technically able to go on IR yet, and one guy who just had surgery but hasn't been placed on IR. Can this extend into FAIR territory for non-goalies? I understand that's its a slippery slope here and that yes I *COULD* have constructed my roster in such a way that I wouldn't necessarily be in this pickle, but at the same time, I'm not sure most teams are carrying 8 replacement skaters and 3 replacement goalies. Either way is fine, I realize most teams are likely in this same jam, but thought I'd ask. Yes, I myself have 8 IR eligible players at the moment, 3 further in infection protocol but not on NHL-IR for whatever reason, and only 1 healthy active-NHLer in my MINORS (who is not playing with PPDs anyways!). It sucks, but with how things are right now, I don't think I'm ready to enable Skater F.A.I.R. yet (though it's definitely on my radar). The reasons I'm not there yet is because: 1) I want to see how things go with the current changes we're using first 2) My next step potential step is enabling non-NHL IR status (Day-to-Day, Week-to-Week, Whatever else) the same perks as our usual IR, and I'd like to see that first 3) Policing the transaction cost with Skater FAIR would get problematic here with the current changes we are using 4) Even FAIR selections are likely to go into COVID protocols, perhaps even before they get into a game for a team, with the rate things are going 5) Similar to the situation above, a FAIR player could have their game(s) PPD before ever playing for their DHL team Basically, I know it sucks right now, but there's not a lot we can do with things being hour-to-hour with this league right now. We could end up digging a bunch of holes trying to make a day or 2 work, but I think it's best that we just see things through with this holiday break happening in the league anyways, and reassess things when we've cleared that. We need to know more from the NHL, and I think they're looking to get past the holiday break before announcing anything. Fortunately, we have a double-week here in the DHL, which lets us be a little more "wait and see" than we would in a single-week match-up.
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Post by Moscow Red Army on Dec 31, 2021 23:36:24 GMT -5
I'm leaning towards extending the current match-up (#10) a few days, most likely through Tuesday's games. Here's my thinking:
1) In a normal match-up, we average about 65GP per team. Right now we are averaging about 35GP per team so far this match-up. We still have Saturday to go, but even if you average a hefty 12 more GP/team, that's only 47GP. Sun Jan 2nd is a medium sized day of games, Mon Jan 3rd is light and already has some PPDs on it, and Tues 4th has a pretty good set of games, which seems like a reasonable way to end this match-up, and hopefully get it to as close to a normal weight of games as usual. This would have Match-up 10 run from Sun Dec 19-Tues Jan 4th.
2) Today, the NHL announced a whole whack of new PPDs over for the next couple weeks, which is starting to compromise the following match-up (#11) as well. So, if we adjust Match-up 10 to the dates listed above, what would have been Match-up 11 (Sun Jan 2nd-Sat Jan 8th) would then shift to Wed Jan 5th-Sat Jan 15th, making itself a larger combined week as well. Now that it's been confirmed there is no official NHL involvement in the Olympics, and that the league is eyeing that 3-week window in Feb as a time to reschedule games into, I feel like we can bump our subsequent match-ups (#12, #13, #14) all back a week to make room. There's no knowing what things are going to look like a number of weeks from now, but I think it's okay to estimate that our jumbo Match-up #15 (Jan 30-Feb 26th) will be available to be eaten into through the flexibility provided for the former subsequent match-ups that I just mentioned.
If this is followed through with, I'll add 2 more transactions to the counter for Match-up #10 (so it'll be 8 total), and we'll maintain the new IR rule mentioned previously. Things may change for the next match-up, but we'll hold pat with what we have currently have through the current match-up.
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Post by Moscow Red Army on Jan 2, 2022 18:47:45 GMT -5
Heads up: A standard match-up will has the weekly transaction count reset Sunday at 12:59pmET/9:59amPT. So with extending match-up #10, the current one, the weekly transaction count will now roll over on Wednesday at 12:59pmET/9:59amPT.
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Post by Moscow Red Army on Jan 5, 2022 14:27:42 GMT -5
For Match-up #11 (Jan 5-15), we will maintain the same variation on the IR Replacement rules (Initially placing a skater on IR does not cost a transaction) through the end of this match-up. We will still have a minimum goalie starts of 3 (which may be lowered if thing blow up throughout the NHL again), and each team will have a total transaction count of 5 for this match-up.
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Post by Moscow Red Army on Jan 16, 2022 2:26:26 GMT -5
Things seem to be stabilizing, at least compared to how things HAVE been the last few weeks. With that being the case, I'm thinking that I'd like to try and set things back to normal, or close to it and see how things go. So...
For Match-up #12 (Jan 16-22), we will maintain the same variation on the IR Replacement rules (Initially placing a skater on IR does not cost a transaction) through the end of this match-up. We will, however, return to the usual 3 transaction allotment that we'd normally have.
For now, we will be keeping the minimum goalie starts at 3, but THIS MAY CHANGE DURING THE MATCH-UP, depending on what I can dig up. I'm considering dropping the minimum goalie starts to 2 for the rest of the season, but I'm honestly not sure there's an easy way of doing this without breaking previous results. Basically it's going to take some looking into, and perhaps some backing up/record keeping. I otherwise would like to allow people to use FAIR rules for ANY goalie absence and not have it locked to IR-only. That's also really complicated though. To my knowledge, I can set that to every player, but not goalies alone. So it's going to take some poking around, but unless you hear otherwise, please aim to have 3 goalie-starts this match-up.
Thanks.
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Post by Moscow Red Army on Jan 17, 2022 0:25:35 GMT -5
Hey everyone.
There's some info I'd like to share with you all.
Nebraska approached me earlier today noting that Live Scoring was indicating that he had failed to meet the minimum goalie threshold for this past match-up, despite the fact that Freddie Andersen had played in 3 games for him between Jan 5th-15th. Looking into things, it seems this same thing happened to Tampa Bay as well. So, I did some digging through FanTrax and found that an obscure setting was on where the minimum starts number was automatically being pro-rated according to period length. Making it so that that minimum of 3 was actually being stretched this match-up (to 4+?) because of the extended period of Jan 5-15. I was able to disable that setting and both teams now register as qualifying as having 3 goal games met.
Changing this setting went back and removed the setting for every previous match-up as well. The standings may have been affected accordingly, so if you notice any changes, it's due to this revision. If anyone has questions, please reach out. Thanks.
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Post by Moscow Red Army on Jan 23, 2022 13:35:12 GMT -5
Okay, big changes this match-up (Jan 23rd-29th)... I should have posted this ahead of time, but wrapping my head around the shift from Sun/Sat shift thing still isn't complete I guess.
As like last week, things seem to have improved recently in regards to NHL game postponements and the number of players going into COVID protocols (at least in terms of fantasy hockey), so I'd like to further change things around here as we get as close to a semblance of "normal" as we can. I still don't think it would especially healthy to go back to our normal rules just yet, particularly because of the complications that come from goaltending and our minimum 3 goalie games requirement. So with keeping that in mind, here is how I've adjusted the rules for this current match-up, and I hope to keep things like this for awhile unless some unforeseen events/occurrences take place that force my hand.
1) The temporary no-cost IR Transaction has now ended. So things will be back to normal in terms of placing a player on DHL IR (it will go back to costing 1 transaction to pick an IR Replacement player, or to exchange an existing IR Replacement player for another). However, I've modified the rules to accept all types of injuries (Day-to-Day, Week-to-Week, etc.) as being IR eligible. As I'm sure you're all aware, the NHL has been quite inconsistent in who is designated for IR and who is simply "red-flagged", which I'm sure has been as frustrating to you as it has been to me. I'm hoping that with this change, it'll leave the discretion up to the individual manager, and regulated by their number of available transactions.
2) With that in mind, at least for now, I will be upping our transaction count to 4. I know that may seem in conflict with what I discussed above, but...
3) All of this applies to goaltenders, and subsequently the Free Agent Injured Reserve (F.A.I.R.) rules. So now, a manager may place a goaltender on IR for almost any injury-related reason and select a replacement from free agency for the cost of 1 transaction. Hopefully, this will help make it so we can uphold our 3-goalie games minimum, while leaving managers an option to use if they find themselves in a pickle because of a minor ailment or COVID protocol flair-up.
As per usual, don't hesitate to reach out if you are confused about anything or have any thoughts you'd like to share on this.
Thanks
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2022 15:14:46 GMT -5
... 1) The temporary no-cost IR Transaction has no ended. I believe you meant for this to say: 1) The temporary no-cost IR Transaction has NOW ended. Is that correct?
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Post by Moscow Red Army on Jan 23, 2022 15:51:18 GMT -5
... 1) The temporary no-cost IR Transaction has no ended. I believe you meant for this to say: 1) The temporary no-cost IR Transaction has NOW ended. Is that correct? YES! Sorry for that typo. The temporary no-cost IR Transaction stipulation has NOW ENDED. No free IR Replacements anymore, we are back to the original rules in terms of transaction costs, but the eligibility for who can be placed on IR has been changed.
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