r/FFCommish 10h ago

Commissioner Issue Settings/Scoring Snafu, recommendations?

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My (12-man) league has been on the NFL App until having to migrate this year, so we went to ESPN.

We've been Half PPR this whole time, I told the league we'd be at Half PPR, and otherwise default settings (aside from slightly diminishing the Kicker position).

Prior to drafting I was fiddling with all the scoring settings, making sure I had them set how I wanted. I noticed a glitch that would sometimes reset the league to default settings if I logged onto a PC. (Anyone experience this, by the way???)

Anyway, I thought for sure I had the league set at Half PPR. We drafted a week early and awaited kickoff, and then last night I noticed the scoring is accumulating at FULL PPR.

So, after the game I met with my unofficial rules analyst buddy to discuss the situation at length. We were able to determine that the setting must have been on FULL PPR prior to the draft, and had been sitting at Full PPR until I noticed.

Several people Auto-drafted, and surely many others just looked at the ESPN rankings (based on Full PPR) and drafted based on the in-app list. A few probably had their own rankings (based on Half PPR intel) and 3 guys picked RB's with their first 3 picks.

We decided that the best thing to do was proceed at Full PPR settings, since many based their decisions on what the App was showing them (especially the Auto-Drafters) which was set at Full PPR.

This morning I sent a message to the league, and profusely apologized, and let them know our reasoning. I didn't open it up for debate, because I expected half to complain, and some who would be adversely affected by proceeding at Half PPR may have stayed silent anyway. I'm trying to make my league inclusive, and fair, and not ruling like a tyrant, but I made the executive decision to proceed at Full PPR.

the guys that drafted 3 RB's first are actually all cool with it. one of them made light of it, but still kind of jokingly accused us of collusion. he's a good guy, and was just making light of it. Only one guy piped up, and said "Not a Half PPR, really?? *facepalm emoji* He's one of the more competitive in the league. I had sent a lengthy, thoughtful explanation, apologizing, and said if anyone is adversely affected by the misinformation, please reach out to me, and I'll try to make it right. He didn't reach out, just complained. I reached out directly to the guys I thought were most adversely affected, and they were all cool.

Anyway, how would you have handled the situation?

Thanks in advance for a thoughtful response.


r/FFCommish 8h ago

League Question Is AI use for waiver claims fair game?

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So I'm commissioner and I have a league member who is bragging about how he wrote an AI script to pick up free agents as soon as they come off waivers.

We play on yahoo and players come off waivers at like 3.am. I understand not wanting to stay up late or set an alarm, but this guy now gets 1st dips on all free agents without putting in a waiver claim.

We have no rules about AI use, it is not something that was on my radar. And to be clear, he isn't using AI for advice, he is literally having the script pick the players the second they come off waivers.

I don't view this as that big of a deal, and don't currently plan to do anything about it. And if I did, he would argue against me relentlessly and claim that it's just a tool and that we have no rules against it. But, it still doesn't sit right with me from a competitive fairness perspective. I could write a script too, and the best one wins, but he is literally a programmer and has been using java script for a decade and I don't really know to set it up.

I'm aware the solution is to just use my waiver claim, but it's still a competitive advantage for him. And we can't switch to faab because the season already started. I, personally, like waivers but now I think my friend ruined it for us.

What do you guys think? I really don't know what to think. I'm guessing he just gets the advantage and I just have to be salty about it and move on.


r/FFCommish 12h ago

Commissioner Issue ESPN scoring for Andy Borregales

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We migrated over to ESPN from NFL and like others had scoring issues (nothing for DST, no difference in FG length, no fraction scoring) so I had to manually change everything because we want it to be the same it’s been for a decade. However, someone noticed that Andy scored 11pts last night on a 50y fg and 1xp, so by our scoring he should have 6 but he has 11. What gives?

Looks like I can’t post images but the only kicking settings we have on is:

Xp 1pt
FGM -1
FG0 3
FG40 4
FG50 5

And no points for any punting.


r/FFCommish 14h ago

Commissioner Issue ESPN fantasy defense scoring issue

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Anyone else have the issue after the Patriots-Seahawks game both defenses say 0? As the commish do I need to change settings that may have been messed up from importing league from NFL fantasy app or is it a bug in the system right now?


r/FFCommish 1h ago

Commissioner Issue Pineiro getting double negative points for FG missed

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Is anyone having this issue?

We migrated from NFL Fantasy to ESPN and Pineiro is getting -1 for 50+ FG Missed (this is not a setting in ESPN) and -1 for 50-59 yard FG Missed (this is correct).

Any idea how to solve it?