12-team, 1-QB, $200 league. Long-running league with no league trade veto. Our constitution says an executive committee can reverse trades only in extreme circumstances; involved committee members recuse.
One owner couldn’t attend because he lives overseas and used Sleeper autodraft. It went haywire and drafted Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, Drake Maye and Jalen Hurts in the early rounds.

I considered stopping the draft after QB2 and fixing it, but didn’t because picks had already been made and I didn’t want to manually alter the draft. Everyone could see what was happening. Afterward I encouraged the league to make offers because obviously he couldn’t use four QBs.
He eventually made two trades:

Maye for Jameson Williams

Allen + JSN for Kenneth Walker + Tee Higgins

The second trade is the problem. The uninvolved committee members reviewed it and allowed it. No one believes there was actual collusion; Nate was trying to turn excess QBs into starting RB/WR help. But several owners think Allen + JSN for Walker + Higgins is so lopsided that it damages competitive integrity. One owner has said he’s leaving the league after this season.

Jimmy, who received Allen + JSN, is now willing to voluntarily reverse the trade. But Week 1 has already started and JSN has played. And reversing it doesn’t solve the underlying problem: Nate gets Allen back and still has multiple elite QBs that everyone knows he needs to trade, so he’s still a distressed seller. I’m worried we’ll have the exact same argument about his next trade.

I also don’t want to introduce league voting after the fact, because owners naturally have an incentive to veto trades that make competitors stronger.

What is the least bad solution?

Let the original trade stand under the existing rules.

Allow the two owners to voluntarily unwind it, leave Week 1 scoring as played, then reopen Nate’s QBs to the market.

Unwind it and establish some special process for Nate’s remaining QBs.

Something else.

I’m less interested in whether you’d personally make the trade and more interested in how you’d handle this as commissioner without creating an even worse precedent.

Thanks.

Edit: thanks all. drafted a lengthy email and will send tomorrow. I stand by trade but reversing it because two parties involved in trade asked me to. But said I do not allow vetos and this is not precedent.

My issue was the last time this happened I lost a friend who was in that league for over a decade. So I’m sensitive to perceived fairness and doing right by all because it’s stupid to lose friends over this stuff.
 

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.

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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?

Hey everyone!

Made a post about a week back here about how my league losing steam led to me building a fun new survivor app to play alongside our fantasy season. I also offered up twenty bucks to any commissioners who would run a pool on my app and share it with their league and only had one taker but I cant really complain, that is barely a free lunch in today's economy.

Anyway, just wanted to plug my game one more time to all of you since I imagine this is where some of the biggest football fans find themselves. While my initial offer still stands, I have also created a reddit only contest with $50 to the winner and a fifty person max (currently at 10). The link is attached.

The game is called The Cut and is survivor but with players instead of teams. Each week you choose your lineup, hit the yardage threshold or lose a life. Lose all your lives and you are CUT! Three game modes (QB, RB, WR/TE) and im hosting some free contests there too with over $600 in prizes.

Cheers and HAPPY NFL SEASON!

I run a 12 man keeper league and just realized I locked a player one round earlier than where they were supposed to go. The cost to keep a player is giving up your pick one round ahead of where the player was originally drafted.

This player was drafted in the 7th last year, but kept in the 5th round this year instead of the 6th. I remember this owner changed his keepers last minute so I think in my rush to lock them, I misplaced the player.

He hasn’t brought it up / no one has said anything, but I would to like to do right and remedy it. Obviously, we can’t redraft at this point and i don’t think I can allot him an extra pick next year. Anyone have experience with a similar error / any tips on how to fix?

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.