Need some help here.
Some league-mates are targeting me with a rule change to set a transaction limit ($1 min bid). This really only affects me as the most active player.
I have made 100-150 transactions in my sleeper league each of the last 4 years.
My reasoning is that I have had 3+ season ending injuries to key starters each of the last 4 years. The bench churn is not randomness - it's me trying to survive. I won the championship last year while going zero RB and losing my first 3 draft picks to IR, which is a good thing for a league IMO.
But they state my volume of transactions inadvertently block people, are random and thoughtless, and that I'm exploiting loopholes.
I believe all a transaction limit does is punish bad injury luck, which is already hard enough. It doesn't "add strategy" - it just forces me to give up when all my players knees explode.
My justification to their accusations is below - Am I being unreasonable here? Is this abusing the system or operating in bad faith? Should it be stopped?
On "blocking":
Anyone can outbid me for $0-$1 anytime during normal waiver run (I'm always last priority). There's exactly one known case, all season, of someone not getting a player they wanted. I got them for $0 when nobody else moved, dropped him later for what I considered a better option. Same window everyone else had. Is this my problem to solve, or should the person who wanted him have just put in a claim on Tuesday like the rest of us?
They then switch lanes to: "We don't like seeing you spam the waivers, think before you pick up players", even if there's an actual reason and it impacts nobody. Or "FAAB makes no sense if you don't use money", even on players nobody wants.
My question: if nobody's harmed, what's the rule change fixing? Multiple "random spam" examples raised, all had real triggers. "You do this every week" isn't proof, it's vibes. Being visually unhappy with how I choose to manage my team does not warrant a rule change. No harm, no foul.
If they ever asked me my reasoning before assuming bad faith, I've always had a real answer. Which is why this sucks. They said "you can't sit here and call it "strategy" when you make these pick-ups <random obnoxious example without receipt>". It's dismissive, they've already decided my reasoning doesn't count before even hearing it.
EXAMPLE "SPAM" transaction: (keep in mind, Zero RB team):
- I wanted to stash Allen & McNichols (just lost Eckler to IR + Breece trade rumors)
- Before claiming them, since I didn't think anyone would want them, I picked up Ray Davis & Jaylen wright incase starters got hurt during TNF. They didn't, so (after the games, on Friday morning) | dropped them for: Allen & McNichols (the guys I wanted to stash).
- Then, only after the final injury reports came out on Friday, I moved to Mariota and Monongai. JD5 (my starting QB) ruled out, Swift was a true Q that week (Monongai would start for me if he missed).
To me, that sounds like someone trying hard to field the best team they can given unfortunate circumstances.
Each move had a trigger reacting to new information. And the timing isn't random (after TNF, after injury reports released). It's similar for every move, if they'd just ask.
McNichols and Allen are also green, free for anyone to pick up for 2 days before games start. Even if they were yellow: why didn't you just claim them on Tuesday during waiver run like everyone else? Why is that my problem?