(Yet more intersection between football and politics.)
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
--U.S. Constitution: Second Amendment
Consider a fantasy football league that the commissioner used to run manually, giving each team at most one add/drop transaction per week. Then the league went on-line, but the web site in question didn't have a "one per week" option in the standard set-up, so instead the new rule was 15 transactions per year. Anyone who wanted to make more than one a week was welcome to, but still, 15 per year, enforced automatically.
Now suppose that league had a bit of draft chaos because of ESPN's flaky servers. Nothing catastrophic, but just people losing connectivity at inopportune times. The commissioner sent out a note (that I just looked for and couldn't find, ruining what would have been a very elegant post) indicating that because of the draft issues he increased the transaction limit to 25 per team.
If you were a league member who'd had no draft/server problems whatsoever, would you consider yourself morally obligated to make no more than 15 (instead of 25) add/drops?
(That's a real question, not a rhetorical question.)
Despite how I feel about what weight (if any) to give the first clause of the Second Amendment, I actually did intend to hold myself to 15 pickups out of sportsmanship, but then Donovan McNabb got hurt. So be it, 16.
Posted by Matt Bruce at November 26, 2007 12:00 PMTo date I've used 17 transactions, and I didn't have any problems, either. At least part of the reason for the expansion to 25 was to do with everyone having to keep six players, so if you kept anyone you didn't want to you could add their numbers to the old 15 transaction limit.