Around the NFL Week 14

[Lotus]

Originally Posted by SirClintonPortis

It isn't. If the system physically allows them to do so, then they can do it. If they don't want that loophole, change the goddamn settings. The buttons he pushed were the "drop" and the "add" buttons, hence it is an orchestrated drop/add. The computer system doesn't give two shits about intent.

The question wasn't whether the "system physically allows" it. The question was, "Is it cheating?" They are different questions.

Perhaps instead of changing the system, they should just get honest people to play. If people have a sense of sportsmanship and fair play, the system settings won't matter. The computer may have no sense of intent but honest people will.

[SirClintonPortis]

Originally Posted by Lotus

The question wasn't whether the "system physically allows" it. The question was, "Is it cheating?" They are different questions.

Perhaps instead of changing the system, they should just get honest people to play. Then the system settings won't matter.

Ok, in one sense, he as "cheated". He has not violated any explicit rules, but rather an implicit one, which is the "spirit" of the trade deadline. Said purpose of that is to prevent organized deals from taking place.

But in zero-sum games like these, until you start enforcing(if you can), they'll always keep on cheating. That's why Yahoo implemented vetoes to stop the same user from beefing up one of his teams with two accounts in its public leagues(and the veto system itself can be abused to prevent certain fair trades too, and good faith is the only thing stopping it from being abused. In competitive leagues, it will be abused).




Although I must say, it'd be interesting to see the arguments for and against whether the "spirit of the law" regarding the trade deadline is applicable to planned drop/adds. /nerdy last paragraph