Comments on: Explanation on Yahoo!’s FB’s Player Availabilty Policy

By: Rudy Gamble

Rudy Gamble — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 06:14:59 +0000

keep up the good fight, matt!

By: Grey

Grey — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 20:37:53 +0000

Matt, you are awesome and, more than likely, a hero to many. Way to stick it to those morons.

Here’s my take, plain-and-simple, if the players are added willy-nilly it sucks. The players ARE added willy-nilly so it sucks. You want to be able to draft who you want, when you want. There’s a reason Y! (and ESPN) do it like they do, and it’s an economics decision. They’re cutting corners. Is it lame? You betcha. Is it enough to not use them in the future? I think for most discerning owners, it should be. For my most important leagues, I use CBS Sportsline. They have maybe 1 glitch for every Y! or ESPN ten glitches.

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:12:30 +0000

I am the “Matt, Chicago” that asked the question.
I made sure to include an insult to their intelligence, because it seems thats a requirement for them posting questions, and was successful. Here are my thoughts on their dumb policy that I posted in a league of mine:
I somewhat understand their logic:
“Regardless of what level the start at, guys like Bruce/Longoria/Rasmus/etc. are easily top 300 players, and since we (yahoo) need to provide player rankings of at least 300 players, they should therefore be included and in the system.”
This logic, to me, is awfully fallicious, because it depends strictly on their judgement to determine who is and who isn’t valuable. Especially in a world where Cueto was firmly on people’s “radar” back in January and coming into March it was a huge ass blip.
What makes it even MORE foolish is that Cueto was ON the team way before Yahoo put him in. Unless there is no waiver period at all (or, like in my keeper league, I drafted him in an online draft and had the commish add him to my league immediately) every single new Cueto owner missed his first start.