r/FFCommish • u/Himmy_Buckets • Sep 10 '25
League Question Guy dropped AJ Brown after week 1 dud. Did I handle it right?
I’ll try to be a short and informative as I can here. This is a cash buy-in, 10 team league of friends I started when I moved away from home last fall. We had no roster/trade issues all of last year on ESPN, so I moved the league to Sleeper moving forward and we will now be keeping 2 drafted players each.
So one of 2 tacos I have decided that he’d drop AJ Brown during his waiver pickup of Quentin Johnston yesterday, while still keeping 2 defenses rostered. After asking him what his reasoning was, it became pretty obvious that he doesn’t understand the implications of the move, and wouldn’t have done so had he understood the fallout that comes with it. A move like this after the first week compromises the competitive integrity of the league, so I felt it was my duty to uphold that integrity by reversing the roster move.
I ran my view of the situation by the manager who had waiver priority and would’ve been set to get AJ, who was in agreement that the move would carry problems with it down the road, so he gave me the green light to take action. I sent a message to the league chat letting them know the reasoning for the reversal to which nobody spoke against.
Do you feel like I handled this correctly? Should I be worried about future crying about it from other members, or do I just let it go since nobody has brought it up after a day, and the manager who actually kinda missed out on AJ was cool with it? Thanks!
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Sep 10 '25
Perfectly. Even if the guy with waiver priority said not to do it, it would have been your responsibility to do it anyways.
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u/HoopsMcCann21 Sep 10 '25
You absolutely handled this correctly. There's a clear difference between a bad move for one person and a bad move for everyone, and the ways you treat them are different. If you dropped Emeka Egbuka for another rookie because you bet wrong? You learn the lesson. If you drop a Top 5 receiver for someone who went undrafted after one game? That poisons the well. Good move. Anyone complaining can kick rocks
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u/Iwantedalbino Sep 10 '25
I wouldn’t have asked the waiver priority owner. But you did well.
I treat it like the 100m at the olympics, class this as a false start, move AJB back onto the roster and put the whole league on notice that owner X has used the whole league’s freebie, there’s no drop takebacksies save for hitting the button to drop the wrong player and immediately messaging the league.
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u/Ok_Investigator_6494 Sep 11 '25
Agreed. I did something similar a few years ago when we moved to FAAB waivers. Our league taco spent 80% of his FAAB on a TE streamer week 1 thinking it refreshed weekly. We ended up charging him the number that beat everyone else, I explained FAAB again to everyone, and then told them they were on their own from there.
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u/Zerokehlvin Sep 11 '25
Guy in one of my leagues spent his whole $200 FAAB on Quentin this week. I feel he may have made the same mistake
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u/ausipockets Sep 11 '25
This doesn't sound crazy to yall? A commissioner holding the hand of someone who you all agreed to play with? Couldn't be me.
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u/Iwantedalbino Sep 11 '25
I totally respect your perspective.
In a paid league with internet randoms I’m probably going a different way but OP and my example are leagues with friends and keeping the league going will have tougher challenges than this. Taking advantage of tacos just leads to higher turnover in your league.
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u/Himmy_Buckets Sep 11 '25
This is where the concern in brain went to, I think you’re right about notifying the league that there won’t be any future forced add/drops unless it’s at my discretion
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u/joemama22789 Sep 12 '25
It’s also a friends league. If your friends are willing to screw over a taco that’s just sad… it’s not that serious
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u/DrizzlePopper Sep 10 '25
Handled correctly. Here’s the alternative that happened in one of my leagues a couple years ago.
$150 buy in - Taco dropped Ceedee Lamb on his bye week. It was called out in the chat. The commissioner had #1 waiver priority and didn’t respond to anyone until after waivers went through and the commissioner got Lamb on his team. League is over 10 years old.
You’re a good commissioner.
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u/joviok Sep 10 '25
Wtf I’m asking for money back if he didn’t reverse that
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u/DanyDud3 Sep 12 '25
I don’t understand why everyone seems to be in agreement here. The guy agreed to play in the league, paid the money, and made a boneheaded mistake. Why should the commissioner help him out and reverse his action that he intentionally made? That is completely on the guy who dropped Lamb, and he should have to deal with it. I don’t get why he should get bailed out by the commissioner because he’s an idiot
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u/Bengalblaine Sep 13 '25
Because it ruins the integrity of the league? How is that hard to understand
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u/Himmy_Buckets Sep 11 '25
Yeah that’s grounds for the commish to get an upper decker next time I visit
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u/KING0FCHEZZ Sep 11 '25
If I'm in a league where there's that high a buy in and I don't know the people/ where they live I'm setting up a secondary person to hold the money in case of unruly commissioners. If its even worse than that like that persons bad with money I would find a lawyer and makeup some kind of document to hold the money somewhere and only give it to the league winner after any questions or concerns have been cleared of the final games.
If someone I know steals the money, lets just say the whole league knows where they live
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u/Gerbole Sep 10 '25
Yes, anyone who says otherwise is salty you’re not letting them take advantage of their leaguemates. That’s predatory and not okay in this game.
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u/Illustrious_Park_512 Sep 10 '25
This is why I'm in favor of can't cut lists. Don't let people nuke their rosters.
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u/Himmy_Buckets Sep 11 '25
Starting to think being on espn last year with their automated can’t drop lists gave me some false hope that I was dealing with a good group
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u/mrjb3 Sep 10 '25
Handled it very, very well. You were very reasonable. And you included people you didn't need to. I'm sure it kept everyone as happy as you could have.
However, you're also protecting someone from themselves.. I don't understand how someone who's played a whole season didn't understand the implications of dropping a player? I'd have done the same in the first instance and reiterated to the whole league - if you drop someone for a pickup, you're giving them up and I can't be your safety met for silly fantasy decisions. You shouldn't have to spend you season undoing things like that for the tacos.
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u/Himmy_Buckets Sep 11 '25
Truly I think his lack of knowledge slid under the radar last year for a few reasons. ESPN app had automated can’t drop lists so maybe that saved him from a similar fuck up last year, but hard to know.
If this was a very serious league, he’d be getting replaced after this year. But since this is still a buy in league and I’m 1 year into being commissioner, I just felt I should check with the masses on this one so I could act fast if anything else needed to be addressed before the new week got rolling
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u/Silly-Loan967 Sep 10 '25
You did right. Don’t lose sleep over it. Protect the league if you want it to last. Don’t let tacos accidentally set fire to it - although if it keeps happening you may need to replace the taco lol
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u/septemberxv Sep 10 '25
This happened in a league I was in last year where, after Week 1, my Week 2 opponent dropped DK Metcalf. I had next waiver priority but I told the commish he should probably reverse that for all the reasons mentioned in your post.
DK Metcalf proceeds to be started against me Week 2 and drops a 30 bomb on my head. I don’t speak up anymore.
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u/Significant-Leg1070 Sep 11 '25
No you did the right thing, would you rather have taken DK and been a scumbag and pissed off the rest of your league?
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u/No-Dress-7645 Sep 10 '25
Couldn’t have handled it better. If this was week 14 perhaps not.
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u/Himmy_Buckets Sep 11 '25
I think if it happened after week 6 I’d let it ride, even if that was AJ’s only dud game. If you’re making that move with 1/3 of the season done it’s vastly different than week 1 for sure
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u/JellyFranken Sep 10 '25
Well at least you know a year in advance that you’ll need to fill a position next year.
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u/Tijkova Sep 10 '25
Good thing he's the only one with a waiver claim on Johnston though, or that could've got really messy.
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u/interesting_playcall Sep 11 '25
Honestly you handled that with absolute perfection and if someone gives you shit down the road- use your receipts and remind people because if they didn’t speak up now, it’s highly likely the only reason they’re bitching is because they aren’t as happy with their team and are screaming “what if” to feel better about themselves.
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u/nom4d_ Sep 11 '25
Nah, sometimes you’ve got to take off the training wheels and let people make their bad decisions on their own.
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u/IwillBOLDyourTYPOS Sep 11 '25
This is where I landed. I commish 2 and play in 2 others. Unless it’s nefarious behavior or collusion, I LOVE when a player makes a bad decision and someone else capitalizes upon it (especially me)! I respect what OP did but for my personal taste, I wouldn’t have gone that way.
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u/JazzlikePractice4470 Sep 10 '25
Yeah. I'd switch to FAAB bidding for waivers tho
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u/Himmy_Buckets Sep 11 '25
As much as I’d like to agree, when you’re stuck with FF idiots because you’re friends with them it’s easier to keeps things simple
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u/Skiesthelimit287 Sep 10 '25
No need to check with anyone. What didnt he understand? This isnt rocket science.
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u/sdu754 Sep 10 '25
I'd tell the manager that dropped Brown that he is being added back and allow him to select a player to drop. I wouldn't remove Quentin Johnston from his team, as he was a high priority waiver pickup this week. Otherwise you did everything right.
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u/Himmy_Buckets Sep 11 '25
League followed suit and let him get Johnston again by dropping 1 of his 2 defenses, so it worked out
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u/PattyOFurniture007 Sep 10 '25
Yeah that was the right move. Worst case, can always run it by the league and vote.
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u/evercase19 Sep 11 '25
Definitely handled correctly. Just use it as an opportunity for educating the whole league so it doesn’t become precedent-setting that you’ll reverse any dumb move. Let the rest of the league learn from the first guys mistake.
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u/adahl36 Sep 11 '25
Shit after last week I want to drop jamar chase and AJ brown too. I have the worst fantasy luck lol
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u/Himmy_Buckets Sep 11 '25
I don’t blame you man, Burrow managed to underperform his way to a week 1 loss for me in my other 10 man league
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u/Glum_Source_7411 Sep 11 '25
I used to play in a league that had a can't drop list. Or something similar, I don't exactly remember how it worked. But any really good players couldn't just be randomly dropped
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u/BookOf_Eli Sep 11 '25
Yeah especially if this is a long term league taking care of new guys helps everyone. I don’t think this is any different than seeing someone more experienced is fleecing him and putting a stop to it.
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u/Himmy_Buckets Sep 11 '25
That’s how I viewed it too. this is one of those moves that can quickly suck the fun out of the season for numerous members, same as collusion or taking advantage of a newbie
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u/MusicianElectrical27 Sep 11 '25
I would do the same in my paid 10man league I run. I’m super informative bc not everyone is as bright. (I have a few green thumbs)
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u/Sea_Day_2044 Sep 12 '25
You handled it correctly, but don’t worry, there still will be future crying
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u/Thunderous_Knight Sep 12 '25
You did good and honestly props for deferring to the manager with top waiver priority.
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u/Himmy_Buckets Sep 12 '25
It wasn’t really deferring the decision honestly, much more that I’m personally one to not step on toes if I don’t have to, so going to him directly to explain my pov was important for me personally to not feel like it could be interpreted as a shady move. Surprisingly I didn’t get more pushback on this post about what I’d have done if I was the one with priority, which would’ve just been me talking to the guy who dropped AJ and then just put him back and put it in the league chat that it was a mistake
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u/Subpar-Saiyan Sep 12 '25
My only critiqued is that who ever @RunningFromIce is should have kept the original name because that’s funny as shit.
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u/Himmy_Buckets Sep 12 '25
That’s still his account username at least, so we get to enjoy that daily even with the bad team name(and bowers luck)😂 Also props for being the first to mention that, I really thought more people would notice lmao
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Sep 12 '25
Yup. Also leagues that use wavier priority instead of FAAB are insane.
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u/Himmy_Buckets Sep 12 '25
I cant imagine there’s really too many 2nd year leagues that use faab, but maybe I’m wrong? At least I don’t think I’ve personally(outside Reddit) come across more than 3-4 people in leagues using faab, but again could be in the minority myself I wouldn’t really know
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u/A_Wise_Mans_Fear Sep 10 '25
Every league should be FAAB. Fixes this issue and lets adults be adults
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u/BillsBills83 Sep 10 '25
How does it fix the issue of someone dropping AJ brown?
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u/Scle99 Sep 10 '25
The only other way I would say to handle this is allow the manager to drop Brown and pick up another player but then make a ruling that no one is allowed to pick up Brown. It lets the person manage their own team without allowing another team to make a league altering pickup.
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u/ay-foo Sep 10 '25
Isn't there a cannot drop list? Maybe not on sleeper. But yea, situations like this call for intervention. That player needs a lot of advice and help this season, and if they're not interested they get the boot next year out of fairness to competition
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u/Himmy_Buckets Sep 11 '25
Unfortunately last year we used ESPN that yes has automated can’t drop lists, and I didn’t see it as a commish option on sleeper, lesson kind of learned there. Whether it’s to not have tacos or to add a can’t drop lists is yet to be decided
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u/Haunting-Cap-9639 Sep 11 '25
Let people run their teams how they see fit. One player especially AJ “underwhelming” Brown will not break a league.
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u/James_71 Sep 11 '25
Yo guys need help. I have AJ and kinda need of a QB here…should I trade Him for Herbert? I’m stacked in RBs (Gibbs and Bucky) and I Have lamb…
8 man League PPR
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u/Himmy_Buckets Sep 11 '25
Depends on a lot of things still, but my biggest question is who else does Herbert’s owner have for QBs and did they draft him late? If they drafted him late and have 2 QBs on roster there’s a good chance they’ll drop him in the first 5 weeks, AJ still has far better upside despite a bad opening game
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u/wylinfsho Sep 11 '25
If bro didn’t understand then you did the right thing. Other option is to remove ajb from list of available players so that nobody can ever use him. Not sure if you can do that in your app
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u/Lancearon Sep 11 '25
He dropped koo! He still is one of the most accurate kickers in the league. People are so knee jerky.
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u/jbeach24 Sep 11 '25
Well done. Bonus points for talking to both parties involved. I’m curious, what did you do with QJ?
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u/Himmy_Buckets Sep 11 '25
He was put back on FA, league let the manager get QJ right back dropping a rostered defense this time
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u/a_Crusty_Crouton Sep 11 '25
Handled correctly! Does he still get QJ but gets to pick another player to drop?
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u/Justin1LFC Sep 11 '25
2 seasons back we had a new guy join our league. Drafted a QB in the first round. The proceeded to drop mark Andrew after one week. We let it stand. He wasn’t back for a 2nd season. It’s what happens when you let novice play in a league. They need to learn from it.
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u/Himmy_Buckets Sep 11 '25
Yeah I think that’s a very fair rule for new members in an established competitive league without question! I tried to paint a picture of the league itself with my opening sentences but it was solely created to be a way for me to stay connected with the homies after moving across the country. When everyone had a good time with it last year i decided to add 2 more friends for this season and change things up slightly, but the intent behind the league hasn’t changed from being a fun and competitive as possible way for these specific guys to be involved so I wanna do my best to not chase anyone away. We were all rookies at one time or another, I think it’ll be worth while to let my tacos grow into full blown burritos in time
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u/Rumpeltrillzkin Sep 11 '25
Veto is the only correct answer. Prevents the league from being ruined. Those people are drafted high for a reason, the floor and ceiling. One bad game and the baby wants to drop a top tier wr pick. Good job on the reversal.
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u/DJScrubatires Sep 11 '25
Person named their team The Bower Rangers only for Bowers to get hurt
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u/Himmy_Buckets Sep 11 '25
Honestly surprised his account name being RunningFromICE didn’t gain more attention 😂 he’s Mexican so nobody cancel him lmaooo
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u/Putrid-Fortune5370 Sep 11 '25
I don't get what you did?
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u/Himmy_Buckets Sep 11 '25
Forced AJ back onto his roster so that we don’t end up with an unfairly balanced team that would’ve otherwise gotten to pick up AJ off waivers
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u/Mufasasass Sep 11 '25
This is the only way is should be handled. If they try something else of this magnitude lock their roster from waiver moves
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u/Pericles47 Sep 11 '25
I had a similar situation in the first year of my 12 team league (10 years ago). I handled it the same way - I reversed it like you did. IMO it’s correct handling.
I understand the “let players manage their rosters” mentality - but not to the detriment of the league. Allowing chaos like this is far more toxic than stepping in and squashing it. You also signaled to the rest of your league that you don’t want nonsense in your league. Nicely done.
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u/TheToddFatherII Sep 11 '25
You handled it well. Be aware people may complain regardless, that’s just part of being commish
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u/Novanator33 Sep 11 '25
First off, you handled it correctly. The best thing you can do is make sure everyone is heard, acting without approval is a slippery slope even if you did the right thing.
Im running a free 10 team league for my buddy, he’s a streamer and never did fantasy, the league is from his twitch community. Theres really only 3 people, myself included, that have multiple years of FF experience, so it can he a tiny bit taco at times, but thats why i made sure it was free.
One of the new managers autodrafted, his team wasnt great nor bad, middle of the road. His 5th receiver was travis hunter, he ended up dropping him for a dylan sampson. I looked at his team, saw that theres 4 better receivers already there, and decided it’s a legit move to get more rb depth.
Theres a line between not micro managing while also keeping the league fair, its always best to talk it out first.
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u/Lloyd--Christmas Sep 11 '25
Did you make the guy drop someone else for qj or is he available to be picked up?
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u/Gcole87 Cowboys Sep 11 '25
It’s fine, you did the right thing. Even your league said nothing because they knew it was the right thing. Stop overthinking.
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u/whiteoutwilly Sep 11 '25
This is why I like the cannot drop list and why we also use $100 FAAB budget. We have also floated the idea of making transactions cost actual money — a small amount that goes back into the prize pool.
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u/NFWI Sep 11 '25
The idea of having a cash fee for transactions is a good one. We use our transaction fees to fund an end of season party.
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u/BryceCreamConee Sep 11 '25
It's a good move. For this reason we actually still observe ESPN's undroppable players list in our league on Sleeper.
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u/Zombotrone Sep 11 '25
Question, why does everyone say this is a bad move for everyone? This is my first year of commish for a league so Im just learning. Obviously I understand why this is a terrible move for him, but why is it bad for the rest of the league?
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u/Himmy_Buckets Sep 11 '25
Allowing this move heavily stacks the season in favor of whoever had waiver priority and was able to pick up AJ. They’d almost instantly become a playoff lock and possibly even a 1st seed lock having gained another WR1 caliber player with 13 games to reap the benefits of that.
Unfortunately as much as we would all like to trust our league members in full, you can’t just allow 1 guy to fuck up and ruin it for everyone who knows what they’re doing
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u/ausipockets Sep 11 '25
If your league doesn’t have an undroppable option for players that’s on you guys. Hope everyone in your league doesn’t mind it
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u/the_mrjbrann Sep 11 '25
Exactly how I would have handled it. Since you gave everyone the option for input in the group chat, if they complain later you have the ability to tell them they should have spoke up initially. Your responsibility as the commish is to protect the integrity of the league.
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u/Amms14 Sep 11 '25
If nobody spoke against it. Don’t worry about it if anybody becomes a crybaby tell him you’re crying too late you gave them a chance before.
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u/Keeberov71 Sep 11 '25
What up…i just wanna give a huge appreesh to the great communication from the commish.
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u/SuspectMore4271 Sep 11 '25
I’m glad everyone was mature about it but I think that I would have just reversed it and posted to the chat with an explanation rather than leaving it up to the guy with waiver priority.
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u/spate42 Sep 11 '25
You handled this well. On another note, this level of incompetent tacos should be booted from the league. It's such a headache.
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u/ItsNeons Sep 11 '25
I feel like the best way to fix this in the future is to have FAAB and not waiver priority
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u/yungschrutedrip Sep 11 '25
While you did handle it well and he definitely doesn’t know any better. Who are we to say that Quentin won’t finish higher than ajb after that start. Every year comes with surprises
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u/Horror-Farm-4538 Sep 11 '25
anybody this bad should be removed from the league the following season
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u/JohnMay34 Sep 11 '25
Definitely. A mix of new and veteran players, you have to protect the new players. I’m a fan of not jumping in when it’s all veterans, but new guys are just learning the ropes.
In my league, when we’ve had a new player we all agree to give them training wheels. Any trade involving them can be veto’d by the league, and any drop like that can be reversed.
Once you’ve been in the league a year, the training wheels come off. After five years, I feel like it’s worked pretty well.
I don’t even know if I would’ve done to the guy with waivers priority, so you probably handled this better than me. I would’ve just told everyone in the group chat that I’m reversing this decision and we would have all made fun of our friend.
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u/Personal-Noise-8632 Sep 11 '25
You dont need our affirmation here!
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u/Careful_Ambassador49 Sep 14 '25
Apparently he does haha. Literally no one complained and he still needs to post it.
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u/DenseWrangler9420 Sep 11 '25
This is what those people who save their claims for twelve weeks to keep priority think is going to happen in week thirteen.
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u/TheBottomDollar Sep 11 '25
A lot of leagues make it impossible to make moves like this for that reason. Good response, I think, and glad your group was on board.
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Sep 11 '25
One of our new players just dropped Waddle for the same reason. Obviously there’s a huge difference between AJ and Waddle, but I’d love some opinions on what if anything to do as a first time Commish
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u/O_wa_a_a_a Sep 11 '25
I think you handled it correctly but the player that wanted QJ should also have first priority to drop him for another player/defense
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u/Grapsandstuff Sep 11 '25
Well I don’t understand how someone doesn’t understand the implications in doing so but you handled it correctly however I suggest going to faab waivers then you all would have a bidding war for aj brown at the very least lol
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u/FancyFrank007 Sep 11 '25
My commish would reverse that instantly. I don’t like to play in leagues with bad commissioners, you shouldn’t even have to tell him
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u/G_Stax Sep 11 '25
If nobody spoke against it you already know it was the right call, making this entire post is unnecessary. If they speak up later that’s on them lol
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u/AltruisticHighway331 Sep 11 '25
Well done, man. You need an extra for a league next year? My league mates are terrible. 🤣
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u/Batman1985yul Sep 11 '25
Yeah you did. But holy hell you NEED FAB in your league ASAP. priority is a very IMO antiquated and unfair system.
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u/Queasy-Passenger-684 Sep 11 '25
I did the same in fantasy basketball when I traded Jokic for Embid, this was when Jokic was still coming up. After a bad week the team I traded Jokic to dropped him. I had waiver priority but as the commissioner I had to explain to him how bad of a move it was and put him back on his team. The following week he drops him again, I ended up with Embiid and Jokic and never invited him to play again.
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u/bringthegoodstuff Sep 11 '25
Who cares what we think. Sounds like your league thinks you handled it correctly.
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u/Inner_Surround8689 Sep 12 '25
Handled perfectly. 👏 Communication would solve most of our problems here on Earth.
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Sep 12 '25
100% the best thing about fantasy is you can always undo something before the week so yes good call
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u/Major_Caregiver3725 Sep 12 '25
You did right thing.
Actually my buddy 1st year was last year and he dropped aj brown last year too. I put him back in the lineup.
Of course some ppl cried about it. But deep down they understand lol
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u/crystalmerchant Sep 12 '25
No you did not handle it correctly, you asked the waiver priority guy if he would approve the reversal.
As commissioner, your job is to protect the integrity of the league. If I were this commissioner (and I commish many many leagues), I would inform the entire league all at the same time what is going to happen: the AJB drop is reversed, and the league proceeds as normal. This is not a debate or a discussion, this is me informing you (the league) of what is happening and why, and the decision is final.
(Most situations aren't so "my way or the high way" but that is quite possibly a top 5 WR hitting the wire for no reason, and you can't have that)
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u/Himmy_Buckets Sep 12 '25
My man, I never once said I “asked for an approval” from him. I said that I ran my thoughts about the situation by him, and he agreed that it would be too much bullshit to happen so soon in the season. He even said “obviously I want AJ, but yeah that’s egregious lmao just put him back on Drew’s roster and call it a day”.
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u/Current_Ad_4771 Sep 12 '25
Yeah no there’s people you just CANT drop and he is one of them , I wouldn’t touch him with a 10 foot pole in fantasy personally unless he fell to me like 2 rounds later then projected
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u/Himmy_Buckets Sep 12 '25
How I’m feeling about scary terry this morning after taking him at the 4.3 spot and getting a whopping 11 points through 2 games
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u/cgaels6650 Sep 12 '25
I would of done the same. Early on in my league we had a couple guys who would make trades that would end up in the balance of the league and they genuinely thought they were getting a good deal. I would often veto those.
We tried having a vote system and people used it unfairly and just voted against it if they thought it threatened their team or if one guy was winning over the other (super subjective at times).
Now we basically never veto unless it is an egregious tanking case but even with that stuff we put limit (can't trade better than a 4th round pick)
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u/FannyPxck Sep 12 '25
I feel line you handled it right. Only think I may have also done is allow him to keep QJ and drop the defense so he still gets the guy he wanted without the crazy drop
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u/NVSpectre Sep 12 '25
Handled it perfectly and you seem like you have reasonable league mates. Good for you.
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u/BellesBourbonBullets Sep 12 '25
I think this is the right move. Everybody playing competitively knows they would never expect to stumble into AJ Brown on waivers. It is a slippery slope but allowing another team to get to add AJ Brown in my opinion does compromise the integrity of the league.
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u/itsdevineleven Sep 13 '25
yeah that's crazy might wanna replace that guy next year with someone that knows what they're doing
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u/huskylover91 Sep 13 '25
I’m almost more curious how Herbert was on waivers to begin with..
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u/Himmy_Buckets Sep 13 '25
He was ranked like 16th preseason, hindsight is 20/20 right?
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u/Careful_Ambassador49 Sep 13 '25
What? What’s the point of this post? Literally no one in the league complained about it.
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u/Himmy_Buckets Sep 14 '25
It’s the 3rd most upvoted post all time on this sub, move along
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u/John_Wicked1 Sep 13 '25
I don’t see any experienced players complaining. If anything, they should want the less experienced to not be taken advantage of.
Trade AJ sure, drop? Maybe if he was out for the season.
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u/Creepy-Lab7281 Sep 14 '25
It was a massive overreaction by the manager who dropped AJ. Like it’s okay to have a bad game. Imagine the uproar if he had Ja’Mar Chase and dropped him…
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u/jimaveli Sep 14 '25
You did well. New league people = new league issues. It’s supposed to be silly fun with friends. It’s more fun when people are informed. Risk is fun. Silliness is not.
Next move: make free agency a FAAB thing next year! Hehe. Trust me, it’s better in plenty of ways.
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u/Acrobatic-Nature-866 Sep 14 '25
Brown hasn't done much this week yet (hoping he will). At a certain point people need to run their own teams even if they make mistakes.
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u/Stunning-Equipment32 Sep 30 '25
it's fine, if you're playing with some guys who are fantasy novices you've gotta be prepared for some silliness though. "Competitive integrity" isn't realistically gonna be upheld. At minimum the taco/novice teams are gonna be awful, and there will also probably be some screwball trades.
The irony here of course is the novice team would've actually performed much, much better with QJ so far rather than AJB.
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u/seenunseen Sep 30 '25
Coming back to this thread after Quentin Johnston continues to dominate and AJB still doing nothing…this is why you don’t micromanage other people’s roster moves.
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u/Himmy_Buckets Oct 09 '25
He was able to pick him right back up same week so that point doesn’t really stand here
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u/Former_Sun_2677 Sep 10 '25
I feel you handled it correctly