Fantasy Baseball Ethics: Your thoughts on this?

[virgonomic]

Seems like a non-issue. Every owner has the same opportunity. I scoured my FA list for guys I could pick up as keepers. Choo 27 is out there but the price is too high.

[Judge Jude]

we just had an owner in 10th place grab 3 players off waivers (you can only do that 6 times all year, but he had moves left).
he took Grichuk, Souza for 10-S2 apiece, and Latos at 22-S1 (out for season, so contending owner cut him).
he doesn't expect to keep any of them, but he figures for $6, he's got some longshots to add to the mix. good for him, I say.

[heyelander]

I don't see any problem with it, and I'm still unclear why other owners aren't doing the same thing if it's allowed.

+1. If any of those guys are better keepers than the guys on my team then I should be picking them up.

Maybe your league doesn't have a DL or a deep bench? Is he stacking his out of contention team with hurt guys and putting them in his active line-up at the end of the year? That's a bit more cheesy, but it's an issue with your league rules, not his ethics.

[rhd]

Not unethical. They do similar things in real baseball, like claiming someone on waivers to block another team from getting him. My thinking on this type of thing is that if enough members consider something objectionable, change the rules so people cant do it anymore. But dont punish someone for doing something that the current rules allow.

[Fresno Bob]

you can never have too many potential keepers

[YourPalChrisMal]

Rusney Castillo is the perfect example in my AL Only keeper league. He was picked up for $12, which ticks me off. If only I hadn't blown $$$ earlier in the year on players like Stephen Drew. All teams had spent almost all of their money. But typically if I have enough FAAB $$$ left over, I would ALWAYS make sure that someone like Castillo wasn't picked up at a price he could be kept for the following year. I don't see why that is unethical. It's a game. If I can make a move to prevent the opponent from beating me, that's what you do.

[chancellor]

If Garrett Richards was available and not picked up by a bottom feeding team, they deserve to be mocked.

[Sour Masher]

If Garrett Richards was available and not picked up by a bottom feeding team, they deserve to be mocked.

I agree.

[Pogues]

agreed with the rest - this seems a perfectly viable method to me. now, if like in pogues' league, there were some shenanigans about salaries next year, then there might be reason for alarm. but this all seems pretty straightforward strategy to me.

I just proposed a rules change to close up the silliness a bit. Owners have dropped players, only to bid on them and win them 2 days later with their FAAB at a new, lower salary. Ryan Zimmerman's salary went from $38 to $22 for the same owner because of that move.

[DMT]

I just proposed a rules change to close up the silliness a bit. Owners have dropped players, only to bid on them and win them 2 days later with their FAAB at a new, lower salary. Ryan Zimmerman's salary went from $38 to $22 for the same owner because of that move.

Yes, our rule is that salaries can never decrease, and increase to FAAB bid if it is higher.

[bryanbutler]

Yes, our rule is that salaries can never decrease, and increase to FAAB bid if it is higher.

yep - that's what our rule is too.