WCOFF FAAB SNAFU
Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 1:59 pm
Originally posted by King of Queens:
quote:Originally posted by sportsbettingman:
Please tell me what you would have done, K of Q?
Either way you cut it...there is hell to pay.
I actually think they did well in the decision they made.
Everyone still had the chance to fill their rosters...nobody had the advantage of knowing anothers bids when bidding.
There HAD to be casualties in this one...and the casualties were those that waited the longest without bidding had less players to bid on.
~Lance Here is what should have happened:
(1) The results from the erroneous 8 a.m. evaluator should have been wiped out. The original bids should have been placed back in the system, with teams free to change those bids up until 8 p.m. this evening. Every owner should have had an opportunity to bid on every player that was a free agent this week, including the ones that were mistakenly placed on teams at 8 am.m this morning. While the blind bids were compromised, giving every owner access to every free agent was the much "lesser evil" -- by far.
(2) Lenny and Emil should have taken a stand on this much more quickly than they did. Jeremy from Xpertsports put up a post sometime this morning that he had "spoken to Lenny". Lenny did not appear on the message boards at all, while Emil appeared at around 3 p.m.
(3) The poll that was put up should not have impacted WCOFF's decision-making process. The poll was put up without warning in the middle of the day, and the vast majority of WCOFF owners did not know about it until after the poll results were closed. Under 100 votes were received, without any way to tell how many of those votes were multiple votes from the same owner. Additionally, "junior members" were unable to vote until they had 30 posts. Finally, many WCOFF owners do not post on the message boards and are not even registered. A much better solution would have been to send an urgent e-mail to each owner, asking for their vote.
Lance, mistakes happen all the time. It is the manner in which these mistakes are dealt with that ultimately determines the success or failure of a situation. Here, the mistake was not properly handled. In fact, it was miserably handled. As a result, I do not have faith in Lenny and Emil to make proper decisions should a situation such as this arise again. [/QUOTE]1 - What about teams that don't have access to computers during the day that had set their bids, expecting them to be processed? How could they change them, if needed? And at this point of the season, some people don't have enough money to up their bids if they felt the need to after the rest of the league saw them.
2 - Absolutely, if only to say we're working on a solution
3 - the poll was idiotic
There is no good solution here.
quote:Originally posted by sportsbettingman:
Please tell me what you would have done, K of Q?
Either way you cut it...there is hell to pay.
I actually think they did well in the decision they made.
Everyone still had the chance to fill their rosters...nobody had the advantage of knowing anothers bids when bidding.
There HAD to be casualties in this one...and the casualties were those that waited the longest without bidding had less players to bid on.
~Lance Here is what should have happened:
(1) The results from the erroneous 8 a.m. evaluator should have been wiped out. The original bids should have been placed back in the system, with teams free to change those bids up until 8 p.m. this evening. Every owner should have had an opportunity to bid on every player that was a free agent this week, including the ones that were mistakenly placed on teams at 8 am.m this morning. While the blind bids were compromised, giving every owner access to every free agent was the much "lesser evil" -- by far.
(2) Lenny and Emil should have taken a stand on this much more quickly than they did. Jeremy from Xpertsports put up a post sometime this morning that he had "spoken to Lenny". Lenny did not appear on the message boards at all, while Emil appeared at around 3 p.m.
(3) The poll that was put up should not have impacted WCOFF's decision-making process. The poll was put up without warning in the middle of the day, and the vast majority of WCOFF owners did not know about it until after the poll results were closed. Under 100 votes were received, without any way to tell how many of those votes were multiple votes from the same owner. Additionally, "junior members" were unable to vote until they had 30 posts. Finally, many WCOFF owners do not post on the message boards and are not even registered. A much better solution would have been to send an urgent e-mail to each owner, asking for their vote.
Lance, mistakes happen all the time. It is the manner in which these mistakes are dealt with that ultimately determines the success or failure of a situation. Here, the mistake was not properly handled. In fact, it was miserably handled. As a result, I do not have faith in Lenny and Emil to make proper decisions should a situation such as this arise again. [/QUOTE]1 - What about teams that don't have access to computers during the day that had set their bids, expecting them to be processed? How could they change them, if needed? And at this point of the season, some people don't have enough money to up their bids if they felt the need to after the rest of the league saw them.
2 - Absolutely, if only to say we're working on a solution
3 - the poll was idiotic
There is no good solution here.