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Thursday, October 16, 2008
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How interesting. I used to run my leagues in hockey and baseball when I was a kid. The idea that I would cede authority to someone else never entered my mind. I was one of those guys that everyone involved would automatically trust, even with a conflict of interest. That’s the whole idea of having a commissioner you can trust. If you have to go to another body to make a decision, it seems to me that this league is not worth being in.
I was in a football league (once) when I was a kid where I was not the commish. And, wouldn’t you know it, it came down to the last week, and I ended up in 2nd place by 1 point, under highly dubious claims. (The winner was a friend of the commish, and changed his picks after his picks were transmitted to me.) I never went back into that league, as the commish was simply untrustworthy. Everyone that I was friends with did not resignup the year after.
My rules for trading was pretty basic: if I didn’t approve a trade, all you needed to do was get a third party to approve a trade (that third party was not allowed to have made a trade with you within the previous month and not allowed to trade with you for one month). I approved 99% of all trades, and only once I didn’t go for it. But, that guy got someone else to signoff on it. So, we were all happy with the process.
When it stops being fun, that’s when you get out…
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