Hi all,
Most of you know me from being in the fantasy hockey leagues
name removed and
name removed for the past few years. Over those last few years, I've had a great time and made some great friendships with many of you. These were my first keeper leagues. As a fantasy hockey fanatic, I've devoted far more time than I ever should have to maintaining these teams.
I'm sorry to say that I will be leaving these leagues due to some issues with how they are being run. I've thought
name removed has done a great job running these leagues for the last few years. I don't think a Commish should ever get involved in trades unless there is obvious collusion on the part of the managers. After watching him publicly question a trade between two other managers earlier in the season, I began to have my doubts about sticking around. Then the following events went down:
Feb 28 -
I traded Tuomo Ruutu (IR) and Round 19 (Fourth round) pick to
name removed for Round 16 (First Round)
Mar 21 -
name removed drops Tuomu Ruutu. This was also the day he returned from injury.
Apr 2 -
Commish/Manager contact me to let me know that the trade is going to be reversed because it was unfair since that pick ended up being 1st overall.
Since then, there were ongoing discussions about what should happen. The two options given were as follows (direct quote from
Commish):
Here are the options you can choose from:
1. Reverse the trade (my suggestion)
2.
Manager takes Ruutu back (from me) and Gabe's 1st Round Pick (5th Overall) and Gabe would receive
Managers 7th Round Pick, and would keep the 1st overall selection in the draft.
I see both of these options as a basically equal (since Ruutu is a pretty good keeper). Inform me which one you choose.
As it turns out, (yes I care that much and have enough spare time to find this out),
Manager and
Commish are good friends and
Manager is dating
Commish's sister. So I can't help but believe that this may have had some impact on
Commish deciding that something needed to be done about the trade.
Anyway, I don't care to be involved in a league where these kind of things are going to happen, so I'm leaving. I wanted to make sure that everyone was aware of what was going on because I don't want to see anyone else get screwed over. It's been a great few years with you guys. I will be starting up a keeper league with very similar settings (same # of managers & roster size with a slight tweak to scoring cats). If anyone would like to join me, please send me an e-mail and we will have our inaugural draft this fall.
No hard feelings
Commish and
Manager, just wanted to make sure everyone was on the same page and everything was out in the open. Good luck to everyone next year.
Thanks,
Gabe