Hi BN,
I can tell that this issue has you concerned, and I appreciate your passion for the game, and holding Yahoo Sports accountable for how we do things.... This one is tough, and I too have struggles with it for years, attempting to figure out a way to improve how position eligibility works.
Couple of factors to consider:
1) Teams assign a single designation for a player at the beginning of the season and RARELY update or change it in-season.
2) Players switch lines throughout the season, and will OFTEN play different positions in limited situations.
3) The NHL does not have an established guideline for position eligibility changes, does not track position play, and has no archives of line changes.
That being said, I see a bit of sensationalism in the list, but there's also some good points, mostly being that some players are assigned dual eligibility and never lose it, which doesn't line up with how our other games work out.
You have a lot players in your list with 'played majority', but what else did they do? They lined up as a winger in certain situations, and with enough suggestions and email requests (and TOI at a position), we updated the eligibility, because there is no official tracking, or documentation by the NHL.
Burns is kind of a funny situation, he could honestly stack up as C, RW, and D, based on his play last year. They switched him out to D in a lot of situations toward the end of last year, and there was a massive push for him to have dual eligibility (Search 'Burns' in the Search Community field at the top of this page for examples).
Here's my problem. Say we implement something like baseball with pitchers. Must start 10 times at RW/LW, etc, to qualify. There's nothing official to support those requirements. More importantly, as I mentioned before, many players shift to different positions. You think the list is bad now, image after a season of official limits and seeing 3/4 of all players having at least 1 additional eligibility.
The good news is that I do see a major issue with us not removing eligibility each season for players who maybe changed teams, or have buttoned down a primary position. I plan on addressing this with engineering, as we are misrepresenting eligibility on several players (and have for some time in the case of Byfuglien, and a few others), and need to make sure that doesn't happen.
The bad news is that once eligibility is assigned, it is not removed for the season, so there is nothing I can image engineering doing about the current state of eligibility. Again, I appreciate your concern with this issue. I see that you have replied on just about every post this topic is being discussed on. While I wish I had a more immediate resolution, we won't have a serious update until next year on this issue.
What I can recommend is leaving feedback (if you've not done so already) on the Hockey suggestions board. The feedback goes straight to the product team, and is the best way to suggest changes to our games. It allows you to vote up the idea if it's already posted, and therefore raises the issue in priority with product. Here's a direct link:
http://yahoo.uservoice.com/forums/20...fantasy-hockey
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