Re: Weird situation - A trade involves "losing this week's matchup"
I liken this to a situation that happened in Spanish premier league soccer this year. A rule changed that allowed the goalie to pass the ball on a goal kick to a teammate in the penalty area. An existing rule allowed the goalie to take ball in hand when a teammate didn't "pass" the ball to him. Basically anything where the ball doesn't come off a teammate's foot is not considered a pass.
So the goalie flicked the goal kick in the air to the defender's head who then headed it back to the goalie who caught it and took his punt. This effectively turned all goal kicks into goal punts. It wasn't illegal (by the strict interpretation of the rules), but everyone watching it knew it was wrong. The referee told Real Madrid not to do it again and I think a new rule was created in relatively short order.
I say you cancel the "trade" and make a new rule where a team cannot include the throwing of a matchup in the trade. This is not collusion, but it doesn't feel right either.
Thanks for sharing - very cool situation. I will be proposing a new rule for next year in the off-season.
In a 10 league where we start 3C, 3LW, 3RW, 4D and 2 G daily. It is a H2H league - we keep 3 players (1 G max), are allowed a max of 2 keeps for each player. The number in brackets is the number of keeps I have left:
G, A, +/-, PIMs, PPG, PPA and Shots.
C - Larkin, Couturier, Kopitar, Cirelli
LW - OV, Panarin (1), Schenn (C), Ehlers (RW), Kreider
RW - Kucherov (0), Seguin (C), Palmieri, Voracek, Yamamoto
D - Yandle, DeAngelo
W, GAA, SV% and Saves.
G - Rask, Varlamov, Hart, Mrazek
IR+ - Tarasenko