Consequences of a rule change
Hey all,
I'm the commish of a 12 team H2H Yahoo league counting G, A, P, +/-, PIM, PPP, Sog, FoW, Hits, Blocks, W, Gaa, Sv%, and saves.
It's a fairly deep league, starting 3/3/3/5/2, with a bench of 8. Every year we keep 7 vets, and 3 prospects (goalies < 101 gp, skaters < 201 gp). Max two goalie kept. There are 4 max pickups per week.
I just had a gm complain about the lack of useful goalies on the wire, and wanting to go to a 4 (healthy) goalie maximum on every roster.
I don't really want to police the maximum, but my co-commish is willing to. If we did it we'd have to set out some kind of consequence for breaking the rule. We'd also have to deal with grey areas like how long a GM has to flip a now-healthy goalie off of IR, etc. However, I see the rule as likely having some unintended effects.
It seems to me that setting a max like this is going to further increase the value of the small number of quality volume starters (Shesty, Helly, Sorokin, Vas, and perhaps Markstrom, Demko, Jarry, and Saros). It's going to lessen the value of guys in platoons. In other words, it'll increase the gulf between the haves and have nots.
To make it a bit more concrete, if such a rule was in place now the following guys would be available who are currently rostered: Lindgren, Hill, Montembeault, Anderson, Raanta. So it would increase the G options to stream goalies, or supplement faltering goalies. I just see the negative consequences outweighing the positive.
I expect I'll be putting it to a vote, but before doing so I'm considering making a pitch to keep the status quo based on the reasons in this post.
Am I over-analyzing this? Making a mountain out of a molehill? Missing anything?
Cheers
Yahoo 12-team H2H partial keeper league (keep 7 vets + 3 prospects (p = skater <201 gp; goalie < 101gp))
G,A,P,PIM,+/-,PPP,SOG,FW,hits, blocks, W,GAA,SV%,Saves
Start 3/3/3/5/2
C: Kopitar, P. Suter, Carlsson (p), Lundell (p), Norris
LW: B. Tkachuk, Stutzle (c), Colton (c), Ehlers
RW: Rantanen, Caufield (lw), Svechnikov (lw), Foegele (lw)
D: Dahlin, Andersson, Chychrun, Montour, Sanheim, Matheson, Faber (p)
G: Talbot, Forsberg, Daws (p), Wolf (p, NA)
IR: Fantilli, Sergachev, Jeannot, Ingram
NA: Levi