Here's the scenario: I am currently winning my matchup by about 4 points, my opponent has no players in tonight's game but I have Le'Veon Bell. Now, odds are, Le'Veon Bell will put up at least 10-15 points, maybe more, but my worry is that he could lose yards, fumble the ball and go out with an injury or generally just lose me points and cost me the matchup. The ethical question: is it wrong for me to sit Le'Veon Bell tonight and just win on the basis of already having earned enough points? Or am I just overthinking/worry about it when it's pretty much guaranteed he's going to put up points and I should rack up as many points as possible?
Honestly there is no realistic scenario where he's a -4...he'd have to get what two fumbles and 0 yards? Or one fumble and -20 yards? Besides season point total might be a tiebreaker.
yeah it's not an ethical question its a dumb question. There's zero chance he'd finish -4. The OP should play him and win by as much as possible since points are often tiebreakers and it's dumb to think a RB, especially one of Bell's caliber, would actually finish with -4 points. Don't be a vag and play the guy.
I have a different ethical question. I'm down by 12 points and I have DeAndre Hopkins tonite but my opponent is done for the week, has no one. Should I start Hopkins? Or sit him? It feels unethical, or maybe just a little unfair because my opponent has no way to offset Hopkins. It's like I'm taking advantage of him. A little help here, it's eating me up. _
You should try to sit Bell now just so he doesn't get tackled for 120 yards in losses or fumble 20 times. _
Another reason nobody brought up is that stat corrections happen, and if you hypothetically benched bell, he could have 1 or 2 guys get corrections which put him ahead of you. On that note, i play in a high points,big roster league, and i am outscoring 2nd place in points 2800 to 2250 right now. Well i lost this week 349 350.
Glad I played him, got me 20 points or so. This scenario in particular, with Bell, was maybe a bad example since he was pretty likely to get points but sometimes I generally wonder if it's ethical or not to sit a guy because you're worried about negative points. Maybe say a defence instead. Like someone said it's strategy, like taking a knee at the end of the game, so maybe it's not that big of a deal. I just feel like it lacks sportsmanship to sit a guy for the sole purpose of winning the matchup or if they check it out later and see you didn't even bother playing someone it's like rubbing salt in the wound.
Yeah Bell killed it last night good thing you didn't listen to me lol. I have no problem sitting a player down if I don't have confidence the player would get the job done. I lost a matchup once because I didn't bench a player, the feeling sucks!
Are you playing tee ball or Fantasy Football? I thought the sole purpose WAS about winning? Better yet _
I'm kind of a "lose with honour over win without" kind of guy. It's just FF and there's no money on the line so it's not some lift altering paradigm or anything.
I don't think you could do it even if you chose to. To bench a player, even D, you need available bench spot. Since everyone else already played, they all are locked. So your real choice is between playing a player and dropping him off the roster completely.
