2014 SOI Keeper Fantasy Football League

[Kid]

 

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I get the idea, as liner said, that this falls under the category that you'd hope people would follow a "don't be a douche" standard, but I would just note that if PcB is grandfathered, then we are encouraging anybody who identifies a loophole to exploit it.  Whoever spots a loophole gets to use it and then nobody else does.  I think it's a better standard to say that, at least if a loophole can be closed in such a way that it doesn't hurt anybody any more than putting them in the same shoes they'd have been in if the loophole hadn't existed in the first place, nobody should be able to take advantage of a loophole

Didn't the Cubs exploit the IFA loophole, MLB saw that and patched it the next year, allowing the Cubs to do what they had already done?
 


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What's that got to do with the price of tea in China?  The question currently pending is whether, in this fantasy football league, people who identify a loophole should be allowed to exploit it or, if the loophole can be patched without otherwise hurting anybody, whether we should have a policy to not allow people to exploit loopholes.

 

The sensible position is that it's impossible to create rules that will address every conceivable situation.  That's how loopholes are created in the first place.  It makes no sense to patch a loophole while allowing one person to exploit it (provided that they are in no worse a position than if the loophole hadn't existed in the first place).