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In response to
"Yeah, Spawn doesn't understand what he is proposing. -- nm"
by
David
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What it does, is this. Without the disasters of last year.
Posted by
Spawn
Aug 5 '13, 08:59
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IR Spot
« on: August 31, 2012, 12:22:43 pm »
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I want to clarify how this works before the season begins.
Let's say that -- and I'm going to use an old example to avoid jinxing anyone -- Barry Sanders is the anchor of your team. One day, while breaking the sound barrier during a training session, Sanders slips on a banana peel and winds up falling on his arm. The bones are broken and Barry Sanders is no longer a player who will help your fantasy football team this year.
Since BF is a keeper league, you obviously do not want to cut Barry Sanders. You do need that roster spot for 2012, though. What you would do is come here and announce your intention to place Sanders in the IR slot for your team.
Continuing the theoretical, let's say that you have terrible luck and your starting QB, Bart Starr, also gets injured. This probably happens because you foolishly counted on a 78-year-old man to stay healthy at QB all season (hi Redmond!). Even worse, you need Starr to anchor your team again next year. And you value the QB position more than RB. Questionable decision making aside, you have two injured stars but only one IR slot.
This leads us to the second aspect of the IR slot. You are not hard defining the position for the entire season. If you have a player get hurt and you place him on IR, you can bring him back if he heals. In the scenario above, Sanders' arm recovers and since his glorious legs were unharmed, he immediately becomes a valuable contributor to your team once again. When you take him off of IR, you can put Bart Starr in this slot instead.
You have the ability to protect your most valuable injured asset in this manner.
This is key because you may have a good player injured in week three. At that point, you choose to put him on IR and replace him with another player. The process would be to cut him on Yahoo and announce your intention to keep his rights here. No other player may pick him up at that point. If your best player is later injured, you are not stuck with the lesser player holding down your IR spot. Instead, you pull him off of IR and give that slot to the superior injured player.
Here is a recent example. Danny Amendola broke his arm on opening day last year. He is the #1 receiver for the Rams but not a fantasy superstar. An owner who believed in his potential would have placed him on IR to secure his rights while securing another player during Amendola's recuperation. A few weeks later, Fred Jackson broke his leg during what had been an MVP-caliber season up until that point.
Obviously, an owner of both players would value Jackson more. Rather than being stuck due to the previous usage of the IR slot, said GM could pull Amendola back and protect the rights of Jackson instead. In the process, they would effectively cut Amendola. In this manner, a GM always has the ability to maintain ownership of their best player.
If you have any questions about the process, please let me know.
Edit: Also, this rule is intended solely to protect current players claimed. You cannot add a player specifically to stash them on IR. A player must either be drafted, attained in trade or held on a roster for at least a month to qualify for IR. Please respect the intent of the rule rather than trying to manipulate it for unfair benefit.
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