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In my long-standing league, called Mash Tun after shipping used in the first level of brewing, we have a formula to plan the future of the season and make the desired rule changes. Since our members live across the country, we meet online on the summer on a occasion we call the Summit. Imagine 3 hours of giant football nerds drinking craft beer and joking with each other, interspersed with very serious debates about the main points of regulations that would possibly look like litigation in a courtroom.
This year, our Summit provided a perfect forum to discuss contingency plans in case the season is delayed, shortened or canceled. If you have a long-standing league, check how they combine across online organization chat teams like Google Meet or Zoom. I use Doodle’s loose surveys to find an hour that suits everyone. Putting everyone in one position at a time will be the ultimate and effective way for everyone to agree with the contingency plans you can propose.
Google Meet and Zoom offer undeniable tactics to combine while keeping your distance.
Even if you only use email, be sure to tap your league if you are the league’s leading commissioner or organizer. If you’re not the Commissioner, check it out for success and get things done yourself. The organization may have an incredible idea of the plans for everything that happens with the NFL season, but if all members of your league don’t know those plans, they can be unfair when you start playing and have to make sudden changes.
I’m the commissioner of Mash Tun, but the summit meant I didn’t have to work out each and every contingency plan myself. Democratize the procedure and place it less difficult to think of all prospective variables.
Given the uncertainty surrounding the season and the many tactics it can change, you may be tempted to raise your hands and adapt to the gait when something changes. While it’s hard to know the details, integrating your league with any kind of plan will be much fairer for everyone in the long run, especially if you play in a competitive league with money at stake. Here are some plan tips on each circumstance and what we should do in the Mash Tun.
If there is a delay, postpone your smart draft if you have not yet withheld it. Try to schedule your draft as a delay as possible to reduce the threat of delays between the draft and the start of the season. NFL players can get a COVID or make a decision for a time not to play this year. League owners will have a better time if everyone can fish with the same facts about who is actually betting this season.
The Mash Tun will be written on Labor Day weekend, just a few days before the season begins the following Thursday. Unfortunately, we will write remotely through some other online meeting. Normally, we all move on to a rotating list of cities to get drafts and percentage of craft beers in person, but not this year because of all the additional risks. I’m disappointed, but we agree to set aside the money we would have spent this season to further improve next year’s draft.
We bring a lot of beer on the weekends to the pressure. Last year’s biggest loser had to drink generics.
If you have already written or if a delay is announced after your draft, you can leave the draft on hold and leave the waiver thread open so that owners can continuously adjust your list to verify and track the changes. That’s what we’re going to do at the Mash Tun if there’s a delay after our draft. You can also redo the draft or completely freeze your league until it reopens. Again, discuss this plan with your league members in advance.
In the case of a shortened season, Mash Tun follows the example of the NBA and nhl and jumps straight into a tournament. All 10 groups will be able to play instead of our same four-team playoffs. Tournament seeds will be random if the short season is announced before we have played matches. It will be classified in the existing ranking order if shortened mid-season.
In the case of a canceled season, the biggest challenge is what to do with any amount of buy-in and what to do with inherited pieces, such as players you can stay in year after year. If NFL season is canceled, we’ll simply donate our boat to a charity.
It will probably be tricky for our team first position at that time, however, that’s what we agreed in advance and the top team will be able to do it. You can also return the cash to the owners or distribute a percentage of rewards depending on the length of the season before it is canceled. The most important thing is for members of your league to agree on what to do with the purchase cash before the start of the season.
As far as the guards are concerned, we’re making it less difficult to call this year anyway for a year of restart. We haven’t had a new draft for a while when all the owners came on an equal footing; some have the merit of wonderful goalkeepers. In our league, if you have a player who has performed a season very well, you can also hold that player for the next season, so that he doesn’t return to the feature group we decided on draft day. Rebooting gives us the ability to update the league and start over.
Other features come with players remaining on the 2019 lists on the occasion of a 2020 cancellation: a total freeze of all assets for the year. Most goalkeepers have a fee, so you may want to separate your third pick in a draft to reserve your player. Year after year, depending on the parameters of your fantasy league, this position can accumulate from your third choice to your second, so it costs more to stay as a player for longer. If this is the case, you will also need to know if this price will be frozen on the occasion of a 2020 cancellation or a general progression.
At Mash Tun, we also uploaded five injured reserve spaces to our rosters. These allow you to distinguish injured players so you can find a healthy loose agent as a replacement without exceeding the maximum number of players you can have.
Mash Tun League members will only be able to place players on those slot machines if they have a COVID; the game we play in doesn’t apply it, but we’ve all agreed to abide by this rule to give us more flexibility. If league members have more than five players assigned to COVID (as of July 28, 21 have already tested positive), they will be allowed to abandon those players knowing that no one else can recover them.
I haven’t won the Mash Tun Championship since 2017. I hope I have the chance to replace him this year. We call our trophy Stein.
Not all leagues have this point of acceptance among members, once again, the answers with greater understanding and flexibility are imaginable as long as you talk about all its characteristics and all members of your league adhere.
Maybe the NFL season will go a long time and all that preparation will be useless. That would be wonderful. If something goes wrong, Mash Tun will be able to give all its members the ability to have compatibility and maintain the right game. Yes, all the time we make when making plans can be a waste of time, but in any league you’re interested in, it’s better to have plans and not use them than to want them and not to have them.