[quote=&quot;Gilgamesh&quot;]Maybe instead of issuing out forfeit win/losses, why not let them play later?&nbsp; I know that is also going against the scheduling rules set up, but I&#039;d prefer to see games get played (reschedule later on if needed) than I would see all these forfeits.&nbsp; I doubt this would be too much of an issue next season since it&#039;s the winter and people will be stuck at home mostly.&nbsp; With the season starting after New Years and ending before most Spring breaks, I doubt there will be too many, if any, problems with forfeits.[/quote]<br /><br />The dilemma with this is that forfeits are in place to encourage games to get played or suffer the consequences - it basically instills a sense of urgency to get the games done on time on a week-by-week basis. People would totally take advantage of this if they could. What&#039;s stopping people from no-showing and saying &quot;hey I couldn&#039;t make it, can we do this at the end of the season?&quot; Who knows why they couldn&#039;t make it but if you agree to a time, especially as a captain (this includes the players as well), then there&#039;s no excuse for not showing. You knew about it, you scheduled it (or gave your availabilities as a player) and you didn&#039;t show. Shame on you. Plus, it would be hard to stay on a strict schedule as the IDL consistently does up until the post-season where generally, they&#039;ll give teams a weeks worth of flirting around with to ensure the game is played at it&#039;s highest potential. It sounds great and we all would love to see games get played but rules are rules and there should be consequences for them. If you flat out just don&#039;t schedule it because you&#039;re going to be out of town for a week, that&#039;s different. But hey, that&#039;s what your 4th is for.<br /><br /><br />[quote=&quot;Gilgamesh&quot;]Just throwing out an idea, but teams(captains) should really be responsible for their actions and avoid forfeits as much as possible.&nbsp; If this means a captain trades away a player (good or bad) for frequent scheduling problems and causing a forfeit, then so be it.&nbsp; If the captain is making an effort to get these people to show up to practice/play and the player doesn&#039;t seem to care, that player could just be ejected from the league.[/quote]<br /><br />I totally agree with this. After having my own issues with DR_Noob and getting him to show up for games [b]he agreed to show up to[/b], I became very frustrated. It was the end of the season and I was already out of playoff contention. But I take pride in never having taken part in a forfeit as a captain because I believe there&#039;s no excuse why you couldn&#039;t spend&nbsp; ,at the very most, 30 minutes once a week to get a game done. But that&#039;s besides the point. I probably could have gone to the board and they would have allowed me to cut him and get someone out of the FA market but Mando showed up and gave me some quality minutes. But had this been prior to the deadline, anybody could have just picked him up off of FA if I wasn&#039;t happy with him and his inability to show for games. This gives the drafted players more leverage than the captain themselves. If they&#039;re not happy, they simply won&#039;t show and can persuade the captain to trade them or simply cut them and probably get picked up by a team who is simply a piece away from being good. It&#039;s an awful situation to be in as a captain because you have no control. Call me vindictive but if you&#039;re going to screw me, I intend to screw you, too. So that&#039;s why I propose that we give the captains the ability to deactivate a player where they can&#039;t join another team but the captain can still replace that roster spot. As I said in a previous post, this would be handled with Bones on a case-by-case basis. I&#039;ll lay it out a bit better here:<br /><br />[i]If a player on a team shows no willingness to show for games despite the captains greatest efforts to get his availabilities, the captain has the right to put a request to the Board and The Commissioner to place the player on season-ending deactivation. This list means the player cannot be traded, picked up from Free Agency or given the opportunity to play for any other team for the entire duration of that season. The player would be free to sign-up for next years draft but he won&#039;t automatically be placed on the Invite List released every season.[/i]<br /><br />What are the qualifications for a captain to reasonably request Season-Ending Deactivated (SED)?<br /><br />[i]*Chronic Absence <br />*Player submits availabilities to Captain but still no-shows or is chronically late to games.<br />*At least one occurrence of tardiness or failure to show is suggested for a request to be submitted but isn&#039;t necessary for request to be made.<br />*Captain suspects player of cheating and doesn&#039;t want to risk having more games (possible victories) revoked for games said player played in. This is tricky but if the speculation is there and the Board and Commissioner agree on it, the request can be made and accepted/declined based on the severity of the speculation prior to the final verdict on whether or not said player was cheating.<br />*Player is completely disruptive. Doesn&#039;t show for practice, constantly under-minds captain&#039;s authority, etc. This, as anything else, requires some proof along with it such as logs/demos. [/i]<br /><br />As I didn&#039;t mention though, I think there are other reasons to as why a captain should want to use this. I have searched the rulebook and haven&#039;t found anything that realistically resembles something along these lines. Basically, as I&#039;ve stated, I think it&#039;s reasonable and gives the captain a lesser chance of being screwed by a problem-child where that said problem-child basically walks and gets what he wants while ruining the other captain&#039;s season. In a nutshell, you screw me, I screw you. :)<br /><br />Also, before anyone brings up the EBL/DMR trade for Nero/Myself, I would just like to point out that at no point did I disrespect Goatface, not show for practice, not show up for games or be totally disruptive. I even told him if he didn&#039;t trade me I&#039;d still finish out the season with him. The trade was a mere request and he was kind enough to grant it. I am only stating this to prevent the people who just want to argue for the sake of arguing!<br /> <br /> <br />