Commissioner Announcements

[Robyn - Flames]

Aug 27, 2024 18:58:16 GMT -5 Mitch - Ducks said:

I agree, I think Colin should make picks for Derrick. At least his first 4 picks, then he has one beside Derrick(someone else can pick that one). I don’t think the person picking within one or two picks should be able to make the selection.

Colin can do round 1-3. I'll do round 4 (I pick at #39 and #58, Derricks pick is #47). Colin can do rounds 5+.

This is my vote.

[Daniel - Canucks]

Aug 27, 2024 19:13:12 GMT -5 Colin - Avalanche said:

I just don't think it should be someone who is immediately before or after the auto drafter in question even if it is rankings based. I think its best for league integrity.

I'm a little confused by this sentiment, if it's pre-determined how would it affect the integrity of the league? Wouldn't it just speed the draft along?

I honestly don't mind if someone else picks for him, I was just thinking of a method that would completely remove the human element/differing opinions.

[Nos - Sharks]

^ Awesome story Robyn, he did stuff like that for me all the time, my USA contact! The guy who ran X-Entertainment, now Dinosaur Dracula, puts out these Halloween Fun Packs for USA residents only and he would buy them for me, have them shipped to him and then shipped them to me. Had so much fun with those and some of the original post cards still go up on my fridge during Halloween season every year. He also sent me an absurd amount of Reptar Bars when they were first released and various limited edition cereals in the same manner, USA only, made our family's Christmas that year extra special to hand out legit Reptar Bars!

Who are the two managers Robyn?? Colin & Mitch? 😃 I don't necessarily have a problem with Colin picking for him but I have to say, even when Derrick was picking for another team, I didn't really like it. As honorable as you think you're being there are other factors to consider, even subconsciously. Using an auto-draft O-Rank or highest points system isn't necessarily a bad strategy for a top team anyway, that could wind up being what's best for the team. Unless I'm missing some obvious poor players in a top spot, I'd have to really comb through the list. I think having as little influence as possible for the team might be what he would want because then it's not like somebody else put in work and can lay claim to any success the team would have moving forward, it would still be all on Derrick and what he personally built, he could step right back in without worrying about that.

[Nos - Sharks]

Hey guys, so it appears Daniel - Canucks and I were added as 'Global Moderators' exactly 10 seconds before Midnight (Pacific) last night and to my knowledge the only person who could do this is Derrick! Even though we have a fancy new title we don't appear to have any additional abilities to actually clean up and moderate the forum. I looked into it and adding members to the 'Global Moderators' group doesn't actually give any abilities, the 'Administrator' (Derrick) would have to add abilities to the group. The guy's haunting the forum at this point! Where are you?!? This comes a day before I was going to say that it appears the league on Yahoo did auto-renew as it's set to auto-renew in the settings. I contacted Yahoo Fantasy Hockey support to see if we could add our league's history to a newly created league to keep all the history and record books intact, etc. They said that it wasn't possible but that I could create a poll within our league on Yahoo to transfer/change Commissioner duties and the poll would need over 50% of the vote. I was going to put the poll up shortly but hopefully that's not necessary and Derrick pops up here at some point soon!

[Robyn - Flames]

It's nice to think Derrick is out there, come back ASAP dude! Appreciate the work Nos and Daniel are doing, but further discussion is needed if we are talking about a commissioner change.

[Chris - Capitals]

Yea good to know Derrick is good but now we need him to come back completely

[Nos - Sharks]

I think we've been working well as a collective. I don't necessarily think we need an explicit 'Commissioner' per se (to me that will always be Derrick) we just need all of the work to get done and I'm willing to do it. We would of course follow the rulebook, the NAFHL Constitution, to the letter and if there are problems we can address them together as always. I guess it was somewhat presumptuous of me to think I would take on that role but I thought I have seniority and have been the most active manager aside from Derrick. I also have website/forum experience being Global Moderator and Editor of Bloody-Disgusting back in the day so I know my way around a forum. 😃 My pitch, bottom line though, we are all in this together. I want Derrick back ASAP as well! His team's turning out to be pretty kick ass!

[Colin - Avalanche]

So after some quick research... It is possible that Derrick set up a forum succession plan in the event of not logging in for a select period of time (for example 90 days). At which point, additional power may be granted to the select parties in the agreement.

support.proboards.com/thread/668222/forum-admin-account-succession

[Nos - Sharks]

^ Hmmm, nice Colin, thanks for looking into that. Kind of sucks though, I was relieved to see he was back with activity. Let's wait at least a few days and hope he comes around.

[Daniel - Canucks]

The 2024-2025 Draft Pick Overview thread has been created under the "NAFHL Board Discussion" section.  Please double-check to ensure everything is correct.

[Nos - Sharks]

Hey guys, so we've been given the Global Moderator abilities now, one week after the titles were given to us. I posted up the poll on Yahoo to give Commissioner duties to me so we can keep our league's history and record books on Yahoo together and input this year's rosters. We should try to get this finalized shortly here because I don't know how long the process will take and I want to make sure our rosters are uploaded with plenty of time. When Derrick returns, if he wants Commissioner duties back, he can absolutely have them. It looks like what he wanted, his plan of succession for running the league, was with Daniel - Canucks and I. Hopefully that's cool and as I said, we will follow protocol (The NAFHL Constitution) exactly as it's written and if problems arise we can all discuss them together to come to a resolution. Our intention is to keep things moving as they've always been.

[Chris - Capitals]

Sept 10, 2024 18:00:35 GMT -5 Nos - Sharks said:

Hey guys, so we've been given the Global Moderator abilities now, one week after the titles were given to us. I posted up the poll on Yahoo to give Commissioner duties to me so we can keep our league's history and record books on Yahoo together and input this year's rosters. We should try to get this finalized shortly here because I don't know how long the process will take and I want to make sure our rosters are uploaded with plenty of time. When Derrick returns, if he wants Commissioner duties back, he can absolutely have them. It looks like what he wanted, his plan of succession for running the league, was with Daniel - Canucks and I. Hopefully that's cool and as I said, we will follow protocol (The NAFHL Constitution) exactly as it's written and if problems arise we can all discuss them together to come to a resolution. Our intention is to keep things moving as they've always been.

Crazy to think we're going into this season without Derrick running the storied franchise that is the Senators. Hopefully he'll come back but I don't doubt we're in good hands moving forward if need be.

[Nos - Sharks]

^ Appreciate that Chris! Very weird what's going on, hopefully he's okay. More news though guys, at 11:41 p.m. (Pacific) last night Derrick added me as Assistant Commissioner and it appears I have all of the abilities of a Commissioner now, got that Commissioner section, so we're good on that front. So forget about the poll I put up, I appreciate the votes! Basically my plan is to keep Derrick's account linked to his team and if need be I'll manually set his lineup for the season and if he doesn't show up all year, man, he'll have to be replaced I guess. Or do you guys think that's too disruptive for the season to have a missing manager? We've thought about adding a temporary manager to the team with limitations but then you'd have to remove his account (not even sure if it's possible since he's a Commissioner) from Yahoo, which I don't want to do. Also not sure if he personally added me as Assistant Commissioner or if it can be automated like the 'Global Moderators' titles, haven't looked into that yet. It is kind of weird that the Assistant Commissioner title was given to me the same day I put up the poll to switch Commissioner duties but I don't know why he wouldn't post here if he were around? At least we're set for the upcoming season and don't have to worry about it, we keep our history!

[Robyn - Flames]

Nos, you're welcome to administer the forum and Yahoo and your (and Daniels) efforts are appreciated. I'm not keen on replacing Derrick until next off-season, he's earned the right to come back if he chooses and carry on the tradition he's built. I would suggest we assign his roster setting duties to myself and Colin for this season, and we can switch off when he's our opponent to avoid any perceived conflicts of interest.

I do not want to replace Derrick as commissioner and feel this league is best run as a collective, where all 11 or 12 managers vote on any issues, rule changes, interpretations, etc. I would suggest that if it came down to a league vote, this would be the chosen path.

[Nos - Sharks]

I agree, I think we have to give the full year to him. Only a Commissioner can manually set another team's roster but we can set up a 2024-2025 NHL Season Discussion thread and you guys can give your input on how you think his lineup should be set. It's probably only a question of which goalies to play but there are a couple big days a week where everybody plays but you would think you'd play the guys picked or ranked higher. I guess you could say there are instances where you're trying to improve a certain stat vs. something you have an abundance of too. Like playing a PIM guy if you need PIM vs. an Assists heavy player when they're already locked up. Also, as I've said, we will absolutely follow the NAFHL Constitution to the letter as we've always done, any league issues that go to a poll would require 2/3 majority vote as stated in the rulebook. We want to run things as they've always been with everybody having a say in how things go.

[Nos - Sharks]

The '2024-2025 Unavailable Players' list has been posted! I changed it up from how it was in the past to list the Prospects/Minor Leaguers by team, I consolidated every eligible player be it from players on your Main Roster, Farm Team or Junior Farm Team. I did it this way because I figured everybody uses the 'Find in page...' feature on your browser to search for players within the page and I thought it would be useful to know right away which team has the Prospect/Minor Leaguer you're looking up should you want to start trade negotiations. I always found I had to search the list, then find out who had the player by looking at the previous Keeper Submission thread, then there were trades during the year to consider and the player could be difficult to find or time consuming so I hope this method is useful. If anybody wants the old formatting up I can always put all players together and run them through an alphabetizer and add that list to the bottom of the page.

[Nos - Sharks]

By the way, I also changed the 'Trade End Date' NAFHL Trade Deadline on Yahoo from Wednesday, February 26th, 2025 to Wednesday, March 12th, 2025. The NHL Trade Deadline is Friday, March 7th, 2025. We typically have our trade deadline after the NHL Trade Deadline and this was the only date available to choose (5 dates to choose from total) that was after the NHL Trade Deadline date. Yahoo also shows this deadline date change action was made by Derrick for some reason but it was made by me.

[Nos - Sharks]

All rosters have been uploaded to Yahoo! Please double check your team to make sure everything looks correct. We're set!

2024-2025 NAFHL Roster Notes

Colorado Avalanche: Needs to add Conor Garland.
Detroit Red Wings: Brock Faber (21/84)* was sent down to the Grand Rapid Griffins due to a roster space issue.
New Jersey Devils: Currently has (18/19) Main Roster spots filled to start the season.
Ottawa Senators: Needs to add Casey DeSmith. Needs to cut 3 Prospects/Minor Leaguers from the Belleville Senators and/or the Atlanta Gladiators.
Toronto Maple Leafs: Currently has (18/19) Main Roster spots filled to start the season.
Winnipeg Jets: Currently has (18/19) Main Roster spots filled to start the season.

Open Free Agent signing will begin on Friday, October 4th, 2024 at 10:00 a.m. PST/1:00 p.m. EST, when the Buffalo Sabres and New Jersey Devils are to play the first of two games in Prague, Czech Republic, as a part of the 2024 NHL Global Series. I've also created the 2024-2025 NHL Season Discussion thread, check it out and use it to make a ton of comments throughout the season! 🏒

[Nos - Sharks]

What do you guys think about the cuts to the Senators farm? I see many options for cuts but maybe we go with the Top 3 players with eligibility waning?

Jack McBain (24/159)**
Klim Kostin (25/155)**
Ty Dellandrea (23/151)**

I don't really see these players doing enough in time to be rostered by the big club or valuable enough to trade. Jack McBain could see Top 6 time. A few other options...

Ian Mitchell (25/95)**
Yegor Zamula (24/92)*
Adam Beckman (23/23)*
Corson Ceulemans (21/0)*

Three cuts have to be made. What do you guys think?

[Daniel - Canucks]

Sept 29, 2024 21:14:40 GMT -5 Nos - Sharks said:

What do you guys think about the cuts to the Senators farm? I see many options for cuts but maybe we go with the Top 3 players with eligibility waning?

Jack McBain (24/159)**
Klim Kostin (25/155)**
Ty Dellandrea (23/151)**

I don't really see these players doing enough in time to be rostered by the big club or valuable enough to trade. Jack McBain could see Top 6 time. A few other options...

Ian Mitchell (25/95)**
Yegor Zamula (24/92)*
Adam Beckman (23/23)*
Corson Ceulemans (21/0)*

Three cuts have to be made. What do you guys think?

My vote would be to cut...

Jack McBain (24/159)**
Ian Mitchell (25/95)**
Yegor Zamula (24/92)*

I don't see McBain doing enough to warrant a full time roster spot after his eligibility dries up. The two defensemen also aren't fantasy relevant at this point in their careers.

You could make a case to cut Sasha Chmelevski as I believe he just resigned a 3-year contract in the KHL, but he has much more talent and potential than the others so he can be kept around for a deeper look for now.