That's not evidence. Whether the rule exists in the league bylaws should be very straightforward.
The Yahoo rules clearly state it:
- A player can stay on the IL, IR, or NA for the entire season, even if they return to real-life action.
- Players in IL, IR, IR+, or NA don't earn any points, even if they're earning stats in real-life games.
- Once activated in real-life, you can’t complete any transaction that adds a player until you activate the once ‘out’ player on your fantasy team.
So what he's doing is when a player is listed as Out on Sunday night, he has them in IR slots on his roster, and then he's putting in waiver claims while they're listed as Out and in the IR slot. That player's designation then goes back to being Questionable once the games are played for the week, and he should have to remove those players from IR, and move them back to his bench by activating them from IR, or he won't be allowed to add any players to his roster. What happens is, there's a bug where if the waiver claim was made while the player was on IR still, and designated as Out, it still processes the waiver claim, and allows the player to be added, against the rules of Yahoo's IR/roster management rules.
I tested it this week with Greg Olsen, to purposely see whether this is a cheat than can be exploited for personal gain. He was in my IR spot. I made a waiver claim on Sunday after the games were played, and he was still on IR. It allowed the waiver claim to be processed without any issues, and would have added my player once waivers opened up on Wednesday morning. Because Olsen was still listed with an "Out" designation and in my IR slot.
I then cancelled that waiver claim yesterday, after Olsen was moved back to Questionable designation. I then put in a new waiver claim, and I was denied, stating I had to remove Olsen from IR as he was no longer eligible. I had to remove Olsen from IR, drop a player to do so(which I did drop the New York Jets defense) as can be seen in our league transaction log, then create the waiver claim, which wasn't able to process prior, because I was over the max roster size limit. Only once I dropped a player, and moved Olsen off IR, was I able to put in a claim.
So, essentially, if you put all your waiver claims in on Sunday night while players are still designated as "Out" and in your IR slots, you could add as many players to your roster as you had on IR, and go over the max roster size, thus gaining an advantage in that you have more players to choose from to start on your active roster, and you're also preventing other users from adding those players, as they can then be dropped, and have to sit on waivers for two days before they become free agents again(or you have to use your waiver spot to claim them when you shouldn't have had to).
@AmericanDream caught him doing this in two separate instances this season, and called him out on the second time, just a couple weeks ago. That conversation can be read a couple pages back in this thread. He never denied using said bug to gain an advantage. He simply said "I dropped a couple players in the spirit of sportsmanship".
This is not the way the system was intended to work. This is not the way you play fantasy sports, by exploiting a bug to gain an advantage over the other players. Particularly when real money is involved.
I'm not calling him a thief. I'm saying he's cheating the system to gain a competitive advantage over everyone else in the league. There is still a lot of luck and chance in fantasy sports, so it's not going to guarantee him wins, but it definitely gives him an advantage over other people who are either A. Playing by the rules, or B. Unaware of the existence of the bug. I also announced that this was a bug in this very thread last week, and requested people not use it. It's 100% not in the spirit of a friendly league, involving a bunch of people who have known and talked to each other for over a decade.
