We’re happy to announce a new feature for fantasy football leagues that use Injured Reserve. If you go to the “Injured Reserve Setup” page, you’ll see a field there called “In case of an IR violation, prevent owner from submitting lineup?”. It defaults to “No”, which is the way that the site’s always worked – owners can still submit a lineup even if they have an IR violation.
However, if you change that option to “Yes”, that will prevent owners from submitting a lineup if they have an IR violation – for example, a player whose status has been upgraded from Out to Probable may now be in violation of your IR criteria and therefore the owner has to reactivate the player before the owner can submit their lineup.
As always, let us know if you have any questions regarding this new feature, or any other suggestions for improving the site.
Tags: feature, injured reserve
Would also be nice if the system prevented violating teams from making waiver moves too
Great job! Thanks for addressing a major issue so quickly.
This would work better if players out on bye weeks were not in violation of IR rules. MyFL has a bad habit of upgrading bye week players to “Q” – which violates my league’s rules. We have to manually observe that they are on bye and ignore the message. Let me know when this fix is initiated and we will take advantage of this feature. Thanks.
PS – I disagree with Chris – Waivers are often how teams correct IR violations.
My league would prefer a penalty for a IR violation. Often times a team will set a line-up weeks in advance and once it’s in, it’s in. By not allowing a line-up to be set is good, but it is not enough.
I would like an option where I can set a penalty if a team starts Sunday or Thursday (if they have a starter) game later in the year with a IR violation (we abhor a team stashing a 15th or 16th player in our 14 team league) of:
- Loss of “X” amount of points from the total score that week
- Forfeit game
I would also want to eliminate the penalty for a compelling reason…such as the team only has 13 players on the roster and wasn’t cheating. We have one team member who travels to China on Sunday….kind of hard to check Sunday morning.
As the Commish I have to manually check this. Also, I agree with the BYE week comment above.