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Decisions of Note: SportsJudge.com Court of Fantasy Sports (Sept. 1 - 8)

2007-09-11 11:36:04 | By: Sports Judge Blog

Week One of the NFL season (not to mention week 21 of the baseball season) brought an interesting docket of cases to SportsJudge.com. As I will do each Monday, here are a few of our highlights:

(1) In the case Stampeding Walruses v. Enter Sandman, Index No. 542, the Court of Fantasy Baseball ruled that based on league precedent, an accidentally dropped player should be awarded back to his original owner. This opinion resolved a dispute in a Maryland-based league. It was reported about by Liz Farmer in the the legal section of Sept. 10th Maryland Daily Record.

(2) In the case Dr. A. Rhim v. Westminster Football League, Index No. 735, the Court of Fantasy Football ruled that where a Yahoo! search engine unexpectedly crashed in the middle of a draft, the league commissioner must re-input the names of the players selected prior to the crash, and that the commissioner may not require an absolute re-draft. This opinion resolved a dispute in a Georgia-based league composed of friends from the Westminster Class of '95.

(3) In the case E. Fenster v. Pick-ems Pool, Index No. 761, the Court of Fantasy Football ruled that where a Pick-ems competition requires that "all picks for an entire week must be submitted before the start of the first game of that week -- no exceptions," no exceptions may be made for an owner that submitted her weekly picks after the Thursday night game had begun. This opinion resolved a dispute in a New York-based work contest.

(4) In the case P.Perotti v. Team One and Team Two, Index No. 686(T), the Court of Fantasy Football upheld a six-to-four trade that featured T.J. Houshmandzadeh moving from Team One to Team Two. This opinion was based on a dispute in a California football league.

(5) In the case P. Ochoa v. Football League, Index No. 604(T), the Court of Fantasy Football upheld the trade of Matt Hasselbeck and Thomas Jones for Donovan McNabb and Vincent Jackson. This opinion was also based on a dispute in a California football league.

Full copies of certain of these decisions are available with purchase of the SportsJudge newsletter, available at _www.SportsJudge.com

Comments

Jason in Michigan commented,
In regards to Case 5: All trades in fantasy sports should be legal. The only time where a league commisioner should be able to veto are obvious cases of player dumping. If you are clearly giving away players with no hope of improving your own situation, then the trade should get the veto. Otherwise, it should be wide open. Leagues get into trouble when they get this misguided notion that it's everybody's business when two owners decide to make a trade. If you are weak at RB but strong at QB... it should be nobody else's business that you decided to ship out Mark Bulger for Cedric Benson or whatever. A player's value is only relevant to the teams involved in the deal. They should be free to do with their players as they please as long as they aren't conspiring to boost one side via the clear detriment of the other side. (Sorry for the rant, it's just as a longtime fantasy football commisioner, it always amazes me how much controversy trades cause when they really shouldn't)
September 15, 2007 2:01 a.m.

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