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After the person who won our 12-team league the past two years got eliminated just before this year’s playoffs, he dropped five of his top players, including Derrick Henry, making them free agents available to anyone based on waiver order. Our commissioner was disappointed that he did this, but said he was powerless to prevent it because we have no specific rule spelled out prohibiting this particular scenario. Do you agree? Can a commissioner only enforce rules that have been spelled out in detail in advance, or does his responsibility to protect the fairness and integrity of the league allow him to use his judgment to act on unanticipated events, and if so, should he have allowed this?

I completely agree that mental health comes first and that he should do what’s best for his health. But if he’s going to “step away from football,” at least put him on IR so FF owners (I have him on two teams) aren’t screwed.

This is why I was reluctant to even bother with fantasy football this year. It was only a matter of time. It's gonna cascade.

Prediction fail. He got me 18.7 pts Sunday. Yahoo: David Montgomery rushed 16 times for 82 yards and caught all three of his targets for 45 yards and one touchdown in the Bears' Week 2 win over the Giants... Montgomery led the team in both rushing and receiving as the centerpiece of the offense...

Fortunately my backup is Garoppolo, who was pretty good yesterday.

I gotta sit two of these guys this week. Jamaal Williams @Cle Jimmy Graham @Jax Marqise Lee vs. Sea Jack Doyle @Buf Josh Gordon vs. GB I’m leaning toward sitting Williams (only because he’ll be splitting carries with Aaron Jones). Graham has been scoring nearly every week but he’s facing the tough Jags defense. Lee is the Jags’ top receiver and the Seahawks are weak against the pass. Doyle leads the Colts in targets, and he’s facing a team that givs up lots of yards to TEs. I kept Gordon on the bench last week but he’s looking good, and the Packers give up third-most points to WRs. A case could be made for any of these guys. Which two would you sit?

My bad; should have said it's non-PPR.

I have both. It's looking more like Martin will play, but the pundits seem to be split on which to roll with. What do you guys think? I have to play one of them.

Colossal fail to begin the season. ESPN should work for SpaceX.

According to multiple reports, he's not playing Sun.

I have to add my ditto here. I complained about Mathews in a post here in late Sept. -- the writing was already on the wall. I wouldn't draft him again unless at least one other owner proved he thought he was worth a pick by drafting him. (Whoops -- that means he'll be gone.)

How's that prediction working out for you? I repeat: never again will I draft Ryan Mathews.

Memo to self: never again be suckered by FFToday's habitual overvaluing of Ryan Matthews. I followed the Draft Buddy's advice and took him in both of my leagues and am screwed for it.

That worked -- thanks.

Hi -- I have the Excel 2010 version of CC/DB. Last year I had the Excel 2003 version. In order to import my old league settings, is there anything else I need to do besides change the entry for the old filename to end in .xls rather than .xlsm? I tried, that, but I'm getting errors. Or do I need to keep using the .xls version in order to import league settings from my old CC?

I've run into another problem. When I open last year's CC (Excel 2003 format) into Excel 2010 and select a different league profile, "#N/A" appears in red in the four cells to the right of "League profile name," and when I try to copy the league settings into the current CC/DB, it fails with "Run-time error '13': Type mismatch." I've double checked the filename and know it's correct. So I've only been able to copy over the settings for 1 of my 3 leagues.

Thanks, Mike. When I click on Copy League Settings with both worksheets open, Compatibility Checker pops up and complains about a bunch of things, but I think the complaints are on behalf of the older worksheet. If I ignore its protestations and click Continue, the rules & scoring copy successfully. I see the note that says CC/DB will only copy the active league settings from the 2010 Compiler. I guess that's why you give the tip to keep a separate CC/DB file for each league. I'm in multiple leagues, and in past years, I've been able to copy their settings in a single step and administer all leagues from a single CC worksheet. The new method will be a little less convenient, since it requires maintaining multiple worksheets and updating their projections separately (if I'm understanding it right).

I dropped him a few days ago for Torain.

I too would like some input on this. I'm ready to drop Addai for him.

A case can be made for starting him, but "with confidence?" Not if you've been paying attention this season. I dropped him for Manningham.

Whoops, my bad -- I see now where Lastname, Firstname is selected. That will cover my needs -- thanks, Mike.

Mike, I've got a similar issue -- I want to import some projections for which the players are in the LastName, FirstName format (e.g., Johnson, Chris). Is there a formula that could be substituted for the one you describe above that would do this conversion?

I'm sitting him; don't wanna take a chance. Fortunately, I have Andre Johnson, Donald Driver & Sidney Rice going in his place.

Hi Mike. No, the formula is in Projection Pal. I’m referring to the ReAvg column in WR Clean and TE Clean. It’s computed as ReYd divided by Target. So that’s a formula error, then? In which case I can easily fix it.

I'm loving Projection Pal. It's a little work, but still saves a lot of work in getting other projections in. I noticed that PP computes the reception average for WRs & TEs as reception yards divided by Target. Since many sites don't show Target in their projections, this ends up a blank column. Is this missing data a serious handicap to using other sites' projections? What would be the advisability of substituting yards divided by receptions here, which isn't the same but is close?