BREAKING: GG Foulin's Grievance to Protest Season's End Denied

Foulerton's Brook, NJ - It has come to the attention of this blog through various sources that Foul Club Manager GG Foulin' had formally submitted a grievance to protest the end of season to the NFA Commissioner. Apparently, there was some back and forth between the NFA Commissioner, GG Foulin', and Pgastan FC starting late Saturday night that then continued into Sunday Morning with Pgastan FC the last one to agree to the grievance. A formal grievance was submitted to Yahoo! on GG Foulin's behalf by the NFA commissioner at approximately 2:20 PM Eastern Time on Sunday, June 21st.

We have obtained a version of the grievance that we can publish here:

"Given the context of the circumstances involving COVID-19 leading to the postponement and subsequent cancellation of the NBA Regular season and the inconsistencies of the rulings across and within fantasy platforms particularly as it applies to weekly roster changes/weekly scoring. Would it be possible to award our league title as a 2-way tie between Pgastan FC and GG Foulin'? We feel our league does not fall under the one-size fits all solution that Yahoo came up with as we have weekly roster changes but are a points league where points update daily. So we feel the correct decision would be to have 1st (Pgastan FC) and 2nd (GG Foulin') to finish in a tie for first. This should be seen in final standings, archived standings, and trophies in Yahoo Fantasy Profiles for the 2 managers. We don't want any automatic tiebrekers applied either so essentially this year we would have 2 teams in 1st (Pgastan FC and GG Foulin') and 1 team in 3rd (Oww Ming's Flagrants), there would be no 2nd place team this year." 

Yahoo! responded at approximately 1:10 PM Eastern Time on Monday, June 22 with this:

"Unfortunately, all standings have been finalized and cannot be changed. In addition, tiebreakers cannot be disabled...I apologize that I can't be of more assistance. "

It was a pretty generic response which is frankly what the NFA Commissioner was anticipating, my sources tell me.

So the standings that were blogged about last week are final and the winner of the 2019-2020 NFA Season is Pgastan FC. Though this season will always have an asterisk by it because of the abrupt end Pgastan FC is the official winner in the record books. The grievance ultimately had to be filed as it was the right thing to do and uphold the reputation of the NFA and it's commissioner. We have seen things like this in all sports where teams continue to play in protest (where the umpire makes a "P" sign towards the press box, or a soccer team protests a result). This just adds the NFA to the list of leagues where anything can happen. Obviously, this has no bearings on the Donkies as those are player awards. 

If we get any further updates we will post either in this post or a brand new post.

Keep Foulin' Y'all!

FM