Week 6 Roundup: Yahoo Donking Hard Edition

So Yahoo has seemed to have dropped the ball again this week when it took away a Josh Jackson DTE and a Dwight Howard techy (both were in the same game). That's 220 points taken away from Pgastan FC. So, my sources tell me that NFA Commissioner filed a grievance on behalf of PFC to Yahoo to protest this mistake. 

 

Now here's where it gets complicated, according to my sources the Commissioner (tried) to submit a claim for these errors to get fixed and it appeared to work but received no confirmation email that it went through. So they sent another one this time copying their text to a word document to have in case they needed to send it again. So when they submitted the contact form they also wrote down the incident number that it was assigned. Bingo! After, another mess up where all the performance fouls from the HOU/DAL game on January 4th were missing, he had saved that text and incident number. Lo and behold it was the same incident number which likely means that Yahoo's help form is not working properly which also explains the lack of a confirmation email. 

Luckily, or sadly, the commish has the Yahoo Sports Help email address from previous missing performance foul issues so he was able to email them directly. I have obtained a copy of the exchange with Yahoo (edited down for space):

Good Morning,

I'm reaching out to you for a few reasons regarding my fantasy basketball league. I had a scoring issue a few weeks ago and tried emailing through the Yahoo Help form and never heard back. Then I just tried doing it again this morning and got the same incident number so thinking that system isn't working. I contacted you back in June and have this email address so going to try reaching out here.

Here are my 2 issues:

1. A lot of stats have disappeared as of this morning that were there last night (January 25th) when they should be there now. This league is only about fouls so it's pretty important. Missing: Josh Jackson (2 technical fouls and 1 ejection). Dwight Howard (1 technical foul). It might just be from the DET/PHI game. Please fix this.

2. Our league scores only on fouls and the technical fouls, 1 flagrant, and 1 ejection from the January 4th game between Houston and Dallas have not been recorded properly. It looks like we're missing the following fouls. Willie Cauley-Stein (1 Technical), DeMarcus Cousins (2 Technical Fouls and 1 Ejection), James Harden (1 Technical), Luka Doncic (1 Technical), James Johnson (1 Flagrant).

I think this can be corrected via stat corrections.

Thanks

 

So after about a day or so, they got back with this:

Hi,

Thank you for contacting Yahoo Sports. I understand you're inquiring about Josh Jackson and Dwight Howard not being credited with any Technical Fouls or an ejection for Jackson.

I've reached out to our engineering team to look into these scoring issues. Unfortunately, for the previously missed stats, they can no longer be added as stat corrections have already been applied for previous weeks and there is no retroactive scoring for fantasy basketball. I apologize for the inconvenience. If you see any issues with foul or ejection stats in the future, please let us know immediately so we can look into it. 

If you have any other questions, comments or concerns, please feel free to reach out to me. Have a good day, and pleasant playing! Thank you for choosing Yahoo Fantasy Sports!

Thanks,

Yahoo Sports Customer Care

 

So after that response and given how stat corrections have appeared in the NFA for the 12 years it's been around, the commish was livid. He wrote this in response:

Hi,

Thanks for the response regarding Dwight Howard and Josh Jackson for this week. As for the previous issue regarding the January 4th game, our league is a points-based season-long format and retroactive points haven't been a problem in the past. This is the 12th year of this league and like 4 or 5 times a season we get "data dumps" of stat corrections such as NBA rescinding technical fouls or adding them that are months old. So it should work for our league as it has in the past.

Let me know if you have any questions regarding that or need any clarification on the issue for our league.

Thanks,

 

The commish has not received any other response form Yahoo nor has the Josh Jackson or Dwight Howard missing performance fouls been added. My sources tell me the commish was so livid that he has considered moving the league to ESPN but he may have cooled off for the time being. The issue regarding the HOU/DAL hasn't been resolved either. 

So after that long intro of Yahoo donking hard, let's get into this weeks post.

 

Stat Corrections:

- There were no stat corrections this week (as you can tell from the lengthy intro)

 

Transactions:

- Pgastan FC added Cole Anthony and dropped Garrett Temple on January 25th

- GG Foulin' dropped Willie Cauley-Stein on January 30th

- Pgastan FC added Jamal Murray on January 30th

- Pgastan FC added Isaiah Stewart on January 30th

- Baltimore Hitsquad added Justin Holiday and dropped Jae Crowder on January 31st

Standings as of February 1st, 2021

 

1. Pgastan FC - 2985 (+475) 

2. Oww Ming's Flagrants - 2695 (+625)  

3. GG Foulin' - 2655 (+450) 

4. F'N FLOPPERS - 2495 (+735)

5. Arlington Assaulters - 2175 (+335)

6. Rodman'sWeddingDress - 2075 (+470)

7. Gamblor - 2045 (+440)

8. Baltimore Hitsquad - 2040 (+405)

9. Ohsnappers!!! - 1345 (+265)

<= 195 points: Horrible week
200-295 points: Poor week
300-395 points: Average week
400-495 Points: Great Week
500-595 Points: Excellent Week
>=600 points: Amazing week

 

We actually had quite a bit of movement in the standings which seems to be rare these days. Lets see what happened! Ohsnappers! stays in last place with a poor week of 265 points. Baltimore Hitsquad had a great week of 405 points but drops from 6th to 8th. Gamblor had a great week of 440 points and goes from tied in 7th to sole possession of 7th. Rodman'sWeddingDress had a great week of 470 points and goes from tied in 7th to 6th place. Arlington Assautlers had an average week of 335 points and falls from 4th to 5th.

F'N FLOPPERS had an amazing week of 735 points and goes from 5th to 4th. GG Foulin' had a great week of 450 points and falls from 2nd to 3rd. Oww Ming's Flagrants had an amazing week of 625 points and moves from 3rd to 2nd. Finally, Pgastan FC had a great week of 475 points and stays in 1st. Though in reality Pgastan FC had an amazing week of 695 points and his total should be 3205.

Points Graph:

  

Tier 5: Ohsnappers!!!

Tier 4: Baltimore Hitsquad, Gamblor, Rodman'sWeddingDress, Arlington Assaulters

Tier 3: F'N FLOPPERS

Tier 2: Oww Ming's Flagrants, GG Foulin'

Tier 1: Pgastan FC

 

Arlington Assaulters drops down to tier 4 while F'N FLOPPERS is now in tier 3 all alone.There could be an argument for F'N FLOPPERS joining tier 2 and there being only 4 tiers in general but let's give it a week. Based on the graph there is a little gap between tier 3 and 2. 

Well that's it for now

Keep Foulin' Y'all!

FM