Problems With Inactive Fantasy Football Owners

One of my biggest issues with fantasy football is when you have members in your league who do not pay attention or care about their team. Whether it is because they drafted a bad team and basically gave up on the season or they lose interest, it can harm the rest of the league. When you sign up to play fantasy football, especially in dynasty formats, you are making a commitment to the other league members to actively participate. We have all had those leagues that end up falling apart because a member gives up and then more start to follow because the league gets less interesting. Having a team inactive during the season will shake everything up because some teams may get lucky and play that team when multiple players are on bye weeks and then it pretty much turns into a free win. If a member isn’t paying attention, it’s basically like you don’t get the full experience. Maybe you want to trade for someone from that team, but they aren’t interested or willing to talk about trades so those players are basically locked all season. This will especially screw up dynasty leagues because if you have an owner who gives up, the team most likely will not improve, which makes it much harder to find another member willing to take over a dynasty team that is not very good. Then that new member has to trying to dig the team out of the hole it was left in which we all know is no easy task.