Abandoned Teams

One of the few unpleasant aspects of fantasy football is the fact that GMs abandon teams. Sometimes people are active until they see no chance at the playoffs, but sometimes they seem to draft teams just for practice and abandon them right away. One of the easiest fixes is to have an entry fee, which, in theory anyway, should insure that the GM stays active to get his money's worth. Sometimes this is not an option. This leads to a dilemma; do you leave those teams with empty roster slots and players who are on IR, or do you make roster changes every week? And yes, for the techies among you, this brings to mind shades of the Prime Directive. One way is just no fun, as in the Back Alley Knife Fight, where every game should count, but those of us facing the dead teams know we have an automatic win. On the flip side I'm in a league where the commissioner makes the roster adjustments and although I don't think he did anything wrong, I did feel a little weird when he adjusted my opponent's roster the week I was playing them in a playoff run. Unfortunately I don't have a fix for this. I just know that a nice handful of GMs are not getting re-invited next year. In one of my leagues, it could be half the owners! And if this should happen again, I think I will err on the side of interference, because watching pathetic line-ups late in the season is too demoralizing.