I am sick of all the cheating that goes on here. In one of my leagues, an obviously lopsided trade came up for review. I did some investigating, and found that the owners in question were in multiple leagues together and there were other trades where collusion was obvious. I tried to get the trade vetoed, but fell 1 vote short. I reported the owners in question of cheating, but nothing was ever done. This particular cheater is terrible, so he is in last place despite his cheating, so whatever I guess.
Now, in another of my leagues, I have found more very wide spread cheating. The trade in this league fleaflicker.com is Tom Brady, Steven Jackson, and Chad Ochocinco for Steelers D, Greg Jennings, and Jay Cutler. Seemed pretty fishy to me, so I did a little investigating. jrap9, owner of one of the teams in question, is in 30 leagues total. rjasper1028, the other owner in question, is in 11 of those leagues. I also found that the nickname MIT is an owner in 10 of his leagues. There are even a couple of leagues with all 3 of them.
There have been very fishy trades involving these 3 owners in multiple leagues that they have in common. The pattern seems to be when one of the teams is losing, it dumps its good players to the team that is winning. Some of the most ridiculous trades I found were Clinton Portis, Marques Colston, and Dwayne Bowe traded for Deion Branch, Miles Austin, and Brandon Jacobs... Andre Johnson and Kellen Winslow traded for 49'ers Defense and Cadillac Williams... Drew Brees and Larry Fitzgerald for Aaron Rodgers and Roddy White (this was done in the preseason, when Brees was #1 QB and Fitz was #1WR)...
He tries to structure the trades so that it isn't 100% obvious that it is collusion, so as to not raise suspicion, but there is always one team that is obviously getting a great deal. These same owners tried to put through a trade a little over a week ago of Steven Jackson and Larry Johnson for Darren Sproles and Jerome Harrison (after Jamal Lewis came back to reclaim the starting job).
This is an obvious case of someone using multiple screen names to cheat. I am sure these aren't the only names he is using. There are multiple names I suspect of being involved, but the only ones I am pretty sure of are ck142299, and eleroy.
Is there anything that can be done to stop these scumbags? I have tried calling it out to the league to try and get the trades vetoed, and I have tried reporting the owners for cheating, but as of yet this has yielded no results. Is there anything else we can do? Isn't there something you guys can do to stop this, like a system that would detect if an owner is in a large number of leagues with another owner so something could be done about them. I realize it would be impossible to stop them all, but when a guy is in 11 leagues with someone, and 10 leagues with someone else, and has multiple lopsided trades with those owners, it seems rather obvious that cheating is going on.
I guess getting rid of the cheaters is not a priority. I posted this over a week ago, reported the players in question for cheating, and emailed the information as requested. I have received no response, and while he dropped out of my league after I called him out, he is still cheating in many other leagues.
I also notice a couple of other posts on cheating in the past week that either received the same form anwser, or were ignored entirely. These cheaters really suck all the fun out of fantasy football, and I hope more of an emphasis is put on getting rid of them.
bretherringWed 10/21/09 3:46 PM
I am sick of all the cheating that goes on here. In one of my leagues, an obviously lopsided trade came up for review. I did some investigating, and found that the owners in question were in multiple leagues together and there were other trades where collusion was obvious. I tried to get the trade vetoed, but fell 1 vote short. I reported the owners in question of cheating, but nothing was ever done. This particular cheater is terrible, so he is in last place despite his cheating, so whatever I guess.
Now, in another of my leagues, I have found more very wide spread cheating. The trade in this league fleaflicker.com is Tom Brady, Steven Jackson, and Chad Ochocinco for Steelers D, Greg Jennings, and Jay Cutler. Seemed pretty fishy to me, so I did a little investigating. jrap9, owner of one of the teams in question, is in 30 leagues total. rjasper1028, the other owner in question, is in 11 of those leagues. I also found that the nickname MIT is an owner in 10 of his leagues. There are even a couple of leagues with all 3 of them.
There have been very fishy trades involving these 3 owners in multiple leagues that they have in common. The pattern seems to be when one of the teams is losing, it dumps its good players to the team that is winning. Some of the most ridiculous trades I found were Clinton Portis, Marques Colston, and Dwayne Bowe traded for Deion Branch, Miles Austin, and Brandon Jacobs... Andre Johnson and Kellen Winslow traded for 49'ers Defense and Cadillac Williams... Drew Brees and Larry Fitzgerald for Aaron Rodgers and Roddy White (this was done in the preseason, when Brees was #1 QB and Fitz was #1WR)...
He tries to structure the trades so that it isn't 100% obvious that it is collusion, so as to not raise suspicion, but there is always one team that is obviously getting a great deal. These same owners tried to put through a trade a little over a week ago of Steven Jackson and Larry Johnson for Darren Sproles and Jerome Harrison (after Jamal Lewis came back to reclaim the starting job).
This is an obvious case of someone using multiple screen names to cheat. I am sure these aren't the only names he is using. There are multiple names I suspect of being involved, but the only ones I am pretty sure of are ck142299, and eleroy.
Is there anything that can be done to stop these scumbags? I have tried calling it out to the league to try and get the trades vetoed, and I have tried reporting the owners for cheating, but as of yet this has yielded no results. Is there anything else we can do? Isn't there something you guys can do to stop this, like a system that would detect if an owner is in a large number of leagues with another owner so something could be done about them. I realize it would be impossible to stop them all, but when a guy is in 11 leagues with someone, and 10 leagues with someone else, and has multiple lopsided trades with those owners, it seems rather obvious that cheating is going on.
bretherringThu 10/29/09 7:27 PM
I guess getting rid of the cheaters is not a priority. I posted this over a week ago, reported the players in question for cheating, and emailed the information as requested. I have received no response, and while he dropped out of my league after I called him out, he is still cheating in many other leagues.
I also notice a couple of other posts on cheating in the past week that either received the same form anwser, or were ignored entirely. These cheaters really suck all the fun out of fantasy football, and I hope more of an emphasis is put on getting rid of them.