It seems that there have been a lot of problems with people not realizing that by pressing the "Start" button you are essential saying that you are satisfied with your team and you are ready to beginning the season....even if the season hasn't technically started yet.

The question you have to ask yourself is, who would finalize there roster before the season starts if they didn't have to? For many of us, we operated as if we had the freedom to pick and choose players at our will, even if we unknowingly pressed the start button. This leads to fantasy owners not being about to complete there full rosters because they only had 3 trades and 5 roster spots to fill. There were also owners who made changes to there rosters, not knowing that they were using trades that they planned on stockpiling during the season.

Unfortunately, that leaves you, the system administrators, with issues that you have to clean up later and fantasy owners with the panic that we're going to be at some disadvantage in our league competitions.

Couldn't you just use the established start time of the first tip off game, like you do every day, to officially finalize everyone's roster? Once that time has passed, you can no longer make any changes to your roster with out using a trade. If your roster is not complete then the fantasy owners have a clear understanding of what they did wrong.

If a player does not press start once the season officially begins, are their teams subsequent, removed after some sort of grace period? Playing devils advocate, I guess making us go through a finalization process eliminates those who are not really paying attention, thusly, I would assume, making more available space for the rest of us and whatever benefits come along with that (I'm not a tech guy so forgive me if that's totally off base).

All I'm saying is that even if there is some benefit to the infamous Start button, is it worth the confusion....maybe it is from your prospective (Again, I'm not a tech guy)

Hi Malachi,

I personally do not think that the customer is always right. According to my own estimations, customer would be right about 99% of the time. This is probably one of them.

Though the Start button was put there for good reason (sorry but I would rather not be boring explaining it), clearly it is being confusing for users. And that is reason enough to remove it, though that will mean I will have to be awake to start all the rosters manually (it will be quite late in my timezone). In fact, it has been removed already.

I will think for a better and automatic solution in the meanwhile.

Thanks a lot for your feedback, it is really appreciated.

All the best.