Cow Pucks vote in alignment with the league statistician--Constitutional and yes to change.
I will also add that I am NOT influenced by the fact I own an extra waiver pick from trading this summer. My influence comes from the fact that I admin another pool and spend 30-60 minutes per day on that one and, while now infrequently, I used to help input stats on weekends in this one.
If someone who spends their FREE time doing admin so we can all enjoy the pool then that person carries more weight than a single vote. Chris doesn't really need to ask us, as the one doing the work he could tell us what he's willing to do.
I'm not voting for/against anything specific, I'm voting for an easier task for Chris.
We're not talking about a major change here like goals are worth 2 and assists 0.5, we're simply no longer dropping a player at waivers. Not big enough in my mind to justify asking Chris to handle more admin even if it's due to some poor decisions by a GM drafting.
Last year I made a mistake drafting and had to trade Brock Boeser for a goalie of no consequence because I disagreed with the addition of a September waiver. That was a one-off so my opinion carried with me. This is now about the amount of admin Chris has...call it constitutional or whatever you want, bottom line is who takes the admin if Chris has had enough?
I almost shutdown my other pool this year because the admin coupled with a new job and some family issues just left me no time for anything. I had a few members of that pool step up and volunteer to help me out and I GREATLY appreciate the help.
If this will make Chris' life easier as admin, I'm all for it.
Would I have changed summer trades knowing we would do this...absolutely! I would not have traded my O-waiver pick for one, I don't like dropping a player so early so I traded it. Now we don't drop a player so my reason to trade it is gone. Shit happens.
Whatever the outcome, one thing that is established is that the constitution is out of date and needs some work. I have created a thread for volunteers to review it and a timeline.
Chris, you don't need to be in on that, others can pick up some slack here, while you review a final product before it goes to the league for a vote.
Getting off my soapbox now. Apologies if that seemed like a rant.