Wondering what the consensus is on starting players on bye to avoid dropping players. Particularly for teams who have already clinched the playoffs.
Wondering what the consensus is on starting players on bye to avoid dropping players. Particularly for teams who have already clinched the playoffs.
As long as there’s no rule against it, it’s fine.
I also generally think that rules against that, specifically, are bad. If you have good players that you don’t want to drop during a bye, it’s your perogative to take it on the chin that week.
But reasons matter - doing that because you don’t want to drop players = fine. Doing that to make it so that a weaker opponent gets a free win is not.