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Reinstated survivor players asked to pay for buyback?

 Started by Tom Nimitz on Sep 24, 2024 at 6:02 PM

       
 Tom Nimitz
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Age: 66
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Posted Sep 24, 2024 at 6:02 PM

After all four live players in my survivor pool lost in week 3, I expected them to be reinstated to play again in week 4. The standings page shows greyed-out week 3 picks, presumably indicating forgiven losses. However, I noticed the site is asking "Would you like to do a buyback of $xx and submit a pick?" on the picks page. I don't understand why. My site is configured with the "continue until lone survivor" option. I guess I could set the buyback cost to zero, but this shouldn't be considered a buyback. I also don't know if this would exclude the player who already did a buyback following week 2. They should be eligible to continue also.

 Tom Nimitz
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Age: 66
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Posted Sep 25, 2024 at 9:15 AM

Follow-up: As a workaround, I set the buyback cost to zero and manually reinstated the eliminated player using the player status page.

(This may still be worth reviewing for a possible bug fix. The behavior just seems weird.)