AFFL Votes in Favor of Extra Fees For Co-Managers: Is Tiggy worth 50 Bucks?

In an 8-4 tally, AFFL managers voted to charge teams with co-managers an extra fee per co-manager to help offset the "competitive advantage" that teams using multiple managers have when in their daily fantasy football operations. The primary advantage in question are Free Agent pick-ups. Having two managers able to scour the FA's presents a disadvantage to single managed teams during work hours. This is the primary argument for the charge.

The vote is groundbreaking for the AFFL and puts the future of BDiddy, Hartan, Shabam Shadiq and Magnum Sev.i in question. Franchise owners of those teams will now have to determine whether the cost of keeping their co-manager on board is worth the investment. Will Vartan part ways with Harout? Will Dre make Avo pay the entire fee himself? Will Danny volunteer to leave Sev.i so as not to put him in the position to have to choose? Owners of these teams will no doubt do detailed cost analysis on the effectiveness and rate of return these "deck-hands" bring to the franchise.

No situation is more intriguing than BDiddy, who has a league leading three managers running the franchise. Baret is the franchise owner, with Monkey Mike in charge of research analysis. Tiggy, or Tig 'ol Big, is a minority owner, claiming a 1% stake in the franchise. While this may not seem much, the BDiddy franchise has managed to finish in third place on three occasions over their 9 years in the league. The question becomes how much of an impact has Tiggy made? How much is that 1% worth?

Frankly, few know what Tiggy's role is with the BDiddy franchise. In fact, managers around the league claim they haven't seen Tiggy since 2014. Conspiracy theorists speculate that he was excommunicated years ago and his legend is still being touted like the fantasy football version of Tupac. They point to a 2009 image of Baret super imposed on the cover of Rolling Stone using Tupac's body as proof.

Assuming that Tiggy is still indeed the third wheel on the BDiddy tricycle, it's difficult to quantify his value with so little to go on. AFFL experts are split as to what Tiggy's fate could be. Some feel that Tiggy's years of service, coupled with the few known incidents of Tiggy's input will be enough to warrant his place in the franchise. Others have pointed to Baret's comments of 2016 of "trimming the fat" and "increasing efficiency" as signs that Tiggy will be co-managerless in 2017.

But one story claims Tiggy's fantasy knowledge is off the charts and cutting him would leave BDiddy in ruin. The story centers around the 2013 draft, where, according to anonymous sources, Tiggy was emphatic on BDiddy drafting Demarco Murray at pick 4, but Baret brushed him aside. Demarco went on to lead the league in total yards at RB that season. Not only did Tiggy push for Murray, the source claims that he also went down on his hands and knees begging Baret to take Cam Newton in the middle rounds, but this time Baret listened, and Cam finished 5th at the position.

Another factor in the decision of keeping Tiggy will be the means of communication that he provides. After all, it is Tiggy who tells Mikey, who tells Baret of the latest happenings in the league. Baret then tells Tiggy to relay the message to Mikey, so he would know. If Tiggy isn't around, how do Baret and Mikey communicate?

Furthering the matter is the prospects of Baret refusing to pay the fee and Tiggy showing to the draft because Baret forgot to tell Mikey to tell him not to show. Things could get ugly and AFFL security may intervene.

In the end, we anticipate that Baret forks over the fee for Tiggy, as he has been around too long and been to ingrained in the BDiddy process.

As for Mikey? Now that's a different story.