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D Up: Exploiting eligibility rules

By Jim McCormick
Special to ESPN.com

Friday, October 30, 2009

The first definition of the term "loophole" is a small opening through which small arms may be fired. But for our purposes, we are looking for the exploitive connotation of the word, not the gun-duel version. The relevant kind of loophole, of course, is a weakness or exception that allows a system or set of rules and laws to be circumvented or otherwise avoided. A salient example would be starting the Green Bay Packers' Spencer Havner this week at linebacker for your fantasy team. So instead ...

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