I seem to recall that, in an emergency situation last year, a manager already in the tournament was able to enter an "extra" team simply in order to fill a league for which no replacement could be found. If I recall correctly, JohnG or someone else at SOM was able to set things so that this team did not count extra towards their tourney point total. I could be slightly off, perhaps a replacement manager entered more than one team, but something like that happened. I think the manager was Semper Gumby, or someone else with some sort of military connotation to their screen name. We did have more of a problem with managers dropping out or not meeting deadlines last year than we did this year.
I mention this only as a last resort idea, not as something that should be adopted unless all other possibilities are exhausted. Nor am I offering to do so: I have enough problems keeping up with 4 teams, and it would unfair to everyone else for me to saturate the 90s with another one of my terrible squads.
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