[remington]

I just saw the subject of this thread and it peaked my interest.

I currently run three leagues. One I created on my own, one I co-created with another person, and one I took over from the league's third commish and have been running for 11 seasons. As a commissioner, your question actually is a little disturbing.

What you are implying is the ability to crack league passwords. While there are many hackers around, openly admitting you are one of them automatically puts you on the list of people I don't want in my league. Why? Simply put, what is to prevent you from cracking my active league's password, then modifying your players so that your team is the best team in the league? Why would you want to offer a service (or tool) that hacks league passwords? Sounds to me like you are encouraging cheating and removing the enjoyment aspect of running online leagues, to be honest. Additionally, finding out if the league is defunct or not is difficult.

I believe that a league is owned by its creator(s) and that they turn over the league to a commissioner, that commissioner becomes the owner, kind of like selling a car. Now if a commish decides to shut down the league, s/he *should* contact the creator(s) to see if they want a copy of the league file, but I don't know that they are obligated to, since they've put in some level of time and effort and likely money into supporting it for however long. I don't believe the password should be shared outside of that tiny group of people, UNLESS they SPECIFICALLY want to share it with someone else.