Blowing off waivers when you're low in the priority order ... (1 Viewer)

[Doug B]

In my money keeper league, I had the 11th (out of 12) in the waiver priority list this past week. I would've loved to have taken a flier on Derek Anderson or DeShawn Wynn (shallow rosters), but I figured they'd get snapped up by the time it came around to me. I didn't want to just pick up someone for the sake of picking up someone, so I just let the waiver period come and go without making a request.

Well, I found out this morning that Wynn was left untouched. Our league is not maintained online, so I had to make a quick call to the commish to claim Wynn on a first-come basis. Glad I checked the waiver results ... I had just assumed he was gone.

I know many here think Wynn is trash ... but what the hey. What if he's not trash? I only had to throw Bo Scaife back onto the scrap heap to get the right to check out Wynn for a few weeks ... so nothing's lost if Wynn doesn't break out. And if Wynn has a Reuben-Droughns-2004 season? All the better.

Someone comes from nowhere every year. I almost lost a decent raffle ticket to ownership of that someone by blowing off my waiver request rights. Lesson learned.

 

[dino259]

I actually feel the opposite. If you are that high (11 out of 12) why not put in for the player? What are you going to go back to 12th in line. IF you don't get them so what you move up a little.

If you are early in line (2 or 3 out of 12) and no one really stands out, then maybe wait for a bigger impact player. For example last year in our league a guy dropped TJ Houshmazilli...championship after he didn't play for two weeks. There was a mad scramble for him.

 

[Ted Lange as your Bartender]

I was 10th out of 16 this week, put in a claim for Wynn thinking I had no shot to get him and I got him. Now I'm back at 15th out of 16, but the way I see it, if 9 people above me aren't putting in waiver claims in week 2, I figure I'll never get to the top of the waiver list anyway.

 

[JBTV]

Always put in just in case. I was last in my league this week (since I'm first overall) and I ended up getting Chris Cooley, who someone had dropped over the weekend. You never know.

 

[Doug B]

I actually feel the opposite. If you are that high (11 out of 12) why not put in for the player? What are you going to go back to 12th in line. IF you don't get them so what you move up a little.

Good take for leagues with different wiver systems than ours.One difference about our league is that waivers are ordered strictly by reverse W-L/points scored. No need to worry about being pushed down in the waiver order next week -- as long as my team stays good, they'll always have low waiver priority.

 

[kutta]

That's pretty funny. I was near the top of the order this week, and put in for both Wynn and Anderson. I figured there was no way I was getting both, but I did. If they don't work out, no biggee, but I didn't expect to get them both.

 

[redman]

It depends on the league. I was third in my redraft waiver order and wondered whether it was even worth trying for Wynn. It turned out it was and I landed him. You have to be in a pretty screwed up league for that much of a primo waiver prospect to drop past 11 teams.