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[AcerFC]

I know that many of you do not like Sportsline. That is well documented. This question is for teams that use Sportsline so please keep that in mind.

Can anyone who uses Sportsline please tell me if Free agents lock once the games start (waivers), or are all players eligible to be picked up during games.

This is our first year with Sportsline and I can not seem to find that info anywhere.

AND FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO PLAN ON TELLING ME TO SWITCH TO MFL, WE ARE ALL PROFESSIONALS AND CAN SPEND THE EXTRA $5 PER TEAM TO PLAY WITH SPORTSLINE.

 

[gman8343]

players are locked from gametime until I think late Tuesday night, when the waivers run. You can't pick players up during or right after games.

 

[AcerFC]

Thanks for the response. Do you know anything about the Free agent Budget system. I would assume that if players are locked and then waivers run, teams will be able to blind bid and everyone would be able to land that player equally

Does that sound right?

 

[gman8343]

We actually switched to the blind bidding system this year, so I'm not familiar with it yet. As I understand it, yes, everyone has a fair shake at the same player unless they tie, in which case it goes to a preset tie-breaker (maybe based on standings).

Looking forward to this method, as the last few years it always went in reverse order, last place to first, which is lame IMO.

 

[AcerFC]

Same here. This is our first year with CBS in general but we had the reverse order of standings thing. I got hurt and helped by it but I generally did not like it. Thanks again for your help and anyone else who knows for sure how it works please let me know

 

[jbz]

this is sportsline's first year with free agent bidding, so it'll probably have some bugs in it. We used their waiver system last year and it works, but not exactly how we wanted it. I prefer to have all players on waivers all the time. For sportsline, players are on waivers during the games and if they get dropped. Outside of that, the only way to make adds always go through waivers is to have your players check the box that says to do so when they're making their claim.

We moved to the bidding system this year, so hopefully it works out well. We wanted it to be one day when the auction bids get processed, then a first-come, first-served, no bid pick up period after that. The site isnt capable of it yet, but I recommended it to them via email. I actually got a human response, but not sure if it will mean anything

 

[thecoolnamesarealltaken]

You can also set the waiver order to not reset each week based on standings. Teams move to the bottom of the waiver order when they make claims, otherwise the order doesn't change. We don't want to award anyone for sucking. It's not fair to let bad teams catch up because they get their pick of transactions each week. Our league sets the initial waiver order based on the reverse order of our draft preference order (I'm stuck with the #14 pick, but at least I'm on top of the waiver wire).

 

[Godsbrother]

We have been using the waiver system for several years and for the most part like it. We had a lengthy discussion about going to the FAAB system at our summer meeting but decided to wait a year to let the bugs shake out.

For those of you that are using the FAAB, I would be very interested if you could post your impressions of it a few weeks into the season.

 

[AcerFC]

We have been using the waiver system for several years and for the most part like it. We had a lengthy discussion about going to the FAAB system at our summer meeting but decided to wait a year to let the bugs shake out.For those of you that are using the FAAB, I would be very interested if you could post your impressions of it a few weeks into the season.

I will let you know how it works out later this week when player start to be auctioned. I will also let you know throughout the year

 

[rum runner]

 

[Bad_Mo]

Don't forget to start the waiver process too! Look at the bottom of the Waivers screen.

Last year, we forgot to manually start it and some teams dropped players that were scooped up buy other teams immediately. We had to back out of the transactions. Sucked.

 

[Cleat Spike]

Another question you guys may be able to help with. We usually don't open our wire until week 2, but we drafted so early and everyone wanted it open before the season started. So we did. We opened our wire this week (Mon-Wed). It is set to run the claims tonight (Wed) at midnight....and I thought the new FA's would be on our rosters by Thursday morning, but when I put my claim in.....in the notes section of the add/drop is says it will be executed on 9/14. Which would be next week (Week 2).

I noticed that you have to select your wire to run two days (Wed and say Friday). Why is that? When I select only Wed. the wire claims go through next week. When I slect two days it goes through this week?

Anyone know?

 

[fantasyguru22]

Another question you guys may be able to help with. We usually don't open our wire until week 2, but we drafted so early and everyone wanted it open before the season started. So we did. We opened our wire this week (Mon-Wed). It is set to run the claims tonight (Wed) at midnight....and I thought the new FA's would be on our rosters by Thursday morning, but when I put my claim in.....in the notes section of the add/drop is says it will be executed on 9/14. Which would be next week (Week 2).I noticed that you have to select your wire to run two days (Wed and say Friday). Why is that? When I select only Wed. the wire claims go through next week. When I slect two days it goes through this week?Anyone know?

All the information you need is in the Help Center. That's located on the Top tab Under Help --> Help Center.Type in "Waivers" into the search and a few links will pop up. I read the first 2 on Waivers and your questions were answered...Check those out.

 

[Fantasy_Freak]

Any feedback provided would be greatly appreciated. We run the blind bid, but the comissioner determines who outbid whom.

 

[AcerFC]

I just wanted to let all the users in this post know that I have been very happy with the FAAB so far. I have them run every night so owners cant just run and bid $1 when news comes out. So far it has worked flawlessly for the first year and it adds something to the league instead of having the worst team have first choice or even never resetting the whole year (which I have done both).

 

[Atomic Dawg]

We use just a free agent first come system, but we find that if you are going to get someone while the FA is locked, we use the message board as it has a time stamp, and add the player on Tuesday.

Don't know if this will help, but it might!

 

[belljr]

Question I can't seem to find.

I have it set for me to approve all the claims for the week, for 1 reason.

We have a waiver system that I process Thursday nights.

However starting Friday up until saturday at midnight.

We have first come first serve for any add/drops for any players.

My question is if I set the waiver to automatically run, do users still have the ability to do an add drop on their own on saturday?

 

[AcerFC]

Question I can't seem to find. I have it set for me to approve all the claims for the week, for 1 reason.We have a waiver system that I process Thursday nights.However starting Friday up until saturday at midnight.We have first come first serve for any add/drops for any players.My question is if I set the waiver to automatically run, do users still have the ability to do an add drop on their own on saturday?

Based on the cbs baseball site which we have used for years, once waivers are off, it turns to a first come first serve

 

[belljr]

Question I can't seem to find. I have it set for me to approve all the claims for the week, for 1 reason.We have a waiver system that I process Thursday nights.However starting Friday up until saturday at midnight.We have first come first serve for any add/drops for any players.My question is if I set the waiver to automatically run, do users still have the ability to do an add drop on their own on saturday?

Based on the cbs baseball site which we have used for years, once waivers are off, it turns to a first come first serve

cool thx. Do dropped players become eligible right away for pickups?That was the other reason I did it manual for the last 6 years. uggh

 

[rum runner]

Question I can't seem to find. I have it set for me to approve all the claims for the week, for 1 reason.We have a waiver system that I process Thursday nights.However starting Friday up until saturday at midnight.We have first come first serve for any add/drops for any players.My question is if I set the waiver to automatically run, do users still have the ability to do an add drop on their own on saturday?

Based on the cbs baseball site which we have used for years, once waivers are off, it turns to a first come first serve

cool thx. Do dropped players become eligible right away for pickups?That was the other reason I did it manual for the last 6 years. uggh

if you use waivers, dropped players can't be picked up for a minimum of 1 day. you might try using the 'commisioner must approve add/drops.' i do this in one league where i process the requests thursday morning based on reverse order of standings. all add/drops the rest of the week are first come/first serve and get automatic approval.

 

[belljr]

Question I can't seem to find. I have it set for me to approve all the claims for the week, for 1 reason.We have a waiver system that I process Thursday nights.However starting Friday up until saturday at midnight.We have first come first serve for any add/drops for any players.My question is if I set the waiver to automatically run, do users still have the ability to do an add drop on their own on saturday?

Based on the cbs baseball site which we have used for years, once waivers are off, it turns to a first come first serve

cool thx. Do dropped players become eligible right away for pickups?That was the other reason I did it manual for the last 6 years. uggh

if you use waivers, dropped players can't be picked up for a minimum of 1 day. you might try using the 'commisioner must approve add/drops.' i do this in one league where i process the requests thursday morning based on reverse order of standings. all add/drops the rest of the week are first come/first serve and get automatic approval.

that's how I've done it from the beginning. Only difference is we don't use worst to first. If we make a pickup you move to the end, and flip flop with someone else if they also make a pick up.So you won't always be behind the same person and the worst team is not always first.I was just wondering if go automated would save me some time. Thanks for the info.

 

[kd1]

i already have a huge obvious problem with the FAAB, and their customer service is so disgraceful, it's sickening.

you cannot put in conditional bids, which i dont understand how every league wouldnt have a problem with.

for instance, if the last place team bids $10 on player x, and the first place team wants player y, but if he loses the auction for player y, he wants a bid in on player x....the site is incapable of doing such a thing.

furthermore, player x will go up for bid first, so if the first place team has a higher bid than the last place team for player x, he will be rewarded him, and not be in the auction for player y (his first preference).

i figured all this could be bypassed by using the commish-approved auction rather than the automated one, but it's even more idiotic. you still cant view teams order of priority for who they want, nor can you even see who they want to drop to pick up a player for. all you can see are the player and their bids.

does this not pose a problem for the rest of you using this?

 

[ebzded]

Anyone know if waivers run pretty much at the same time each night? If so, what time?

I live on the west coast and we use a completely first come, first serve system (no waivers). I want to know how late I should stay up to get first pick of the free agents

 

[AcerFC]

i already have a huge obvious problem with the FAAB, and their customer service is so disgraceful, it's sickening.you cannot put in conditional bids, which i dont understand how every league wouldnt have a problem with.for instance, if the last place team bids $10 on player x, and the first place team wants player y, but if he loses the auction for player y, he wants a bid in on player x....the site is incapable of doing such a thing.furthermore, player x will go up for bid first, so if the first place team has a higher bid than the last place team for player x, he will be rewarded him, and not be in the auction for player y (his first preference).i figured all this could be bypassed by using the commish-approved auction rather than the automated one, but it's even more idiotic. you still cant view teams order of priority for who they want, nor can you even see who they want to drop to pick up a player for. all you can see are the player and their bids.does this not pose a problem for the rest of you using this?

I do not understand exactly what you are saying. Why would the owner not be in the auction for player y? As far as I know you can bid on as many players as you want in any given time period. The last place team in your equation can bid on player x and y. They might get outbid for both but they can bid on both. You can prioritize your picks in the add/drop pageI am not trying to be sarcastic, just trying to understand your problem

 

[kd1]

I do not understand exactly what you are saying. Why would the owner not be in the auction for player y? As far as I know you can bid on as many players as you want in any given time period. The last place team in your equation can bid on player x and y. They might get outbid for both but they can bid on both. You can prioritize your picks in the add/drop pageI am not trying to be sarcastic, just trying to understand your problem

i was typing quickly, and figured that may have been confusing. let me try again.you are in last place....you want to drop steve young, and pick up dan marino. you bid $10 on marino.i am in first place. i want to drop john elway, and pick up jim kelly. i bid $10 on kelly. but if i'm outbid for kelly, and only if, then i want a bid in to drop elway and pick up marino. say i bid $20 on marino.now, since you are in last place, it processes the marino auction first. i win marino for $20. now i cant get kelly, even though that was my 1st choice in priority, since it already gave me kelly.let me know if you are still confused

 

[belljr]

I do not understand exactly what you are saying. Why would the owner not be in the auction for player y? As far as I know you can bid on as many players as you want in any given time period. The last place team in your equation can bid on player x and y. They might get outbid for both but they can bid on both. You can prioritize your picks in the add/drop pageI am not trying to be sarcastic, just trying to understand your problem

i was typing quickly, and figured that may have been confusing. let me try again.you are in last place....you want to drop steve young, and pick up dan marino. you bid $10 on marino.i am in first place. i want to drop john elway, and pick up jim kelly. i bid $10 on kelly. but if i'm outbid for kelly, and only if, then i want a bid in to drop elway and pick up marino. say i bid $20 on marino.now, since you are in last place, it processes the marino auction first. i win marino for $20. now i cant get kelly, even though that was my 1st choice in priority, since it already gave me kelly.let me know if you are still confused

I use CBS but fanball does this blind bidding very well.I know that doesn't help you here but just thought I'd throw that out there fo you to change if you want

 

[Angry Beavers]

Anyone know if waivers run pretty much at the same time each night? If so, what time?I live on the west coast and we use a completely first come, first serve system (no waivers). I want to know how late I should stay up to get first pick of the free agents

last night was 1:47 am EST if that helps

 

[ebzded]

last night was 1:47 am EST if that helps

heh heh, awesome. let's hope it's always that early. thanks.

 

[AcerFC]

I do not understand exactly what you are saying. Why would the owner not be in the auction for player y? As far as I know you can bid on as many players as you want in any given time period. The last place team in your equation can bid on player x and y. They might get outbid for both but they can bid on both. You can prioritize your picks in the add/drop pageI am not trying to be sarcastic, just trying to understand your problem

i was typing quickly, and figured that may have been confusing. let me try again.you are in last place....you want to drop steve young, and pick up dan marino. you bid $10 on marino.i am in first place. i want to drop john elway, and pick up jim kelly. i bid $10 on kelly. but if i'm outbid for kelly, and only if, then i want a bid in to drop elway and pick up marino. say i bid $20 on marino.now, since you are in last place, it processes the marino auction first. i win marino for $20. now i cant get kelly, even though that was my 1st choice in priority, since it already gave me kelly.let me know if you are still confused

Ok, I get it now. I have thought about that, however, I do not see it as a major problem. I guess you have to prioritize who you want and maybe drop different player (although not ideal). I do understand and I see it being a slight problem but not one that would stop me from using the system

 

[williamsfam4]

Hi,

I've setup the CBS waiver system ....it processed properly on 9/13 (Wednesday morning), but the players that were dropped are on waivers until 9/15 (Friday). I've setup the waiver period for dropped players to be 1 day. Anyone have any advice here?

 

[beerrun]

Hi,I've setup the CBS waiver system ....it processed properly on 9/13 (Wednesday morning), but the players that were dropped are on waivers until 9/15 (Friday). I've setup the waiver period for dropped players to be 1 day. Anyone have any advice here?

Waivers are 1 full day after a player was dropped. So if a player was dropped Wednesday, his one full day on waivers would be Thursday, and he would come off waivers Friday morning. There is no way that I know of around the one full day of waivers on sportsline.

 

[AcerFC]

One thing that I have found to be a negative that we could not tell last week was that the free agent auction will go off on Sunday night but then teams can not make moves leading up to game time. One of the important things about Sunday is being able to pick guys up from the waiver wire in case someone is declared out. With the Free agent auction, you have to get your bids on on Saturday night and then there will not be another auction until Wed. This is one problem that I have found

 

[Keys Myaths]

There is no way that I know of around the one full day of waivers on sportsline.

Commish goes to Setup--Add/Drop policy, Allow Owners to do add/drops.That makes it first come/first serve.

 

[Cowtippers]

Let me ask you this......If I run waivers for early Wednesday morning for the league and then switch it over to "owners can do drop/adds" after waivers are completed - will that allow owners do do drop/adds without having a waiting period of 24 hours for dropped players?

Can I then switch it back to "waivers" once the first game of the week has started in order to have a waiver wire the next Wednesday morning?

 

[Keys Myaths]

Let me ask you this......If I run waivers for early Wednesday morning for the league and then switch it over to "owners can do drop/adds" after waivers are completed - will that allow owners do do drop/adds without having a waiting period of 24 hours for dropped players?

Correct, and correct.

 

[Cowtippers]

Thank you very much......that is a huge help!

 

[rawdog]

i already have a huge obvious problem with the FAAB, and their customer service is so disgraceful, it's sickening.you cannot put in conditional bids, which i dont understand how every league wouldnt have a problem with.for instance, if the last place team bids $10 on player x, and the first place team wants player y, but if he loses the auction for player y, he wants a bid in on player x....the site is incapable of doing such a thing.furthermore, player x will go up for bid first, so if the first place team has a higher bid than the last place team for player x, he will be rewarded him, and not be in the auction for player y (his first preference).i figured all this could be bypassed by using the commish-approved auction rather than the automated one, but it's even more idiotic. you still cant view teams order of priority for who they want, nor can you even see who they want to drop to pick up a player for. all you can see are the player and their bids.does this not pose a problem for the rest of you using this?

I, too, had a huge problem with this. Had no idea that players were brought up in a certain order to bid, reverse order of the standings, so you can end up getting players you don't necessarily want, guys very low on your list of priorities.For example, the top 2 players on my list (pre-Morency trade) were Colston & Herron (deep league, best available guys). I had dropped 2 guys to give me 2 empty roster slots, down to 23. Colston I won at $31. However, even though I had Drew Carter 5th on my list with a $2 bid, I was awarded him, maxing out my roster at 25. it skipped over my Herron bid and another team got him for $1.Essentially, you need to put on a very very shortlist or you can get stuck with lesser-prirority guys if they happen to come up earlier in the automated auction.