Obscure Sportsline Waivers Question (1 Viewer)

[SeniorVBDStudent]

Mods are welcome to move, but I've seen other sportsline and/or waivers process questions here, so....

Players that are dropped during waivers are themselves put on waivers. If you only have waivers run once per week, team owners need to wait until the following week's waivers run to pick up dropped players.

Is there a way to prevent the dropped players going on waivers / to make dropped players immediately available as free agents?

The owners in my league would prefer to continue to limit waivers to once per week (so as to be able to grab any free agent after waivers) but would also like to make dropped players immediately available....

 

[Bulldog96]

The only way we managed to get around this problem is : change your waivers setting to Commish approves Add/Drops. Of course this means your commish must set a time to actually run waivers for your league. We run 'em Thursday at noon. Following the manual waivers process, we re-open the "Waiver Window" at 5pm Thursday for first come, first served transactions. Again, the commish must still approve Add/Drops, however it's only set-up that way for your one-time waivers. There is NO approval needed for Add/Drops, it's simply there to allow our league to run waivers as we see fit.

In our case, CBS doesn't allow us to run waivers based on our own Priority List. It's either "worst to first" or it resets every week. Our waivers are ran based on reverse draft order whereas the 12th pick earned 1st Waiver Priority for week #1. From there, anytime a team makes a waiver transaction, they drop to the bottom of the order and must work their way back up the list... hence, the priority list. (IMO, Worst to First seemed to reward the less prepared and wasn't fair to the league as a whole. The 0'fer teams always had first dibs on Waiver pick-ups, while the undefeated never had a chance.)

Also, first come, first served doesn't affect the priority list. Waivers have already been finalized at that point.

Hope that helps...

 

[Steel Town]

I am not sure you want to remove this function. I see it as a safeguard. If you have an owner that makes a desperate move to add a player, there is a process for other teams to follow to take advantage of this move. In a CBS league I am in, we had one owner drop Ahman Green and another drop Marc Bulger. Rather than have a first come first serve scramble to get these players, owners have to make claims through the waiver wire.