Redraft leagues: Do non-playoff team owners still make waiver claims? (1 Viewer)

[Darryl Talley]

On Yahoo! there is a consolation bracket for teams that didn't make the postseason. None of those teams are playing for anything other than 5th, 7th, 9th place. I don't think the bottom 3 teams get to play anymore games at all.

Is it messed up that these teams can make waiver claims along with the playoff teams? I'm gonna be ticked if one of those bum owners gets Rogers or Todman tomorrow morning.

 

[Lascelle]

Yes, it is messed up.

Yes, the owner that you eliminated last week will get revenge by stealing Rogers or Todman from you.

Yes, people here will justify this move as "playing spoiler" even though an already eliminated owner is impacting the chances of teams still playing from making moves. These will be the same people that talked you out of tanking at the end of the season to earn an easier playoff draw so you didn't need to get a Rogers or Todman in order to be competitive in Week 15.

 

[Craig_MiamiFL]

If your league allows them to make adds/drops, there's nothing wrong with it. That's your league's settings.

Leagues I run, teams are locked from adds/drops upon championship elimination.

 

[Insein]

If your league allows them to make adds/drops, there's nothing wrong with it. That's your league's settings.

Leagues I run, teams are locked from adds/drops upon championship elimination.

Can you even lock them out in Yahoo? They have a pretty cookie cutter setup that doesn't allow for much deviation.

 

[habsfan]

If your league allows them to make adds/drops, there's nothing wrong with it. That's your league's settings.

Leagues I run, teams are locked from adds/drops upon championship elimination.

Can you even lock them out in Yahoo? They have a pretty cookie cutter setup that doesn't allow for much deviation.

You can lock teams all season with the ability to select/prevent specific actions while allowing others.

RE: OP, I've never had truly eliminated teams make a move in my redraft leagues. We do have a consolation bracket though, so as of Week 15, no one is eliminated.

Rather than resort to technology to keep people from making toolish moves, I would spell it out in a bylaw or revisit who I am playing with.

 

[Raiderfan32904]

My league has a total points cummulative prize, and that usually keeps a couple of non-playoff teams in the hunt if they are within 100 pts of the leader. I don't see anything wrong with allowing waivers to non-playoff teams, as long as there's a reasonable justifcation for it.

 

[spodog]

Our league's solution to this problem:

We allow both playoff and non playoff teams to bid on free agents (or make waiver claims), but during the playoffs, the playoff teams' bid's and claims are all evaluated first and all of their bids take priority over any non playoff teams.

This allows non playoff teams to continue to manage their roster if they want to, but prevents non playoff teams from executing transactions just to jack with a playoff team.

 

[blake]

My league has a total points cummulative prize, and that usually keeps a couple of non-playoff teams in the hunt if they are within 100 pts of the leader. I don't see anything wrong with allowing waivers to non-playoff teams, as long as there's a reasonable justifcation for it.

I agree with this. In my league, non-playoff teams are still playing for draft position for next season. They are likely not going to be as active as teams still alive for the championship, but they can still make waiver claims since they need to keep putting up points.

 

[GregR]

My leagues are structured so teams who are playing always have future draft order at stake, so it makes no sense to lock them out of waivers. That's apart from the whole if you have keepers then you shouldn't lock a team from waivers.

I could see doing what was posted above and redoing priority so champ bracket teams have higher priority for leagues where there is no reason for the consolation games mattering, and no keepers.

 

[Yenrub]

We shut off waivers for all teams once the playoffs starts

We have 12 bench spots better use them wisely

 

[Topes]

They do and they should.

No brainer.

 

[NFL_is_WAR]

Such great timing for this thread because my league is in turmoil over this issue.

I've done a google search on this topic and found other message boards with similar threads. It is amazing to me the high percentage of people that post responses to this question with an answer that says basically "Screw those guys in the playoffs".

In my league there is no "rule" to prevent non-playoff teams from picking up players. But, we do use the ESPN League Manager which has a Consolation bracket that you can not block or eliminate. So all teams can make waiver moves and FA add/drops during the playoff rounds (Week 14-16).

The Consolation bracket teams (don't laugh at this) are playing for the opportunity to pull there RANDOM draft position out of a hat. The final standings have no bearing as to where you actually draft in 2014.

So I pose a few questions here in this forum and hope to not stir up the venom being spewed in my league.

1. Isn't the Fantasy Regular season (Week 1 - 13) order of finish good enough for determining how a team fared during the season?

2. Shouldn't the fantasy playoffs only be for teams competing for the leagues prizes and or trophy?

3. Don't most league rules/constitutions/by-laws prohibit deliberate waiver wire moves intended to block or harm another team as illegal and can cause banishment from the said league?

Although, I do understand some leagues have consolation prizes and keeper leagues also cause complications.

 

[snogger]

My leagues are structured so teams who are playing always have future draft order at stake, so it makes no sense to lock them out of waivers. That's apart from the whole if you have keepers then you shouldn't lock a team from waivers.

I could see doing what was posted above and redoing priority so champ bracket teams have higher priority for leagues where there is no reason for the consolation games mattering, and no keepers.

The winner of the " bowl " in our league, based on total points during the playoffs, gets Pick #1 next year, 2nd most points Pick #2, etc..

It keeps owners active right to the final week.

 

[LittlePhatty]

If your league allows them to make adds/drops, there's nothing wrong with it. That's your league's settings.

Leagues I run, teams are locked from adds/drops upon championship elimination.

Can you even lock them out in Yahoo? They have a pretty cookie cutter setup that doesn't allow for much deviation.

The. Commissioner can lock teams, and that's what should be done. This has been available on Yahoo for as long as I've played (8 years), plus they've added even more control in the past couple of. Years.