Toilet Bowl teams and waivers/Free Agency (1 Viewer)

[stugnut]

I'm wondering how other leagues handle waivers/free agency for teams in the Toilet Bowl. Our TB is just for fun; the winner gets to rename the loser and the loser has to use that name the following year. Our rules don't allow TB teams to make waiver/FA moves, but we do have a provision that if a TB team cannot field a legal roster due to injury or demotion, the owner can post in the forum and make a "virtual claim" such that if that player is available at kickoff he will get the points for that player, but the player is not actually on his roster and that player could be claimed by a playoff team. This provision does not allow a team to upgrade a position, it's only to allow TB teams to field a legal roster.

We have a rather large money pot for the teams competing in the playoffs, so the idea of our rule is that since the TB teams are only playing for fun they shouldn't be allowed to claim a player that a playoff team may want, but at the same time the TB teams can still do a virtual claim so that they won't get a zero for an injured player. However, I get grief every year from TB teams that want to make "real" waiver moves.

What do other leagues do with waivers and free agency for Toilet Bowl teams?

 

[Shep7]

All of the leagues I play in end waivers the week before the playoffs start, so it's a non issue for us.

 

[PosterNutBag]

We are having our first Toilet Bowl this year and it was decided ahead of time as a league to not allow any Toilet Bowl teams to make adds/drops during weeks 14-16 (playoffs & toilet bowl) so that everything would be the same as it always has been for the teams in the playoffs. If a Toilet Bowl team cannot field a lineup with a player who since got hurt or benched, then so be it and it is just chalked up as poor planning (even though it is possible to be just bad luck--but regardless, it's part of the game and everyone knows ahead of time and since no money is on the line (just draft order for next season), it's just accepted this way).

Our league has always used reverse order of finish for determining draft slots for the following season. With the Toilet Bowl this season, we have the bottom 6 teams (12-team league) battling it out for the right to have the first slot selection. And the way we do it is that you don't get the #1 pick ... you instead get first pick of where you want to pick. So, many might decide that #1 is for them, while someone might think that picking 2, 3 or 4 is the best. Then as the 2nd best, 3rd best, etc. are up ... they see what slots are available and then select theirs. We start this process 2 weeks before the draft so that teams have a couple weeks to settle in on their spot and what players they might be looking at in the early rounds when their turn comes up.

Back to the Toilet Bowl set up, we make the worst two teams in the league the top 2 teams for the Toilet Bowl and they get first round byes to week 15. Then we take the 3rd and 4th worst teams and they play each other while the 5th and 6th worst teams also play each other in week 14. The winner of the 3 vs. 4 matchup gets the 1 seed (worst team), while the winner of the 5 vs. 6 matchup gets the 2 seed. This may seem unconventional, but we decided to do it that way in an effort to give the worst teams the most favorable schedule possible. The only exception is that instead of having 1 vs. 2 in week 15 (since that would have been the easiest possible game in theory for both), we decided instead to make the teams with byes play the winners of the week 14 games like the normal playoffs would do. There is a lot of trash talking in my league and most of us are good friends, so winning in any week is about pride more than the money, although there is plenty on the line.

 

[TommyGilmore]

We allow waivers for the Toilet Bowl (since the winner of the Toilet Bowl gets the #1 pick next year), but everyone is on the honor system: if it looks like you're grabbing players just to screw someone in the playoffs (or dumping players to help a buddy), the Commish will step in and reverse the transaction.

 

[footballnerd]

Everyone can make moves in playoffs. No babysitting, keeps people on their toes. No dumping tho of course.

 

[bonscott]

We most definately allow Toilet Bowl teams to make transactions. More money in the pot!

In my league the Toilet Bowl is actually a tourney for the #1 pick so they all have a lot on the line.

For my IPD league the Toilet Bowl is for $150 (get your money back) plus teams out of it may make moves to pick up prospects for next year.

There is no downside in our setup, been doing it for over a decade. All teams stay interested all the way to the end and there is no tanking of teams either.

YMMV of course.