Waiver wire ethics (1 Viewer)

[otis68]

We have a 24 hour hold on players after they are dropped, which means that a player dropped after 1 pm Saturday will not be available until the next weeks Waiver selections.

The team which holds the second position on the waiver wire dropped Rivers, and I presume he's planning on using his waiver priority next week to pick him back up.

Anything unethical about arranging a trade with the team that has #1 waiver priority to grab rivers and then trade him?

 

[Jules Winnfield]

Doesn't seem much different then guys trading draft day picks during the rookie draft of a dynasty league.

 

[wombatcarn]

I would say there is nothing unethical about it at all. Any time you drop someone with the intention of getting them right back, you are taking a risk. I would totally go do what I can to take advantage of that if I needed a QB or wanted to block the move.

 

[Jimmy James]

If your league is an incredibly friendly league where people use the pool of available players as though it's the bench, doing that wouldn't be cool.

If it's any sort of normal league, I'd say no. That's just one of the risks you take dropping a player.

 

[MojoDawg]

I don't see a problem with it. The #1 guy has the right to pick him up. He also has the right to trade him to you.

Heck - that way he wins because I assume he'll be getting a player that is better than his other WW options.

 

[bentley]

I agree with everyone that's posted so far. Depending on the league size, if I was the #1 guy, I'd be tempted to pick Rivers up regardless of whether someone else wanted him.

 

[coolnerd]

I know some leagues allow a player to trade the WW priority.

 

[[scooter]]

Seems fair to me. Even if there was no "pre arranged" deal, there's absolutely nothing wrong with telling a guy "I would be interested in trading for Rivers if you had him." If the guy had half a brain he'd pick up Rivers for trade bait.

 

[SSOG]

It's no different than the guy with the #1 priority picking up Rivers himself and then trading him to you. Perfectly fine, IMO.

 

[majech]

Why would it be?

 

[Jon_Moore]

Totally fine.

I've seen it done in a league. For some reason Driver ended up dropped back in 2004. The guy with waiver priority traded it with some others for Terell Owens.