Weekly Waiver Wire Claims Order Priority (1 Viewer)

[Johnny Rock]

For non-blind bidding leagues, any decent FF Owner knows the frustration of never or rarely picking first in weekly Claims. Many times the same bad teams pick early each week. Sure some gems slip through to the later picks but you usually need to grab them a week early in true Shark fashion to have a shot at them.

Switching to RTS Sports from Fanball now reveals only two options: Seasonal worst to best using win-loss or Total Points.

Despite limited options, our leagues are going to continue to enter Claims Order manually based on:

Worst to First based on last weeks games ONLY, using win-loss record. So you have three groups: 0-2, 1-1, 2-0. Within each group, the team that scored the MOST points picks sooner. So if you went 0-2 but scored the most points of the 0-2 teams, you pick first.

I can't take credit for creating this method but I believe it's the most fair Waiver Wire Priority System.

 

[Captain Hook]

So why not just go to blind free agent bidding which is the ONLY fair way to distribute the players each week?

 

[Horses Mouth]

So why not just go to blind free agent bidding which is the ONLY fair way to distribute the players each week?

couldn't agree more. we went to that 3 years ago in my $$$$ league and never looked back. just changed to this in my local league this year also.

 

[Johnny Rock]

I'm not the Commissioner of my 2 main leagues. I proposed blind bidding but it was not implemented.

Can you guys cut and paste your rules for Blind Bidding? Might help me sell it if they can visualize the whole process rather than fear of the unknown.

 

[Captain Hook]

I'm not the Commissioner of my 2 main leagues. I proposed blind bidding but it was not implemented.Can you guys cut and paste your rules for Blind Bidding? Might help me sell it if they can visualize the whole process rather than fear of the unknown.

RTS supports this so just copy what they have - should be a pretty good explanation

 

[Dexter Manley]

In leagues that use a serpentine draft, my favored method is to set the waiver wire order in reverse draft order. Once you claim a player on waivers you go to last in priority.

This helps even things out since teams with high draft picks have an inherent advantage.

 

[Warhogs]

In leagues that use a serpentine draft, my favored method is to set the waiver wire order in reverse draft order. Once you claim a player on waivers you go to last in priority.This helps even things out since teams with high draft picks have an inherent advantage.

This is what we do too and is a pretty simple method that most owners have been happy with.

 

[atcdav]

We are on CBS and we manually set the reverse order of the power rankings each week until the playoffs, in the playoffs it is reversed and the best team picks first. I have never been in a league that blind bids but I would also like to see the rules to understand how it works. I am not a big fan of the worst to first method, I do not like punishing teams for doing well

 

[glong989]

In leagues that use a serpentine draft, my favored method is to set the waiver wire order in reverse draft order. Once you claim a player on waivers you go to last in priority.This helps even things out since teams with high draft picks have an inherent advantage.

This is what we do too and is a pretty simple method that most owners have been happy with.

Yup, players lock on the kickoff of the first game that week and unlock Tuesday morning after MNF. A handcuff of an injury or player that breaks out has to clear waiver claims. Anyone not claimed is a free agent until they lock the following week again. Usually I will pick players I think are ready to break out during that period so I don't waste my priority. Then use your priority on someone that's worthy like a handcuff of a recently injured RB in a run heavy offense.

 

[Captain Hook]

In leagues that use a serpentine draft, my favored method is to set the waiver wire order in reverse draft order. Once you claim a player on waivers you go to last in priority.This helps even things out since teams with high draft picks have an inherent advantage.

This is what we do too and is a pretty simple method that most owners have been happy with.

Fine for redraft leagues but in keeper leagues isn't this giving an advantage to the better teams from last year? Presumably they are drafting last.....

 

[glong989]

In leagues that use a serpentine draft, my favored method is to set the waiver wire order in reverse draft order. Once you claim a player on waivers you go to last in priority.This helps even things out since teams with high draft picks have an inherent advantage.

This is what we do too and is a pretty simple method that most owners have been happy with.

Fine for redraft leagues but in keeper leagues isn't this giving an advantage to the better teams from last year? Presumably they are drafting last.....

They just get the first crack at having the first priority. So last season they probably would have used that pick on Brandon Jennings since Grant went down week 1. They would have gotten very little return from that and moved to the back of the line. So I guess if you are guaranteed to get a diamond in the rough out of the first waiver wire pickup of the season then it's an advantage but that's not usually the case..Overall you are probably right though. FAAB is the most fair although I don't necessarily like it since each big pick just has one person willing to blow their wad on it. The smaller pickups can get interesting but I don't really put a ton of waiver claims in anyway and wait for free agency.

 

[Captain Hook]

We are on CBS and we manually set the reverse order of the power rankings each week until the playoffs, in the playoffs it is reversed and the best team picks first. I have never been in a league that blind bids but I would also like to see the rules to understand how it works. I am not a big fan of the worst to first method, I do not like punishing teams for doing well

1) again CBS has FAAB or blind bidding for free agents - they have sections where they completely describe the procedure(s)2) reverse order of power rankings can be really perverse - guy has a bad week (and this can be keeper or redraft) but really has a strong team so he gets first pick? Not good

 

[BoomBoom]

We do the same as what's been mentioned for serpentine (last pick to first pick), order changes when used.

Our draft is auction, however, so we take everyone's most expensive drafted player and create the waiver order in reverse of that (so the guy that drafts Foster for $60+ usually is at the back of the waiver order, and the guy that goes for a balanced approach with his highest player being Jennings at $29 would be at the top of the waiver order).

 

[GoBears84]

Ours is a H2H, high score of the week gets money - so we set waiver order based on points scored for the week. Nobody is eveer going to tank a week to try and get the first waiver pick of the next week - especially since you can pick up FA's up until kick-off of their game.

 

[atcdav]

We are on CBS and we manually set the reverse order of the power rankings each week until the playoffs, in the playoffs it is reversed and the best team picks first. I have never been in a league that blind bids but I would also like to see the rules to understand how it works. I am not a big fan of the worst to first method, I do not like punishing teams for doing well

1) again CBS has FAAB or blind bidding for free agents - they have sections where they completely describe the procedure(s)2) reverse order of power rankings can be really perverse - guy has a bad week (and this can be keeper or redraft) but really has a strong team so he gets first pick? Not good

It is far from perfect but I think it is an improvement over standing based solely on record. The issue though is the guy with a good team but the toughest schedule and keeps losing the the highscore each week. He gets hosed. I would like to look at blind bid for next year