What is your league's free agent/waiver wire procedure? (1 Viewer)

[JuniorNB]

My league formed in 1992 and we've always had a first come/first served method of picking up free agents. It worked out pretty well until the last few years. Now it seems that there are guys who just wait till exactly 7:00 on Tuesday nights and grab anyone they want.

We switched to Yahoo for this season and they have some free agent and waiver wire options I'm not familiar with. One is a money/bid system. The other is a 'rolling' system.

What system have you found to work the best and be the most fair?

 

[Amused to Death]

My league formed in 1992 and we've always had a first come/first served method of picking up free agents. It worked out pretty well until the last few years. Now it seems that there are guys who just wait till exactly 7:00 on Tuesday nights and grab anyone they want.

We switched to Yahoo for this season and they have some free agent and waiver wire options I'm not familiar with. One is a money/bid system. The other is a 'rolling' system.

What system have you found to work the best and be the most fair?

I've played in Yahoo's rolling waiver system for a few years and hate it. My experience has been the person with the top pick tends to hold it for weeks waiting for the plumb pick up to emerge. You can make FA pick ups and not lose the top waiver spot. I've seen people hold the top pick for most of a season and the rest of the league never moves up. I prefer waivers work to benefit the weaker teams. "Worst to first" or a bidding system imo.

 

[JuniorNB]

My league formed in 1992 and we've always had a first come/first served method of picking up free agents. It worked out pretty well until the last few years. Now it seems that there are guys who just wait till exactly 7:00 on Tuesday nights and grab anyone they want.

We switched to Yahoo for this season and they have some free agent and waiver wire options I'm not familiar with. One is a money/bid system. The other is a 'rolling' system.

What system have you found to work the best and be the most fair?

I've played in Yahoo's rolling waiver system for a few years and hate it. My experience has been the person with the top pick tends to hold it for weeks waiting for the plumb pick up to emerge. You can make FA pick ups and not lose the top waiver spot. I've seen people hold the top pick for most of a season and the rest of the league never moves up. I prefer waivers work to benefit the weaker teams. "Worst to first" or a bidding system imo.

If the top guy holds on to it and waits, and the number 2 guy picks up someone, does the number 2 guy then go to the bottom of the order?

 

[Amused to Death]

My league formed in 1992 and we've always had a first come/first served method of picking up free agents. It worked out pretty well until the last few years. Now it seems that there are guys who just wait till exactly 7:00 on Tuesday nights and grab anyone they want.

We switched to Yahoo for this season and they have some free agent and waiver wire options I'm not familiar with. One is a money/bid system. The other is a 'rolling' system.

What system have you found to work the best and be the most fair?

I've played in Yahoo's rolling waiver system for a few years and hate it. My experience has been the person with the top pick tends to hold it for weeks waiting for the plumb pick up to emerge. You can make FA pick ups and not lose the top waiver spot. I've seen people hold the top pick for most of a season and the rest of the league never moves up. I prefer waivers work to benefit the weaker teams. "Worst to first" or a bidding system imo.

If the top guy holds on to it and waits, and the number 2 guy picks up someone, does the number 2 guy then go to the bottom of the order?

Yeah I think so. Its my least favorite league that I join only because its my office league. But the rolling waiver is one of the reasons I don't like the league. The guy at the top may be one of the strongest teams and still get the best available player. Weak teams have little chance to improve via the waiver wire. I always advocate a worst-to-first system with blind bidding my next preference. The rolling waiver is very arbitrary as the order is determined before the season starts. A team hit by injury has little chance to get a good waiver pick up. Just my experience and opinion.

 

[JuniorNB]

My league formed in 1992 and we've always had a first come/first served method of picking up free agents. It worked out pretty well until the last few years. Now it seems that there are guys who just wait till exactly 7:00 on Tuesday nights and grab anyone they want.

We switched to Yahoo for this season and they have some free agent and waiver wire options I'm not familiar with. One is a money/bid system. The other is a 'rolling' system.

What system have you found to work the best and be the most fair?

I've played in Yahoo's rolling waiver system for a few years and hate it. My experience has been the person with the top pick tends to hold it for weeks waiting for the plumb pick up to emerge. You can make FA pick ups and not lose the top waiver spot. I've seen people hold the top pick for most of a season and the rest of the league never moves up. I prefer waivers work to benefit the weaker teams. "Worst to first" or a bidding system imo.

If the top guy holds on to it and waits, and the number 2 guy picks up someone, does the number 2 guy then go to the bottom of the order?

Yeah I think so. Its my least favorite league that I join only because its my office league. But the rolling waiver is one of the reasons I don't like the league. The guy at the top may be one of the strongest teams and still get the best available player. Weak teams have little chance to improve via the waiver wire. I always advocate a worst-to-first system with blind bidding my next preference. The rolling waiver is very arbitrary as the order is determined before the season starts. A team hit by injury has little chance to get a good waiver pick up. Just my experience and opinion.

Does Yahoo have a worst-to-first option?

 

[Amused to Death]

Does Yahoo have a worst-to-first option?

Pretty sure it does. Reverse order of standings.

 

[JuniorNB]

Does Yahoo have a worst-to-first option?

Pretty sure it does. Reverse order of standings.

Thanks for your help.

 

[SwampDawg]

Great topic because this is a split point of contention in our league and up for vote this year.

In our early years we used a worse to first waiver on a Wednesday night then open until the start of the Sunday games (Thursday night players were locked when their game started) and we limited it to 8 pickups a season, at the time we had 20 man rosters.

About 7 or 8 years ago we cut rosters down to 18 and went with unlimited moves using the same system, worst to first on Wednesday nights then open until kickoff Sunday.

This last year a group of guys have gotten their panties in a wad because some of us have been switching kickers and defenses weekly playing matchups and trying to grab some guys based on rumor and then trade them when their value peaks the next week. To me this is all part of the fun of the game and keeps me entertained all year but some don't like to put in that much effort. Keep in mind this is a friendly $90 league that started in 1995 by 3 of us that were mutual friends that all knew a few other guys interested in getting into a league, skill level varies but over the years we have weeded out all the guppies and have a pretty solid group. Some just aren't as dedicated.

I suggested we go to a bid system where everyone starts with 100 points, bid what you want but when you run out you are done. Most wanting to limit the moves felt this was too complicated . They have proposed a couple different ideas, going back to limited transactions to going to a pay system of $2 to $5 a transaction. I hate the limited moves and while I have no issue with $2 to the pot in theory the problem is through job changes and movements while we are still all on the same side of PA bar one guy, we don't all see each other that much other then a couple of us. It will be a nightmare for the treasurer to have to collect from guys and followup on.

I've given them until draft night to put out a proposal they (the ones wanting a change) agree on and we will vote, I doubt it passes with a majority but we will see.

 

[TheCommish]

My league uses a waiver request method that clears every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday night. Waiver wire order is reverse of actual standings. All weekend, we switch to a First-Come, First-Served waiver process.

I would be interested in moving the weekday waivers to a bidding process so that every team would have a fair shot at the free agents, but when I mentioned it to a couple of my league-mates, they didn't like it. So we'll just stick with what we have. It works really well.

 

[Black]

I hate Worst to First, reset each week. It's not a fair way to distribute in-season talent..reward the bad teams? Boo!

At worst, a rolling Waiver is more fair, Free Agent Aquisition Budget is the most fair (akin to Auction vs. Draft).

 

[by_the_sea_wannabe]

blind bid on wednesday night - fcfs beginning thursday through start of game

my favorite was an old league that ran blind bid on wednesday and saturday

 

[Monsters of the Midway]

None

12 teams, 30 rounds (non-IDP), draft almost everyone. No free agents. Old school.

Every D and K gets drafted, just about every backup QB, some 3rd stringers. At least 3 RB from every team. etc.

 

[BearsFan4Life]

Our dynasty league is on yahoo.....

Lowest scoring team each week gets the #1 waiver priority for that week

 

[hotboyz]

We do blind bids with bids due wed afternoon then from thurs 8am til Sunday 1259pm it's a free for all. I did have to install a system that says if u pick up a player u have to keep them for a wk. because Someone was picking up Te and dropping them knowing that every time a player is dropped he's blocked until the next wk and he knew his opponent needed a Te lol

Ill Fa balance is $70 once free for all period starts each pick up is a $1

 

[Captain Hook]

Great topic because this is a split point of contention in our league and up for vote this year.

In our early years we used a worse to first waiver on a Wednesday night then open until the start of the Sunday games (Thursday night players were locked when their game started) and we limited it to 8 pickups a season, at the time we had 20 man rosters.

About 7 or 8 years ago we cut rosters down to 18 and went with unlimited moves using the same system, worst to first on Wednesday nights then open until kickoff Sunday.

This last year a group of guys have gotten their panties in a wad because some of us have been switching kickers and defenses weekly playing matchups and trying to grab some guys based on rumor and then trade them when their value peaks the next week. To me this is all part of the fun of the game and keeps me entertained all year but some don't like to put in that much effort. Keep in mind this is a friendly $90 league that started in 1995 by 3 of us that were mutual friends that all knew a few other guys interested in getting into a league, skill level varies but over the years we have weeded out all the guppies and have a pretty solid group. Some just aren't as dedicated.

I suggested we go to a bid system where everyone starts with 100 points, bid what you want but when you run out you are done. Most wanting to limit the moves felt this was too complicated . They have proposed a couple different ideas, going back to limited transactions to going to a pay system of $2 to $5 a transaction. I hate the limited moves and while I have no issue with $2 to the pot in theory the problem is through job changes and movements while we are still all on the same side of PA bar one guy, we don't all see each other that much other then a couple of us. It will be a nightmare for the treasurer to have to collect from guys and followup on.

I've given them until draft night to put out a proposal they (the ones wanting a change) agree on and we will vote, I doubt it passes with a majority but we will see.

Combine those two and you should make everybody happy - that is everyone gets 100 bid units - when that runs out they can still add free agents - at a cost of $x per transaction

Everyone still has access to the free agents and you increase the prize pool (only slightly I would guess)

 

[Captain Hook]

My league formed in 1992 and we've always had a first come/first served method of picking up free agents. It worked out pretty well until the last few years. Now it seems that there are guys who just wait till exactly 7:00 on Tuesday nights and grab anyone they want.

We switched to Yahoo for this season and they have some free agent and waiver wire options I'm not familiar with. One is a money/bid system. The other is a 'rolling' system.

What system have you found to work the best and be the most fair?

FA bidding is the fairest and the best