Yahoo Waiver Rules Glitch? (1 Viewer)

[tpimental]

Some one picked up and then dropped Jones-Drew within an hour yesterday in my Yahoo League. For some reason, when I picked him up early this morning, it did not go through the typical 2-day waiver list and my waiver priority was not effected. I thought it was odd at the time, but assumed Yahoo was preventing the guy who picked him up/dropped him from screwing people out of waiver priority.

My commissioner (also the guy who dropped him) noticed this and is now asking people with better priority than me if they want him saying that it was a glitch. He also says he will manually alter my waiver priority if I do end up with him.

Any idea if this is a glitch or an actual Yahoo rule to prevent people from add/dropping players? I don't mind if this is legitimately a bug with Yahoo, but I don't want to needlessly lose my priority.

Thanks!

 

[Texican]

I'm pretty sure you can't drop and pick someone up right away on Yahoo. At least not in baseball, and if I recall correctly not in football.

I do not think there was any glitch at all.

Anyways, doesn't your new WW priority come out tomorrow after MNF?

 

[dlux]

it's not a glitch, that's how yahoo has it set up. it's to prevent adding and dropping so opponents can't pick up players. i.e. i pick up and drop 8 kickers when your kickeri s on bye to screw you over.

 

[tpimental]

it's not a glitch, that's how yahoo has it set up. it's to prevent adding and dropping so opponents can't pick up players. i.e. i pick up and drop 8 kickers when your kickeri s on bye to screw you over.

Dlux... do you have a link to prove this?

 

[bigfeet_88]

I believe this rule applies:

3. If you pick up a player, but later realize you did not want him on your team, you may immediately waive him. However, you can only claim and waive the same player two times every 24 hours.

Link

Basically, you have to roster the player for at least 24 hours, before it is considered a drop to waivers. Otherwise, the drop goes back to the FA pool.

 

[bjabrad]

so was the commish purposely trying to work the Yahoo system so that this player was put into the waiver system and therefore only be available to the high waiver priority teams? If this is the case that is against the good sportsmanship rules of Yahoo.

All league-related transactions will be executed with the intent of improving the owner's team or its standing within the league.

No owner may drop or "dump" players from their team for any reason other than improving their own team or its standing within the league.

No owner will engage in any action that might be deemed to be collusive (two or more owners agreeing to make moves that benefit one team, but not the other).

No owner will make any roster moves (including waiver claims, trade proposals, etc.) whose sole purpose is to hamper the play of other owners.

No owner will take any action whose purpose is to, in any way, interfere with fair play in a league.

Why pick him up only to drop him minutes later? Did he need to drop him to pick up somebody else or just to make sure that the sharks that were paying attention didn't get him?

I doubt this is a Yahoo glitch and more likely a feature of their set up. I would contact Yahoo support and ask them if this is a glitch and when they come back and tell you it's a part of their rules you can take that info to the league and tell them to give you back your player since you were operating within the Yahoo rules and he was available to everyone in the league whether they knew it or not.

 

[secretid]

Yeah, I dunno if it's 24 hours so much as it is holding him during the changeover between days (midnight pacific).

It's intentionally set up to not put them on waivers if they're not held for a day.

My commish tried to circumvent this (inexplicably) with a sort of manual waivers and a rule that said "don't be a jerk about add/drops."

I cycled through 3 kickers as I kept changing my mind and my opponent for the week picked one of them up and beat me by less than that PK scored. The commish ignored my requests for a ruling before finally saying I violated the don't be a jerk clause. After that we all started ignoring manual waivers. Ugh.

 

[tpimental]

My commish wasn't trying to be a jerk, he dropped him to pick up Gore's backup. I just want some Yahoo rule text that says it wasn't a glitch so I don't lose my waiver priority needlessly... in his defense, if it was a glitch he's just trying to be fair to the league and I don't mind losing it or the player.

So far no one has really proven this either way.

 

[posty]

I can find it right now in the rules, but if you pickup and cut the same player the same "day", he will not be placed on waivers but will be available for immediate pickup... Yahoo made this rule last year during the baseball season to avoid waiver wire "churning", which is a Yahoo no-no...

 

[Sopranos]

I believe this rule applies:

3. If you pick up a player, but later realize you did not want him on your team, you may immediately waive him. However, you can only claim and waive the same player two times every 24 hours.

Link

Basically, you have to roster the player for at least 24 hours, before it is considered a drop to waivers. Otherwise, the drop goes back to the FA pool.

Makes sense.. Our league went through this with K and Def last season..You can block alot of teams and people did do it..Its a solid NEW rule

 

[Fanatics]

This rule is not new, it was in force within Yahoo last season as well.

I for one would like to see Yahoo lock all players once the games have started and then after the week's game are done, re-rank the waiver order based on record/points...as it is done on CBS Sportsline.

 

[Homer]

Some one picked up and then dropped Jones-Drew within an hour yesterday in my Yahoo League. For some reason, when I picked him up early this morning, it did not go through the typical 2-day waiver list and my waiver priority was not effected. I thought it was odd at the time, but assumed Yahoo was preventing the guy who picked him up/dropped him from screwing people out of waiver priority.My commissioner (also the guy who dropped him) noticed this and is now asking people with better priority than me if they want him saying that it was a glitch. He also says he will manually alter my waiver priority if I do end up with him.Any idea if this is a glitch or an actual Yahoo rule to prevent people from add/dropping players? I don't mind if this is legitimately a bug with Yahoo, but I don't want to needlessly lose my priority.Thanks!

I don't think it's a glitch, as I TRIED picking someone up and then immediately dropping them this year to try and prevent somebody else from jumping on them when I didn't have the roster space, and the result was also that the dropped player that I had just picked up didn't show up on waivers either. Looks to me like yahoo has tweaked things this year to prevent people from doing exactly that. Probably a good idea.

 

[Jmon]

My commish wasn't trying to be a jerk, he dropped him to pick up Gore's backup. I just want some Yahoo rule text that says it wasn't a glitch so I don't lose my waiver priority needlessly... in his defense, if it was a glitch he's just trying to be fair to the league and I don't mind losing it or the player.So far no one has really proven this either way.

There were players in Yahoo fantasy baseball in head to head leagues picking up and dropping all the available starting pitchers to freeze out the opposition and the rules was implemented to prevent that strategy.

 

[djb916420]

This is the reason why I do not do money leagues on yahoo