Yahoo waivers (1 Viewer)

[lefteye]

Instructions:

For each day waivers are processed, players with the highest overall bids will be processed first. If there are matching high bids from different fantasy teams on multiple players the player on the team with the highest tiebreak order will be processed first. If there are matching highest bids from the fantasy team with the highest tiebreak rank the player with the highest waiver priority order will be processed first.

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While I've always assumed that it gave each owner a shot at a player and moved on, I don't think that's what that says. It appears that if I am 5th on the wire and don't get any of my 1st 4 guys, I can lose out on my 5th guy because the 6th guy ranked him 1st even though I haven't gotten anyone yet. Am I reading that right?

 

[JMon348]

Are they proccessing late for anyone else?

 

[bud reid gov job]

sounds to me that's only in the event of a matching bid.

 

[lefteye]

sounds to me that's only in the event of a matching bid.

Right, a matching bid. So if I'm 2nd on the wire, i may potentially get nobody because I rank brandon jackson 1st, vick 2nd, mark clayton 3rd etc. If somebody else has all those guys ranked as 1, I've been outbid everywhere!

 

[bud reid gov job]

is this auction blind bidding, or just waiver priority?

 

[The_Wolfman]

sounds to me that's only in the event of a matching bid.

Right, a matching bid. So if I'm 2nd on the wire, i may potentially get nobody because I rank brandon jackson 1st, vick 2nd, mark clayton 3rd etc. If somebody else has all those guys ranked as 1, I've been outbid everywhere!

No because once the #1 guy has a waiver processed he is moved to the end of the line. So for example, if he uses his waiver on Brandon Jackson, he will then move to waiver priority #10, making you the #1. So you would get Vick in that case.

 

[lefteye]

sounds to me that's only in the event of a matching bid.

Right, a matching bid. So if I'm 2nd on the wire, i may potentially get nobody because I rank brandon jackson 1st, vick 2nd, mark clayton 3rd etc. If somebody else has all those guys ranked as 1, I've been outbid everywhere!

No because once the #1 guy has a waiver processed he is moved to the end of the line. So for example, if he uses his waiver on Brandon Jackson, he will then move to waiver priority #10, making you the #1. So you would get Vick in that case.

Are you sure about that?

 

[senor peso 2006]

sounds to me that's only in the event of a matching bid.

Right, a matching bid. So if I'm 2nd on the wire, i may potentially get nobody because I rank brandon jackson 1st, vick 2nd, mark clayton 3rd etc. If somebody else has all those guys ranked as 1, I've been outbid everywhere!

No because once the #1 guy has a waiver processed he is moved to the end of the line. So for example, if he uses his waiver on Brandon Jackson, he will then move to waiver priority #10, making you the #1. So you would get Vick in that case.

Are you sure about that?

Yes, if you are going by waiver priority, the guy with top preference gets his top pick and then moves to the back of the line. Then the next in line gets their top pick who is avaliable.

 

[bizkliz]

interesting topic.

we had a similar situation in our main yahoo $ league, and it appeared as if the #1 waiver priority received each of the THREE players that he put a claim on.

we are still trying to figure out what happened, but the WW list does not read as if it went...

TEAM A: b. jackson

TEAM B: vick

TEAM C: collie...then (assuming only 3 teams put in bids)

TEAM A: cooley

TEAM B: etc.

instead...

it reads...

TEAM A: jackson

TEAM A: cooley

TEAM A: mcfadden

TEAM B: vick

TEAM B: etc.

hopefully im wrong, and i admit we are still trying to contact some other owners on west coast time. but still, it is a strange way to list the order of WW picks.

DID yahoo give the #1 WW owner a free reign to add and drop as he chooses until he is done making waiver wire add/drops? i ended up with fred taylor out of the 4 spot in this league, and I KNOW i had collie ahead of him...so under ANY circumstance, the guy #1 would not have gotten him unless yahoo dictated it as such (like i said jackson was his 1)

anybody else?

-biz-

 

[QUEZILLA]

The commish should straighten it out and give the 2nd, and 3rd teams the guys they wanted.

 

[Don't Noonan]

We had the same thing happen in our league this week. I had the # 1 priority and set Brandon Jackson as # 1, Vick # 2. I got both players in waivers. Another owner says he put in a claim for B. Jackson, Clayton, Vick, kicker and wound up getting the kicker. It looks like Yahoo gave me whovere I wanted for multiple claims and screwed over my league mate. I always assumed after getting B. Jackson I would move to the back of the waivers priority.

 

[footballnerd]

Yahoo's blind bidding system is messed up, last year another owner and I bid the same amount for a player and it gave player to him even though I had a better waiver ranking. When I tried to get Yahoo to explain or fix it, they just kept "pasting" the rules from the Yahoo help page, I'm pretty sure they had no idea how the system works. We now moved to MFL to get away from that BS.

By the way, that was my only bid for that week.

It happened again later that year, ironically I was the one that benefited from the system awarding the wrong team that time.

 

[GregR_2]

Instructions:For each day waivers are processed, players with the highest overall bids will be processed first. If there are matching high bids from different fantasy teams on multiple players the player on the team with the highest tiebreak order will be processed first. If there are matching highest bids from the fantasy team with the highest tiebreak rank the player with the highest waiver priority order will be processed first.Helpful HintTo optimize your bids, check other managers' remaining budgets.While I've always assumed that it gave each owner a shot at a player and moved on, I don't think that's what that says. It appears that if I am 5th on the wire and don't get any of my 1st 4 guys, I can lose out on my 5th guy because the 6th guy ranked him 1st even though I haven't gotten anyone yet. Am I reading that right?

I don't play on yahoo, but I think you're completely misreading it. It's bidding. It selects a 1 player at a time, looks at all teams who bid on the player, and gives the player to the highest bidding team. Then it moves on to the next player.What that blurb is talking about is the ORDER in which players are selected to resolve bidding on. In a conditional bidding system (like "I want to bid $5 on player A and only if I don't get him I want to bid $10 on player B), the order in which the players are resolved can change the outcome. So they are telling you how they select the player. The order matters for this reason. Take my example in paranthesis above. If bidding on Player A is resolved and you miss out on him, then it will count your bid on Player B when he comes up for bid. But if bidding on Player B is resolved first, since Player A is still available the "bid $10 on him if I don't get Player A" never gets considered. So Player B could go to someone for less than you were willing to pay because you had a valid condition still active above it. End result being you might lose out on both players even though you were willing to pay more for B than anyone else, solely because of the order the bidding was resolved. So that blurb explains to you how it determines the order.They find the highest bid made on any player and resolve bidding on that player first. I.e., someone bid $15 on Player A and no other player has a bid higher than $12, then Player A is awarded to a team first.If there is a tie for highest bid, the player who had the highest bid placed on him by the earliest waiver priority team is selected. I.e. second time around after Player A is gone.... there are bids of $12 on Player B by Team 1 and also a $12 bid on Player C by Team 2. The system looks at waiver priority and sees team 2 has higher priority. So Player C would be the next player resolved, followed by Player A.If that earliest waiver priority team has the high bid amount on more than on player, the player in his earliest round is resolved first.I.e. After Players A-C were resolved, the next highest bids are $10 on Player D by Team 1, $10 on Player E by Team 2, and $10 on Player F by Team 2. Team 2 has earlier waiver priority, but he has two players with the highest amount. Since Player E was the one listed higher in his rounds, Player E is resolved first, followed by Player F and then Player D.In each case though, the team with the high bid wins the player. Also note if it's conditional bidding, they would only look at the top valid bid in a given round. So going back to my original example, they would only look at the $5 on Player A since it is the valid bid at the top of your round there. It wouldn't consider your Player B bid when deciding which player to resolve next unless he's at the top of a round at the time it happens.