Don't change the waiver system for the playoffs-- or say you're going to. Right now, you offer 3 options for determining waiver priority. One of these says it's "Weekly rolling list based on standings." Apparently, however, once the playoffs start, it is NOT a weekly list; e.g. making a waiver claim in the semifinals causes you to LOSE your waiver priority for the NEXT week, in the finals. That's messed up. You should either reset the waiver priority every week in the playoffs, the same way that waivers run all season long (preferred fix), or, at a minimum, TELL players that the whole waiver priority system changes in the playoffs! Thank you.

In 10 team leagues, if you score the highest amount of points for the week, your record would be 9-0 for the week b/c you defeated the 9 other teams. If you have the second highest score, you'd be 8-1 for the week. Lowest points for the week, you'd be 0-9 for that week, etc.

'Overall points' leagues discourage weaker players from full season participation b/c sometimes the deficit is too great to overcome. In 'Head-to-head' leagues it has become increasingly frustrating to watch the highest or second highest scoring teams for the year have awful records b/c of horrible and almost improbable luck with how their 'opponent' for the week scores.

I think the 'combined records/All play' option allows for a 'more fair' fantasy league.

For example: Last year, through 8 games my team was 2-6, in the' H2H' format. But I had the best 'All play' record (59-13) out of the twenty teams in the leagues that I run.

How in the world does this happen?
My teams win % was .250. But I had the highest point total in my league and an 'All play' win % of .819.

This format would not extinguish hope for struggling teams and it would remove a lot of the improbable bad luck for the good teams in fantasy football.

Make this happen!!!!

Do NOT merge this into another post again. This problem has backing and deserves the priority it was earning.
I have seen NUMEROUS tweets come in to you today alone about this issue to where I was sent here for it. That issue is injury tagging before you have new information. There should not be tiers which designate who stays marked as out and who is not (i.e. Tyreek Hill vs. Tevin Coleman). Tevin Coleman was marked with a high ankle sprain and is expected out 2-6 weeks, yet on Tuesday, without the team (or anyone) displaying ANY sort of new information, you assumption tagged him as questionable. Why tag a player something when you don’t know the answer? It makes zero sense. Sleeper doesn’t have this issue, you shouldn’t either. Change the way you remove players from out. If there’s any report that a player could play next week, sure that’s viable, if the team states anything, also viable. But stop this complete nonsense of tagging players how you see fit by only “chance”. It’s infuriatingly unfair to your patrons.

My suggestion is allowing leagues to have both locked in waiver days as well as the ability to have one day open for FAs so owners are not left in the dark when a player is ruled out late. A FA timer and day selection which worked in conjunction with the Continuous Waiver Rule would be amazing.

Ex. Once you choose to have continuous waiver rules below is a Free Agent section that has the same days of the week listed. Once you choose a day or days you are given a start and stop option next to each of the day or days you chose with a drop-down to adjust the time. If you don't choose to add a time limit then it defaults to 24hours.

In my league this year we moved to a waiver strategy that has the waivers set to run only on Thursdays and Sunday's and at any other time players are on waivers and are never FAs. We did this because all the owners work full time in various professions and we no longer found it to be fair to allow any owner at any time to pick up a FA once the Thursday waivers had run. While the waiver policy ran successfully almost all year long there were a few instances were an owner was left out to dry because of a late scratch or not winning a player who is needed to start on Sunday or Monday and the new waiver structure prevented them from being able to pick anyone up last minute.

The suggested approach would keep all players on waivers all week long and only on Sunday would you open the pool of remaining players back up. I think this approach is the best of both worlds.

yahoo! team:

I play in a longstanding, very deep FFL on Yahoo. We run multiple players at each position (ex-IDP). One of the areas our league struggles with is how to handle having two kicker spots on our rosters.

We use FAAB for all waiver additions and our rules committee has gone back and forth on ways to bring fairness to situations where a kicker goes out without warning. Replacements are usually not rostered, unlike backup RBs, QBs, etc. Thus replacement kickers usually go for 300-500 FAAB, creating a significant handicap for these managers.

One solution we've discussed -- but not currently available in the game -- would be a team kicker option in league settings, similar to DST. This would allow players to draft/trade a team's kicker based on both perceived skill of the active kicker and team scoring opportunities while removing the 'luck' component that can arise with this position specifically. Examples this season are seen with Succop, Gostkowski, Badgley - inevitably there will be others. Our league drafts very late (Tuesday after Labor Day) and situations like Succop's are impossible to avoid.

Please consider writing code for a team kicker spot, we believe it would be a welcome enhancement for the game with relatively little back-end work needed.

Thanks,

Birk721@yahoo.com