Waivers - Customizable waiver processing time.
This will allow commissioners to choose when their league's waivers process. Currently, there is no option to change what time waivers run.
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Alan Geiger
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I would like to recommend that Yahoo adds a commissioner setting for waivers to Wednesday night versus the current Tuesday night. Why are we running waivers on Tuesday night when all of the injury news comes out on Wednesday. We should be giving ourselves the collective benefit to the league, potentially waste FAAB $ on Tuesday when we hear different injury news on Wednesday that would have allowed all of us to change our bids around. Make all dropped players a Free Agent so you can pick up a Thursday player and we as Manager's need to strategize on dropping a player.
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Chris Doherty
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The huge problem is players dropped on Wednesday morning (standard 1-day waiver) cannot be picked up prior to Thursday games. It is occasionally annoying, but especially on Thanksgiving week.
I would love the ability to have beginning week waivers process at midnight Tuesday/Wednesday, so that dropped players were available on Thursday. -
Eugene Burgess
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Can you add a 24 hour option for Waiver Interval. Currently the options are no time interval, 1 day, 2 days, etc. If a player is dropped on the Tuesday - Wednesday waiver period, Thursday is counted as the first full day, so, players are claimed Friday and miss the Thursday game. If you add a 24 hr option, everyone still has the same chance to enter a claim on Wednesday. You snooze, you lose.
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chris wood
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Just to illustrate this with a current example: Let's say the Trey Lance owner is desperate for a QB and Cleveland's Jacoby Brissett was dropped when this week's waiver process ran (Wednesday @3AM). Brissett would clear on Friday @3AM, which be of no use to the Lance owner as Brissett plays Thursday night. Brissett's entire week 3 would just disappear as far as availability goes, because no one could grab him. And what's available currently in Yahoo's general league settings for "time players are on waivers" is "no waivers" (player becomes available the moment he's dropped) or "1 day" (which is actually 48 hours/two days). Doesn't make sense. Give commissioners a true 24-hour/1 day waiver option, please.
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chris wood
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Just finished a chat discussion with Yahoo about waiver wire delays and was informed that, even though our league selected the "1 day" option for the time players are on waivers, it is effectively (and actually) 2 days because the timer apparently doesn't start until a new day begins (so a player released during the normal weekly waiver process at 3AM on Wednesday wouldn't be available until 3AM on Friday, 48 hours later). I suggest that you give commissioners the option for an actual 24-hour setting. What happens now is that if a player is released Wednesday morning and plays that Thursday night, they're effectively out of the player pool for an extra week. Also, and oddly, Yahoo gives commissioners the ability to "Edit Waiver Dates," and it is here that we can manually change the availability on individual players to Thursday (1 day). It's odd that Yahoo would recognize this (correctly) as a single day here but not in the general settings.
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Drew Ziegler
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Everyone in my league wants 1 Day Waivers to actually be 1 Day. Wednesday to Thursday is 1 Day. Wednesday to Friday is 2 Days. This simple fix would make waivers a lot better and would make them match what is selected.
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Drew Ziegler
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Our League has Time Players Are On Waivers set for 1 Day. However, when a waiver claims process around 1:00am Wednesday Morning, the dropped players become available for claims on Friday morning. That is 2 Days on waivers, not 1. Please make the time on Waivers for 1 Day, actually 1 Day. With Thursday Night Football, it makes more players available.
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Josiah Chappell
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This needs to happen asap
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Eric Marro
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Having people setting their alarms for 2AM to get the high prize FAs is ridiculous. Allow us to set the time for our leagues waivers to run. Yahoo is the best platform, but startups like Sleeper are stealing market share because of Yahoo's outdated settings. Yahoo should be matching what Sleeper is doing. Get with it Yahoo!
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Mark Price
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This needs to be implemented in all leagues. It doesn't make any sense for early risers to get such a distinct advantage. People work different hours.
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Matthew Price
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This is paramount for the competitive balance in our leagues. We have people that wake up early for work and make moves for the hottest players at 5am. I don't wake up til 7 and there are already 5-6 moves made that morning.
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Jason Crawford
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LETS DO THIS YAHOO!!!!!
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Jason Crawford
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Lets do this yahoo. you proved it was possible last year....2020.
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Jason Crawford
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Lett us bid on WED night. There is no need to keep having us bid on Tuesday night. That is so old school. Let's keep up with other paltforms.
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Gregory Nelson
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Each NFL team by rule must announce their injury reports on Wednesdays. Until then we have no knowledge of injuries directly prior to us doing our Waivers on Tuesdays. By delaying 1 day it would make the process smoother and people would be able to place waivers for the appropriately uninjured players. I know for a fact that many people i talk to have used other Fantasy Apps/Websites due to this very reason. I find your system superior but this is a big sticking point for people that enjoy maximizing the waiver lists and not settling for hopefully uninjured players. Thank You
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John Cirillo
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I am a commish for 3 leagues on yahoo and would love the ability to set the waiver processing time to "Game time - Wednesday". Practice and injury reports only start to come out on Wednesday, so in order to place waivers with the most amount of information available, I would like waivers to be processed on Wednesday night as opposed to Tuesday. If this isn't changed for next season, i will be taking my leagues to another site. I really don't want to - we love yahoo fantasy - but we need some more customizable options.
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Billy Collins
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I think it should be pushed to about 10 or 11 AM est. Currently it process at like 1 AM pst, so all the free agent players are gone by the time I wake up.
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Kurt Lavetti
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The waiver clearing time of 12 PT is biased in favor of people on the west coast, who can stay up untill 12 and pick up free agents. On the east coast few casual players are able to stay up until 3AM ET to have the same option.
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Jason Crawford
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Hello, i emailed this recommendation last off season. Right now we are forced to do Tuesday night bidding. Players are on waivers sunday/ game time- tuesday. Can you please add an option where we can do waivers sunday/game time - wed. We want the extra day to make our bids and do our research. You were able to incorporate this change mid season due to covid. BUT...you kept toggling it back and forth all season. Please add this FAAB bidding option for us. Our league is very long running. Please listen to our feedback to help make our league and the platform better. I commsion an ESPN league and we have the option. I play on the FFPC platform and the first bidding night is wed night, not tuesday. Please and thank you
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Josh Tenzer
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The waiver type choices are very slim. It would be better for many leagues if we can have more control over the process. For example, making the FAAB bidding time longer or shorter.
having more granular controls of this will stop leagues like mine from starting to look for a new site so we can customize the settings to our liking.