Waiver - Allow commissioner to use continuous waivers with custom free agent periods
This waiver setting would allow the commissioner to use 'Continuous' waivers but also be able to select days that all players are free agents. For example, the league uses continuous waivers (players always on waivers) and the waivers process each night but on Thursdays, Sundays, and Mondays all players will be free agents and be eligible to be picked up in the event a team needs a substitute.
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Darren Schweitzer commented
Look, I have an experienced, long-term league, and we've realized continuous waivers is the fairest format from Wednesday through Saturday for pickups. Otherwise, people with a Twitter feed and no life get the best free agent adds once an injury gets reported.
The issue with this format, though, is that continuous waivers forces all league members to win their claims on Saturday night, or else they're screwed come Sunday if they experience game time injuries and the like.
Please, please, please allow us to have a Sunday game time free agents option under the continuos waiver model. Right now, I, as commissioner, have to process
people text messaging me on Sunday on a first come
,first served basis, so that I can override the system and add Sunday morning free agent adds to teams.Sleeper already had this option! If Yahoo added it, we wouldn't even be considering changing platforms. PLEASE add this option. Thank you!
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Sam Chama commented
Continuous waiver options, aka daily waivers, at the same time as players locked at game time until Tuesday.
Continuous waivers are the most equitable waiver system, but since there is only one option for waiver type, there is no game-time lock. The game-time lock, with continuous waivers, would be optimal in order to maintain the traditional waiver system that has managers competing with one another for the best pickups.
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Russell Simpkins commented
I definitely agree. Continuous waivers are needed because with phone alerts its BS that the guy whos job allows him to be on the phone are able to pick guys up first when news breaks. But I hate how you need to switch it to where we are allowed to pick up a FA on game day if news breaks as well. MAKE THIS CHANGE PLEASE!
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Tom Kirk commented
Lame idea! Only the unprepared need this change made. This need you have can and should be filled by the owners Bench players. Bad roster management is the real culprit. I bet all these guys that want this are generally hoarding 8 and 9 RBs on his bench. Balance your bench positions people.
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Brian Donahue commented
Continues/Game-Time Hybrid!!!
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Brian Donahue commented
Yes this is a huge issue Yahoo needs to address.
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Mike Reilly commented
AGREE AGAIN. Waiver system needs a fix
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John McGoldrick commented
Yes please something like this, or at least where preseason is continuous waivers and then it shifts to gametime-tues before the reg season without having to using commish access to change the rules.
Already this preseason there has been josh gordon news and last year adrian peterson. Need a system so its not first come first serve on these but can do gameday add drops as well
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Anonymous commented
For waivers, I would add a pre-determined option setting that all players come off waivers one hour before kickoff of first weekend game. This can eliminate gamesmanship in leagues where teams pick up and drop players in the same week they have no intention of keeping to block other people from picking up those players.
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Anonymous commented
The options for waivers are very limited, either running Tuesday PM or players always stay on waivers (continuous). We'd like to run waivers on multiple days, but still enable "free for all" on game day so owners aren't stuck waiting for waivers.
If we could get the above change, that would be awesome. Beyond that, I believe it should be built in that, on a day that a player has a game, they are removed from waivers. This allows owners to make moves on Thursday night prior to the game if needed, while the players not in the game are still on waivers.
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Erich Nussbaum commented
I love this idea
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Brent Jones commented
Our league ended up just manually implementing this idea and it has worked great, although obviously it would be better if Yahoo just offered it as a default option.
On Wednesdays at Noon, the commissioner manually sets the waiver rule as "Continuous" (all players are always on waivers and they process Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday) until Sunday at 9:00 AM, at which time the commissioner manually changes the waiver rule to "Game Time-Tuesday" and all players become free agents until their game starts. This has allowed flexibility to still make last minute roster moves on Sunday mornings, but also doesn't give an unfair advantage during the week when some people aren't as able to hear breaking fantasy news as quickly as others and they lose out on adding important players and others get them for free.
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jaredrosenzweig commented
Continuous waivers that are processed at noon everyday would easily solve this problem. Seems like an easy fix. ESPN has this feature, not sure why yahoo doesn’t. My league switched to espn after using yahoo for 18 years because of this one difference. Yahoo would be our preferred choice if this were to change.
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R J K commented
Please Add. Continuous waivers would be perfect if game day free agency (Sunday) could be added post waiver processing that day
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Brent Jones commented
Hybrid all the way! We even named it for ya
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Sean Ingebretson commented
Yeah this guys right.
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Nolan Hodapp commented
Yes, please get this figured out. So, essentially the continuous waivers would end Sunday morning and allow for free-reign in pickups/drops until they go back on waivers at game time.
Continuous/Game-Time HYBRID
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Brent Jones commented
Give us the option to have continuous waivers except from 4:00 AM Sunday (when waivers process overnight) until game-time. This allows people to make last-minute roster moves when players are unexpectedly ruled out on gameday.
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Andy Nordstrum commented
Waiver periods make it fair so everyone has a chance to bid on a new free agent. However, the normal waivers process on Wednesday morning after the Sun/Mon games. Even if I put the minimal waiver time (1 day), it won't unlock those dropped players until AFTER the Thursday games. It seems pretty ridiculous that a player that is dropped in the wee hours of Wednesday morning couldn't be picked up until the following week simply because they play on Thursday. For example: NYJ defense dropped during normal waivers (Wed a.m.). NYJ play Thursday against Browns. NYJ defense not available until NEXT WEDNESDAY. That is stupid.
All players on waivers should process to free agents at a set time the NEXT DAY if your waiver period is 1 day. Say like 9a CST to give everyone ample time to check.
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Steve Huslig commented
That is not possible.