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#1700	10/18/2012 12:05:57 pm		Ignore
Ajax Joined: 05/24/2012 Posts: 110 Inactive	Since you have players on waivers and we can view them in searches now, allow waiver claims Replace the unavailable sign block with a submit waiver block. Then make a list of all teams that submit a waiver claim during the waiver period. At the end of waivers, award the player to the team that has the oldest waiver claim. To start things rolling you would have to use earliest bid to decide when 2 or more teams have no prior waiver claims. This would change the game some from a race to the FA button after players come off waivers. Would also add a tactical element of whether to use your waiver or not to keep an older waiver claim date for a better player down the road
#1701	10/18/2012 2:12:50 pm
admin Joined: 01/27/2010 Posts: 4985 Administrator	Part of the reason to have a random wavier period was so players would become available at a random time thus making it more fair for everyone trying to sign them. Before you could just log in after the bot updates and pick from the best of the new free agents. Steve
#1706	10/18/2012 7:55:11 pm		Ignore
tc_ferdzz Joined: 11/13/2011 Posts: 135 Inactive	i like the waiver claim...but isn't the point of waivers is that it looks at all the teams who make a claim and give it to the team that is the worst?...therefore trying to create a balance in the league buy giving the hurting team a chance to hurt less... i like the waivers...but i say of all the teams that claim...give the player to the team with the lowest team rating... even if the best team put in a claim as soon as the player was released...and the worst team put their claim in 5 days later...
#1707	10/18/2012 9:02:49 pm		Ignore
Ajax Joined: 05/24/2012 Posts: 110 Inactive	That would make sense if we were all in the same league. But because teams from different leagues are competing from the same players, choosing the worst team rating would make it so Div I, II, or III teams never got a waiver pickup because the higher division teams hold a stronger team rating.
#1715	10/20/2012 12:28:25 pm		Ignore
tc_ferdzz Joined: 11/13/2011 Posts: 135 Inactive	well... A) doesn't the team in the lower leagues need this small advantage over the higher leagues? B)this is not entirely true due to the fact that some lower league teams might choose to forgo taking a player because of financial restraint... plus...say the waiver lengths are restricted to only a couple of days...some people might just miss the waiver period altogether allowing the high leagues to get some players...
#1716	10/21/2012 7:37:19 am		Ignore
clodhopper Joined: 06/15/2012 Posts: 7 Inactive	I like the idea of waiver claims. TC has some good points about the lowest rated team getting an advantage. Here is how the MLB does it: If a player is waived, any team may claim him. If more than one team claims the player from waivers, the team with the weakest record in the player's league gets preference. If no team in the player's league claims him, the claiming team with the weakest record in the other league gets preference. In the first month of the season, preference is determined using the previous year's standings.
#1808	10/31/2012 3:36:30 pm		Ignore
thevinster Joined: 10/25/2012 Posts: 22 Inactive	So maybe give teams in the newly released player's league priority, then teams in the same division, then go down every division until a team with a claim is found. Then go by worst record. Although I'm sure it would be difficult to make such a system.
#1811	11/01/2012 1:33:01 pm
admin Joined: 01/27/2010 Posts: 4985 Administrator	Ultimately, I think we need to move to a bid system...but that's a ways off. Steve

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