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by COZ » Sun May 22, 2016 11:32 pm
Interesting comments. I didn't realize so many people were in favor of one FAAB period on Friday and I wasn't looking to change the whole FAAB set-up but just to recognize the NFL news cycles which, to me, are always the Wed- Friday practices and the subsequent media reports that come out after those practices and to recognize that little if any new NFL news comes out on a Saturday morning. Anyways, after reading all the comments and thinking through things I can see pushing the deadline to Saturday morning is likely not feasible given the opposition to it but I still would love to see the deadline pushed back to 1:00 AM (or 12:00 AM EST). Here is my summary of the suggested ideas and my thoughts on it:
1) One FAAB Deadline on Friday:
POSITIVES: Allows us to make better and more informed decisions as to bidding and allows us two full days of the most important news cycles of the week with the Thursday & Friday practice news & media reports. Gives us a week to get a better feel for the upcoming games & match-ups and, as importantly, a bit of a break from Fantasy Football during the week so we're fresh and looking forward to the next FAAB period. This is, after all, supposed to be fun, not drudgery, right?
NEGATIVES: The biggest negative, in my opinion, is we would be forced to make Thursday line-up decisions without knowing exactly who all our players will be for the week because FAAB has yet to run. This could cause some difficult decisions weighing your Thursday starter against an unkown. Wouldn't people default to playing their Thursday player for fear of not getting a player they may be targeting on waivers on Friday? Secondly, can we really have an equitable contest where we may be excluded from bidding on players for the Thursday game (unless you do it the Friday before, which I don't think is realistic option given the unknown injury issues and other variables that may occur over the weekend prior to the Thursday game). Third, as someone stated, we lose that clean up waiver period if you made a mistake and are prevented from assessing things after the dust settles and will result in longer bid strings, etc.
2)Dropping Thursday Players Who Were Benched
POSITIVES: On its face, its seems fair and logical... I didn't play him, he was on my bench so I should be able to drop him. No harm, no foul. Allows us freedom to use the waiver wire if we decide we didn't want to start a player and not be punished just because he had a game on Thursday. I think maybe we need to view this more in the sense that an owner is punished by not being able to drop a player who he consciously made the decision to bench (instead of viewing it as an advantage that he gets a "free look").
NEGATIVES: An owner as stated previously gets a free look into the Thursday game before deciding whether or not to drop a player. Players could, if in a particular important match-up, essentially pick-up a Thursday player and block another owner from that player, and then subsequently bench that player on Thursday, drop him on Friday, and essentially gain the benefit of two players and two games out of one roster space, albeit a bench spot.
3) Pushing Back FAAB Deadline: This was my main issue for starting the thread and I wasn't even trying to change the Wednesday deadline, just to push the Friday deadline to late Saturdaymorning. To me, I think we need to start viewing how the NFL news cycles operate. The main news cycles, other than the obvious Sunday morning & Monday, is the Wed. - Friday practice reports and then the media reporting after practice. My main issue, with both FAAB deadlines on weekdays, and with the main news cycle being 2:00 PM EST - 8:00 PM EST is that I would like more time to process the news cycle and not feel rushed. And telling someone to "just do waivers on Thursday, then" BEFORE the day's news-cycle has completed is not realistic. The facts is, with NFL news, ya can't simply put in your claims one day and not check back the day waivers run. I understand people want to go to bed, don't want to be up all night, etc. But if ya view our FAAB deadlines based on that day's news-cycle, no new news is coming out after 10:00 PM EST. The main news cycle has already occurred. I would love a 1:00 PM EST (or even 12:00 PM EST) just to be able to do waivers at my leisure and not get, home, watch NFL Insiders, eat, and do waivers and feel rushed. Anyone who has played on ESPN or CBS or myriad other sites all run their waivers in the middle of the night. It's an accepted norm by most Fantasy players, not sure why we can't adopt that here.
COZ'S SUMMARY: While I was initially against changing the current set-up mainly because it would essentially exclude Thursday night players from waivers and it would make line-up decisions more difficult if you have a Thursday night player while not knowing who will be on your team before waivers run. However, I think maybe we are blowing out of proportion the negatives on both potential rule changes. Having said that, I will play whichever way Greg & Tom feels is most fair and equitable and would totally understand keeping things as is. But the more I think about it, having one waiver period on Fridays and not having to deal with this BS during the week sounds damn appealing to me. And for me, the benefits of one Friday waiver period outweighs any of the potential negatives.
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