Is It Time to Move the 2nd FAAB Period to Saturday?
Posted: Wed May 18, 2016 10:37 pm
I think it's time we move the 2nd FAAB Period to Saturdays.
In a contest where we pay a significant amount of money in entry fees, the goal should be for all of us to have the opportunity to play with an optimal line-up, to have enough time to process Friday afternoon practice and injury information, and to have time to sift through waivers without having to rush home from work on a weekday and make critical decisions.
In a contest where we only have 13 weeks of play before the playoffs, each week is critical, each line-up decision is critical and waivers and injury information often released late Friday plays a particularly important role in this decision-making process. Furthermore, in a sport and a contest where injuries play such a critical role, it is even more imperative that we be given the opportunity to adjust to late-breaking injury information, yet we have a day and a half between the 2nd FAAB deadline to setting our line-ups. In the NFBC & NFBKC, where waivers are Sunday nights with line-ups set the next day, there is less than a 24 hour gap in time. Further, the NFFC is the only contest where waivers are on weeknights, with no weekend where most people are not working and thus have more time to dedicate to processing information and doing the time-consuming waiver process. And frankly, it is a drag to have to come home from work and focus on this on Fridays with a deadline looming. Obviously, the Wednesday deadline is inevitable, but why can we not move the 2nd Waiver deadline to Saturday @1:00 PM EST just to give us a Saturday morning to process things?
I am totally in agreement with having an acceptable cut-off time so we are all not held prisoner to waivers all day Saturday, but this is a High Stakes Contest and I often feel our hands are tied by arbitrary deadlines without giving us full use of a weekend day and a sizeable gap in time between our 2nd deadline and when we set line-ups. Giving us the opportunity to have the best and most up-to-date information and moving this to a weekend day when most people have more free time and are not rushing home from work, I think would be a benefit to all of the players and improve the contest.
COZ
In a contest where we pay a significant amount of money in entry fees, the goal should be for all of us to have the opportunity to play with an optimal line-up, to have enough time to process Friday afternoon practice and injury information, and to have time to sift through waivers without having to rush home from work on a weekday and make critical decisions.
In a contest where we only have 13 weeks of play before the playoffs, each week is critical, each line-up decision is critical and waivers and injury information often released late Friday plays a particularly important role in this decision-making process. Furthermore, in a sport and a contest where injuries play such a critical role, it is even more imperative that we be given the opportunity to adjust to late-breaking injury information, yet we have a day and a half between the 2nd FAAB deadline to setting our line-ups. In the NFBC & NFBKC, where waivers are Sunday nights with line-ups set the next day, there is less than a 24 hour gap in time. Further, the NFFC is the only contest where waivers are on weeknights, with no weekend where most people are not working and thus have more time to dedicate to processing information and doing the time-consuming waiver process. And frankly, it is a drag to have to come home from work and focus on this on Fridays with a deadline looming. Obviously, the Wednesday deadline is inevitable, but why can we not move the 2nd Waiver deadline to Saturday @1:00 PM EST just to give us a Saturday morning to process things?
I am totally in agreement with having an acceptable cut-off time so we are all not held prisoner to waivers all day Saturday, but this is a High Stakes Contest and I often feel our hands are tied by arbitrary deadlines without giving us full use of a weekend day and a sizeable gap in time between our 2nd deadline and when we set line-ups. Giving us the opportunity to have the best and most up-to-date information and moving this to a weekend day when most people have more free time and are not rushing home from work, I think would be a benefit to all of the players and improve the contest.
COZ
It does seem if you moved it to Sat it wouldn't really hurt, if you can get all your adds/drops in on Friday then you're free to do what you want on Saturday. If you had a busy week and need some drinks Friday you can do that then put them in Sat. I don't really care either way, Friday adds that help are once a year at most for me and I think I do more leagues than anyone on this site and I never give up on teams, even last place ones. I'd by far prefer just once a week adds/drops, by far the worst part of FF to me.