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Highest number of waiver moves made this year


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We have a commish that swore up and down that he would follow the lead of the regular winners and keep it to a minimum. He has made 14 as of today. Stupid add/drops too, like picking up Al Harris and then dropping him 2 hours later for Courtland Finnegan, like he will have the same game this week. We have no fee or anything and it is rarely an issue, but it is annoying.

 

He made 115 last year.

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That looks like waiver-wire churning, an unethical practice of picking up then quickly dropping players for the purpose of preventing of another team from a legitimate pickup. Such actions should be disallowed in the rules. (such as you have to keep any picked-up player until the following week)

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Like I said it never really ammounts to much, he always gets these players that dont mean crap. I have mentioned this stuff before and nobody really thinks it affects much, again because of the players he picks up. Courtland Finnegan?

 

 

I also forgot to include his two brothers, combined together their moves were about the same as the rest of the league combined. Yes all three need to be puched in the face.

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We have a commish that swore up and down that he would follow the lead of the regular winners and keep it to a minimum. He has made 14 as of today. Stupid add/drops too, like picking up Al Harris and then dropping him 2 hours later for Courtland Finnegan, like he will have the same game this week. We have no fee or anything and it is rarely an issue, but it is annoying.

 

He made 115 last year.

he should have dropped harris for finnegan

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Guy in my league has made 14 as well. We don't use waivers though, first come first served so if he adds and drops repeatedly it makes no difference. He's also won more championships than anyone. He hardly ever drafts IDP guys or kickers and plays matchups week to week with em so that's why he has so many. He stashes quite a few backup type RBs and decent matchup type of WRs.

 

He's the most successful manager in our league though so can't really fault his tactics too much... although having LT as a keeper probably helped him haha

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We have a guy in one of my leagues that made 135 moves last year. And it costs a $1 a move but he doesn't care. He's won the league regular season title 2 years in a row. 1st year he lost in the SB and last year he lost in the SB to my team and he didn't have a single player on his roster that he drafted. We used to give all the waiver money to league winner so he always got his money back. This year it all goes to the SB winner.

ps-he's already made 15 moves this year including 2 trades.

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We have a guy in one of my leagues that made 135 moves last year. And it costs a $1 a move but he doesn't care. He's won the league regular season title 2 years in a row. 1st year he lost in the SB and last year he lost in the SB to my team and he didn't have a single player on his roster that he drafted. We used to give all the waiver money to league winner so he always got his money back. This year it all goes to the SB winner.

ps-he's already made 15 moves this year including 2 trades.

 

As long he is within league rules, np. And at a dollar a pop he is apparently willing to pay for his strategy. More power to him I guess.

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Start charging for transactions. In my league we have an escalating transaction fee structure.

 

Weeks 1 thru 5, 1st transaction is $1

Weeks 6+, 1st transaction is $5

 

Each week the 2nd+ transaction is $1 more than the previous transaction in that week.

 

So in week 1 if you make 3 roster moves it costs you $1 + $2 + $3 for a total of $6

In week 6 three roster moves costs you $5 + $6 + $7 for a total of $18

 

Roster churning comes to a screeching halt when owners have to pay.

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Start charging for transactions. In my league we have an escalating transaction fee structure.

 

Weeks 1 thru 5, 1st transaction is $1

Weeks 6+, 1st transaction is $5

 

Each week the 2nd+ transaction is $1 more than the previous transaction in that week.

 

So in week 1 if you make 3 roster moves it costs you $1 + $2 + $3 for a total of $6

In week 6 three roster moves costs you $5 + $6 + $7 for a total of $18

 

Roster churning comes to a screeching halt when owners have to pay.

 

Not sure it would slow this guy down too much. The only thing i think he'd do is stop the pick a guy up, drop him and pick him back up a few min later. :wacko: Yeah he has quite a few of these.

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If you don't have a waiver wire then it's not a big deal.

 

I've seen a couple guys in fantasy basketball rotate scrubs on their roster to get more games each week, that pisses me off. After the one year we put a limit on moves.

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That looks like waiver-wire churning, an unethical practice of picking up then quickly dropping players for the purpose of preventing of another team from a legitimate pickup. Such actions should be disallowed in the rules. (such as you have to keep any picked-up player until the following week)

All the leagues I'm in either have a cap on total waiver moves or a limited amount of "money" you can use to bid on players for the year. Just makes sense. It stops "waiver-wire churning".

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