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Not enough roster room ...


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I hate when there are free agents available that I want but can't find the roster room for them ... waivers ran in my local league today and I watched several players I coveted get picked up because I can't find the roster room. I even dropped my backup QB (so now I only have 1) to make a move.

 

Anybody else out there sitting on their roster dying as they watch coveted free agents get scooped up?

 

Anybody else playing with just 1 QB? I also only have 1 TE and 1 PK. I'm going to have some tough decisions soon (or maybe they won't be so tough when the time comes).

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Yes. I lobby every year to expand our rosters, but the league and the commish won't budge. I think it - in addition to our waiver rules - has the effect of rewarding crappy owners who draft crappy teams and bomb in the first couple of weeks. The combination of their losing records, low scores, and the fact that our waivers reset to worst record each week allows these crap owners to level the playing field by seeing how the large FA pool plays in the first month.

 

In the past two seasons, I've had solid to good teams that started out hot then missed the playoffs due to injuries and being unable to grab the early-season surprise stud (ie, Miles Austin). I think the winner of our league the past two seasons has started 0-2. Certainly they lost their opener.

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Yes. I lobby every year to expand our rosters, but the league and the commish won't budge. I think it - in addition to our waiver rules - has the effect of rewarding crappy owners who draft crappy teams and bomb in the first couple of weeks. The combination of their losing records, low scores, and the fact that our waivers reset to worst record each week allows these crap owners to level the playing field by seeing how the large FA pool plays in the first month.

 

In the past two seasons, I've had solid to good teams that started out hot then missed the playoffs due to injuries and being unable to grab the early-season surprise stud (ie, Miles Austin). I think the winner of our league the past two seasons has started 0-2. Certainly they lost their opener.

 

Miles Austin is "an early surprise stud" :wacko:

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Last year, I would certainly say yes. He didn't do jack until Week 5, then scored 10 times in the next 10 games. Am I missing something here?

 

 

Huddle's 2009 cheet sheet at him at the 78th ranked WR...

 

 

 

So no... you're not missing anything...

 

http://www.thehuddle.com/myHuddle/2009/ccs...%20Performance/

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Both leagues I play in (12 teams) have 16 man rosters. One league has 8 starters, one league has 9.

 

I can never pick up enough sleepers, then bye weeks come and it is even worse.

 

But every draft, most owners act like finding 16 rounds worth of players is a major chore...

 

It helps if you have a couple every week starters both at RB or both at WR, then you can leave that position thinner and load up on sleepers at the other position.

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Drafting Kolb as my QB1 has killed my ability to pick up guys off waivers, as I can't bring myself to drop him. Due to the inherent QB uncertainty I've got, I've also had to pick up 2 other QBs to make sure that nobody else grabs them - burning 3 roster spots on QBs is crippling. Given Orton's performance and the makeup of that offense thus far, though, I might be bidding adieu to the Philly QB later this week - depends who is available on the FA market after waivers are processed.

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Yes. I lobby every year to expand our rosters, but the league and the commish won't budge. I think it - in addition to our waiver rules - has the effect of rewarding crappy owners who draft crappy teams and bomb in the first couple of weeks. The combination of their losing records, low scores, and the fact that our waivers reset to worst record each week allows these crap owners to level the playing field by seeing how the large FA pool plays in the first month.

 

In the past two seasons, I've had solid to good teams that started out hot then missed the playoffs due to injuries and being unable to grab the early-season surprise stud (ie, Miles Austin). I think the winner of our league the past two seasons has started 0-2. Certainly they lost their opener.

 

you'd sleep better at night with blind bidding waivers. Convince your league to switch.

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Last year, I would certainly say yes. He didn't do jack until Week 5, then scored 10 times in the next 10 games. Am I missing something here?

 

When he got the job last year he excelled ... I never saw him projected out of the top 10 of WRs for 2010 ... he never made it past the 3rd round of any of my league ... so I find it hard to call his performance this year "a surprise".

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Yes. I lobby every year to expand our rosters, but the league and the commish won't budge. I think it - in addition to our waiver rules - has the effect of rewarding crappy owners who draft crappy teams and bomb in the first couple of weeks. The combination of their losing records, low scores, and the fact that our waivers reset to worst record each week allows these crap owners to level the playing field by seeing how the large FA pool plays in the first month.

 

In the past two seasons, I've had solid to good teams that started out hot then missed the playoffs due to injuries and being unable to grab the early-season surprise stud (ie, Miles Austin). I think the winner of our league the past two seasons has started 0-2. Certainly they lost their opener.

 

i am commissioner of a 12-team league with 15-man rosters. what you see as a detriment, i see as a plus. having quality players on the waiver wire means the teams at the bottom have a chance to stay competitive. and it's not always crappy owners who bomb -- someone with kolb, grant and reggie bush on their team could be in last place because of bad luck, not bad drafting. perhaps the commissioner won't budge because he knows how much of a pain it is to replace owners who lose interest and quit because anyone worth claiming off waivers is already being stashed on 17- or 18-man rosters.

 

by the way, last year we had 16-men rosters plus 1 IR spot; this year, we have 15-man rosters, no IR. we had five trades all of last season; this year, we've had five trades in the first two weeks.

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When he got the job last year he excelled ... I never saw him projected out of the top 10 of WRs for 2010 ... he never made it past the 3rd round of any of my league ... so I find it hard to call his performance this year "a surprise".

 

who said this year? he's talking about last year.

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When he got the job last year he excelled ... I never saw him projected out of the top 10 of WRs for 2010 ... he never made it past the 3rd round of any of my league ... so I find it hard to call his performance this year "a surprise".

what part of "last year" do you keep missing? :wacko:

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