Goopster24 Posted November 7, 2010 Share Posted November 7, 2010 During the playoffs, are you allowed to pickup players? Does waivers/free agent pickups only include the teams in the playoffs? Curious to see how leagues do this. My home league has done a "freeze" during the playoffs but now people are resisting that idea. Cool either way, just wanted to see what people do. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
historymike Posted November 7, 2010 Share Posted November 7, 2010 During the playoffs, are you allowed to pickup players? Does waivers/free agent pickups only include the teams in the playoffs? Curious to see how leagues do this. My home league has done a "freeze" during the playoffs but now people are resisting that idea. Cool either way, just wanted to see what people do. Thanks! In the leagues I am in the trade deadline is around Week 10, and WW pickups stop the last week of the regular season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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weebo Posted November 9, 2010 Share Posted November 9, 2010 in my local one player keeper league we only allow 2 waiver pick ups a week per team, unless a player is hurt and out for the season (you get an extra pick if you drop said player). In the playoffs we only allow 1 waiver pick for playoff teams only. Once you are out of the playoffs it is a roaster freeze. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v0dka Posted November 9, 2010 Share Posted November 9, 2010 (edited) The beginning of fantasy playoff's (Week 13) is when the waiver wire pickups get locked out in the leagues I play. Edited November 9, 2010 by v0dka Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeeR Posted November 9, 2010 Share Posted November 9, 2010 FA pickups throughout the season, limited but remains unchanged through Week 17. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ABearWithFurniture Posted November 9, 2010 Share Posted November 9, 2010 Most of my leagues use blind bidding...so as long as you have credits left you can bid. Also, even though many teams are mathematically eliminated they are still playing for 'high weekly scores', toilet bowls, etc...so they are allowed to bid as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
millerx Posted November 9, 2010 Share Posted November 9, 2010 We freeze. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avernus Posted November 9, 2010 Share Posted November 9, 2010 I do a complete freeze unless someone has no players left at said position - his results in a free move Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackass Posted November 9, 2010 Share Posted November 9, 2010 All my leagues allow pickups throughout the playoffs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark5 Posted November 9, 2010 Share Posted November 9, 2010 We just started going thru the playoffs last year (17 year league) because we have playoffs and a toilet bowl title at stake.. $10 per move all year adds up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turf Smurf Posted November 9, 2010 Share Posted November 9, 2010 All my leagues allow pickups throughout the playoffs. We have a trade deadline, but that's it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Waterboy Posted November 9, 2010 Share Posted November 9, 2010 Waiver pick ups ok for all remaining teams in playoffs, disabled for teams eliminated. Players picked up after end of regular season are not eligible to be keepers for next year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loaf Posted November 9, 2010 Share Posted November 9, 2010 in my local redraft, only teams in the playoffs can make moves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Country Posted November 9, 2010 Share Posted November 9, 2010 I prefer rosters frozen at end of regular season, but have played it in just about any fashion. Only rule that is non-negotiable is that if it is a keeper league of any sort, either all teams can make moves or no teams can make moves (though Waterboy's setup of no post regular season pickups being eligible for keeper sort of mitigates this) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i_am_the_swammi Posted November 9, 2010 Share Posted November 9, 2010 (edited) In the leagues I am in the trade deadline is around Week 10, and WW pickups stop the last week of the regular season. This. We try to follow the NFL as closely as possible. No NFL teams can add free agents to their playoff rosters...why should you be able to do it in fantasy football? IMO, It would suck for a FF championship to be won/lost because someone had a higher waiver pick in Week 16, and was able to get a difference-making player to win them one big week. Edited November 9, 2010 by i_am_the_swammi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt. Stanky Posted November 9, 2010 Share Posted November 9, 2010 In my local we only allow up to 4 moves per week. The trade deadline is before the start of the last regular season game (week 14). We also don't have waivers or FA during the playoffs. Make all your pickups, like backups for certain positions, prior to the last week of the regular season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flemingd Posted November 9, 2010 Share Posted November 9, 2010 Technically no trade deadline, no pickup deadline since we're a keeper league. However: After week 9, any player traded CANNOT be kept. This eliminates "buying" a championship by trading a keeper candidate for a CJ or AP. Once a team is mathematically eliminated from playoffs they may not trade. Once a team is mathematically eliminated from playoffs, their waiver wire priority goes after teams still in contention. This allows them to add/drop for keepers but the contenders get dibs to try to win a trophy. Players dropped by eliminated teams MAY NOT be played for the rest of the year. This way: - an eliminated owner can drop Peterson (assuming he's not keeper eligible) and pickup some young keeper candidate such as Bradford without fear of someone picking him up for easy-mode trophy. - owners can't bypass the "no trade" rule Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyOne Posted November 9, 2010 Share Posted November 9, 2010 We keep going with waivers/FA because one of the larger prizes is total points for the year. League has a long history and way back when used to be a total points only league (no head to head at all). This is a remnant of those early days, I suppose. We don't do much significant change. It's a 10-team redraft league with mostly long-time same players (usually lose one or two a year; this year we had everyone return), and we do a 4-team playoff weeks 15 and 16. But weeks 15, 16 and even 17 count for total points. The teams that make it to the playoffs rarely end up looking for player changes in those weeks as I recall. It's very competitive, and very few boneheaded things ever happen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LosGatosEnFuegos Posted November 10, 2010 Share Posted November 10, 2010 (edited) Waiver pick ups ok for all remaining teams in playoffs, disabled for teams eliminated. Players picked up after end of regular season are not eligible to be keepers for next year. This. We just implemented the post-season-pickups-not-eligible-as-keepers part this season at my behest. [someone was mad they couldn't make WW moves after they were eliminated. I figured this was the better solution than denying WW moves to those in the running or allowing eliminated teams to make moves.] E2A: We use blind bidding, so WW priority doesn't screw playoff teams [as was mentioned above]. Also, we're a 12 team league with 6 teams in the playoffs, so post-season is 3 weeks instead of 2. Thus waiver moves are more important/necessary than in 4-playoff-team leagues. Edited November 10, 2010 by LosGatosEnFuegos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbf2 Posted November 10, 2010 Share Posted November 10, 2010 In redraft leagues I think pickups should keep going. Most of the time the rosters are pretty set in stone, but I personally think that picking up a proper defense or kicker. Plus its not fair if the guy in the fantasy championship week 15 and he has a bunch of Colts who are resting their starters that week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajfalcone Posted November 10, 2010 Share Posted November 10, 2010 Our Dynasty allows waivers throught regardless of being in the playoffs or not. If a player is stashable for the future, we dont discourage an owner being allowed a shot at him. Trades stop week 10. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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