It's Memorial Day weekend, and I clearly have too much time on my hands... actually, just enjoying a rare three-day weekend with no specific plans. Anyway, I wanted to throw out a couple of thoughts while they're on my mind...

1. I think this was more an oversight than anything, but we need to fix the waiver wire "issue" from last year, on weeks where there were Thursday night games. There should be a thread discussing it, I believe.

2. Clarification on when trades can resume... In other words, now that we're in the off-season, can we trade a player to another team, to be used as a keeper, or do trades officially begin once all keepers have been named, and the draft is set to begin? Makes a big difference, and I'm not sure which is the case, to be honest.

Edit: I went back and re-read the rules, and it looks like the bolded part is the case, where players and/or picks can be traded prior to the draft.

3. I still don't like the idea that a playoff team can make waivers moves right before or during the playoffs, and essentially pick up a potential keeper for the following year. I have no problem with the rule that non-playoff teams can't make waiver wire moves... I just have a problem with playoff teams being able to gain an advantage by picking up a player late in the season, and being able to keep that player (who wasn't on their roster for 90% of the season). My proposed solution is that we establish a "keeper deadline"... a point after which all waivers acquisitions do not qualify as keepers. Maybe week 10, for example.

Like I said, just throwing out some ideas while they're fresh in my mind... I've been on the boards all day, catching up on threads I hadn't read, and I basically ran out of stuff to read. laughing.gif