Since we have some new GMs (and others might need a refresher course) I figured I'd share this needlessly-wordy response I just sent to a GM's question:----------------------------------------
Hey GC, how does the waiver wire work in our league? Do you just click the "add player" button and then do a manual search? Wondering if there's a way to find all players that are available (not on someone else's team) from week to week. My roster is in shamblessss.
During the season when you go to the PLAYERS LIST page under the PLAYERS tab (
http://basketball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/nba/12249/players) and filter the names by "All Available" it will show just the players NOT on a team.
It's showing players on our teams now b/c we haven't finalized the rosters on the Yahoo! system yet. (read below on when and how that will happen)
Here's how the rest of the offseason will work:
1. Now that the draft is over, from now until we move things to the Yahoo! league page (around Mid-oct) the only changes you can make to your roster are via trade.
2. The period from the draft to cut-down day (sometime in the week of Oct 19), is the only time teams can have more than 16 players on their team.
3. Leading up to that cut-down day, teams will start announcing their cuts in the league thread. By that day (i'll announce the exact day in the next week or two) you have to get your roster down to at least 16 players. You'll do this by posting your 16 players and any cuts like this:
_____'s final roster:
Player 1
Player 2
Player 3
Player 4
Player 5
Player 6
Player 7
Player 8
Player 9
Player 10
Player 11
Player 12
Player 13
Player 14
Player 15
Player 16
We cut: Dana Barros, Fred Roberts and Todd Day.
You'll see other teams doing this -- a few already have only 16 players, other teams may wait to the very end to make trades to help them clear their roster.
4. Once we have all gotten down to 16 players, I have to get the rosters into the Yahoo! league page -- this is done partly by you "selecting your keepers" (which just saves me the work of readding guys who were on your roster last year. Some teams may have 14 of their 16 guys back (and 2 new guys); other teams may only have 3 guys back and 13 new guys (via trades or draft picks).
5. Once all the rosters are set I'll announce that fact and the first waiver wire period will begin.
6. All the players
NOT on one of our 20 teams go on waivers until a certain date a couple days later.
7. The initial waiver priority list is the by finish last year (from the constitution):
24. Waivers will be 1 day and will be by a continual rolling list that does not carry over from year to year. Waiver order is reset at the beginning of each season to the reverse order of the first round of the draft, with the league Finalists from the previous season owning the waiver priority #1 and #2, followed by the highest winning percentage teams from the previous season (except those teams that have improved their draft position based on lottery results), etc.
8. During that 1st waiver period when you hit "add player" it will create a claim and ask you who you want to drop if your claim is successful. You can then order those claims.
Since you have such a relatively late claim it's possible you could make as many as xx claims and still not get any of the players. Also, all of your, say, xx claims could be dropping the same player -- you'll just get the first guy who no one else claims.
9. The day after that first claim period all unclaimed players become FREE AGENTS. When you hit "add player" then you'll be asked who to drop and you can add them right away.
(say no one claims Glen "Big Baby" Davis. A couple weeks in you think he's gonna sign with a team -- you could add him as FA right away and not affect your waiver position).
Since you have such a late claim you could also choose to just wait till the day after the claim period and add guys as FAs this way. if, say, ten teams make successful Waiver claims that first round, your waiver position goes from xx to xx.
This is b/c the waiver priority is rolling. That means when you make a claim you go to the back of the line and everyone's priority moves up one.
I have the #1 claim (as last year's champ). When i make my claim I'll move to #20 and everyone will move up (you'll move to #xx).
When the next team makes a claim they'll move to 20, i'll move to 19, you'll move to xx, etc.
10. Any time a player is dropped in season (including during that first round of waiver claims (i.e. the guys teams drop to claim other players)) they go onto waivers for 2 days (to allow everyone a chance to make a claim).
So if someone drops, say, Paul Pierce later in the season whatever # claim you have after that first period (and subsequent claims by other teams that might move you up). And whatever team has the highest waiver priority claims Pierce (in this example).
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