[FF]: 2012 Season Long Fantasy FIRST!

[EricH]

This is a heads-up: We have ONE MORE EVENT! It seems that those pesky multiplying Michigan teams have added another district without informing the rest of us other than the listing in the regional/district page.

The event is the Gull Lake District, with 20 teams registered at this time (9 rookies), Week 1. As this is kind of a sudden change, I would suggest drafting Gull Lake the weekend after ship date to allow more teams to register.

Also, it has come to my attention that 359 has pulled out of Utah (Koko Ed needs to repick).

I will be going through the team lists over the next few days to try to find missing/added teams; I'll try to keep the volume of teams on waiver at any one time down to manageable for everybody. (This may involve shorter waiver periods.)

Speaking of waiver, 3003 is available in Finger Lakes, and that waiver closes Saturday, midnight EST.

Quick note: If I've noted a trade/waiver claim going through in a thread, but you don't see it on the team sheet in CD-Media, don't worry, I just haven't updated that one yet. When I do start updating, I'll post the last update date.

[EricH]

Some notes from waiver-land:

A bunch of teams have added in to Week 1 events. Full list is in the waiver thread.

I'll be going through the team lists for a while to find adds and missing teams. While I do that, I'll be running a faster waiver cycle, two per week with smaller groups of teams.

Speaking of missing teams... Untouchables are missing 3074 in Granite State, and Koko Ed is missing 359 in Utah (team source says they're out). So far, those are the only teams missing that were picked and haven't been replaced.

I've decided to include opt-out. If you don't want to make waiver claims at all, drop me a PM. You'll still be allowed to make claims if you choose to later (say if you find out that 1114 is showing up or something), but I'll assume that if I don't hear otherwise, I can go right ahead and skip to whoever is the first one on the list to not opt out.

[EricH]

On my trip down through the lists of attending/missing teams, the following have teams missing:

Koko Ed, 359 (Utah)
B.O.T, 87 (Chesapeake)
1676, 4004 (Traverse City)

Oh, and there's a fresh batch of teams on the waiver, with claims due midnight Saturday.

[EricH]

Waivers have been processed. Sacramento got a huge influx of teams (probably some of them registered in Central Valley first), and there's quite a few good ones.

The missing teams (surprisingly few):
Chesapeake: 87 (B.O.T)
Utah: 60 (CircuitRunners), 359 (Koko Ed), 3207 (ProgramLuke)

As a reminder, any missing team not replaced by the time drafts lock is replaced by a random team before scoring starts.

[EricH]

The missing team list is still growing...

Dodar lost 2449 (Arizona) due to that team being picked twice.
Ed is missing 359 (Utah).
B.O.T. is missing 87 (Chesapeake) and 1923 (Virginia)
ProgramLuke has had 3207 (Utah), 4381 (West Michigan), and 3069 (Detroit) disappear.
1676 has lost 3945 (Virginia) and 3398 (Detroit).
And Shoelace is missing 903 (Detroit).

A fresh batch of waiver teams has been posted.

[EricH]

And still growing! Palmetto got hit especially hard.

Dodar (2449 Arizona, 2151 Midwest--both double picks)
191 X-Cats (359 Utah)
B.O.T (87 Chesapeake, 1923 Virginia)
ProgramLuke (3207 Utah, 4381 West Michigan, 3069 Detroit, 2353 Colorado)
Flippin' the Greatest (375 Hawaii, 4074 Palmetto)
1676 (3945 Virginia, 3398 Detroit)
Untouchables (1379 Palmetto)
CircuitRunners (4360 Palmetto)
Nemesis (2969 Hawaii)
Falcon (3344 Palmetto)

There's a fresh list of waiver teams--quite a few decent ones in Palmetto.

[Duke461]

I obviously knew that everyone else was going to lose teams and i wasn't......somehow....

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Duke461

I obviously knew that everyone else was going to lose teams and i wasn't......somehow....

Hate to say this, but you are missing 3 teams.














The three teams for the Gull Lake event, which hasn't drafted yet!
(Plus any others I pick up during the next couple of waiver sessions.)

[EricH]

FYI: The waivers for this week have been posted. There are some pretty good teams out there this week; take a look. There are also a number of teams that have gone missing. That information is also in the waiver thread.

Gull Lake: This weekend is when that draft should take place. At last count, 36 teams (13 rookies) are listed as attending, with no open capacity. I don't know for sure when the draft will be, however.

[EricH]

Ed, when did you want to run Gull Lake?

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by EricH

Ed, when did you want to run Gull Lake?

I'll do it Sunday night @ 7pm.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

I'll do it Sunday night @ 7pm.

In that case, I think I'm going to need to move up the waiver deadline a bit.

I was going to have the deadline there the night Gull Lake ran, but due to lots of teams, and running low on time to finish the remaining set, I'll take waiver claims (new and updated) up until midnight EST Saturday night. The next waiver will be up in time for anybody picking in Gull Lake to take a break and look at the available teams.

[Koko Ed]

There's 36 teams for Gull Lake but to be fair I'm gonna do two separate drafts.

[EricH]

Something I need to say:

Through Week 5, which is as far as I've gone with the checking for new/missing teams (which leaves the six Week 6 events), every single playing team has at least one missing team, myself included. Flippin' the Greatest has the most, with six missing teams (second is a tie with 5 teams--ProgramLuke and Koko Ed). Dodar only has one missing team... but came up on the short end of two double picks. I'm the only one with one (missing a team in Mt. Olive).

That was the bad news. The good news? None of those missing teams are in Week 1 (besides the ones being drafted in Gull Lake Sunday night). Only one (B.O.T, Chesapeake, 87) is in Week 2. This means that all players have time to make changes before the lists lock. Once the lists lock, you get a random team. If you make a change before then, you get to pick your replacement team, even ensuring you get them off of waivers.

I will be posting a full list of teams needing replacement here when I run the waivers this week.

[EricH]

OK, I lied. I figured I might as well finish up hunting down missing teams. Expect a very large waiver to show up on Sunday.

Don't shoot the messenger!

Missing teams:
Dodar: Arizona 2449 (DP), Midwest 2151 (DP), Dallas West 2345, Lone Star 2158 & 3795
191 X-Cats: Utah 359, Niles 1 2000, Queen City 234 & 1018, Toronto West 3173, South Florida 1543, Las Vegas 3849 & 4358, North Carolina 832
B.O.T.: Chesapeake 87, Mt. Olive 2559, Central Valley 3970, Lone Star 2762
ProgramLuke: Utah 3207, West MI 4381, Detroit 3069, Colorado 2353, Olympic 2984, Vegas 1372, Queen City 3262
Flippin' the Greatest: Hawaii 375, Palmetto 4074, Boston 693, Niles 2 3115, Long Island 287, Troy 3069, Central Valley 691, Vegas 812 & 3155
1676: Virginia 3945, Detroit 3398, SVR 3505, Livonia 503
Awesome: Oklahoma 2773, Dallas West 2583, Central Valley 2204, Vegas 3245 & 3994, North Carolina 1287
Shoelace: Livonia 4405, Troy 4376, Mt. Olive 2234, Vegas 3245, Lone Star 1875
Nemesis: Hawaii 2969, Livonia 1528, Mt. Olive 3939, Vegas 3952, Lone Star 2880
Untouchables: Connecticut 2265, Troy 4399, Vegas 3011
Falcon: Mt. Olive 3553, Lone Star 4116
CircuitRunners: Dallas East 1811, Troy 2834, Central Valley 2085, North Carolina 3174

P.S. The good news is, nobody lost an entire alliance. I've seen that happen before.