[FF]: 2017 Fantasy FIRST Proposed Rule Changes

[EricH]

Waiver Item #7 (and the PRIMARY reason for waivers, originally):

Somebody bites off more than they can chew and drops or is booted from the league. Now there are a bunch of (probably-decent) teams available.

Also, Case #1 on waiver is the current system. Missing team? Grab a new one, you've got priority, no matter if the team is on waiver or not.

Looking at cases #2-#4, I would say that Case #3 isn't necessarily a waiver--they just want to drop the team for another team. BUT, if it's combined with #2 or #4, that's definitely a good argument for a waiver.

I'd be on-board with a Google form/sheet/other similar device for putting in waiver claims. What I'm less confident about would be full privacy. I think announcing that team X has had a claim made--and, once regionals start, all claims that aren't for a missing team are automatically waivers--should be enough. If somebody was sneaky about it, there might be a way to funnel the google form to a (private-ish) google sheet that would sort out a list of teams on waivers (but not who requested them) and put that on another (public) google sheet... At one point I was going to try to get a waiver-processing spreadsheet working, too. The logic is pretty crazy, though (check for all claims on this team just awarded and make them not matter--it's worse if there's a tiered draft, which we didn't have this year). Might try that as a summer project...



Brennan, regarding the draft order, I believe RFA members and others have posted in the main thread showing that everybody drafted at approximately the same position, on average. I think there might have been one or two teams--max--drafting significantly (minimum one spot) below the normal area. I'd say that that's one option, but it could be significantly flawed if the # of drafts and the # of players didn't match up fairly closely. For District drafts, that'd probably be the better option: Randomize the first one, and rotate the rest based on that. (Once all areas are District, then of course it'll be a moot point.) I was going to pull that for the DCMPs, but was reminded that those are by District score.