[FF]: 2017 Season Long Fantasy FIRST

[EricH]

Originally Posted by EmileH

Who's running FIM?

It looks like Joseph's internet went out again. Brennan seems to have taken up the slack, at least for now.

[BrennanB]

I can do what I can. F3 probably has a list in tho and don't really want to random them. If people could just live pick that would be good.

[niklas674]

Originally Posted by BrennanB

I can do what I can. F3 probably has a list in tho and don't really want to random them. If people could just live pick that would be good.

I sent them a message in f4. Should be on shortly.

[EricH]

The regular-season drafts are now over. That doesn't mean we're done yet...

Waivers should be going up next week, if there are any. There's one minor change to that, at least for the duration of this season (and to be discussed on the offseason), which is that if you are missing a team, you will now only get a 3-spot boost if you claim a team from waivers (or less, if that puts you at the top). This is a return to the original intent of that feature, many years ago, of a minor boost. (Recently it's been a "first to claim, but you lose your spot" instead.)


Also, DCMP drafts are scheduled for March and April. I've tried to schedule them on days events AREN'T happening as best I can.


And one final note:
For the first time in SLFF history*, we haven't even had to issue a warning for attendance. I could issue a combined one to 4 playing teams, but nobody had more than 2 absences total. Awesome job, guys!



*Nobody got booted at all during the '08 season draft. "5-misses-and-warning-and-out" was implemented the following season.

[EricH]

Just for awareness: Expect a full waiver to commence in the next couple of days, under policy "Smokescreen". I'm currently working to generate that, and have been flagging MIA teams as I go.



"Smokescreen": If I get 1 waiver claim, I run a full waiver--all events--to camouflage who is claiming and who they're claiming.

[EricH]

OK, so it took a little longer than I planned... but here's the results of the grind!
Missing Teams

Event                MIA
South Florida        1557
Arizona North        1280
Shenzhen             5883
Central Valley       2437
Utah                 3241
Southern Cross       5333, 5663
Finger Lakes         6475
South Pacific        6578
Lone Star Central    5726
Sacramento           2839
Rocket City          1622, 5843
Iowa                 2883, 5326
Smoky Mountain       4533, 4576, 5492, 6517, 6654
Los Angeles          368
Wisconsin            6438
Hawaii               2473, 6300
Brazos Valley        4256
Toluca               4584

Waiver Teams:

Event            Waiver
South Florida        5616
Northern Lights      2501
Hub City             192, 2395, 4298, 5677, 5960, 6682
Arizona North        3577
San Diego            4, 5137
St. Louis            5326
Shenzhen             6766
Dallas               6768
Miami Valley         6765
Utah                 1339, 3729
Ventura              1515, 2576
Greater Pittsburgh   217, 3410
Lone Star Central    6488, 6682
San Francisco        2437, 5924
Sacramento           3013
Iowa                 2450
Oklahoma City        3612
Los Angeles          5285
Wisconsin            930, 3692
Hudson Valley        1923
Silicon Valley       1280, 4159
Idaho                5118
Laguna               3480
Midwest              2136, 3135, 5655
Long Island          2027, 2347, 2487, 6746
Buckeye              1450
Brazos Valley        3743
North Star           5801
10K Lakes            6424
Las Vegas            1266, 1678
Toluca               5750, 6048, 6229

OK, now the important part: The deadline to get your claims in will be SATURDAY, 1/21, midnight Eastern. Any claims timestamped after that will be rejected.

Oh, and I didn't run the district drafts. I expect that most teams there are changing events rather than dropping out, so I didn't think it was necessary.

[EricH]

Your attention please:

More teams have joined regionals since Sunday when I posted the waivers. Several have been brought to my attention.

In light of that, I can either re-generate all the waivers, push the teams to the next round... or just add the teams in, after verifying that they have not already been on waivers.

I'm choosing the last route, and pushing the deadline back to SUNDAY, 1/22, Midnight Pacific. Anybody who wants to submit a revised waiver list will be able to do so. Also, no new teams will be added to this round of waivers past FRIDAY, 1/20, at midnight Eastern.


Missing Teams

Event                MIA
Arizona North        1280
Shenzhen             5883
Central Valley       2437
Utah                 3241
Southern Cross       5333, 5663
South Pacific        6578
Lone Star Central    5726
Sacramento           2839
Rocket City          1622, 5843
Iowa                 2883, 5326
Smoky Mountain       4533, 4576, 5492, 6517, 6654
Los Angeles          368
Wisconsin            6438
Hawaii               2473, 6300
Brazos Valley        4256
Toluca               4584

Waiver Teams:

Event            Waiver
South Florida        5616
Northern Lights      2501
Hub City             192, 2395, 4298, 5677, 5960, 6682
Arizona North        3577
San Diego            4, 5137
St. Louis            5326
Shenzhen             6766
Dallas               6768
Miami Valley         6765
Utah                 1339, 3729
Ventura              1515, 2576
Greater Pittsburgh   217, 3410
Lone Star Central    6488, 6682
San Francisco        2437, 5924
Sacramento           1671, 3013
Iowa                 2450
Oklahoma City        3612
Los Angeles          5285
Wisconsin            930, 3692
Hudson Valley        1923
Orange County        3309, 3476
Silicon Valley       1280, 4159
Idaho                5118
Laguna               3480
Midwest              2136, 3135, 5655
Long Island          2027, 2347, 2487, 6746
Buckeye              1450
Brazos Valley        3743
North Star           5801
10K Lakes            6424
Las Vegas            1266, 1678
Toluca               5750, 6048, 6229

[niklas674]

I need some confirmation. If a team claims a waiver team before any other team, does that team get priority or does it go to the highest team on the waiver priority list?

[BrennanB]

Originally Posted by niklas674

I need some confirmation. If a team claims a waiver team before any other team, does that team get priority or does it go to the highest team on the waiver priority list?

The highest team on the priority list.

[niklas674]

Originally Posted by BrennanB

The highest team on the priority list.

That kinda sucks. Why should a team who doesn't check regional waitlists benefit when I forsay find out that 4 top teams are going to regional x. Folks basically benefit from work they didn't do. But hey, I'm just here to compete.

[BrennanB]

Originally Posted by niklas674

That kinda sucks. Why should a team who doesn't check regional waitlists benefit when I forsay find out that 4 top teams are going to regional x. Folks basically benefit from work they didn't do. But hey, I'm just here to compete.

You don't have to publically say who you want. PM Eric

[EricH]

Originally Posted by niklas674

That kinda sucks. Why should a team who doesn't check regional waitlists benefit when I forsay find out that 4 top teams are going to regional x. Folks basically benefit from work they didn't do. But hey, I'm just here to compete.

The reason it's done this way is exactly because of some situations where people were doing exactly that, and people didn't have a chance to pick up decent teams that happened to officially add while they weren't around. (BTW, people aren't supposed to be able to--they aren't publicly available as far as I'm aware.) I myself will admit to scanning through a list of teams that would be available as soon as someone was booted and pre-preparing a post to get a good team as soon as the boot was announced (this was before waivers)--literally, see post, click "submit post"--and I wasn't the only one.

Instead, all the teams that are on waiver are announced at one time, if at all possible. This hopefully obscures the good teams in a cloud of mediocre teams. And, you still need to do your homework. There's been a few times where I've looked at a team on the waiver, compared to teams I had, and decided against making a claim.


Oh, and BTW: While you're checking those regionals, you might want to check that your teams are still ON those regional lists. Everybody's missing at least one team.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by BrennanB

You don't have to publically say who you want. PM Eric

He did. The problem is that at this point, one claim triggers a full waiver run (all teams, all events--less districts as I noted), and I opted to include more recent claims in this current run.

[tindleroot]

What is the current waiver priority order?

[BrennanB]

This is it.

Originally Posted by EricH

Waiver priority is now:
NE WYWI
TRF
F3
Untitled
Swamp Life
Falcon
QD
FIRST Pick
TBC