Non playoff teams putting in waiver claims

[Schauermann 1]

 

Take Arian Foster for example. Last year he came on late in the season. I was still in contention and picked him up week 15 just for the hell of it (cockblock). At the time, there were 4 teams that had no chance to pick him up since they were already eliminated. While I ended up not keeping him , it seemed unfair that 4 of the 10 teams had no possibility of signing him. I guess I'm looking for a more fair way to handle late season add/drops. The only other thing I can think of is having all add/drops approved by the commissioner - which I hate.

 

Arian Foster is a perfect example in a keeper league. A guy in our league picked him up in week 15 last year. We are a $200 auction format and you pay $10 more than the previous year to keep a player up to to 3 years. Thus, Arian Foster was a $10 player this year (because he was $0 the previous year) and the best keeper. You can't allow only teams that are still playing to make moves that can help them the next year while prohibiting eliminated teams from searching the waiver wire for valuable pick-ups.

 

Also there is skill in the waiver wire. The guy who picked up Foster last year before week 15 did so before he put up good production. No one else even put in a request so he didn't get him because of waiver wire priority. Foster didn't really produce until week 16-17. Likewise, I identified Jamaal Charles several weeks before it became apparent to anyone that he was going to explode in production. Same with the person who aqquired Miles Austin. It had nothing to do with waiver wire priority. It had to do with identifying potential stars a week or two before they take off.

[pimptastic69 0]

I don't see what's wrong with dropping and adding to get keepers. I prefer leagues with open add/drop to the end of the year for everyone. Not sure why you don't just do that.

 

Here's the "problem". You can keep as many players as you want, but each one cost's you last year's draft round + 2. (4th rounder becomes a 2nd rounder, etc.)

 

So, as owners drop out of contention, they could conceivably drop the high round picks to pick up low round/undrafted potential keepers. This would potentially leave the likes of Adrian Peterson, Steven Jackson, Peyton Manning on the waiver wire, as they can't be kept next year. The remaining playoff teams could then scoop up any one of these players and completely change the dynamic of the team that got them there. I'm not really down with that.

 

I realize this keeper system is unorthodox, but the league likes it.