Week 3 Commish NotesTHIS EMAIL WILL BE POSTED AS WEEK 3 COMMISH NOTES
Based on the number of teams this week submitting for the same players, I thought now would be a good time to give a review of how free agent moves work and the strategy. the rules are posted on the internet, but based on some of the questions i get, it appears most people have not read the COMPLETE rules. therefore, i am going to go over how free agency works and the strategy, since this is the question i receive most often during each year. and those of you who are not familiar with the rules, would you go the the site and read the friggin' rule book please! thank you. and finally, (and this is most specifically to the team who sent 7 emails for the same player within a 10 minute time period or so!), if you want to be first in with the move, just send me 1 email at 10 oclock. if the time is early by a couple of minutes, it is no big deal. likewise if it is late by a couple of minutes after the two cutoff periods, that also is no big deal. thanks. i hate friggin' spam. (dennis is a lame ass and still hasn't emailed me. can someone forward this to him. thanks.) anyway, the following is a summary of free agency. of course, the official rulebook overrides anything i put down incorrectly. Free Agency opens at 10 am on tuesday morning's. the first closing is at 9pm on wednesday. at this point players will be assigned to teams based on waiver wire order BASED ON 1 PLAYER PER TEAM. this means that if two teams request the same player, the team with the better waiver wire position (based on overall record unless two teams are tied, then it is based on point total- the team that scores less picks first) will be assigned the pick. free agency closes a second and final time each week on friday at 9 pm. between friday 9 pm and tuesday 10 am- THERE ARE NO FREE AGENT MOVES ALLOWED. after the wednesday night closing, moves are based on first come, first served (i will explain strategy behind this in a bit). here is my attempt to kind of graphically explain free agency. SAMPLE FANTASY LEAGUE WAIVER ORDER: Team 1 Team 2 Team 3 Team 4 team 2 and 4 submit for different players on tuesday morning. team 3 submits for the same player as team 4 on wednesday afternoon. on wednesday 9 pm at the first closing, team 3 will get the the player even though team 4 requested him earlier, because team 3 picks earlier in the waiver wire order. now here is the strategy part. same waiver order. team 4 submits 3 free agent moves at 10 am on tuesday morning. team 3 submits 3 free agent moves on wednesday afternoon, with ALL THREE PLAYERS BEING THE SAME AS TEAM 4. in this case, on wednesday 9pm, team 3 would receive the FIRST PLAYER ONLY requested on waivers. team 4 would miss out on his first move, but would receive both players from the other two moves because he submitted these moves earlier than team 3. so it is to your advantage to submit ALL your free agent moves on tuesday morning at 10 am. THE DISADVANTAGE to this is that you will receive every player move you requested that was not voided by the wednesday 9 pm player assignment. i will leave it up to you to figure out the strategy to AVOID having multiple moves assigned, even though you request multiple moves. if you need the answer- send me an email. finally, i occasionally check my personal email while i am at work. i may have time to respond by email, but i rarely ever have time to respond by phone. thanks.
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