Posting this message to all my leagues.
We use a built-in system in yahoo to handle free agents during gameday with one tweak. In the old days, when a player went down and his backup suddenly became valuable, the person closest to their computer would be the one who rushed in and added him to his roster. It hampers the enjoyment of the games to always be worried about that, so we came up with a system whereby at the start of each player’s game, they were put on waivers for two days rather than being free agents. That way if MJD went down, everyone would have a chance to put a waiver claim on Rashard Jenning. Since we’re using FAAB this year, it would then be resolved by who bid the most.
We used to do this manually, but now yahoo has an automatic system for doing this. It has two settings - free agents go on waivers after the first game of the week, or players go on waivers from Sunday at 1pm. I’m going to use the latter, otherwise Thursday night games would make it so you couldn’t pick up a guy on Saturday. But this leaves us with one potential problem - if, say, Adrian Peterson were to go down in tonight’s Thursday game, his backup would be up for grabs as a free agent, which defeats the purpose of our system. So our custom rule is this: Even though yahoo waits till Sunday at 1pm to put all players on waivers, we consider any free agent involved in a game to also be on waivers. The proper thing to do if you want to pick up a player who played in a Thursday or Saturday night game is to wait until Sunday when all free agents go on waivers, including the ones from the games earlier in the week. If someone picks up a player from a team involved in those games, the pickup will be manually reverted.
Any questions?