K-O-B
Management
Today was the deadline? This early?
OFFICIAL The Coli Serie-A Fantasy Football (not soccer) Inauguration/Renewal
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K-O-B
Management
Today was the deadline? This early?
Ok: VOTE TIME!
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@King Diesel
@Walt
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@red222
@yseJ
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@tremonthustler1
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@mastermind
@BarNone
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Thoughts on making waivers more interesting. with Yahoo, as Kevin mentioned earlier, you can now assign budgets to each team to bid on waivers players each week.
It's basically a 'silent' auction and people bid on that weeks waiver players and the highest bid will win the player and use his waiver priority. I think it's a cool way to make the Tuesday of the week pretty intriguing, as waiver whores like Kevin will be shyt out of money in week 3. It also opens up the idea of including some of your acquisition money into trades to sweeten the pot, or allow me to even offer weekly acquisition money for things like 'highest score'.
Thoughts?
@Rev
@K-O-B
@King Diesel
@Walt
@I.V.
@NYC Rebel
@red222
@yseJ
@threattonature
@FaygoMI
@tremonthustler1
@Bruh Man 5th Flo
@mastermind
@BarNone
@Cliche
Thoughts on making waivers more interesting. with Yahoo, as Kevin mentioned earlier, you can now assign budgets to each team to bid on waivers players each week.
It's basically a 'silent' auction and people bid on that weeks waiver players and the highest bid will win the player and use his waiver priority. I think it's a cool way to make the Tuesday of the week pretty intriguing, as waiver whores like Kevin will be shyt out of money in week 3. It also opens up the idea of including some of your acquisition money into trades to sweeten the pot, or allow me to even offer weekly acquisition money for things like 'highest score'.
Thoughts?
A little color on this feature:
What is FAAB? It stands for free-agent acquisition budget, a stash of imaginary cash that every team in your league is given to do free-agent auction bidding. (Look at that! Two acronyms for the price of one! What a bargain!) Simply put, FAAB is an in-season salary cap that covers all your free-agent needs.
No longer will you have to scramble to your computer to beat out your chief rival after your starting RB goes down on a Monday night game. Under FAAB, all waiver-wire moves are processed in batches, one or more times a week, depending on how frequently your league wants free agents to be claimed. If you want to put in a claim for a player, you submit a "sealed bid" (and in this case, you do so through the league's Web site). When the deadline for bids passes, the owner who bid the most on a particular free agent gets him, and the amount of the bid will be subtracted from that owner's remaining budget.
FAAB not only is a far more equitable system -- a team that needs to make several waiver claims because of multiple injuries during a week can actually do so -- but also offers far more in the way of strategy. Knowing when to spend your limited budget while simultaneously trying to feel out your fellow owners as to how much of a bid is "too much" makes for a much more rewarding fantasy experience than waking up in the morning, hearing your star QB is out for the year and discovering all of the top free agents at the position have already been snatched up while you slept.
Still wondering whether FAAB is right for your league? Here are a few tips and explanations that should help answer some of the questions you might have about this new feature:
How big is the FAAB budget for the season?
League managers can choose to set this limit at anywhere from 10 to 1,000 "dollars," but really, since everyone is starting out with the same amount, this decision is probably more cosmetic than anything else. Personally, I like 100 as a nice round number because it's really easy to figure out what percent of your total budget for the year you're using on any one pickup.
What if two or more owners bid the same amount on a player?
The tiebreaker setting on yahoo is the inverse order of standings and cannot be changed. Knowing this in advance of your bid can help you avoid a tie in the first place. For example, if you know the last place team has only $7 left in its FAAB, then you can bid $8 and take his bid completely out of the equation. Similarly, if you are in last place and you know the only other team likely to bid on the free agent you want has only $20 left, and you have $35 left, you don't have to bid any higher than $20 to be awarded that player. Since there's no "backsies" in these bids, you don't want to bid more than you absolutely have to.
Are owners who have spent their entire budget done for the season?
Not necessarily. If a league manager assigns a value to the minimum bid on free agents, then yes, once your FAAB money runs out, the waiver wire is closed to you. However, league managers do have the option -- and I highly recommend they take advantage of this -- of setting the minimum bid on a free agent to $0.
Why would you choose to do this? By doing so, you let owners who have exhausted their entire FAAB to continue to stay active and interested by being able to make pickups throughout the remainder of the season. However, if any owner with remaining FAAB puts up even the smallest actual bid, they'll get the nod instead.
Having $0 bidding also allows for more "poker playing" by owners who may indeed have remaining FAAB, but think they might be the only owner interested in a particular free agent. Why waste even $1 on a pickup, if you can get a player for free? It's a gamble, but one that may well be worth making down the line.
So how much should I bid on each free agent? Is there any tried-and-true strategy to using FAAB?
This is really up to you. Some owners like to save as much as possible for the trade deadline in the hopes of nabbing a talent who suddenly enters the player pool. Others come at it from the point of view that a player you acquire in September or October has the opportunity to help you far more than one who only gives you a month or two down the stretch, and as such, they prefer to spend early.
And of course, there are those machine-gun artists, who throw $0 bids at as many people as possible, treating the whole FAAB process like the old first-come, first-served waivers. The difference, of course, is that if there's a player you really want, this tactic doesn't truly affect you. Bid a few dollars more to ward off these annoying mosquito-types. Depending on the other owners in your league, any of these strategies might be more effective than others.
Another aspect of FAAB strategy is that of the bluff. Other owners need not know who you've bid on, or for how much. You can tell everyone you've bid $50 on Isiah Pead, when you've really bid $2. If everyone believes you and decides not to bid at all, you've got yourself a huge bargain. If only one owner believes you and decides to grab Pead for their own bid of $51, you've given yourself a huge leg up on this owner in future free-agent auctions.
What is FAAB? It stands for free-agent acquisition budget, a stash of imaginary cash that every team in your league is given to do free-agent auction bidding. (Look at that! Two acronyms for the price of one! What a bargain!) Simply put, FAAB is an in-season salary cap that covers all your free-agent needs.
No longer will you have to scramble to your computer to beat out your chief rival after your starting RB goes down on a Monday night game. Under FAAB, all waiver-wire moves are processed in batches, one or more times a week, depending on how frequently your league wants free agents to be claimed. If you want to put in a claim for a player, you submit a "sealed bid" (and in this case, you do so through the league's Web site). When the deadline for bids passes, the owner who bid the most on a particular free agent gets him, and the amount of the bid will be subtracted from that owner's remaining budget.
FAAB not only is a far more equitable system -- a team that needs to make several waiver claims because of multiple injuries during a week can actually do so -- but also offers far more in the way of strategy. Knowing when to spend your limited budget while simultaneously trying to feel out your fellow owners as to how much of a bid is "too much" makes for a much more rewarding fantasy experience than waking up in the morning, hearing your star QB is out for the year and discovering all of the top free agents at the position have already been snatched up while you slept.
Still wondering whether FAAB is right for your league? Here are a few tips and explanations that should help answer some of the questions you might have about this new feature:
How big is the FAAB budget for the season?
League managers can choose to set this limit at anywhere from 10 to 1,000 "dollars," but really, since everyone is starting out with the same amount, this decision is probably more cosmetic than anything else. Personally, I like 100 as a nice round number because it's really easy to figure out what percent of your total budget for the year you're using on any one pickup.
What if two or more owners bid the same amount on a player?
The tiebreaker setting on yahoo is the inverse order of standings and cannot be changed. Knowing this in advance of your bid can help you avoid a tie in the first place. For example, if you know the last place team has only $7 left in its FAAB, then you can bid $8 and take his bid completely out of the equation. Similarly, if you are in last place and you know the only other team likely to bid on the free agent you want has only $20 left, and you have $35 left, you don't have to bid any higher than $20 to be awarded that player. Since there's no "backsies" in these bids, you don't want to bid more than you absolutely have to.
Are owners who have spent their entire budget done for the season?
Not necessarily. If a league manager assigns a value to the minimum bid on free agents, then yes, once your FAAB money runs out, the waiver wire is closed to you. However, league managers do have the option -- and I highly recommend they take advantage of this -- of setting the minimum bid on a free agent to $0.
Why would you choose to do this? By doing so, you let owners who have exhausted their entire FAAB to continue to stay active and interested by being able to make pickups throughout the remainder of the season. However, if any owner with remaining FAAB puts up even the smallest actual bid, they'll get the nod instead.
Having $0 bidding also allows for more "poker playing" by owners who may indeed have remaining FAAB, but think they might be the only owner interested in a particular free agent. Why waste even $1 on a pickup, if you can get a player for free? It's a gamble, but one that may well be worth making down the line.
So how much should I bid on each free agent? Is there any tried-and-true strategy to using FAAB?
This is really up to you. Some owners like to save as much as possible for the trade deadline in the hopes of nabbing a talent who suddenly enters the player pool. Others come at it from the point of view that a player you acquire in September or October has the opportunity to help you far more than one who only gives you a month or two down the stretch, and as such, they prefer to spend early.
And of course, there are those machine-gun artists, who throw $0 bids at as many people as possible, treating the whole FAAB process like the old first-come, first-served waivers. The difference, of course, is that if there's a player you really want, this tactic doesn't truly affect you. Bid a few dollars more to ward off these annoying mosquito-types. Depending on the other owners in your league, any of these strategies might be more effective than others.
Another aspect of FAAB strategy is that of the bluff. Other owners need not know who you've bid on, or for how much. You can tell everyone you've bid $50 on Isiah Pead, when you've really bid $2. If everyone believes you and decides not to bid at all, you've got yourself a huge bargain. If only one owner believes you and decides to grab Pead for their own bid of $51, you've given yourself a huge leg up on this owner in future free-agent auctions.
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Kang Deezy
Overall Nice Guy
I'm all for it. Makes sense too with this being a keeper league.
$100 budget
$100 budget
tremonthustler1
aka bx_representer
I know about the FAAB. I'm for it
I'd make it $50 though simply because this league will only have but so many players to acquire. x that by 16 and $100 is overkill. $100 works better in a baseball league
I'd make it $50 though simply because this league will only have but so many players to acquire. x that by 16 and $100 is overkill. $100 works better in a baseball league
mastermind
Rest In Power Kobe
im for it.
threattonature
Veteran
I think I was pushing for this last year. I'm all for it.
The people have spoken. It shall be done!
I'm thinking we just do $100 since it's value will present itself no matter the amount.
NOW.....Do we want to award extra weekly for top point getter? If so, amount? $10? $20?
ALSO: Do we want to allow it to be traded? AKA: Doug Martin for Mike Wallace and $15 in acquisition funds?
I'm thinking we just do $100 since it's value will present itself no matter the amount.
NOW.....Do we want to award extra weekly for top point getter? If so, amount? $10? $20?
ALSO: Do we want to allow it to be traded? AKA: Doug Martin for Mike Wallace and $15 in acquisition funds?
threattonature
Veteran
I vote to be able to trade the funds. I don't think there should necessarily be bonus points for top point getter or anything though.
Kang Deezy
Overall Nice Guy
the extra money can only be used for this season, correct?
it can't be transferred over and added to next season's default budget for draft night?