Re: Fantasy Hockey - Draft Complete
Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 3:09 pm
And in a separate post to separate things a bit, allow me to briefly explain the waiver rules for anyone who might not be familiar with them. To make my life easier, I'll just copy and paste the commissioner's note I wrote in the league itself.
As for the draft, managers and non-managers alike, feel free to comment. I won't keep the thread on announcement for much longer, but I think we can keep one thread as a sticky (probably in the sports forum though) for public discussion. One thing stood out to me in this draft: Joe Thornton going second. I was happy when I saw I got Ovechkin, but I was surprised to see it was Thornton going ahead of him. I thought that if anyone other than Crosby was to go ahead of Ovechkin, it would probably be a goaltender. (Personally, I had Ovechkin ahead of Crosby in my draft as well.)The draft is complete! Players may commence trades immediately. To add players, for the first two days they will be on waivers, and the managers who drafted last will get top priority in picking waivers. Thereafter, all unpicked players become free agents, and may be taken immediately by any team.
For those new to Yahoo! Fantasy Hockey, every team has a waiver priority which you can see on the overview page. Unpicked players at the beginning of a league are waivers for two days, and any player which is dropped by a team remains a waiver for two days. When one or more teams try to add a waiver, the player is not added until those two days are up. At this point, the team with the highest waiver priority (1 being highest) out of those trying to add the player gets that player.
At the start, the team who got the last draft pick gets the highest waiver priority (1), and so forth, until the team with the first draft pick gets the lowest waiver priority (in our league, 6). When you pick up a waiver, if you successfully get the waiver, your priority drops to 6, and everyone who was behind you is bumped up one each. (So if the person who had priority 3 picks up a player, 3 drops to 6, and the player who had 4 goes to 3, the player with 5 to 4, and the player with 6 to 5.)
If a waiver isn't picked up for two days, they become a free agent. Any team can add a free agent instantly, without losing any waiver priority.