When a draft is complete. The twelve teams each have a different number of waivers. These numbers are always 1-12, and no two teams have the same number. It doesn't seem to have anything to do with league or draft position.
2007-10-12 13:35:15 · 6 answers · asked by Handsome Devil Y 1 in Sports ➔ Fantasy Sports
those numbers are the order for fantasy waivers. Basically, after the draft and during the season, teams are likely to cut players for whatever reason. When a player gets cut, he goes on waiver status for a day or two. This gives all owners a chance to claim this player. If more than one owner tries to claim the player during the waiver period, the team with the highest waiver ranking gets the player. In most fantasy leagues, when you use a waiver, you go to the bottom of the list. After the waiver period is completed, a player becomes a free agent (which means that any of the teams can pick him up at any time, which gives the advantage to the owner who visits the site hourly).
2007-10-12 13:42:15 · answer #1 · answered by Tmess2 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The waivers are set up to give the worse teams in the league a better chance to pick up good players. When the league began, the person with the 1st pick in the draft was #12 on the waiver list and the person with the 12th pick in the draft was #1 on the waiver list. Now that the draft is over, waivers are prioritized by your record. The 1st place team will be 12, 2nd will be 11, 3rd Will be 10 and so on with the person with the worst record being #1 on the waiver priority. This will update every week, rearranging by record, and after every week all free agents will be place on a the waiver wire for 2 days. So if you go to pick up a player, you will have to wait to receive that player until they are off the waiver wire. If two people try to pick up the same player off the waiver wire, the person with the higher waiver priority will receive the player, and then they will be placed at the bottom position of the waiver priority, so other teams still have an opportunity to receive quality players off of waivers. Once the 2 day waiver period is over, the players become free agents, and they are first come first serve,
2007-10-12 13:48:03 · answer #2 · answered by crazycarl0217 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually, it does have to do with draft order. It starts as the opposite of the order you drafted, so #1 owner will be #12 waiver and #12 owner will be #1 waiver. Once a player clears waivers they become a free agent, but should anyone in the league want the player going thru waivers, they will put a request in and the lowest waiver number of all owners trying to pick up the same player, will get him once the alloted waiver period time ends. Then, the owners waiver priority goes to #12 and everyone that was higher then the owner that got the player will move up one spot in priority.
2007-10-12 13:52:51 · answer #3 · answered by sc_titans 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
supposedly, when a player gets dropped, they go on 'waivers', not directly to the FA pool..
after they hit waivers you can try to add that player. the person with the lowest number gets the player if more than one team tries to get him.. once that is done, that player goes to the end of the line (gets highest niumber) and all the other numbers shift accordingly
but it's optional, my league doesn't use them so it's first come first serve and those numbers aren't used and never change
2007-10-12 13:40:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why is my waiver wire always 10 or 9 every week
2015-11-02 11:53:25 · answer #5 · answered by Jess 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
So if someone releases a player. the other teams have to wait to pick him up. Waiver 1 gets first chance to pick up a player that has been dropped and so on.
2007-10-12 13:38:05 · answer #6 · answered by alwaysmoose 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋