[USML Announce] FW: Player pool and FAAB bidding [Incident: 080810-000027]

[Mark Blocker]

League:

  For the curious, below is the response I received from CBS Sportsline to
my inquiry about the Jason Bay/Ken Griffey issue.  To elaborate on their
response, it sounds like whenever a player is added to the AL player pool,
he is not eligible for FAAB bidding until he clears our selected "drop
period."  I checked our league settings and that period is set by default to
two days.  This means players added to the pool on Thursday or later (which
would have been true for both Bay and Griffey, I believe) would not have
been eligible for FAAB bidding.

  Frankly, I had no idea that the drop period had any impact on FAAB
bidding, and that is certainly not obvious from the description of it on the
system.  In any event, I have now re-set the drop period to the lowest
number possible -- one day (the system will not allow you to set the drop
period to zero days).  This still has the effect that players added to the
pool on Friday will not be eligible for FAAB bidding.  I think that is
simply a consequence that we will have to live with.

  -- Mark B.


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Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2008 8:16 AM
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Subject: Player pool and FAAB bidding [Incident: 080810-000027]


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Subject
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Player pool and FAAB bidding


Discussion Thread
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Response (Will K) - 08/10/2008 09:16 AM 
Based on when the players are added to the player pool, they will have to
clear the drop period you selected before they will become available, and if
this was after your FAAB run, then it would be pushed to the following week.

Customer - 08/10/2008 12:33 AM  
We use an AL-only player pool, with FAAB evaluator run on Friday night.
Right after the interleague trade deadline, two players came into the AL:
Jason Bay and Ken Griffey.  However, the evaluator program did not process
any bids for these players (which were listed in the system with an
asterisk), but instead said that the evaluator program would run the
following week for those players.  Can you explain why?  Thanks.

  -- Mark B.


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