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

[Andy Klein]

This is the kind of issue where I think we should live with system.  So,
Mark, if I understand this, a player who joins the AL on Friday would not be
eligible for FAAB bidding until the following week.  Is that right?

-Andy

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 12:40 AM, Mark Blocker <mbblocker at aol.com> wrote:

> 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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> Player pool and FAAB bidding
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> 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.
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> 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.
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>  -- Mark B.
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