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

[Richard Robbins]

Is there anything in the system that indicates when a player was added  
or when bidding on that player will be effective?

Did we overlook anything?

The upshot of all of this is that there are players that appear as  
free agents but for whom bids will be blocked.

That injects more uncertainty into the situation than we might want to  
tolerate.

-- Rich

On Aug 12, 2008, at 12:40 AM, Mark Blocker 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.
>
>  -- Mark B.
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