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

[Richard Robbins]

If the players are marked as you suspect then it might be tolerable.

-- Rich

On Aug 12, 2008, at 7:36 AM, Mark Blocker wrote:

> I believe Andy is correct.
>
> Rich, I believe those newly-added players are denoted with an  
> asterisk.  We should observe over the next few days.
>
> From: announce-bounces at usml.net [mailto:announce-bounces at usml.net]  
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> Subject: Re: [USML Announce] FW: Player pool and FAAB bidding  
> [Incident:080810-000027]
>
> I'd agree with you if it was obvious from just looking at the system  
> if a player is eligible.
>
> Owners shouldn't gain an advantage or be hurt if they happen to not  
> know exactly when a player joined the league.
>
> I'll have no idea if a team activates a player late on Thursday as  
> opposed to early on Friday.  Similarly, we won't necessarily know if  
> a trade that is nearing completion is truly completed late one night  
> or early the next day.
>
> If only there was something on the system that showed when bidding  
> on a free agent will actually be processed.
>
> -- Rich
>
> On Aug 12, 2008, at 6:31 AM, Andy Klein wrote:
>
>
> 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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> 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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