FAAB for rookie
Posted: Sun May 04, 2014 4:42 pm
A certain Toronto prospect is not available in the FAAB bidding. Can someone fix?
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Here's why he wasn't added this week, from the Rules for all NFBC contests: The player pool is deemed closed of new free agents each Sunday at 7 AM ET before the FAAB bidding deadline and a player must have played at least 1 MLB game to be added to the pool at that time.mdecav wrote:A certain Toronto prospect is not available in the FAAB bidding. Can someone fix?
Greg Ambrosius wrote:Here's why he wasn't added this week, from the Rules for all NFBC contests: The player pool is deemed closed of new free agents each Sunday at 7 AM ET before the FAAB bidding deadline and a player must have played at least 1 MLB game to be added to the pool at that time.mdecav wrote:A certain Toronto prospect is not available in the FAAB bidding. Can someone fix?
Gekko needed more time to analyse the guys that were called up but hadn't yet pitched or played and Greg somehow agreed with him. Stupid rule if you ask me< it was fine before we fucked that up.Atlas wrote:Greg Ambrosius wrote:Here's why he wasn't added this week, from the Rules for all NFBC contests: The player pool is deemed closed of new free agents each Sunday at 7 AM ET before the FAAB bidding deadline and a player must have played at least 1 MLB game to be added to the pool at that time.mdecav wrote:A certain Toronto prospect is not available in the FAAB bidding. Can someone fix?
Greg
Out of curiosity, what is the reasoning/thought process in requiring a mlb game appearance before becoming eligible?
I mean, if a certain Toronto prospect were to have been brought up on Saturday...ahead of the Sunday 7am cutoff...why would it be beneficial to the league to wait until he has played a game before deeming him eligible?
Just curious.
Don't listen to Bama, we didn't F up anything here.Atlas wrote:Greg Ambrosius wrote:Here's why he wasn't added this week, from the Rules for all NFBC contests: The player pool is deemed closed of new free agents each Sunday at 7 AM ET before the FAAB bidding deadline and a player must have played at least 1 MLB game to be added to the pool at that time.mdecav wrote:A certain Toronto prospect is not available in the FAAB bidding. Can someone fix?
Greg
Out of curiosity, what is the reasoning/thought process in requiring a mlb game appearance before becoming eligible?
I mean, if a certain Toronto prospect were to have been brought up on Saturday...ahead of the Sunday 7am cutoff...why would it be beneficial to the league to wait until he has played a game before deeming him eligible?
Just curious.
Okay. I understand. Thank you.Greg Ambrosius wrote:Don't listen to Bama, we didn't F up anything here.Atlas wrote:Greg Ambrosius wrote:
Here's why he wasn't added this week, from the Rules for all NFBC contests: The player pool is deemed closed of new free agents each Sunday at 7 AM ET before the FAAB bidding deadline and a player must have played at least 1 MLB game to be added to the pool at that time.
Greg
Out of curiosity, what is the reasoning/thought process in requiring a mlb game appearance before becoming eligible?
I mean, if a certain Toronto prospect were to have been brought up on Saturday...ahead of the Sunday 7am cutoff...why would it be beneficial to the league to wait until he has played a game before deeming him eligible?
Just curious.
Ever since the NFBC was formed in 2004, we've always had the rule in place that if a player wasn't drafted in your league and wasn't in the majors he wasn't available to be picked up until he arrived in the majors. What was our thought process there? We didn't want owners picking up top prospects weeks before they got called up to the majors and stashing them on their reserve rosters. We felt it would be fairer to have everyone bid on those prospects the week they got called up. Right or wrong, that has been the rule in all NFBC leagues since 2004.
Our owners helped us with the one game played minimum before being eligible in FAAB. In 2004 when we first used FAAB, players could be added to the free agent pool anytime on Sunday. Owners had to watch the free agent list all day long for last minute add-ins. The next year we put in a 7 am Sunday deadline for new free agents to be added to the pool so that owners could enjoy Sundays. Then we found that fantasy sites would announce that a player was being added to an MLB roster, but we could never add them to the free agent pool until it was official with Major League Baseball. So some prospects didn't get added by Sunday at 7 am and folks were upset. So we decided the easiest criteria was 1 game played before being eligible for bidding. It's definitive and everyone knows when a new prospect is being added.
As for Marcus Stroman, a lot of folks wanted to bid for him tonight, but he's not eligible to be picked up until he plays one game in the majors. That's the rule and we could have lively bidding next week. We'll see. Good luck all.
You and many others were saved a lot of money which I saw spent elsewhere without the one game rule as people thought he would be starting .... turns out the Blue Jays want him to work out of the bullpen and prefer J.A. Happ as their fifth starter now. The bids will be a lot lower if he does pitch only in relief this week.mdecav wrote:A certain Toronto prospect is not available in the FAAB bidding. Can someone fix?
Not necessarily true. With the sharks that populate the NFBC, if minor leaguers were available to be bid on, someone would have picked him up for a dollar..... 3 weeks ago.Captain Hook wrote:You and many others were saved a lot of money which I saw spent elsewhere without the one game rule as people thought he would be starting .... turns out the Blue Jays want him to work out of the bullpen and prefer J.A. Happ as their fifth starter now. The bids will be a lot lower if he does pitch only in relief this week.mdecav wrote:A certain Toronto prospect is not available in the FAAB bidding. Can someone fix?