Free Agent Suggestion

viper · Post by **viper** » Sat Apr 03, 2004 1:44 am

The problem clearly is with whether players are or are not on the 25-man roster. I read an article in the Washington Post today stating rosters must be set by midnight the day before the first game. I guess the owners wanted it to literally be game time but the players union resisted. This means that only 3 teams would actually be required to set their rosters prior to our 7pm EST deadline for FA submissions.

I suggest the following:

STATS keeps the position eligibility page as accurate as possible up until 6:00pm EST Sunday. At that time, they will quit making any updates, even if some teams decides to set their 25-man rosters between 6:00pm and 7pm. This will give all NFBC teams one hour to see who is and is not eligible to be picked up. I'm Ok with a 6:30 drop-dead time but we do need sometime before the 7pm dealine.

Only players indicated as being on a 25-man roster (something which is clearly indicated on the eligibilty link) may be bid on.

This eliminates the possible confusion involved with MLB teams setting 25-man rosters after STATS starts the process of resolving FAAB requests but before these requests are published. Just like there is a drop-dead time to make requests, we need a drop-dead time to determine who is available. Essentially this is a week one problem and this suggestion allow everyone to know what the heck is happening. [spoken by the guy who first suggested the eventual solution on invalid roster]

Legend7 · Post by **Legend7** » Sat Apr 03, 2004 2:09 am

Guys,

This is all a mute point now, the players union rejected the owners proposal for a 6 pm deadline on Sunday! The deadline is now (mandatory) midnight tonight for the 25 man roster submissions from all major league teams. If your pick-up makes it you will know by 1:00 am Sunday Morning, this is NOT a problem anymore...dead issue...

Leaderboard Sports · Post by **Leaderboard Sports** » Sat Apr 03, 2004 3:10 am

yeah

[ April 03, 2004, 09:11 AM: Message edited by: Leaderboard Sports ]

mystydog · Post by **mystydog** » Sat Apr 03, 2004 5:49 am

Which is exactly the information I posted on a different thread yesterday....

That the players union and rejected a the additional 18 hours the MLB owners had attempted to implement into the time frame for finalizing their rosters......so now its just up to Greg and his great team to get the info straight on the NFBC site and then to let us all know when its finalized....

Thank GOD we can finally stop talking about this

sigh....