Contract basketball - streaming of players.

[Halifax Hurricanes]

Follow the real NBA process for this feature. A waived player stays on waivers for 24 hours, if not claimed by any team during that period he becomes a free agent, enabling all teams to bid on him again with the exception of the team that waived him in the first place. I should add to this suggestion, that waived players would still count against your cap space, only if you subsequently decide to buy he out would you gain cap relief. Also if this player is claimed from you on waiver wire would you receive cap relief.

[Edmonton Crunch]

Interesting idea. The board has had discussions about the streaming recently.

[Halifax Hurricanes]

I am indeed pleased to hear that, as in my opinion the present rule bears no resemblance to the reality of the NBA. It is inconceivable that a NBA team could constantly put players on waivers one day just to recall them the next day, such a process does not take place in the NBA. Furthermore let me also state here, that this is absolutely by no means a criticism of the individual utilizing this process presently, as he is fully within the present rules allowed to do so, and the same option is available to all of us. However could you imagine 16 teams all utilizing the same tactics Crunch and DE would indeed be busy individuals. I would hope by next season that some modification of this rule would have taken place to prevent this type of process.

[CFL Rejects]

Horrible idea sorry. If a team has cap space left they should be able to utilize it by using the waiver wire. Should not be held against the teams that others can't plan accordingly.

I am not in baskrtball I am speaking on behalf of all leagues.

[Halifax Hurricanes]

I am only speaking about basketball here, I have no interest in any other fantasy sport.

[S-Man Fanatics]

We could make the waiver wire similar to the buy-out rule where the same team can't reclaim a player unless another team has claimed the player and waived the player as well or a designated time has passed unclaimed then the original team can reclaim. Just an idea

[Team Canada]

That’s a good proposal

[Halifax Hurricanes]

That would work as well, I am for anything that prevents streaming.

[Edmonton Crunch]

Nice idea S-man

[Hitmen]

If you want to stop streaming the answer is simple don't make things more complicated than they need to be.

Just have the same rules as standard leagues.

All players must be on waivers for 48 hours and max 5 moves per week. 

[Dynasty Empire]

We plan to try something in baseball to see if it will work to eliminate this issue.

[dino10k]

I'm in one FSC standard basketball league but no Contract leagues. And I also hate streaming. There are 5 max moves per week. How are you going to stop streaming if you can stream 5 players a week? Limit to 2 or 3 or have a season max of 20 max moves. As it is now there are no consequences or no thinking involved in drop/pick-up moves. Just reading box scores and pick up the best from previous game. Make every move count and owners actually have to "think" instead of this pick up and drop nonsense that a few teams do to maximize games played to out-stat the other team. Or have weekly line-ups.9 players vs 9 players.

[Halifax Hurricanes]

I absolutely agree with you about streaming, however I do not really feel it is much of a problem in FSCs standard dynasty leagues with 20 teams each having 16 players and at least 1 IR spot, there is really not much left worthwhile streaming with.

[Dynasty Empire]

Standard leagues are pretty much self controlled through Yahoo with the 2 day waiver rule but in contract we don't use this method yet...