Let me start by saying I think we need a traditional waiver draft in season. Having said that the idea that someone can successfully tell me the "future value" of a player is ludicris. If anyone can tell the future about anyone or anything they need to tell me what stocks to buy next week. Therefore, the player pool for a waiver draft has to be more "set in stone." The idea that a commisssioner of any sort (whether it be a appointed league commish or MB himself)has the arbitrary power to declare someone to have no future value is overstepping in my opinion. I believe the wavier draft should be made up of INN players only. So that's my ideas on the player pool.

On the subject of how to do it and when to do it:

It shouldn't be monthly or weekly as the realtime leagues are done. Unlike the real-time leagues we KNOW how much a player is going to be able to be used prior to the season's beginnings. Short-sightedness should not be rewarded in my opinion. However, if you have a rash of injuries, if you have a terrible draft and no one in the league will give you a fair trade this is a good correction mechanism. The draft in traditional leagues should be 1-3 times a year. It should be a trade off (one player dropped that goes to the FA pool, unless the dropped player is INN and he would be available for the next Waiver draft, and one INN player added). The number of players should have a cap: 1-3 players (I think any other amount of turnover my have result in a shortage of INN players).

The how to do it should have some ties to the preformance that season. It should be based on a worst team grade that would be defined by a cross reference of the current record of a team and the current PB value of a team.

That's my 2 cents . ... .

Bill Hairston
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