What's in a Name? UPL Football 2009-10:

...McNair Dating Service.

What? Too soon?

In any case, it appears that Yahoo! is finally catching up with the times and has made a few adjustments (including offering the live stats for free, which they've been charging for for about 5 years now). So, we've got a couple options. Sadly, having fantasy punters is not of of these options. But allowing some customization for the waivers process is.

The first is weekly waivers. Essentially, what it does is puts all available players on waivers starting on Sunday night, and then processes waivers right before midnight on Tuesday (players go on to rosters starting Wednesday). Practically, what this means is 2 things. For those of you who make last minute roster moves to pick up players for Monday night would have to do so before 10pm on Sunday. And second, this gives everyone the same chance at available players. Westy asked for this years ago. I'm inclined to move to weekly waivers, but will give everyone the chance to chime in.

Second, if we do have the weekly waivers, how do you want to do the waiver priority? There are multiple options. The first is to do the waiver order, just like we do now, initially based on where you draft, and then each pick-up puts you to the back of the line. A second option is essentially reset the waiver order each week, so that the team in last place has first priority. A third option (and one that I find intriguing) is to go with the Free Agent Acquisition Budget (FAAB), which creates a blind, single-bid auction for each person you want to acquire on waivers. In the case of a tie, then the tiebreaker would fall back to season standings. In this scenario, everyone will start with the same budget at the start of the season (say, $130). This also puts a cap on the number of waiver acquisitions that you can make, since each acquisition costs at least $1. Then at the end of the regular season, I'll reset all of the playoff teams budgets back to $130.

What do you guys think? I mean, besides that I'm an ass for already naming the league after Steve McNair.

-Chairman (aka O.N. Thugs)