bigfoot wrote:bwgood77 wrote:bigfoot wrote:I’d like to propose a rule change for next year. Any injured player that is selected in the draft can not be moved to an injured player slot for a set period of time. Say one month or something like that.
That doesn't make sense. Maybe in the final round or something but if a player chose Chet Holmgren that makes no sense they'd have to do without a bench spot for a month and maybe get behind in games.
Fair enough about Chet although I was speaking more toward Lonzo Ball being the injured player. So here is my suggestion to prevent some managers (like myself with an injured LaMelo Ball) from having a beginning-of-the-season advantage over other managers.
Currently, all undrafted players hit the waiver wire meaning they can not be picked up for one day. I think that is fine for the majority of the season. Although, at the beginning of the season, managers with injured players have an advantage. They can immediately pick up a free agent showing promise after their first game or two because they have an available spot. Other managers have to make a decision should I pick up this player and drop one or wait until my guys play? So the simple solution is to set the waiver window to seven days at the beginning of the season. Then change it back to one. This gives everybody a fair shot at the start as the waiver priority list is meant to help struggling teams and some of the best pickups happen at the beginning of the season. Yahoo settings allow this simple change to be put in place. Anyways I hope we would consider some type of change.
I understand your reasoning and I think all of us have had similar thoughts regarding drafting injured players, especially late. But in your situation for example, you having a slight advantage over others is negated by you having to play some undrafted guy instead LaMelo. At some point you have to drop someone. And if it's a prospect it doesn't help. I don't think there are too many players that go undrafted that people really want. Someone may play great in week 1 and the injured team kind of has that slight advantage, but that's pretty rare and he'd eventually have to drop someone anyway.
But in that situation it applies. If the guy looked really promising quickly and everyone missed him I think most everyone wouldn't have too big of a problem dropping their last pick though. I think what people sometimes fail to realize is that whoever you picked last is probably not a guy too many people want too badly.
I wonder if there is a designation where you can move a guy to an unplayable spot (kind of like a G league,etc), to even it out somehow.
I think in the end, it will never be perfect. There will always be things that help other teams and hurt some. Almost everyone will probably be able to move someone to IL+ since I think you can even more DTD guys there.
This can happen at any time in the season though....the situation you are describing. Some guy breaks out like a Jeremy Lin for example and those with injured guys would have a leg up.
