02-18-2023, 03:09 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-18-2023, 03:45 PM by Thor. Edited 2 times in total.)
(02-18-2023, 02:53 PM)Troen Wrote:(02-18-2023, 10:15 AM)DarknessRising Wrote: GMs are not to be asked to make any waiver claims while the draft is ongoing.
Is that sentence correct? I'd think from context that it should read "GMs are asked to not make any waiver claims while the draft is ongoing". Or is the not fine there because the intention is that you can't place a claim on the created players who are being held? Though I'm not a GM so maybe it's sufficiently clear to them.
I can speak to this as the person who proposed it, it essentially just doubles down on the first element of the rule, with waivers being held until after the pre-draft finishes GMs won't be able to make claims on the players until they're posted anyway.
The aim was to ensure that while DSFL GMs are busy with the draft, any waivers will be postponed until afterwards, and since the waiver creates that fall into this category are announced at the conclusion of the draft stream anyway, it won't affect the timing of when they're announced.
To give context, during this 116 user draft class we were also having to process and claim players through waivers, which has only begun happening more recently. For those players GMs then had 24 hours mid-draft to decide on claiming them. This rule rolls that back and ensures that it's not posted at the whim of whoever is processing the waivers, but at a designated time after the busiest part of a DSFL GMs pre-season.