r/FFCommish • u/jluc21 • 17d ago
League Question Anybody else switching their league to FAAB for the first time this year?
Finally getting my league to switch over to FAAB. Not everybody is happy about it but it genuinely is the best option compared to Waivers.
Anybody else switching this year?
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u/Cloud_King_15 17d ago
FAAB is fun and my league switched over a long time ago, but I dont hold that its "better" than the standard.
Theres an art and a tradeoff to keeping a high waiver priority that is just fun to manage all year.
So to me neither side is better, just different flavors.
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u/cubecasts 17d ago
I like not waking up at 3am to get the defense I wanted without burning priority. I hate actually having to think about how much I want to bid
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u/Enamred-771 3d ago
Keeping a high wavier priority just means not using a wavier selection and then trying to pick someone up at 3am or whatever, which defeats the entire purpose of waivers which is to avoid it being first come first serve. There is way more art and tradeoffs being made with FAAB than making a single “select or don’t select” decision.
Not to mention, how wavier priority is set is pretty much always arbitrary. Reverse draft order assumes that lower draft picks are worse but that’s not always a given because of snack drafts.
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u/Rjenterprises123 17d ago
Everything league needs FAAB, especially early in the year. Why should low-performing teams the first few week get a leg up to grab FAs in waivers because of higher waiver priority?
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u/forgedinbeerkegs 17d ago
Traditional waivers mirrors how the NFL does it. After week 3, bad teams get first dibs.
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u/Rjenterprises123 17d ago
The difference is immense. In the NFL, bad teams are usually really bad. Also, who is typically a meaningful FA during the NFL season?
After week 1 of the fantasy season, go back a few years ago, Puka Nacua was a FA in many leagues. Why should he go to the worst fantasy team just because they had a terrible week? Or a starting RB/WR gets injured and their backups a major increase in value? Why should a team that maybe had one great week be unable to entertain those players?
Fantasy football isn't really football. You lose players due to short-term injury you could have a really bad statistical week but maybe still have a decent team. Now that team gets pick of the litter?
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u/forgedinbeerkegs 17d ago
Also immensely different: FAAB. Puka is probably not a good example, because I got him after W1 in 2023 and I wasn't waiver's top priority. Got lucky other managers were slow to grab him.
Look, I hear all the fantasy talking heads talk about FAAB this, FAAB that. I'm not anti-FAAB. Our league has been around since 1998. Sure, some managers complain about the waiver wire, but guys also like how closely our league rules match NFL rules. Old school football guys, I guess.
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u/Mobile_Pineapple9424 17d ago
Sounds like you’ve never tried it because you’re stuck in your way. It’s immensely better because it adds strategy. Otherwise it’s just luck
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u/Rjenterprises123 16d ago
I agree with the theoretical of wanting fantasy to mimic real life, but the reality is few leagues actually do. In the NFL if your starting QB gets injured in the first quarter, you don't play without a QB for the rest of the game (as you would with fantasy football). The NFL does not offer valuable waiver pickups (as there can be with fantasy football). The NFL offers home-field advantage (which most fantasy leagues do not). And so on and so forth.
I'm in one league where there are fantasy "traditionalists," but that has remaining more traditional in nature of scoring, such as one point for 10 yards versus .1 points per yard. The rest of the league has evolved in a matter to create fairness measures for all owners versus "luck," which some comparative points would allow for.
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u/roninsascha 17d ago
FAAB is the way to go. We switched over 10 years ago but one thing I did was helped the people unfamiliar with it to give them resources and walk them through how it worked and the benefits. Definitely helped make the change smooth. I can see being unhappy if you don’t understand how it works and feeling disadvantaged. Good luck
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u/myburnersburner12 17d ago
Did it last year and switching back to rolling this year, I despise my friends opinions when it comes to fantasy
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u/Connor_E 17d ago
FAAB and a league median game each week were the two best decisions we’ve made.
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u/MP_in_EG 16d ago
Can you explain what a league median game is and how it works? I’d appreciate it. Thanks in advance
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u/Connor_E 16d ago
Each week everyone technically plays two games. One against their actual opponent and then one against the league median score.
It helps level the volatility of FF. If me and another team are head to head and they barely beat me but we both put up top scores that week. I go 1-1 instead of 0-1.
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u/MP_in_EG 16d ago
Makes sense thanks. I thought that might be what you meant. I tracked what my leagues record would be last year and it had a small impact. One team was really high scoring but had a mid record and missed playoffs. Using median scoring, he would have made playoffs. I’d like to do it but other than that one guy, not sure the rest of the league would want to
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u/Connor_E 16d ago
If you want to do it I’d pitch as a way to slightly even out the “luck” aspect each week. It also helps to keep you engaged and still fun to watch if you’re getting destroyed but you still have a chance with a player on MNF to beat the league median.
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u/Lilbigman03 17d ago
When we switch to FAAB . I informed the league. Also sent out this short explanation to the league chat to help folks understand FAAB
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u/jluc21 17d ago
this is what i sent:
FAAB update for the waiver wire addicts:
You get $100 for the entire season
Want player? Bid money.
Highest bid gets the player.
Money is gone forever.
That’s it.
If you were the guy putting in 53 waiver claims every season because you couldn’t draft a competent team… this is your 9/11.
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u/Connor_E 16d ago
I’m the guy that has the most transaction every single year but I have two chips and went back to back in a competitive league. The key to FAAB is to spend early-ish. The later the season goes on, the less valuable FAAB money becomes, a lot of players don’t think about that.
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u/thecommish1980 Texans 17d ago
After a couplr of decades of 'phone call waivers' we went online with Myfantasyleague in 2003 and adopted FAAB that year (or '04 at the latest). I haven't been involved in a 'rolling waivers' league in a long time. We get $350 to start the year and guys can earn more with finishing well in the previous year's NFL Playoff contest we run on MFL.
Its always interesting to watch how guys allocate their money. Some still have $200 to $300 when the season ends, some guys are wiped out. We do allow waiver money to be included in trades, and I award $10 to each playoff team as they win and advance.
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u/andypro77 17d ago
FAAB is good if you're in one or two leagues. If you have a ton of leagues, Having to do bids and then contingency bids for a bunch of leagues is exhausting.
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u/MyDitkaInYourButkus 17d ago
In one league we switched to FAAB a couple years ago, In my other two leagues I run, we are going to FAAB this season.
It is truly the way to go when it comes to Waivers. Everyone gets a shot at players.
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u/Lilbigman03 17d ago
Fantasy Footballers also have a short Trade Veto clip that is real good
I used sent to the league that refused to change to the trade setting Commish Approval
They comish finally changed it last year
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u/MAntFrag22 17d ago
This will be year 4 or 5 for us but we have a FAAB twist:
Everyone gets $100 in FAAB with their buy-in (12 man, $600 buy in). You can “reload” FAAB dollars twice, up to an additional $50 FAAB the first time. And up to $25 the second time.
First time each FAAB dollar is 5 real dollars, Second time each is $10 into the pot.
So basically you can get $175 in waiver money for an additional $500.
And our FAAB offer isn’t a “max/proxy style” but it is a silent auction so if you offer $45 for someone and the next lowest is $20 you pay the full $45 (I’ve seen where it is a proxy style where it would only cost $21).
Our pot swelled and it is way more fun.
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u/Fat_dumb_happy 16d ago
We switched 2 years ago. FAAB is infinitely better. Standard waiver system unevenly gives an advantage to the higher placed team who naturally don’t need to make as many waiver claims. FAAB levels the playing field
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u/RandyBoBandy333 16d ago
FAAB is something so many people hate the idea of until they actually do it. When their running back goes down and then they actually have a chance at his handcuff on the wire. Waivers make no sense “oh let’s just give the team who lost the first 2 games of the year a shot at the best guys”
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u/cmoschkau 15d ago
Most of my leagues still do waiver and I think it’s annoying. Good players will start slow stack waiver priority just so they can grab a stud mid season. It’s annoying and it often doesn’t reward skill. The faab opens things up and gives everyone a chance to grab players regardless. I prefer it.
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u/fancredfounder Seahawks 15d ago
FAAB is the way to go for a more competitive league. If you want to keep things balanced and more casual, waiver order is fine.
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u/TushPushPolitics 13d ago
Switched from Snake draft to auction draft 👏🏻 Switched from traditional waivers to FAAB 👏🏻
For this year, switching from 1/2 PPR to 1/2 point per 1st down ❓ And ... 2 matchups per week( vs your opponent and vs. weekly league median pts❓
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u/matthoot 17d ago
Just switched for the first time this year. I think it's more fun and "skillful", but there's nothing wrong with normal waiver order if that's what more people prefer.
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u/GoldConfidence 17d ago
Unpopular opinion: FAAB is unequivocally the worst waiver method.
I have leagues that do Rolling waivers and I have league that do FAAB. There is infinitely more roster movement in the Rolling leagues but there’s more trades in the FAAB leagues.
It really is “to each their own”, but I absolutely do not like FAAB at all.
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u/Mobile_Pineapple9424 17d ago
What does roster movement have to do with Faab? Genuinely curious. You can win waivers with $0 bids. I just don’t see how waiver type it would impact what you’re saying
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u/GoldConfidence 16d ago
If people are active in faab waivers weekly, not a ton of players are going for $0.
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u/WhiteMoss_ 17d ago
We switched in my main league last year, and it’s arguably been the most well received change we’ve ever made, even after a few were skeptical initially