Weird Waiver Wire Antics

[GoBucsGo]

So, I’m not sure if I should post this in the bug forum, but, I’m noticing this happening a lot in my long term test sims.

In the off-season, I’m seeing a lot of veteran players signing 4+ year deals with organizations, and then immediately being placed and claimed by another team on waivers

Most recent example is Jacob Degrom. He signed a 4 year, $36,300,000 contract with the nationals, was placed on waivers the next day and then claimed by Miami a day later .

This is just the latest example but it happens with multiple vets every off season. Again, not sure I could label this a “bug”, but thought it deserved some attention.

[Lukas Berger]

Originally Posted by GoBucsGo

So, I’m not sure if I should post this in the bug forum, but, I’m noticing this happening a lot in my long term test sims.

In the off-season, I’m seeing a lot of veteran players signing 4+ year deals with organizations, and then immediately being placed and claimed by another team on waivers

Most recent example is Jacob Degrom. He signed a 4 year, $36,300,000 contract with the nationals, was placed on waivers the next day and then claimed by Miami a day later .

This is just the latest example but it happens with multiple vets every off season. Again, not sure I could label this a “bug”, but thought it deserved some attention.

Sure sounds like a bug. If you can post in the bug report forums and also include your league files where this is happening, that would be a big help!

[orange6]

Originally Posted by GoBucsGo

So, I’m not sure if I should post this in the bug forum, but, I’m noticing this happening a lot in my long term test sims.

In the off-season, I’m seeing a lot of veteran players signing 4+ year deals with organizations, and then immediately being placed and claimed by another team on waivers

Most recent example is Jacob Degrom. He signed a 4 year, $36,300,000 contract with the nationals, was placed on waivers the next day and then claimed by Miami a day later .

This is just the latest example but it happens with multiple vets every off season. Again, not sure I could label this a “bug”, but thought it deserved some attention.

Yes. Same with me. I’m glad somebody else reported.

In my case it’s an inaugural draft where 3rd and 4th rounders were released by multiple teams directly after the inaugural draft.

[andyhdz]

Yes I noticed same thing with my league as well.

[tayloraj]

I've noticed similar issues; in my historical test league I see that Hal Newhouser was picked 2nd overall by the Cubs, signed for a large bonus...and then released a month later and then sign a minor league contract with the Braves.

[kingne10]

I've seen the same thing. Yasiel Puig signed with the Padres within the first few days of the game and the next day, he was placed on waivers and put on the trade block.