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Is there a way to see which players are currently on the waiver wire? It's hard to keep track of who has been cut/waived using just the League homepage. It'd also be nice to see where players are in the waiver process, i.e. on what date they were waived or what date they will clear waivers. Maybe also displaying the waived player's contract details so I know what kind of salary/cap hit I'd be taking on if I put a claim on a player.

Maybe some of these functions exist somewhere and I haven't stumbled upon them yet, but I just thought I'd bring it up. Also, not sure if any of this is feasible or if anyone else would also be interested in a similar function, but just an idea.

I think these are great suggestions to look at down the road, especially viewing a player's contract details before placing a waiver claim.

Knighty Knight wrote:I think these are great suggestions to look at down the road, especially viewing a player's contract details before placing a waiver claim.

The very first line under the players name when placing a waiver claim tells you the contract details

Seeing their grades would be very helpful as well. I've claimed several guys that I know made 53-man rosters that I probably wouldn't have done otherwise if I knew their grades.

tino38 wrote:

Knighty Knight wrote:I think these are great suggestions to look at down the road, especially viewing a player's contract details before placing a waiver claim.

The very first line under the players name when placing a waiver claim tells you the contract details

Thanks Tino! I guess it's been so long since I've claimed a player I forgot that was there after clicking the claim button.

Lol it's also time stamped so it should be fairly easy to know how much time is left

Thanks for the suggestions.

A lot of teams are claim-happy in my opinion and we've instituted some changes to make claiming a player what it should be here to me. My hope would be that there will be less claiming in the future with some of the changes and teams will ONLY claim guys they know about or have done research on and want to pay them and give them a spot on the 53 man roster. Teams can no longer claim guys just to claim them to try to get them to their practice squads. Claims are only for guys you feel are deserving of a spot on your 53 man roster.

It probably won't be an immediate priority until the next batch of claim process changes after monitoring effects, but suggestions are always welcome and more information can be a good thing. Thanks!

It previously showed player name, position, salaries for the next 6 seasons (since claiming team would be taking those on), roster bonuses if applicable, and claim deadline. Not too hard to add grade to that, so I've done that also.

This off-season we did away with the signing soon part of free agency for most of the year, and if we had more claim details organized by list and claim deadlines directly it would to me almost be like taking claims to a place we tried to get away from with free agency, but it's something to think about ahead.

But the bottom line is don't claim a player unless you know you want them on your 53 man roster and should do some research on them prior to claiming. Because won't be able to cut to practice squad and will be charged for claims once regular season paychecks start at week 1. So we can provide some additional details on claims, but my suggestion is think twice and really be sure about a claim that you know them and you know you want them on your 53 man roster before just clicking claim.