Yea I don't like it personally. The incentive of drafting early is to get value on guys if you feel you have an edge over the competition. But in doing so, you risk an injury to a player(s), not like owners are forced to draft early either. They willingly do this to get that 'edge' . Now you're giving them a freebee waiver and a free draft pick (1 kicker vs 2) to boot.
How is giving early drafters this new pre-season waiver wire changing the fact that the incentive of drafting early is finding early value? Those two things are completely unrelated. This incentive exists
with or
without the preseason waiver wire. The risk of injury is also a matter of pure chance. If we can prevent an early drafter from being punished if one of his players gets injured in the preseason, why is that a bad thing?
I will also say this. If you think about it some more, I bet you will realize that the new pre-season waiver wire actually allows for a few new draft strategies to the early drafters previously unavailable. I won't disclose what they may be as it isn't my place to do so but I expect owners will start to figure them out. (No, I am not talking about passing on drafting a Kicker and picking one up later - a complete starting lineup will be required to be drafted).
I think u missed my point. The incentive remains the same, the risk however, is completely nullified. The whole risk in drafting early is avoiding injuries to said players you draft. You could even draft 2 QB's and both get hurt, not that shocking really. But hey, that's the risk u took drafting on July 28th. Now under this new rule, all that risk is gone. You can just scoop up whatever replacement player u want for that 1st scoring period. That becomes a bigger deal when there's 11 weeks of regular season play only.
My point is, owners willingly took that risk knowing they could have a depleted roster week 1 of the regular season. Which is all fine and its their choice to do so. This new rule is just giving them that 'cushion' ,if you will, to really have no trepidation in drafting early. At the end of the day, it looks like a ploy to get more entrants into this thing, and not an 'improvement' of any sort to the system. Think the few votes on this poll tend to agree
That's all