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In response to "It's a competitive balance thing, which I've always cared about more than MLB does. -- nm" by David

The reverse standing priority would seem to address competition and it's not even like fantasy where a team uses it priority on one player

Posted by JD (aka Jason Dean) Aug 31 '23, 10:46

Every player individually goes through the waiver process and on an extreme basis, the A's could've claimed every player on the wire for the cost of paying their prorated salaries for the year.

I'd agree with you on a big picture thing but this particular rule seems to be least of issues in getting the super cheap, super not competitive teams to spend money to actually be competitive.

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That's really dumb. We had that one year in BF where it accidentally worked like that and it was chaos. -- nm - spamlet Aug 31, 10:52
That's why it especially matters now. Worse wild card contenders get a gift. -- nm - David Aug 31, 10:47 3
- I thought that the whole point of adding even wilder, wild cards was to add to the chaos of the end of the season - JD Aug 31, 10:52 2
  - nah just more money for another round of prime time games -- nm - hollywood big shot Aug 31, 10:54 1
    - 8-) Actually that's super true -- nm - JD Aug 31, 10:55

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The reverse standing priority would seem to address competition and it's not even like fantasy where a team uses it priority on one player

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