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Old 10-26-2021, 09:29 AM   #16
scotty
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Join Date: Oct 2018
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Originally Posted by JeffR View Post
Because that's the closest way we can approximate the real rule that requires them to be offered back to their original team before being traded or demoted. Implementing that would break the roster management AI badly, so instead we model the actual effect: players claimed on waivers rarely get sent down or traded. And it also prevents the cheap tactic of using waiver claims to collect players that you immediately trade away.
So if I understand this correctly, once you successfully claim a player on waivers he takes up a slot on your active roster for the rest of that season and there is nothing you can do to shift him. Is that right ?
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