S29 DSFL Rules Summit Results

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I agree completely with Glims on this. One point that I see this being especially bad is late-season waivers. You say that this won't affect waiver strategy because most players pass 100 TPE before the end of the season. However, I remember what waivers are like in the DSFL. It's a crapshoot. I had some go on to long careers in the ISFL, but many of my waivers never got past 57 TPE. I mean, a few of my waiver claims never even joined the locker room. Simply stated, this rule gives GMs potential competitive reasons for not taking a shot on a late-season waivers player, because a 100 TPE GM bot is significantly more reliable at the end of the season than a shot on a totally unknown commodity off waivers.

Post TDL waivers are already exempted from the DSFL's DC rules. It was always a huge crapshoot for TDL pickups bc it's already so late and you'd have to hope that they created at positions of need. Overall though, the purpose of these late season waivers is to give early creates some level of involvement in the league as they wait out the long path to the draft, not for them to come in and immediately become starters. Even then, just doing rookie tasks, wiki, training, and AC would easily put them at the same level if not higher than a GM bot, plus getting players into the LR off waivers is a huge way to keep building your team and doing the work that good DSFL GMs really want to do: developing. If GMs choose to rely on their GM bots they'll 100% be punished not just because their team will be worse but also because that crap is pretty easy to see and know that that GM isn't right for the DSFL.

Perhaps if we were more aggressive in trying to steer these kinds of GMs back towards the core purpose of the DSFL or just away from the DSFL entirely we wouldn't have to worry about them being lazy because they can get a couple extra crappy GM bots.