The Waiver System, in qeneral terms, refers to
the overall personnel procedures in dealing with player cuts, movement and disposition.
Beginning immediately and for the duration of the 1983 Regular Season, all waiver requests will be no recall unless otherwise specified, and all claims will be no withdrawal. Clubs names will be drawn by lot in order to effectuate the order of claims priority. Once the team with first claiming priority has been awarded a player or players, that team moves to the end of
the list and team number two (2) moves to first, with every other
team moving up a notch.
For Example:
(1) Chicago
(2) Arizona
(3) Denver
(4) Oakland
(5) Los Angeles
(6) New Jersey
(7) Boston
(8) Philadelphia
(9) Birmingham
(10) Michigan
(11) Tampa Bay
(12) Washington
If Chicago is awarded a player or players on waivers, Chicago moves from
#1 to #12 and Arizona moves from #2 to #1, and the other clubs move up a notch.
If Boston is awarded a player, Boston moves from #7 to #12, and Philadelphia, Birmingham, Michigan Tampa Bay and Washington all
move up one notch. After all clubs shall have played four (4) games, claiming priority will be determined by won/loss percentage. In the event of ties, priority will be awarded by lot in the case of multiple claims.
Beginning immediately and continuing up to and including January 20, 1983, claiming period shall be seven (7) days.
Beginning January 21 and continuing for the duration of the 1983 Regular Season, claiming period shall be twenty-four (24) hours. All players placed on waivers will be waived for all years of their contracts.
No player may be awarded via waivers to a club on the day of or the day before
the playing of a game. All players claimed and scheduled to be
awarded via waivers at that time will be deferred until the next
business day after the game has been played.
Any
player contract awarded via waivers to another club containinq a
provision of imposinq financial obligations on the claiming club
that were not imposed on the waiving club will result in the
waiving club bearing the ultimate financial responsibility for
meeting such obligations. Furthermore, if in the opinion
of the Commissioner, a contract is altered, revised or
superseded in order to discourage claims, the
Commissioner may disapprove that contract and take whatever
action he deems appropriate.
Players waived from an Inactive contract and claimed, may be
awarded to a Club's inactive List. Players waived from an
Active contract and claimed may be awarded to a Club's Active or
Inactive List. If the club cannot negotiate an inactive
agreement with player, he must be placed on the Active List or
Waived.
CLAIMING PRICE
If a player is claimed by and awarded to a club, rhe club
awarded the player via waivers, must: pay the waiving club
S25.00 within ten (10} days after the award. This claiming price
will not be in effect until January 1, 1983.
END OF SEASON WAIVERS
All players waived from 4:01 P.M. (EST) on the Tuesday prior to
the final weekend of the season, will appear on the waiver
notice immediately following the USFL Championship Game.
WAIVER CLAIMING PRIORITY LIST - SEPTEMBER 23, 1982
(1) Tampa Bay
(2) Los Angeles
(3) Philadelphia
(4) Chicago
(5) Arizona
(6) New Jersey
(7) Birmingham
(8) Oakland
(9) Denver
(10) Washington
(11) Michigan
(12) Boston
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