Fantasy Football Improvements

I have a league that has been together for six seasons. Some of us have played for a few years before that. We use Yahoo because, well, that is where my friend started it. I have been the commish since the first year. Each year, I look around at what else is out there. I'm not sure that there is anything significantly better and now that we have a good amount of history with the league, I don't want to change it because it is fun to look back in league history and see how things played out for the team in the past.

We play with the following:
1 QB: 1pt/25 yards, 4pts/TD, -2/int or lost fumble
2 RB, 3 WR, 1 TE: 1t/10 yards, 6pt/TD, -2/fumble lost
1 K: 1 pt per point plus bonus 1 for FG > 40 yds and other bonus 1 for FG > 50
1 DEF: points based on sacks, defensive TDs, turnovers, and points allowed
1 IDP (individual defensive player): points for tackles, sacks, TDs, turnovers

There are a few things that I would love to have Yahoo add/modify.

1) Time On Waivers in Hours Not Days
Out league puts everyone on waivers on Sunday morning at 10am. Waivers claims are processed early Wednesday morning. This keeps people from picking up backups as soon as a starter gets injured. So if a player is dropped to pick up someone on waivers, they then go on waivers, but because that transaction happens on Wednesday, if waivers is one day, that day is Thursday. So, they get processed Friday morning. On the many weeks with Thursday games, that is too late. I would like a 24 hour waiver option so that they come off Thursday morning and are available.

2) Have Weekend Waivers Start When a Player's Game Starts
If you are going to have all of the players go on waivers for the weekend to prevent vultures, it would be nice if a player didn't go on waivers until their game started. That way if you have a player that is questionable but in a late game you can wait until closer to game time before having to lose a player to pick up a replacement if you have to.

3) Separate Defense and Special teams or better named Return teams as I don't want kicking points in there
In almost every league DEF also gets the special teams points or at least that is where you can add the points. I think that it is terrible that a defense that allows a bunch of points should then get points from the return yards from the kick-off that are a result. I might start cheering for my defense to allow field goals because I get more out of the kick-off return than I am penalized for allowing the points. That's just not right.

4) Separate kick-Off return yards from punt return yards and fumble/interception return yards
If a kick returner gets 20 yards per return, that is not that big a deal, but if a punt returner is averaging 10 yards, that pretty good. It is not fair that the punt returner should have to be twice as good to get the same number of points. I'm not sure what the averages are for fumble/interception returns, but that should be a third category.

5) Add penalty stats
I would gladly add -.5 for every penalty or better yet -1 point for every 10 yards of penalties. I would want this on individual players, but not for the DEF. Even more cool would be to give those yards to the QB/RB/WR/TE who was fouled. That way when Sidney Rice is about to catch a 30 yarder and gets held by the db who just got burned, Favre and Rice get credit for a 30 yard play. If it were in the end zone the players couldn't get the TD because that would open the door to having 1 drive produce 2 TDS, but the yards would be great.

6) Add a dropped pass stat
This is tough mostly because it is not an official stat. Yes, it is subjective (as are many penalties), but so are error/hit calls in baseball. That's just the way that it goes. I want to be able to penalize Braylon and T.O. and the like for dropping what should have been easy points.

7) Don't count minus yards for kneel down plays.
In the grand scheme this is very minor, but to lose 5 yards because your QB had a good game and is running out the clock is a drag.