But if you're basing who to pick up based on who a good deal of other people are picking up, then don't you think those people are finding out from some other site or news report that there is someone valuable on the wire? And if that's the case, isn't it likely that either you or one of your 11 competitors would also find this news from some other source around the same time or sooner and grab the pickup before you could get to him?
I'm still not seeing the huge advantage here, but here's something that may help you out. While it doesn't show pick-ups per se, you can go to the players list and do a ranking on % owned of free agents. Anyone who is being picked up by gobs of teams should be owned by a fair amount of people, so you can just check the % owned periodically.
