Free Agents and Waivers

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All unowned players who have cleared waivers are free agents and are available on a first-come, first-serve basis. You can pick up or drop players by simply clicking on the Pick Up Player or Drop Player links located near the top of your Team Page. All claimed players will immediately be added to your bench. It is up to you to move them to starting positions.

You can drop players without replacing them, but you can only pick up players without dropping anyone if you have less than the maximum number of players on your roster. You will never be allowed to exceed your league's roster limit.

 

If you drop a player from your roster, he will immediately be placed on waivers. You will then not be allowed to reclaim the player until after the waiver period expires.

 

Before the start of the season, all undrafted players will be placed on waivers, with those left unclaimed then being treated as free agents. Our waiver period is one day.

 

All players dropped from a team's roster are immediately placed on waivers. During this waiver period anyone in the league can claim the player.

 

So, if a player is dropped on a Wednesday afternoon, all coaches can claim him until Thursday at 11:59 pm PT. The player will then be assigned to their new team roughly 4-8 hours after the claim deadline.

 

If more than one coach claims the same player, the team that is highest on the Waiver Priority List is given the rights to the player. However, each time you add a waived player to your roster, you are pushed to the back of the list, so the team with the lowest waiver priority will always be the team that completed the last successful waiver claim. This "rolling" list stays in effect for the entire season.

 

To find your current position in the waiver priority list, go to the Coaches List via your League Overview page.

 

If nobody claims a player during the waiver period, he becomes a free agent.

 

If you place a player on waivers, you cannot reclaim that player until after the waiver period has expired. If, however, you decide that you do not wish to waive the player, you can cancel the transaction -- provided it has not yet been processed -- by viewing it from your team page and clicking on the Cancel button.

 

If you place a claim on more than one waived player at a time, each pending transaction will appear on your Team Page along with its current position in your waiver order. All new claims get appended to the end of the list, but you can alter this priority by viewing each pending claim and changing its priority in the box provided.