"Waivers" is simply a holding tank for players that allows all members of a league to have a fair opportunity to add a player to their team. Players are placed on waivers (1) at the start of each week (if not on a team), (2) when they are dropped from a team, and (3) when a new player is first introduced to the player pool.
Unowned players reside on waivers following each week of play, residing there from Monday morning until 1 a.m. PT on Wednesday. Dropped players reside on waivers for at least 24 hours before clearing waivers. At the clearance time, the player leaves waivers to join either a team (if a request was made) or the free-agent pool (if no request was made). Unclaimed players become free agents and may be picked up for free on a first-come, first-served basis without affecting a team's waiver position.
Waiver claims are awarded based on the waiver position of each team. Your waiver position is the relative power you have when selecting a player off of the waiver wire. When more than one team requests a player in waivers, the player is awarded to the team with the lower waiver position (closer to 1). When a claim is resolved, the waiver position for the team that received the player is changed to 10 (the lowest priority) and all the other teams move up a position.
Waiver schedule
Following every week of fantasy play, each team's waiver position is reconfigured according to the team's position in the standings -- the team with the worst record receives the best waiver position (number 1) and the top team receives the worst waiver position (number 10).* In the event of a tie (identical won-lost records) the team with the lowest number of fantasy points is given the better position (closer to 1). In the event that two or more teams have identical records and fantasy points, a random drawing will be made to determine which team receives the higher waiver position. Waivers process daily at 1 a.m. PT, except for Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, when waivers are not processed.
* - In the event that there is an official scoring change (affecting the outcome of a game) made after the initial weekly run of waivers on Wednesday, waiver positions and claims will not be retroactively changed.
The initial post-draft waiver order for multi-list leagues is based on each team's #1 draft position and is awarded as follows:
| INITIAL WAIVER ORDER |
| SLOT |
1P |
WP |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 |
AFC QB
K
NFC D
AFC WR
NFC RB
AFC RB
NFC WR
AFC D
TE
NFC QB |
9
1
4
5
8
7
6
3
2
10 |
|
| INITIAL WAIVER ORDER |
| SLOT |
DP |
WP |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 |
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1 |
|
Waiver claims can be made at any time before that player clears waivers. Any player who is dropped within 48 hours of commencing play during a given week, is not available to be added and will appear on waivers during the initial waiver run on the following Monday.
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