What are 'waiver rules' in fantasy footbal?
The waiver rules are basically how your fantasy football league structures the free agent in waiver process. So once you draft a team at the beginning of the season, everyone's going to have, say fifteen players, but that's not all the players you're going to have for the whole season. Basically, every week you could pick up new players and drop players. Maybe there'll be a wide reciever that comes out of nowhere, or a running back has an injury, and a new running back has started. So you're going to want to pick up those players off of waivers. They vary a lot, depending on the fantasy football league. Some fantasy football leagues just let you pick up players all the time, as all the players are available, and you can pick up and drop at all times. But it's much more common that there'll be waivers at a certain time, say Tuesday or Wednesday morning. So it's then that you'll try to put in a claim for a new player. There's going to be a few players each week that are very popular, so people will all put in their claims. Depending on what your fantasy football league rules are, that will decide who gets the waiver claim, and it'll run the waivers. Usually after the week, once you get those players, it's just a free-for-all. After you run the waivers from there until Sunday when the game starts, you can just pick up and drop players at will.
