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Waiver wire

The fantasy football waiver wire

Updated weeklyWeek 8Redraft 1QB PPR
How claims work, when they run, and who is worth putting one in for this week. Every name below is measured: who actually still has him, whose role just changed, and what a claim like that has been costing.
On the wire
160

worth a claim in week 8

Leagues measured
1307

real synced rosters

Top pickup bid
18-47%

of your season budget

Claims that cost nothing
41%

of winning claims

The short version

  1. 1.He is dropped

    He does not go straight back on the shelf. He sits on waivers until your league's next run.

  2. 2.Everybody claims

    Every manager who wants him puts in a claim, blind, before the run starts.

  3. 3.The league decides

    By queue position with waiver priority, by the highest bid with FAAB. Nearly every league runs it Wednesday morning.

The decision is simpler than the machinery. Add the player whose ROLE changed, not the one who had a good Sunday, and price him against the worst player you would actually start. The FAAB strategy guide covers the money; this page covers everything around it.

Top pickup

The best available add in week 8

Jacoby Brissett

QB27, ranked 27 at quarterback in this formatARI

7 touches in week 7, +4.2 on his 2.8 average before it; on 100.0 percent of his team's snaps in week 7; projects for 19.5 points against DAL, 2.4 more than the last startable quarterback in a standard league.

Suggested bid

Priority add

18 to 47% of your season budget. The lower figure wins about 6 times in 10, the higher about 9 in 10, priced from the measured market for players like him.

of your season budget. 4 or more teams bidding.

Rostered
62%806 of 1307 leagues
This week
19.5 pointsvs DAL
Over starter
+2.4 points against the last startable quarterbackvs the last startable QB
Usage
7 touches in week 7+4.2 on his average
Claimed
None of the synced leaguesin the latest waiver runs

Week 8 board

This week's waiver wire pickups

160 players worth a claim, ranked within each position. Every bid is a share of your season budget.

See bids in your league's dollars

Budgets differ from league to league, so bids are percentages. Enter yours to add dollars to every card.

Running backs31 worth a claim in week 8

Where most claims are won. Almost nothing on a wire beats a startable back outright, so these are the best of what is genuinely free, led by whoever just inherited carries.

  1. Number 1 at running back: Zonovan Knight

    RB60, ranked 60 at running back in this formatARI

    1 to 6% of your season budget. The lower figure wins about 6 times in 10, the higher about 9 in 10, priced mostly from what he has cost in real claims.

    Cheap add

    of budget, likely just you

    • Touches up 8
    • Claimed in 78 leagues
    Rostered
    23% of the 1307 leagues we track
    This week
    6.3 pointsvs DAL
    Touches
    12 touches in week 7, up on his 4.0 averageWeek 7
    Claimed
    78leagues, median 0%
    Why him

    12 touches in week 7, +8 on his 4.0 average before it; projects for 6.3 points against DAL; rostered in 23 percent of the leagues we track.

  2. Number 2 at running back: Kimani Vidal

    RB73, ranked 73 at running back in this formatLAC

    12 to 30% of your season budget. The lower figure wins about 6 times in 10, the higher about 9 in 10, priced from the measured market for players like him.

    Priority add

    of budget, about 3 teams bidding

    • Touches up 6
    Rostered
    47% of the 1307 leagues we track
    This week
    5.8 pointsvs LAR
    Touches
    11 touches in week 6, up on his 5.5 averageWeek 6
    Claimed
    1league, too few to price
    Why him

    11 touches in week 6, +5.5 on his 5.5 average before it; projects for 5.8 points against LAR; rostered in 47 percent of the leagues we track.

  3. Number 3 at running back: Jonah Coleman

    RB47, ranked 47 at running back in this formatDEN

    18 to 47% of your season budget. The lower figure wins about 6 times in 10, the higher about 9 in 10, priced from the measured market for players like him.

    Priority add

    of budget, 4 or more teams bidding

    • 2.2 points over a starter
    • Crowded claim
    Rostered
    69% of the 1307 leagues we track
    This week
    10.0 pointsvs KC
    Touches
    11 touches in week 7, down on his 13.0 averageWeek 7
    Claimed
    1league, too few to price
    Why him

    11 touches in week 7, down from 13.0; projects for 10.0 points against KC, 2.2 more than the last startable running back in a standard league; rostered in 69 percent of the leagues we track.

  4. Number 4 at running back: Chris Rodriguez Jr.

    RB55, ranked 55 at running back in this formatJAX

    18 to 47% of your season budget. The lower figure wins about 6 times in 10, the higher about 9 in 10, priced from the measured market for players like him.

    Priority add

    of budget, 4 or more teams bidding

    • Touches up 6
    • Crowded claim
    Rostered
    63% of the 1307 leagues we track
    This week
    5.8 pointsvs IND
    Touches
    12 touches in week 6, up on his 5.8 averageWeek 6
    Claimed
    1league, too few to price
    Why him

    12 touches in week 6, +6.2 on his 5.8 average before it; projects for 5.8 points against IND; rostered in 63 percent of the leagues we track.

  5. Number 5 at running back: Trevor Etienne

    RB66, ranked 66 at running back in this formatCAR

    4 to 22% of your season budget. The lower figure wins about 6 times in 10, the higher about 9 in 10, priced from the measured market for players like him.

    Real bid

    of budget, about 2 teams bidding

    • Touches up 7
    • Free in 79% of leagues
    Rostered
    21% of the 1307 leagues we track
    This week
    2.5 pointsvs GB
    Touches
    8 touches in week 7, up on his 1.0 averageWeek 7
    Claimed
    Nonein weeks 7 and 8
    Why him

    8 touches in week 7, +7 on his 1.0 average before it; projects for 2.5 points against GB; rostered in 21 percent of the leagues we track.

  6. Number 6 at running back: Tyjae Spears

    RB62, ranked 62 at running back in this formatTEN

    0 to 7% of your season budget. The lower figure wins about 6 times in 10, the higher about 9 in 10, priced mostly from what he has cost in real claims.

    Cheap add

    of budget, likely just you

    Rostered
    70% of the 1307 leagues we track
    This week
    7.8 pointsvs CIN
    Touches
    2 touches in week 6, down on his 6.5 averageWeek 6
    Claimed
    3leagues, median 0%
    Why him

    2 touches in week 6, down from 6.5; projects for 7.8 points against CIN; rostered in 70 percent of the leagues we track.

Real claims, weeks 7 and 8

The most-claimed players on waivers

Counted across the Sleeper leagues synced to FF Beacon. Bars show the middle half of winning bids from 0 to 100% of budget; the tick is the median.

  1. Number 1: Zonovan Knight

    RB, running back ARI

    0%median winning bid

    Claimed in 78 leagues, middle half 0 to 2%, 1.2 teams bidding on average. Still on this week's board.

  2. Number 2: Konata Mumpfield

    WR, wide receiver LAR

    3%median winning bid

    Claimed in 26 leagues, middle half 1 to 6%, 1.4 teams bidding on average. Still on this week's board.

  3. Number 3: Brandin Cooks

    WR, wide receiver SF

    0%median winning bid

    Claimed in 20 leagues, middle half 0 to 1%, 1.1 teams bidding on average. Now rostered in 23% of leagues.

  1. 4.

    Tyrone Tracy Jr.RB, running back

    4% median winning bid

    Claimed in 19 leagues, middle half 0 to 9%, 1.8 teams bidding on average. Still on this week's board.

  2. 5.

    Christian KirkWR, wide receiver

    2% median winning bid

    Claimed in 19 leagues, middle half 0 to 4%, 1.3 teams bidding on average. Still on this week's board.

  3. 6.

    Seth McGowanRB, running back

    0% median winning bid

    Claimed in 17 leagues, middle half 0 to 3%, 1.5 teams bidding on average. Still on this week's board.

  4. 7.

    DeMario DouglasWR, wide receiver

    9% median winning bid

    Claimed in 12 leagues, middle half 4 to 14%, 2.5 teams bidding on average. Still on this week's board.

  5. 8.

    Tyler HigbeeTE, tight end

    4% median winning bid

    Claimed in 10 leagues, middle half 2 to 7%, 1.7 teams bidding on average. Still on this week's board.

  6. 9.

    Jaylin NoelWR, wide receiver

    1% median winning bid

    Claimed in 9 leagues, middle half 0 to 2%, 1.2 teams bidding on average. Still on this week's board.

  7. 10.

    Darius CooperWR, wide receiver

    1% median winning bid

    Claimed in 9 leagues, middle half 0 to 1%, 1.1 teams bidding on average. Still on this week's board.

Open the week 8 page on its own

The waiver wire playbook

Everything around the claim, in 8 lessons.

How the wire works, when it runs, who is worth it and what it costs. Jump to any lesson from the contents.

Lesson 1 of 8

What the waiver wire actually is

A queue with a lock on it.

The waiver wire is a lock on the free agent pool. When a manager drops a player, he does not become instantly available to whoever is quickest. He goes on waivers for a set period, and during that period the only way to get him is to put in a claim and wait for your league to process them all at once.

The reason is fairness. Without it, a player dropped at two in the morning goes to whichever manager happened to be awake, and the fantasy season becomes a test of who has notifications turned on. A waiver period turns that race into a decision.

Once the waiver run finishes, anyone nobody claimed stops being on waivers and becomes an ordinary free agent. At that point it genuinely is first come, first served, which is why the hours after a Wednesday morning waiver run are the other moment worth paying attention to.

The three states a player can be in

  • Rostered

    Somebody owns him. The only routes to him are a trade or that manager dropping him.

  • On waivers

    Recently dropped, or never yet rostered in a league that puts everybody through waivers. Claims only, processed together at your league's next run.

  • A free agent

    Cleared waivers unclaimed. Anybody can add him instantly, at any hour, for nothing.

Key idea

Most of the players worth adding all season were free agents, not waiver claims. The wire matters because of the handful of weeks when somebody's job changes and four managers want the same name.

Lesson 2 of 8

Waiver priority against FAAB

Two games, one name.

Every league resolves competing claims one of two ways, and which one you are in changes the whole shape of the decision. It is worth knowing which before the season starts rather than the first time you lose a claim.

Waiver priority and FAAB are different games

The two systems your league might use, and what each one actually asks you to spend.

Waiver priority is a queue: the manager highest in the order gets the player and usually drops to the back for using it, so the question is whether he is worth your spot in line. FAAB is a blind auction: everyone bids from a season-long budget, the highest bid wins, and the question is what he is worth in dollars you cannot get back.

Waiver priority

A queue. Also called rolling waivers or the waiver order.

  • How is a tie broken?It cannot tie. One manager is higher in the queue and they get him.
  • What does winning cost you?Your place in the queue. You drop to the back and stay there until you climb again.
  • Can you win two in a week?Rarely. Using priority once usually sends you to the bottom before the next claim processes.
  • What is the skill?Patience. Knowing which player is worth spending your spot in line on.
  • What runs out?Nothing. Priority regenerates every time somebody else uses theirs.

FAAB

A blind auction. Free agent acquisition budget.

  • How is a tie broken?By waiver priority, or a coin flip, depending on the league. This is why an odd bid wins claims a round one loses.
  • What does winning cost you?Money you cannot get back, and nothing else. Your position next week is unchanged.
  • Can you win two in a week?Yes, as many as your budget covers. Every claim is priced on its own.
  • What is the skill?Pricing. Knowing what a player is worth in dollars, and what your rivals can still afford.
  • What runs out?The budget. A dollar in week two and a dollar in week fourteen are not the same money.
View this comparison as a table
Waiver priority compared with FAAB bidding, across five questions.
QuestionWaiver priorityFAAB
How is a tie broken?It cannot tie. One manager is higher in the queue and they get him.By waiver priority, or a coin flip, depending on the league. This is why an odd bid wins claims a round one loses.
What does winning cost you?Your place in the queue. You drop to the back and stay there until you climb again.Money you cannot get back, and nothing else. Your position next week is unchanged.
Can you win two in a week?Rarely. Using priority once usually sends you to the bottom before the next claim processes.Yes, as many as your budget covers. Every claim is priced on its own.
What is the skill?Patience. Knowing which player is worth spending your spot in line on.Pricing. Knowing what a player is worth in dollars, and what your rivals can still afford.
What runs out?Nothing. Priority regenerates every time somebody else uses theirs.The budget. A dollar in week two and a dollar in week fourteen are not the same money.

There is a third variation worth naming because it catches people out. Some priority leagues use a REVERSE STANDINGS order that resets every week rather than a rolling queue, so the worst team in the league is first in line every Wednesday and using it costs nothing at all. In one of those, there is no reason to hold priority back, and a manager playing it like a rolling queue is leaving free players on the table all season.

Key idea

In a rolling priority league the question is whether he is worth your place in line. In a FAAB league the question is what he is worth in dollars. In a weekly reset league there is barely a question at all: if you are near the top, use it.

Try it. If your league uses FAAB, the bidding is its own skill: how much of the budget a starter is worth, when to empty it, and why the odd number wins.

Read the FAAB guide

Lesson 3 of 8

When claims actually run

Wednesday, nearly everywhere.

The single most searched waiver question, and the one most often answered wrongly by a page that assumes everybody is on the same platform. First the rhythm of a default week, then what each of the four big platforms does.

  1. 1.From Tuesday: claims go in

    Waivers on most platforms default to an overnight run, so a claim entered any time from Tuesday is in time.

  2. 2.Tuesday night: the real deadline

    A claim has to be in before the run starts, which in most leagues is overnight into Wednesday.

  3. 3.Wednesday morning: the run

    Every claim is processed at once, by priority or by the highest bid.

  4. 4.After the run: free agents

    Anyone left unclaimed is first come, first served, for anybody watching.

When waivers process, by platform

Each platform's published default. Every one of these is something your commissioner can change, so check your own league settings before you rely on a deadline.

All four major platforms clear waivers early on Wednesday morning by default, so a claim entered any time from Tuesday runs overnight. What differs is the system underneath: Sleeper leans on FAAB, while Yahoo, ESPN and NFL.com default to a waiver priority queue with FAAB as an option the commissioner turns on.

  • Sleeper

    Wednesday, early morning

    FAAB in most league templates, priority available

    Commissioners commonly move it to Tuesday night or turn on daily waivers. Sleeper also offers a waiver budget with a minimum bid a league can set above zero.

    Sleeper's own waiver rules, opens in a new tab
  • Yahoo

    Wednesday, early morning

    Waiver priority, with a continual rolling option

    Yahoo calls FAAB an auction budget and it is off unless the commissioner turns it on. Yahoo leagues also default to a two-day waiver period on newly dropped players.

    Yahoo's own waiver rules, opens in a new tab
  • ESPN

    Wednesday, early morning

    Waiver priority by reverse standings

    ESPN's FAAB option is per league and the budget defaults to $100 when it is enabled. Standard ESPN leagues also re-run waivers on Thursday for players dropped after Wednesday.

    ESPN's own waiver rules, opens in a new tab
  • NFL.com

    Wednesday, early morning

    Waiver priority, with FAAB available

    Reverse-order priority by default, resetting weekly rather than rolling, which changes the calculation on whether to spend it.

    NFL.com's own waiver rules, opens in a new tab
View the platform defaults as a table
Default waiver processing day and bidding system, by fantasy platform, from each platform's own support pages.
PlatformProcessesDefault system
SleeperWednesday, early morningFAAB in most league templates, priority available
YahooWednesday, early morningWaiver priority, with a continual rolling option
ESPNWednesday, early morningWaiver priority by reverse standings
NFL.comWednesday, early morningWaiver priority, with FAAB available

Key idea

Set a reminder for Tuesday night, not Wednesday morning. By the time the run has happened, the decision has been made for you.

Lesson 4 of 8

Who is actually worth adding

Buy the role, not the box score.

Almost every waiver mistake is the same mistake: bidding on a box score instead of a role. A receiver who caught two passes and took one of them eighty yards scored eighteen points and is still the fourth option on his own offense. A back who carried it seventeen times for fifty-one yards scored nothing and just became his team's starter. The second one is the add, every time.

That is why the board on this page leads with usage rather than with points. Targets and carries are the closest thing to a direct measurement of what a coaching staff thinks of a player, and they move a week or two before the fantasy points do.

The four questions, in order

  1. 1.Can I actually get him?

    A player rostered in most leagues is not a waiver plan. Our board leaves out anyone held in 70 percent or more of the leagues we track for exactly this reason.

  2. 2.Did something change?

    A new starter, an injury ahead of him, a trade that cleared the depth chart. If you cannot name the change in a sentence, you are buying a good afternoon.

  3. 3.Is he better than what I would start?

    Not better than the worst player on your roster. Better than the worst player you would actually put in a lineup, which is a much higher bar.

  4. 4.What is he worth to everyone else?

    The price is set by how many rivals need him, not by how much you like him.

Key idea

Buy the role, not the box score. The player whose job changed is worth money even if he scored nothing on Sunday, and the player who scored thirty in a role that has not changed is worth almost nothing.

Try it. The FAAB calculator answers the third question properly. Connect your league and it prices a claim against the player you would actually drop and the lineup you would actually set.

Open the calculator

Lesson 5 of 8

What a claim actually costs

Most of them cost nothing.

These are not estimates. They are measured from every waiver auction in every league synced to FF Beacon, stored as anonymous quantiles with no league, roster or manager attached to any of them.

The number that surprises people is how many claims cost nothing at all. Most weeks, most adds are uncontested, which means the budget is not really for them. It is for the small number of Tuesdays when a starting job changes hands and four managers all work that out at once.

Most waiver claims cost nothing

The share of winning claims that cleared at zero, across every waiver auction in the leagues synced to FF Beacon.

41 percent of winning waiver claims cleared for nothing at all, because nobody else put in for that player. The budget is not for those. It is for the small number of weeks when somebody's job changes and several managers want the same name. Across every claim, the median winning bid is 0.8% of budget.

41%of winning claims cleared for nothing

View the numbers behind this
Share of winning waiver claims that cleared at zero, and the median winning bid, across all measured auctions.
FigureValue
Winning claims that cost nothing41
Median winning bid, all claims0.8% of budget
Sample90,404 claims, 1,336 leagues, 2023 to 2026

What a waiver claim actually costs, by how many teams wanted him

Median winning bid as a percentage of the league's whole season budget, so it reads the same in a $100 league and a $1,000 one. Measured from real waiver auctions in leagues synced to FF Beacon, not from anybody's opinion.

Measured across every league synced to FF Beacon, an uncontested claim clears near 0% of budget while a claim four or more teams wanted clears near 16.5% of budget. The number of rivals bidding moves the price more than anything else about the player.

View the prices behind this chart
Median, 75th and 90th percentile winning bids by number of bidding teams, as a share of the league's whole budget.
Teams biddingMedian75th90thSample
Nobody else bid0% of budget2% of budget7.5% of budget61,070 claims, 1,331 leagues, 2023 to 2026
Two teams bidding3% of budget10% of budget20% of budget13,332 claims, 1,272 leagues, 2023 to 2026
Three teams bidding6.4% of budget15.6% of budget29.8% of budget5,757 claims, 1,133 leagues, 2023 to 2026
Four or more bidding16.5% of budget32% of budget50.5% of budget10,245 claims, 1,062 leagues, 2023 to 2026

Read those two together and the whole strategy falls out of them. The number of rivals bidding moves the price more than anything about the player, and you cannot see that number before you bid. What you can see is how many teams around you have a hole at his position, which is the closest available proxy and the thing our calculator counts for you when a league is connected.

Key idea

You are not bidding against the player's value. You are bidding against the other managers who need him, and there are usually fewer of them than you fear.

Lesson 6 of 8

Bid in percentages, not dollars

Budgets differ; shares do not.

Every bid on this page is a share of the season budget, and that is deliberate. The figures above are shares too. A public page cannot see your league, and the leagues it is written for do not agree on how much money there is to spend.

Why we give FAAB bids as a percentage of your budget

A $20 bid is a fifth of the budget in one league and a fiftieth of it in another, so a dollar amount on a page like this is only right for readers whose league happens to match it. A percentage of the season budget is right in every league. That is how the FAAB calculator works internally, and it is how every bid on this page is written.

Season budgets across 1339 synced leagues

  • $100 budget573 leagues, 43% of synced leagues
  • $1,000 budget429 leagues, 32% of synced leagues
  • $200 budget150 leagues, 11% of synced leagues
  • $300 budget76 leagues, 6% of synced leagues
  • Something else budget111 leagues, 8% of synced leagues

The most common budget, $100, covers 43% of these leagues. Any single dollar figure would be wrong for the rest.

One bid, 20% of budget, in 3 common leagues

  • $20in a $100 league
  • $200in a $1,000 league
  • $40in a $200 league

Same decision, same share of what you started with. Two more things to adjust for: if you have already spent some of your budget, a bid is a bigger share of what is left, so treat the range as a share of the full season budget. And bid a number that does not end in 0 or 5, because round numbers are where ties happen.

Key idea

Read a bid as a share of what you started the season with. If the board says 12 to 20 percent and your league plays for $1,000, that is $120 to $200, and the converter on the board does the arithmetic for you.

Lesson 7 of 8

Dynasty waivers are a different wire

You are buying a season, not a week.

In a redraft league a waiver claim is a rental. You are buying whatever this player does between now and the end of the season, and in week fourteen that is three games. In a dynasty league you are buying an asset you keep, so the arithmetic changes in both directions at once.

  • Young players are worth more than their production

    A 22-year-old who just got on the field is a real buy at a real price even if he does nothing this season, because you own him next September.

  • Old fill-ins are worth less

    A 30-year-old starting four games while somebody heals wins you those four games and then occupies a roster spot for three years.

  • The wire is thinner

    Dynasty rosters are deeper and the taxi squad soaks up exactly the profile a redraft league leaves free, so the genuinely available player is rarer and worth more when he appears.

  • A rebuilder should bid harder than a contender

    The contender is buying three months. The rebuilder is buying a lottery ticket that costs money they have no other use for.

Our board splits the availability figure by league type for this reason. A player rostered in 80 percent of dynasty leagues and 30 percent of redraft leagues is a completely different proposition depending on which room you are in, and a single blended number would describe neither.

Try it. Whether you should be buying at all depends on whether this roster is contending or rebuilding, and the dynasty guide has the honest test for which one you are.

Read the dynasty guide

Lesson 8 of 8

The mistakes that cost the most

Hoarding, and bidding round numbers.

  • Finishing the season with money left

    Leftover FAAB in January bought nothing. A dollar in week two and a dollar in week fourteen are not the same money, because the later one has fewer chances left to be spent.

  • Bidding round numbers

    Everybody bids 10 and 20, so those are exactly the ties you are most likely to be in, and your league settles them with priority or a coin flip rather than in your favor. Make it 11.

  • Claiming a player you would not start

    A claim costs a roster spot as well as money, and the player you drop to make room is part of the price.

  • Waiting for the perfect week

    The best waiver adds of a season are usually claimed in weeks two through five, when a starting job changes and nobody is sure yet whether it is real.

  • Reading last week's points as this week's role

    The whole of lesson four, and the one that costs the most money per mistake.

The counterweight to all of that is the thing the measured prices above actually show: most claims cost nothing, so the cost of being slightly too aggressive is small and the cost of being permanently too cautious is a budget you never spent.

Where to go from here

FAQ

Waiver wire questions, answered

How does the waiver wire work in fantasy football?

When a player is dropped, or before he has ever been rostered in some leagues, he sits on waivers for a fixed period instead of being free to claim instantly. Everyone who wants him puts in a claim, and when the waiver period ends the league awards him to one of them. Which one depends on your system: waiver priority gives him to whoever is highest in the queue, and FAAB gives him to whoever bid the most. After waivers clear, anyone left unclaimed becomes a free agent that anybody can add on the spot.

When do waivers process?

Wednesday morning is the default on Sleeper, Yahoo, ESPN and NFL.com, so a claim entered any time from Tuesday runs overnight. Commissioners change it often, usually to Tuesday night or to daily waivers, and a few leagues run a rolling two-day window on every newly dropped player instead. Your own league settings are the only answer that matters.

What is the difference between waiver priority and FAAB?

Waiver priority is a queue. Whoever is highest in the order wins the claim, and in most leagues using it drops you to the back. FAAB is a blind auction: everyone bids from a season-long budget, the highest bid wins, and losing costs you nothing. Priority asks whether a player is worth your place in line. FAAB asks what he is worth in dollars you cannot get back.

What does it mean when a player is on waivers?

He has just been dropped and the league is holding him for a set period, usually until the next waiver run, before anybody can have him. During that window nobody can add him directly; you put in a claim and wait. It exists so that a player dropped at two in the morning does not simply go to whoever happened to be awake.

Can you bid zero FAAB?

In most leagues yes, and a zero-dollar claim is how the majority of waiver adds are made, because most players nobody else wants. Measured across the leagues synced to this site, most winning claims clear for nothing at all. A one-dollar bid still beats every zero, though, so if there is any chance somebody else had the same idea it is the cheapest insurance in fantasy football.

Should I use my waiver priority or wait?

Spend it on a player who will start for you for the rest of the season, and hold it for anything less. The cost of using priority is not the player, it is every future week where you are at the back of the queue when somebody better comes free. That calculation flips in the last few weeks: priority you never use is worth nothing in January.

How much FAAB should I bid on a waiver claim?

Think in percentages of your season budget rather than dollars, and price the competition before the player. A claim nobody else wants usually clears for nothing, while one that several teams want usually takes a real share of the budget; the measured figures are in the section on what a claim costs. Every pickup on this page carries a range: the lower figure wins about 6 times in 10 and the higher about 9 in 10, read from what claims like it have actually cleared at. Pay it only if he would start for you. Our FAAB calculator prices a claim against your actual roster, your remaining budget and what your rivals can still spend.

Why are FAAB bids shown as a percentage of budget?

Because budgets differ from league to league. Among the leagues synced to this site, $100 and $1,000 are both common and neither covers most leagues, so a dollar figure on a public page is wrong for a large share of the people reading it. A percentage of the season budget is the same decision in every league: 20 percent is $20 in a $100 league and $200 in a $1,000 one. The converter on this page turns every bid into dollars for your own budget.

How is the dynasty waiver wire different?

A redraft claim is a rental for the rest of one season, so a player who helps you in week ten is worth roughly what ten weeks of him are worth. A dynasty claim is an asset you keep, so a 22-year-old with a path to a role next year is worth real money even if he does nothing this season, and a 30-year-old filling in for four weeks is worth far less than his production suggests. The budget has to last longer too, and in most dynasty leagues it resets each season while the roster does not.

Where can I see who is available in my own league?

Connect your Sleeper league to League Pulse and the lineups page lists the free agents in that specific league, ranked against your own roster. The free agent finder answers the other version of the question: given one player's name, which of your leagues still have him unowned.

Waivers run Wednesday

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