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In any type of fantasy league, teams often change players throughout the course of a season. 

You will draft your five players, but your team may not consist of those same five players by the end of the split. 

Why would I want to Add or Drop a Player?

In a lot of cases, some of your draft selections will turn out to be great choices. They'll earn a ton of points for your team each week. But you also may find that some of your drafted players aren't doing as well as you had hoped, or are bringing the rest of your team down due to a low point total.

When that happens, it may be time to consider finding an upgrade, especially if you have a poor record. If you are 0-3 and haven't won a matchup in your league, you would be more inclined to see if there are any better players. 

Typically, the worst player owned or the player with the least team utility, is dropped. In some rarer instances, players become ill or injured and can be a reason for abandonment. This means that there is a need to find a new player to add to your team.

Viewing Available Players

You can always view the available players in your league by swiping right or pressing the player icon in the top right corner of your league. 

This will show you all players that you can add, and you can sort by their role. 

You can even press on the player to view all kinds of details such as their ranking, a game-by-game log of their point totals and statistics, which champions they're playing with, and much more: 

This allows you to research any player in your league and it serves as a great way to scout those who you want. A lot of fantasy owners really enjoy this part of fantasy because it's a great way to discover some underrated players that you can add and surprise people with. And if that player performs well after you add them, it makes you look like a genius!

It could always backfire as well. See, since you can only have 5 players on your roster, you can try to add a player, but you will have to make sure you have room. If you already have 5 players, you will need to drop somebody.

Example Scenario

Let's say one of the players on your team is Broken Blade, and he has been struggling lately. He has not been performing well and is part of the reason you're losing more weeks than not. 

You can view the available players in your league. In this example, let's pretend that Licorice is available. 

Licorice has been playing much better and has more points than Broken Blade. You can make the decision to swap those players:

Swapping players happens frequently and if you really want Licorice, you would want to do that before another team in your league takes him. But this now makes Broken Blade available for any other team in your league.  

It's important to keep an eye on the available players because they can be added as potential upgrades for your team. But it's equally as important to consider which player you're dropping as they can help your opponents. 

Waivers & Free Agency

By default, your league has something called waivers and free agency periods. These are periods of time when players can be added instantly or player can be claimed, but not added until a certain time. 

You can learn more about waivers and free agency here. 

We offer a few different kinds of waivers and setting those up correctly is very important. We understand that your league wants to know exactly when and how often waivers will clear.

The first thing to know is that offseason waivers for keeper and dynasty leagues can require different settings. You can read more about how to set up offseason waivers here.

Regular Season Waivers

After Games Waivers Clear - This option is one of the most important. This setting allows your league to specify when players clear waivers after playing in a game.

So if a player's game begins on Thursday night, they are locked and on waivers until Tue After Day (or 12:05 a.m. PST on Wednesday).
We recommend using this option to prevent players from being added during games.

Time Players Are On Waivers After Drop - This setting allows you to choose how many days (if any) a player will spend on waivers before they can clear.

If you select 2 Days, the player will be on waivers for 48 hours.
We recommend using the 1 or 2-Day option.

Sleeper 24-Hour Rule - We have a default rule in place as well. Any player added via free agency must be owned for a 24-hour minimum before being dropped, or else they will go straight back to free agency instead of waivers.

This rule is in place to prevent owners from adding and dropping several players prior to a game (Sunday morning for example), which would make the players unavailable to the rest of the league.

With the above 2 options (After Games Waivers Clear & Time Players Are on Waivers After Drop), your league will have free agency from Wednesday morning until players begin their respective games. Then you'll have a waiver period from then until Tues After Day. This is the most common set of options and you can learn more about how the two work together here.

But there's one more!

Custom Daily Waivers - This option is available if you want to have more than one waiver period each week, and this will allow you to break it down day-by-day.

FA - All players will be available on a first-come, first-serve basis for the entirety of the day. The only ones who may not be are any that have recently been dropped, but only if you have the time players are on waivers after drop setting enabled.

Waivers - This will put all players on waivers for the day. They will then process at your selected time. After that processing time, all players will be on waivers again for at least the remainder of that day.

Locked - This will prevent players from being added via free agency or waivers for the entire day.

Waivers -> FA - This will have all players on waivers clear at the selected processing time. After that, all players will be free agents for at least the remainder of the day.

We recommend using this more for the offseason, as it's more necessary for dynasty or keeper leagues.

You can learn more about how offseason waivers work here.

Playoff Waivers

If you're reading down this far, odds are you've made your league's playoffs!

When it comes to playoffs, the waivers work a little differently.

Since the standings are no longer updated, using Reverse Standings waivers is no longer an option. You will either use FAAB or rolling waivers, or in some cases, both.

For rolling waivers, every time a team makes a successful waiver claim, they drop to the bottom of the waiver priority and everyone else moves up one. You're able to view the waiver wire priority in your league's standings.

Of course, the commissioner still has the ability to manually set the waiver order using the commish tools in the mobile app.

Good luck in your playoffs and your pursuit to the championship!