Daily Waiver Wire
Any athlete not on a team and has cleared waivers (see below) is considered a free agent.

Free agent requests are filled on a first-come, first-served basis. Free agents may be added at any time during the week and can be used for the upcoming weekend. Any time you add a free agent to your roster, an athlete must be released to keep your roster at the 24-athlete limit. You must also specify the status of the new athlete (bench or starter) at the time the athlete is added. You must, at all times, have 11 athletes in your starting lineup and 13 on the bench. If roster requirements are not met at the time you pick up a new athlete, your free agent pickup will be disallowed. The number of free agents you add to your roster during the season is unlimited.

Waivers
To allow all members of a league a fair opportunity to add an athlete to their team, athletes that are dropped from a roster of another team in your league are placed on waivers for a 36-hour period starting once the athlete is dropped. Any team may claim a player on waivers, but will not be awarded the player until the 36-hour waiver period has ended. At the end of the waiver period, if more than one team has claimed an athlete on waivers, the athlete will be awarded to the team who has the lowest waiver position. After the waiver period, if no team has made a claim on an athlete, the athlete becomes a free agent and is available to all teams on a first-come, first-served basis. Each time you make a claim for a player on waivers you move to #12 on the list after that pick.

Weekly Free Agent Draft
Any athlete/defense not currently on one of the 12 teams in your league is considered a free agent, available for anyone to claim in the weekly free agent draft. Undrafted athletes that appear on the online athlete list are eligible free agents. Also, during the season, athletes who make their first appearance in an NFL game and players who have returned to the NFL after an absence become eligible free agents. Eligible free agents also include athletes released by SFF owners during the season.

The first free agent draft is held on the Wednesday following the first day of regular season play. Therefore, your first set of free agent claims must be submitted by 11:59 PM CT, Tuesday, September 9. Thereafter, the free agent draft is held every Wednesday of the regular season through Week 16, and your claims or drafts must be submitted by 11:59 PM CT each Tuesday night. Drafts received after 11:59 PM CT Tuesday night may be entered for the following week's free agent draft. In effect, this means that if you want a player for a given Sunday, he must be claimed by the prior Tuesday night. You can't claim a player on a Saturday and expect to have him on your roster the next day.

The free agent draft is run in reverse order of the standings (won-lost records) through the Monday night game. If two or more teams having identical or equivalent won-lost records, submit free agent drafts, the order in which those teams draft is based on total team points; the team with fewer SFF points selects before the other team. Total SFF points are considered only to determine the order of selection among teams with identical or equivalent won-lost records. Successfully claimed free agents become members of the claiming team for the following week's games.

When you submit your free agent requests, you can list up to three choices (but no more than three) for each open spot on your roster and each player to be conditionally released. For example, let's say you have 22 athletes on your roster at the time of the first free agent draft. That means you have two open roster spots (since you can expand your total roster to 24) that you can fill with free agents. Also, you decide you don't want to keep Terry Glenn and Dorsey Levens, so you will submit them as conditional releases in two more free agent drafts. That means you can submit a total of four free agent drafts. Your two open spots permit you to submit two drafts, and your two conditional releases allow you to submit two additional drafts. If you were to submit more than four drafts in this example, all of your transactions for the day would be voided. This would remain true even if you ended up signing nobody out of one or more of your drafts.

Teams lower than you in the standings may request some of the same free agents you do. For this reason, it is vitally important for you to submit alternate (second and third) free agent choices in each draft. Otherwise you stand a chance of signing no free agents.

The order in which you submit your drafts (sets of three) and the order in which you list your three choices within each draft are important because we process all free agent requests round-by-round. We will first look at the free agent drafts submitted by the team in your league with the worst won-lost record for the season, through play that Monday. If that team has more than one draft, we will look at the draft the team submitted first. We will then award that team the free agent named as the first choice in its first draft. We will then move on to the team with the second-worst won-lost record in the league and examine the first draft submitted by that team. If the first choice in that draft is no longer available (because the team that picked before this team already signed that athlete), we will award this team its second choice in its first draft. From here, the draft continues on from team to team (worst win-loss record to best won-lost record) until we have awarded no more than one free agent to every team in the league that submitted at least one free agent draft. At that point, we return to the team at the bottom of the standings and begin processing the second round of drafts.

If you have a full roster of 24 athletes at the time of the draft, then for each draft, you must also make an accompanying release called a conditional release; otherwise, your draft will be voided. This kind of release is conditioned upon the acquisition of one of the three free agents named in the associated draft. If none of those free agents is successfully signed, the conditional release named in that draft will not be released. This holds true even if you end up signing free agents named in subsequent drafts; the conditional release named in the earlier draft will not be released.