Add/Waivers,Trades

NFL roster cuts: Starting in 2021: NFL teams no longer cut rosters from 90 to 85 to 80 to 53. Teams now cut from 90 to 53 on a dates set by the league before the start of the regular season.The rule change will have a maximum of 160 (2), 864 players released at the same time. Then, there will be waiver claims, additional players released and players moved to IR and PUP. When the moves are completed, teams can sign up to 16 players to the practice squad. Waived / Injured — Teams are able to waive an injured player. Other teams can claim any player on the Waived / Injured list. If players clear their waivers, which most players do, their original team can either put them on the IR list or come to an injury settlement agreement and part ways. TRANSACTION RESTRICTIONS: Teams are allowed to make 54 player moves a year (27 add / drops). After the 54 players, each add (1.00) / drop (1.00) will cost the team a transaction fee. League will notify the team when 40 player moves (20 add / drops) has been reached. Roster move fees must be paid after the regular season has ended and before the year's end banquet to the treasurer. The 54 player moves averages to 3 player add / drops per week, for the 18 week season plus the week before the season begins. Moves that do not count toward the fee total: to and from IR and Practice Squad, players added to replace IR and PS players and players waived when IR or PS are activated. Pickups to IR and PS will count as a move (1.00 per player) but the roster move to IR or PS, will not count. Post draft week moves will count toward the total moves per the above rule. Trades will not count towards the player move total. INJURED RESERVE: 2023- Change PUP player moves from - move to practice squad to move to IR. Players to be placed on PS will then be suspended or the 1 rookie moved to practice squad before the season draft or after. CBS now allows owners to move PS to IR player list in 2022. Players may be placed on IR by a team only if that player is placed on the list by an NFL team. There is no limit to the amount on IR. IR players do not count against the roster limit (20). IR players cannot be replaced or put on IR after week 18. No Defense/Special team can be put on IR. You can notify the league that one or more of your players are to be put on IR by the league message board or by a phone call to the league secretary. Once the NFL makes the IR official, you should be able to place the player on IR yourself. Once a player is activated the FFL team has 1 week after to make a roster change. If not, league will release the player. FFL teams may have more than 1 player on IR. Players can be placed on the Practice Squad. Players who are suspended can be put on the practice squad when the team receives a roster exemption from the NFL. Once the player is returned to the active roster the FFL team has 1 week to activate the player. After 1 week the league will release the player from the FFL89 teams roster. If a bye week is involved, the team has an additional week to activate the player. If a team is eliminated from the playoffs and a player is activated by the NFL team, the 1 week rule will not apply. the roster will be considered frozen. After week 18 the site will be changed to: Owners may not do add/drops. Players on IR or practice squad (frozen rosters) must either be released or put on the active roster before the season's MINI CAMP begins. Players must be waived from the active, reserve rosters,practice squad or IR player to get to the 20 player limit. If teams do not release, activate or reserve, practice squad or IR players, the league will release the player/s from the roster the day MINI CAMP begins, starting from the bottom up of the current draft board, to get the rosters to 20 players. The starting mini camp roster must always have a starting lineup included. The league will be notified of the moves made by email. No player can be put on IR until after the season draft, the first pickup night. NFL.com or NFL team pages are the official sites that will be used. Designated-to-return IR slot: March 2016: The NFL announced a rule change on Wednesday that will have a notable impact on rosters this fall. The league changed the injured reserve with return designation so that you no longer have to designate the player ahead of time. Teams are still only allowed to bring three players back, but they can bring back any one player they've placed on injured reserve. Previously, if a team wanted to use the one return designation spot, they had to declare it when the player was placed on injured reserve. Now, they can just see who is getting healthy quickly, and take them off IR. Once they take that player off IR, the rest of the IR players must remain on the list. Once the player has been removed from the IR, FFL teams have 1 week after to make a roster change. If not league will release the player. Players placed on the IR list, FFL teams may have more than 1 player on IR. Players who are suspended can be put on the practice squad when the team receives a roster exemption from the NFL. Once the player is returned to the active roster the FFL team has 1 week to activate the player. After 1 week the league will release the player from the FFL89 teams roster. After week 18 the site will be changed to: Owners may not do add/drops. Players on IR or practice squad (frozen rosters) must either be released or put on the active roster before the season's MINI CAMP begins. Players must be waived from the active, reserve rosters, practice squad or IR player to get to the 20 player limit. If teams do not release, activate or reserve, practice squad or IR players, the league will release the player/s from the roster the day MINI CAMP begins to get the rosters to 20 players. The starting mini camp roster must always have a starting lineup included. The league will be notified of the moves made by email. Practice Squad(old Taxi Squad): 2023 - New NFL rule for 2022 season. - Effective this 2023 preseason, rosters can remain at 90 players through the final preseason game, after which a single cutdown day to 53 players is made. Players maybe placed on a teams PUP list after NFL teams make their cuts to 80. This would be after the preseason games and before the FFL89 protect list is due. This could then free up the draft slot for the draft. Suspended players would have to be placed on the PS list after the cuts to 53 players. Players who will be put on IR (either IR out for the year or after cuts to the 53 man roster) can only be put on IR after the FFL89 season draft is completed (ie - first pickup night). The moves would be NC (no charge). Change PUP player moves from - move to practice squad to move to IR. Players to be placed on PS will then be suspended or the 1 rookie moved to practice squad before the season draft or after. CBS now allows owners to move PS to IR player list in 2022. Only players that are on suspended(with roster exemption from the NFL) or PUP list may be put on the practice squad. You have 1 week to remove a player from the practice squad once the NFL team has done the same. If not removed the league will waive the player and inform the FFL team of the roster change. Players on IR can not be on the practice squad. They will be put on the Injured Reserve list. Players who have a suspension lifted and have been waived by a NFL team will be a free agent and follow the activated player rule. 1 week rule will apply. 1 rookie per team is allowed to be placed on the practice squad only by the team who drafted the player. 1 additional move is allowed for that player in the year. ie- on drafted roster, move to practice squad then moved to active roster (2). The rookie can be cut at any time, Rookie's can not be placed on the practice squad before the 1st add / drop night, which is the Wednesday after the season draft. (2019). In 2021-2022, 1 rookie can be placed on the teams PS when the protect list date is set by the league. The rule is still only 1 rookie per year (drafted) can be moved to the practice squad. Suspended players with NFL roster exemptions: Players who are suspended can be put on the practice squad if the NFL team receives a roster exemption from the NFL. Once the player is returned to the active roster the FFL89 team has 1 week to activate the player. After 1 week the league will release the player from the FFL89 teams roster. NFL/FFL89 - What will happen to the player, roster wise. Also practice squads for NFL teams will be going from 10 to 12 - 16 players. We know players will get the virus. What will we do with our rosters. What was passed is allow the players to be moved to the practice squad until they are returned to the roster when healthy. When the player is returned to the roster, you have 1 week to move the player back to your roster, when NFL teams make the move and make a player cut to keep the roster at 20. After 1 week the player will be waived by the league and moved to the free agent pool. Now PS can only be PUP, suspended and 1 rookie. This rule change will allow Virus players to be added and will only be for 2020-2021 season and be reviewed at the banquet if it's still needed. To and from PS and players added to replace or waive will not count towards the 54 player moves transaction totals. There is no limit to Virus players on the Practice squad. Players who Opted Out, are done for the NFL season and are also eligible for the PS. (2020-2021)

ADD A PLAYER: Players may be added to the rosters by draft, trade, injured reserve, waived players or players not previously selected. Whole defenses and special teams will be added. They cannot be split when selecting. A defense and special team will count as 1 player on a roster. Players added cannot exceed the roster limit of 20. All active players over the limit must be waived to get to the 20 players allowed. No player can be added after week 18. After week 18 the site will be changed to: Owners may not do add/drops. No Pickups allowed from previous seasons week 18 until after the draft is completed. The following Tuesday the league will start the, add a player. Waiver order will be the same as round 1 of the draft. After each week the waiver order will be based on reverse order of standings. Worst to Best. Free agents can be picked up by any team. The week does not end until MNF is completed.	WAIVE A PLAYER: A player can be waived from a roster at any time. Players can be waived from the roster, IR or IR-DTR(practice squad). Whole defenses and special teams will be waived. They cannot be split when waived. A defense and special team will count as 1 player on a roster. Players waived for 1 day and will follow the waiver order to be picked up by another team. Once the player game starts he will be locked until the end of the week after the Monday night game. Players must be waived from the active roster if it exceeds the 20 player limit. No player can be waived after week 18. After week 18 the site will be changed to: Owners may not do add/drops until the league is archived(about the end of February), when waivers can begin again Waivers are also not allowed the week before the season draft. After the draft is completed, the following Tuesday, the league will start the, waive process. Waiver order will be the same as round 1 of the draft. After each week the waiver order will be based on reverse order of standings. Worst to Best Off season waivers will not count towards the 54 limit total until the first pickup nightfollowing the season draft.
Trades: 2022 - No trades can be made unless the CBS site is up to date. All trades must be put in correctly or they are cancelled. A team saw that the rookie trades where not on the site. It was corrected and teams could then trade picks on the CBS site. This usually happens when CBS makes changes to the site from previous year to the new year, which does take some time. Any amount of players can be traded for any amount. All trades will be handled by the league site (CBSsports.com). No trades will be allowed after week 10 of the regular season. After week 10 the site will be changed to: Trades are not allowed. Rosters are frozen from seasons end until end of February when the league has been archived. Trades are again allowed. Trading will begin March 1st, the new season year, before the draft. Trades can be made between MINI Camps end and one week before draft day. Only players on the protected list can be involved. Player/s can be traded for draft pick/s. Traded players will keep their ADP's and be slotted on the draft board in the ADP order with the new teams. When rosters exceed the limit of 20, you must waive enough players to get to the player limit. (Nettleton Rule-1992) Players traded cannot be traded back to the same teams for 4 weeks. After 4 weeks it's allowed. Whole defenses and special teams can be traded. They cannot be split when traded. A defense and special team will count as 1 player on a roster. 2015 - Will allow rookie draft picks and season picks to be traded. Rookie draft picks can only trade current year and next season picks. Can not trade any farther than 1 year out. Season draft picks can not be traded until after the protect list due date. Trades when allowed will not count toward the season 54 limit transactions.
Waiver Process/Period: Waiver claims can be posted by a team on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Waivers are then processed at approximately, 1am the following morning. Players waived are on waivers for 1 day. Five minutes before the players game, the player will be locked until the following waiver period (Tuesday). Players waived on Tuesday (processed Wednesday morning) will not be available for pickup for a Thursday night game. They will be available the next waiver period. For a in depth description on how CBS runs Pickups, waivers and trades. Click here Waiver tips: 1. When picking up a defense/special team, select the defense only. The special teams will be added later. If a team selects a defense and another selects the special team, 1st waiver (highest team to select) gets both. In case of reverse order ST first pick and defense second, higher pick gets both. 2. Select your waivers or Sunday pickups early. Five minutes before the noon games, all players are locked out and can not be picked up until the next waiver period. Tuesday/Wednesday morning. 3. Players can be traded to higher selection teams in the waiver process order. ie. Tuesday's pickup: 12th team has team 1 select a player and trade that player to team 12 for a rostered player on team 12. How does the Waivers process work in Fantasy Football? In order to provide an equal opportunity for all owners to add players to their roster that are new to the free agent pool, a Waiver process can be implemented. Owners' requests to add players on waivers to their roster are not executed immediately, but are put in a pending status for a least 24 hours. This allows multiple teams to request the same players. Most nights between midnight and 6AM ET a Waiver Process will be run, executing the pending requests in Waiver Rank order (so, for example, if waivers runs in your league on Tuesdays, it will run late Tuesday night/early Wednesday morning). If you play in a non-commissioner league, waivers will run every night. If you play in a commissioner league, your commissioner can select which nights waivers will run. Check League Home, Rules to see which nights it does run in your league. When a transaction is made during the Waiver Process, the team's rank is set to last and everyone else's rank moves up one (check the League Home, Rules page to see if your league's waiver ranks are reset every week.) All transactions during the waiver process are effective for the next scoring period. Conditions for Waivers - NFL players are placed on waivers under the following circumstances: A player is released during a waiver process: A player released during a waiver process is on waivers until the next waiver process. Example: An owner requests Player A on waivers and drops Player B. This request is pending until the waiver process runs. During the waiver process, the owner is awarded Player A, and Player B is released from the roster and placed on waivers until the next waiver process. A player is released during a free agent acquisition: Requests for players not on waivers are executed immediately. However, the player dropped in a non-waivers transaction is placed on waivers for at least 24 hours. If a waiver process runs prior to 24 hours the player will remain on waivers until the following waivers process. Example: An owner drops a player on Wednesday afternoon in order to pick up a free agent. The player dropped remains on waivers until Thursday night's waiver process. Waiver Rank During a waiver process, pending transactions are processed in an order determined by each team's waiver rank. The team with the highest waiver rank will get its first requested player. If that team's highest pending transaction can't be executed because another team has the requested player, the transaction gets deleted and the team's next transaction, if one exists, is then executed. When a team gets a requested player, the team's waiver rank is dropped to the end and every other team moves up one and the process is continued. If a team doesn't have any pending transactions because all players requested were taken by other teams, or the owner simply didn't request any players, the team's turn is skipped but the waiver rank is not dropped. If a team has the highest waiver rank after Monday night and doesn't request any players for Tuesday night's waiver process, that team will still have the highest rank for the next process. The waiver rank for all teams at the end of one waiver process will be the starting rank for the next process. Check the League Home, Rules page, or ask your league's commissioner, if your league's waiver ranks are reset every week based on reverse order of the standings. Preseason Waivers and Initial Waiver Rank For Football Commissioner leagues, the first waivers process will run sometime on or after June 1, 2007 as determined by your commissioner. Check with your commissioner for the exact date. The default waiver rank order will be the reverse of the draft order. Even if your league doesn't draft on-line the waiver order can be set by the commissioner of your league on this page. CBS Sports.com Fantasy Football does support a preseason waivers process. For Fantasy Football game players, the first waiver process will be run the second night after your draft, time permitting, and the initial waiver rank will be based on reverse draft order. Waivers Period The waivers period is the length of time a player is on waivers before a claim will be processed and the player will be added to a roster. Check the League Home, Rules page to see how long dropped players remain on waivers in your league (1, 2 or 3 days). Making a Waivers Claim If you want to drop a player and pick up a player off of waivers follow these steps: Lets say you have a player that you want to drop (player A) and several players that you would like to add (players B and C), depending on their availability when your turn comes up. If player B is not available you would like to pick up player C. In order to accomplish this you would submit two Add/Drop requests: Drop player A, Add player B, and Drop player A, Add player C. Lets say your turn comes up and player B has already been picked up off waivers by another team. A request cannot be executed if either the add or drop player is not available. Requests will be skipped until the first valid roster move is found. In this case, your second request would be executed and you would get player C (provided he is not also already picked up off waivers). The same is true in the reverse. If you dropped player A and added player B, then during your next round of waiver selections it will skip over the second waiver request involving Player A and go down your list to see if you have any other waiver requests. Any waivers request that would cause your roster to exceed the maximum players allowed will be skipped. Note: Free agents are available on a first-come, first-served basis; they can be picked up at any time. If a player is dropped from a roster and he clears the waiver process without being picked up, he then becomes a free agent, and can be picked up at any time, without having to go through a waivers process.For Commissioner Leagues: All players go on waivers after the lineup locks each week. Once the initial waiver process runs, all players are free agents until 5 minutes before the first game on Sunday. However, if there are Thursday or Saturday games, the players involved in those games will be placed on Waivers five minutes prior to the start of their game and will not be eligible to be added to a team's roster until the first Waivers process of the following week runs.