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Chapter 4 – Waivers
Overview
Players under contract that are released from an owner’s team do not immediately go to free agency. First they must make a stop on the waiver wire. Waiver claims are in effect most of the year, and follow the same guidelines during the season as the off-season. Waived players hit the waiver wire and will stay for a total of 7 days at full salary and contract status. To waive a player, click on the player’s name from your roster. Click on the box that says waive and hit the submit button. The player will immediately disappear from your roster and any associated salary and contract penalties will be applied.
Releasing a player
Contract Penalties
When releasing a player from your active roster you will incur a salary and contract penalty applied to your respective caps. Every player you release will have a contract penalty of one year applied to your contract cap. This indicates that you are still paying for the current year contract against your cap. If the player has a 2-year contract or better, the remaining unused contracts will be refunded to your current available contract years.
Below is a table showing the # of contract years penalized and the # of contract years returned to the active pool when a player is released.
Length of Contract Current Penalty # of years returned to pool
1 year 1 year 0
2 years 1 year 1 year
3 years 1 year 2 years
4 years 1 year 3 years
5 years 1 year 4 years
6 years 1 year 5 years
7 years 1 year 6 years
8 years 1 year 7 years
9 years 1 year 8 years
NOTE: Releasing a player from the practice squad does not incur a contract penalty.
Tip: If a player is still practice squad eligible, demote him before releasing him to avoid paying higher penalties and incurring a contract penalty
Salary Penalties
When a player is released a portion of his salary is added to your salary penalties as a penalty for releasing the player before he has reached the end of his contract. Below is a table indicating the salary penalties applied based on the number of years the player was under contract when released.
Length of Contract Current Penalty 2nd year Penalty 3rd year Penalty 4th year Penalty 5th year Penalty
1 year 50% of salary* - - - -
2 years 50% of salary* 40% of salary - - -
3 years 50% of salary* 40% of salary 30% of salary - -
4 years 50% of salary* 40% of salary 30% of salary 20% of salary -
5 years 50% of salary* 40% of salary 30% of salary 20% of salary 10% of salary
When releasing a player after the EFS season has begun, the 50% of salary penalty only applies to the first half of the EFS season. If you have completed more then 50% of the games on the EFS schedule then you will need to use the following formula to determine your salary penalty.
Take the # of games played in the EFS season (17 games for 12-team leagues, 18 games for 16-team leagues) and divide that into the players salary. Take that number and multiply it by the # of games played in the EFS season and that will be your penalty for waiving a player. This calculation only applies once you have reached 9 games played in 12-team leagues and 10 games played in 16-team leagues.)
This calculation is to account for paying the player for games played. At this time, any player waived from the active roster falls into these calculations no matter how many weeks the player has actually been on the roster.
NOTE: The new EFS week begins the Monday before the weekly games are set to begin.
PS players do not apply and will always get the appropriate 25% current year salary penalty.
NOTE: Players with zero contract years (RFA eligible) before the beginning of RFA will not go through waivers. Since these players have no contract they will go immediately to the UFA market. These players incur no salary or contract penalty for waiving.
NOTE 2: Players on the practice squad never go through waivers. If waived, practice squad players immediately become UFA eligible. The appropriate salary penalties will apply.
NOTE 3: After RFA is active, players with zero year contracts are not eligible to be waived.
Waiver Claims
Existing Leagues
During the 7 days that the player is on waivers, any owner may make a claim. If a player has a waiver claim by another owner, only a rival owner with a higher waiver claim position can bump the claim. To claim a player on waivers, click on the League Moves tab on the navigation bar and select waiver wire. From there, you can check the claim box next to any player you wish to claim and hit the submit button.
Waiver claims are deactivated from the end of the EFS regular season until the new season begins.
Tip: If you cannot claim a player it is due to the fact that another owner who is higher on the claiming order has already made a claim. If you have an invalid roster, you will not be allowed to go to the waiver wire screen.
NOTE: Waiver claims cannot be reversed. Once a claim is made it is locked in unless another
owner makes a claim that is higher on the claiming order.
Example:
If Emmitt Smith who is making 3.2M for 3 years is waived on July 1st, he would be on waivers until the same time on July 8th. The claiming order is the same as the draft order for the rookie draft. If the waiver claim order was 01,02,03,04,05,06,07,08,09,10,11,12 then owner 01 could claim Emmitt Smith over all other owners. Owner 12 would have to hope that every other owner passed on Smith in order to obtain him. If a claim came in from owner 09 on July 2nd and a claim came from owner 05 on July 5th, owner 05 would have the current claim to Smith. If owner 07 made a claim on July 6th, his claim would be denied since an owner with a higher claiming order already made a claim.
The waiver wire claiming order is based on overall standings from the previous year. New leagues will have an off-season waiver wire order of 01-12/16. Once the season begins, waiver wire order is based on overall standings, recalculated on a weekly basis.
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