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How do waiver claims work in fantasy basketball
🏀 How do FAAB and waivers work?
Learn the details of FAAB in fantasy basketball
FAAB Bidding allows for leagues to execute waivers based on a bidding system throughout the season rather than assigning each team a waiver ranking from one waiver claim period to the next.
FAAB includes a blind bidding process to select players off waivers each week. Claims will execute based on a value-ranked order, meaning the player with the highest bid will go for 'auction' first. Then to the 2nd highest player, and so on and so forth.
Budget:
When selecting FAAB, a budget for the season will need to be determined. The most common value is $100.
FAAB Bid:
The process for making a Waiver claim using FAAB is the same as any other waiver. Identify the player on waivers you'd like to add, and if necessary, select a player to drop.
The difference will be the value you can choose to input for the player.![]()
A value of $0 is acceptable and will be won if no other bids are made on the player, or if the only other bids are also of $0, with a lower Waiver Rank for the week.
In order for your league to use FAAB on claims, you'll need to make sure that you have a waiver period enabled. Your commissioners will have to turn on Custom Daily Waivers and set the desired day to waivers, or the After Drop Waivers.
Some believe this is a unique and possibly fairer method of determining waivers week to week, as Teams' needs are not always determined by their early or late waiver ranks.
When using Rolling Waivers, there is always some inherent risk involved in making waiver claims when doing so can be detrimental to your future rank for future claims. And in some cases when using Reverse Standing Waivers, is how some better teams take the risk in taking while acquiring top demanded players each week from free agency.
Offseason waivers
You can continue using waivers throughout the offseason by enabling Custom Daily Waivers.
Renew your league for the upcoming year and you'll have the ability to make adds and drops just as you would during the season.
You can still have waiver periods, or you can disable moves completely and lock users from making moves. All of those options are available in your general league settings.
Adjusting FAAB or Waiver Wire Priority
As commissioner, you can adjust any team's FAAB budget or waiver priority at any time, but it is only possible on the mobile app.
The FAAB amounts do not roll over automatically from season to season and it will never reset. The commish has to manually set that as needed.
You can go to your league settings and tap on the commish tab and select the option for "Edit Waiver".
You can adjust those at any time as needed. Keep in mind that the FAAB budget you create at the beginning serves as a maximum. So if you try to manually adjust a team's FAAB and it goes over your initial limit, it will revert.
You'll have to increase that max and then adjust the team's amount. You can increase the maximum in your general settings shown in the photo below:
Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire: Jalen Williams, Seth Curry, Kenyon Martin Jr.
It’s time for another look at the waiver wire to find players that you can add for short-term and long-term success.
We’ll look at players that you should consider picking up who are rostered in four different rostership tiers:
- 50-60%
- 30-49%
- 15-29%
- 0-14%
What’s more, we’ll give you a breakdown of how many games each team has for the upcoming week so that you can maximize the minutes of your streamers.
Without further delay, let’s get to it, starting with the schedule of games being played for next week.
Five games:
N/A
Four games:
ATL, BOS, BKN, CHA, CLE, DAL, DEN, DET, LAL, MEM, MIN, NOP, NYK, OKC, PHI, POR, SAC, TOR, UTA, WAS
Three games:
CHI, GSW, HOU, IND, LAC, MIA, MIL, ORL, PHX, SAS
Two games:
N/A
Rostered in 50-60% of leagues:Jalen Suggs (PG/SG – ORL)
While Bol Bol is getting all the press – rightfully so – as a big who is playing like a guard, we can’t ignore that Suggs made his return to the Orlando lineup after missing five games.
He wasn’t, well, great, and he hasn’t been for most of his short career, but it’s far too soon to write him off. The Magic are a fun team. Not good, but fun. With Cole Anthony on the shelf without a near return and Terrence Ross getting hurt, Suggs should have all the run he can handle and should see 30 minutes nightly.
Isaiah Jackson (PF/C – IND)
When Jackson starts, he’s a stud. As it is, he’s a per-minute stud, but we obviously want him to get as much time as possible. Well, this week, Myles Turner essentially asked for a trade to the Lakers without directly asking for a trade to the Lakers. It’s likely that he finally gets moved, which will unlock IJax for starter minutes and a top-50 fantasy outlook.
Rostered in 30-49% of leagues:Jalen Williams (SG/SF – OKC)
Williams is one of the more exciting young guys that the Thunder have, and they have a ton of them. He balled out Saturday in his return to the court, posting 13 points, three boards, three assists, and four steals.
He wasn’t quite as effective his last time out, but it was good seeing him get more than 20 minutes still with Josh Giddey back in the lineup. He could work his way to 25-plus minutes per night, and with the way the Thunder rest their guys in the Victor Wembanyama sweepstakes, Williams will find himself rostered in 50-60% of leagues before long.
Davion Mitchell (PG/SG – SAC)
The injury to De’Aaron Fox isn’t as serious as it could be, but the knee bruise is the injury that Fred VanVleet had last season that really impacted him in the second half of the year and through the offseason. It may not impact Fox the same way, but Mitchell is the guy to have – not counting Kevin Huerter, who is a must-roster player. Mitchell has a lot of growth offensively still, but he can be a lockdown defender, who can give you much-needed steals.
Rostered in 15-29% of leagues:Seth Curry (PG/SG – BKN)
Commissioner Adam Silver is going to meet with Kyrie Irving next week.
I could see Irving having a suspension or being dealt from Brooklyn in short order. If so, that frees up playing time for Curry. He’s a high-floor player who can play around 27 minutes per night and score in bunches for you.
Josh Richardson (SG/SF – SAS)
Joshua Primo is gone from San Antonio, and Devin Vassell and Keldon Johnson have been out of action. Why is Richardson’s rostership so low? He’s a deeper league guy in general, but when the injuries are present for the San Antonio wings, he’s a must-roster player.
Rostered in 0-14% of leagues:Kenyon Martin Jr. (SF/PF – HOU)
We saw the highs and lows of rostering Martin in the past week alone, as he scored 23 points on one night on 9-of-17 shooting in 29 minutes and then two points in his next game on 1-of-2 shooting in 20 minutes. He’s an inconsistent player but he can be a good plug-and-play option in deeper leagues.
Dean Wade (SF/PF – CLE)
The Cavaliers are one of the best teams in the league, thanks in part to their Twin Towers and dynamic duo (alliteration FTW!).
But Wade is quietly having a good season, as he’s filling the role that Lauri Markkanen had last year for Cleveland. Wade’s played 30-plus minutes in three of his last four games, and he comes in as the No. 142 player in nine-cat leagues this season. He’s a deep-league guy, but one that should be added to your watchlist at the very minimum.
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Michael Waterloo is a featured writer at FantasyPros. For more from Michael, check out his archive and follow him @MichaelWaterloo.
8 Football-Caliber Fantasy Football for iPhone
Whether you're a fantasy football veteran or freshman, you know you need to keep an eye on stats, transactions, and lists all the time. One of the best ways to do this is with fantasy football apps for iPhone and iPod touch. In addition to the official apps from ESPN, NFL, Yahoo or CBS, there are several football apps that will track multiple teams from different sites. You will also find many applications with football news and fantasy design advice.
Here you will find 8 fantasy football apps.
Although this article was originally written by Tanya Menoni, it has since been updated and substantially revised by Sam Costello.
01 of 08
CBS Sports Fantasy
If you run a fantasy football team on CBSSports.com, this free app is well worth your time. In addition to NFL football and soccer news, the CBS Sports Pro Football app also includes management tools for fantasy teams. You will be able to upgrade your team, manage your starting lineup and add or remove players. The CBS app also includes plenty of video tips to help you decide who to play, who's on the bench, and who can opt out. The main bonus is that this app also supports the ESPN, NFL and Yahoo leagues and is also used for the CBS baseball and basketball leagues in fantasy mode so it can help you play almost anywhere. The Apple Watch app makes it easy for you to keep track of your teams.
02 of 08
DraftKings
DraftKings is not your traditional fantasy football league.
Instead of playing with your friends for bragging rights or a few dollars, DraftKings puts you in short-term, high-activity leagues that can clean you up with big bucks. Each league only lasts one day or one week, so you develop new teams and constantly develop new strategies. You have to buy your way into challenges, but winning can give you a good income. Supports sports other than football and the Apple Watch app for download.
03 of 08
Erotic Games
Since it's the (self-proclaimed but true) world leader in sports, it's no surprise that ESPN is also a leader in fantasy sports. If you're one of the millions of people playing in the ESPN league, this is the app you need. The free app will select you from your project via playoffs with interactive management tools so you can easily create a starting lineup, complete a trade, or drop players from your team. It also has a live account and supports push notifications for the very latest news and analysis.
Fantasy football news is available in the app and also includes Twitter integration. ESPN used to separate its fantasy games into separate apps, but now this one brings football, baseball, basketball, and hockey together. If you play in the ESPN league, check it out.
04 of 08
Fantasy Football
Another big player in the casual fantasy sports space, FanDuel is quite similar to DraftKings in concept and gameplay. You will choose from short-term leagues that you will buy that can save you real money if you win. Play in state leagues or traditional, friend-only leagues. Also supports fantasy baseball, basketball and hockey.
05 of 08
Football
Playing in the Fox Sports Fantasy League this season? Then get this free app. With it, you can add or drop players from your starting lineup, make disclaimers and drop players, get real-time results from games as they are, catch up with the latest news, and more.
The app also supports conversations with friends via bulletin boards.
06 of 08
MFL Mobile 2017
Designed for use with leagues on MyFantasyLeague.com, this app (free) provides all the features you'd expect: it supports drafts (but doesn't appear to be auctions), sets a starting line, chats with other owners (with improved interface for the new version), adding or removing players and making deals. While not as visually polished as some of the other apps, if you play MyFantasyLeague you always need this with you.
07 of 08
NFL Fantasy Football
If you play in the official NFL fantasy leagues, this free app will help you manage your team to victory. Use it to set up your line every week, get real-time results as games happen, are added, removed and traded with players, and get key news about your players. The app supports multiple teams, so if you play in more than one league on NFL.
com, you can manage them all in one place. This year's version has been redesigned and rebuilt for better performance, ease of use, and faster access to videos and push notifications.
08 of 08
Yahoo! Football
The free Yahoo Fantasy Football app lets you manage your team and starting lineup, add or remove players, and view schedules - if you're a Yahoo! league, that is. The app supports projects by customizing your roster each week, data to help you select starters, news about players and teams, and message boards so you can talk to other owners. In other words, if you're a Yahoo league player, this app has everything you need. And, if you play other fantasy sports like baseball, basketball or hockey, this app works for those Yahoo leagues too. The new Apple Watch app stores your scores easily.
The boys are back
1.
Javier Pastore buzz
Heart of the matter. “Readers of the Argentine sports newspaper Olé recently voted him the best player of the season, while Clarín put him in second place on their list. He was taken to their teams by 680,292 fantasy managers. He is reported to have turned down an offer to join Manchester United - the English champions were willing to pay £8.8m for him (Milan and Lazio are also interested). He is the son that every Madre dreams of - celebrating one of the goals, he ran to the fence and kissed his mother. He is a guy that every senorita would like to date - all because of his boyish charm ... "- such a flattering characterization 19The summer midfielder of Huracan is given by the British The Guardian, which has recently turned to the Argentine theme only when it comes to historical sketches or the Diego Maradona team.
Comment. To understand how good Pastore is, one has only to watch a video in which a teenager almost single-handedly declasses the great River Plate.
To tell how his career will turn out, you need to have the ability to look into the future. But examples of new Pele, Riquelme, Maradona, etc. recent years (Pablo Piatti, Diego Valeri, Diego Buonanotte) certainly convince: it is necessary to wait at least another year - and only then make a fuss, no matter how strong the first impression is. While football El flaco (Spanish for “thin”) seems to be just a reference, and it is compared with all the greats (among the prototypes of Enzo Francescoli and Juan Roman Riquelme), it is worth paying attention to two disturbing facts. Firstly, 55% of the rights to Pastor belong to a certain investment company, 45% to the club of the second division Taleres. This means that Manchester United's refusal should not be identified with the figure of the football player himself and touched by his inaccessibility and desire to "gain experience" - this is exactly what all the newspapers were trumpeting, and the option of moving to some Middle Eastern club (in the worst case) or useless in terms of career development, European (this is already at its best) is very likely.
Secondly, it is quite possible that having obeyed the will of the club management and ignoring the Copa America U-21, he automatically got into the “black list” of Diego Armando – he has long considered the refusal to wear the blue and white national team jersey for any reason other than injury as a betrayal. Indirect confirmation of this is the absence of Pastore in the application of Albiceleste for the recent selection matches for the world championship.
2. 2010 World Cup qualifiers in South America
The essence of the matter. While the Chilean national team under the leadership of the Argentinean Marcelo Bielsa was asserting itself as not only the main discovery of the continental qualification, but also one of the leaders - the victory over Paraguay (2:0) and Bolivia (4:0), - Bielsa's compatriots again disgraced themselves in the highlands: for the April nightmare in Bolivia (1:6) was followed by a “drain” to the Ecuadorians 0:2. Argentina are now fourth in the group (the last to qualify directly for the World Forum in South Africa) and just two points ahead of Ecuador.
Comment. It seems that one of the aforementioned problems of Javier Pastore will be solved in the near future: the epic with the appointment of Maradona as the head coach of Albiceleste looked so surreal (in this case, this is probably still a euphemism for the word “idiotic”) that it could end or victory at the World Cup, or universal disgrace. So far, Maradona, like all recent years, is closer to the second option. You can again hide behind a good reason in the form of difficult climatic conditions, or you can just look at the starting lineup of the brilliant coach of the Argentina national team and understand everything without words, only barely audibly whispering one of the two: “Who are all these people?” or "What are they doing here?" Andujar, Ottamendi, Demichelis, Heinze (D. Milito, 82), Gutierrez, Gago (Veron, 75), J. Zanetti, Battaglia, Maxi Rodriguez, Messi, Tevez (Bergessio, 67) – a total of three defenders (Ottamendi, if not I'm wrong, a debutant), three defensive midfielders with two wingers and two baby forwards (Tevez, by the way, did not score a penalty).
Yes, and more - pay attention to the time and nature of the replacements. For reference: Ecuadorians scored the first of two goals in the 83rd minute.
Having shone in the 2002 World Cup qualification with his native Argentina, Marcelo Bielsa then failed the final tournament in Japan and South Korea, but remained true to the ideas of attacking football: now he conquers the continent with a spellbinding game and an attacking 3-3-1-3 formation with the Chileans . They have already scored 26 points (in South America, 28 is considered a “passing score” for the World Cup) and, it seems, threaten to become the main opening of the final tournament in South Africa next year. Those who are Alexis Sanchez, Gary Medel and, for example, Jean Beauzejour should take an interest today.
3. The victory of the Uruguayan "Defensor" over the Argentine "Boca" in the 1/8 finals of the Copa Libertadores
The essence of the matter. The Argentine champion failed the start of the clausura and bet on winning the Copa Libertadores.
The group stage was passed with a bang, and in the away match of the 1/8 finals in Montevideo, a nice-looking draw 2:2 was obtained: Defensor's responses to the goals of Palermo and Palacio looked like a real misunderstanding. However, on the legendary "Bombonere" it turned out that the misunderstanding is, in general, "Boca". The guests scored in the middle of the first half, and then gave the Argentines a master class in defensive play for more than an hour. 3:2 on aggregate - and "Defensor" went to the quarterfinals, where, however, has already managed to lose at home to other Argentines - "Estudiantes" with a score of 0:1.
Comment. To be honest, before the Defensor's benefit performance at the Bombonera, the 2009 Copa Libertadores didn't "insert" at all - at least for me. Curious Mexicans first flunked the group stage, and then completely withdrew from the race, orphaning the 1/8 stage for as many as four matches. Brazilians in the most boring way made it to the playoffs in full force.
The Argentines, on the contrary, seemed to have decided to fit into the trend of recent years at all costs: three out of five Argentine clubs ignored the knockout round, as did the sympathetic Ecuadorians from LDU and the Chilean Colo-Colo. All this, of course, in contrast to the wildest in terms of tension and standard in quality playoffs of the European Champions League.
And now Defensor goes out to play in one of the most inhospitable stadiums in the world, without trembling in the knees "knits" Boca in the middle of the field already in the first minutes, on the 28th scores a goal, fooling someone else's defense, and after no not deviating one iota from the plan and tactical scheme (as it was in the 1st minute 4-4-2, it remained so in the 89th; Boca, meanwhile, hysterical, having played the last 20 minutes with three defenders and almost four forwards) leads the match to victory. In general, those who remember the Champions League semi-final at Stamford Bridge (and, of course, supported Chelsea), I think they will understand me.
Defensor was Chelsea and Defensor won. At the same time, the role of Essien without hesitation was played by simple Uruguayan guys with the names of Amado and Gallianone (the latter is still more like Makelele - he is 33, but nevertheless: who needs defensive midfielders there in the Premier League?), John Terry was also two - Mario Risso ( 21 years old) and Jorge Curbello (28). Since then, the question of who to root for next is no longer worth it for me.
4. Carlos Tevez leaving Man United
Heart of the matter. The Argentine striker, the rights to which (hello, Pastore!) are still owned not by the club, but by a third party, spent two seasons on loan at Old Trafford. Manchester United spent 10 million pounds on this pleasure and seemed to be planning to pay another 20 (according to other sources - 22 or 25) to buy out the serf-Tevez and leave him in the "red" Manchester. However, things did not go beyond New Year's resolutions. When at the end of the season the United leaders finally started up, Carlitos himself did not want to stay: he was not satisfied with either the attitude towards himself or the amount of playing time, especially in the “big matches”.
Alex Ferguson has already called Tevez at least twice in the last two weeks of his holiday in the south of France and persuaded him to think about what level of the club he was leaving. However, the Argentine is adamant and says he will not return to Manchester United under any circumstances. True, he can still show up in Manchester: Man City offer Tevez a place in the starting lineup and a 75% salary increase (and this is 140 thousand pounds at the exit).
Comment. If I were a regular at Old Trafford, I would probably chant “Sign him up!” Starting from November-December. But at the same time, even a transfer to Man City will not make me change the applause and the cry “Ar-gen-tina! Ar-gen-tina!" to curses and a drawn-out “Voo! ..”, because Carlitos can be understood. Tevez is simply tired of watching someone make the most important decisions in his life. First, some people say which club to play in. Then others not only marinate him in the reserve for a whole season, but also expect that one of the best forwards in the world (yes, that’s right) - the one who, in fact, is obliged to dictate the terms - will be honored and start the next year with " struggle for a place in the squad.
Why? In gratitude for the redeemed contract and for the sake of demonstrating loyalty to Manchester United? And, if this still happens in an incredible way, will Tevez be able to continue to respect himself? Of course, at this point it is worth bringing down the pathos and making a reservation that this is a very, very schematic representation of the situation, and besides, the present and future “Teve-haters” have a good argument: “in January, with Rooney’s injury, he got his chance, but never I was able to make it happen." But Tevez's decision should be respected, if only because he remains consistent. After announcing his resignation a month and a half ago, he did not (for the sake of formality, it is worth adding "yet") to turn everything into a game of knocking out favorable conditions, but continues to stand his ground - even despite the risk of turning against himself half of the city in which he still has to live and play.
Oleg Tyavlovsky, Terra Incognita
Manchester United Argentina national football team 2010 FIFA World Cup Carlos Tevez Copa Libertadores Diego Maradona Chile national football team
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