Waivers (or free agency) are all the players that are not on any team. Waivers are a very important part of fantasy sports, Red Carpet Rosters included. Waivers give teams an opportunity to drop a player from their team in favor of another player that is offering more value. Last year, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, writer/director of Drive My Car, went undrafted in most leagues, but savvy managers picked him up from waivers where he got quite a few points despite being undrafted.
After the draft, all unowned players go on waivers. Waivers are then processed the last night of each matchup. You can add and drop as many times as you wish, but your team can ONLY have 16 players on it. If you see a player on waivers you want to add, all you have to do is make a waiver request. Click on "Waiver Wire" on your My Team page in the sidebar menu.
Waiver Wire homepage
This displays previous waiver requests pickups and an option to Request a Player. Click on “Request a Player.” This takes you to the available players in the roster pool. To the right of each player, there is a “Request Player” link. Click on that to enter the “Request Player” interface, that looks like below.
Request Player page
If you have 16 total players on your team, you must select someone to drop. Use the dropdown menu to designate whom you want to drop if this waiver request is successful. If you have multiple waiver requests, which is common, before the next waiver deadline (which is the last night of the current matchup), then please use the Comments box to prioritize your waiver wire picks.
Sometimes you may want to make many waiver requests, but don’t want to drop as many. For example, let’s say your first choice is 12 Mighty Orphans, but only want to drop Malgosia Turzanska. If you don’t get 12 Mighty Orphans, you have a second choice of picking up Annette. You can make another waiver request as seen below.
Of course, both cannot be honored simultaneously because the dropped player appears twice. Since you provided a first choice and second choice, only the first waiver request is honered if 12 Mighty Orphans was not picked up by another owner with a higher waiver priority. If someone else claimed 12 Mighty Orphans, the second waiver request is processed. If two owners with higher waiver priority request 12 Mighty Orphans and Annette, then you will not receive either of those players.
Waivers will be processed on the last evening of each matchup for use on the next matchup. Waiver requests are due by 6:00 pm Eastern Time on the last day of EACH matchup. They will then be processed by 10:00 pm Eastern Time, but often sooner. Because of this, we recommend to check your starting lineup no later than the morning of the first day of the matchup and submit any necessary changes to your starting lineup with your new players.
This is where waiver priority comes into play. To add parity to your league, teams with worse records will have higher waiver wire priority. For owners who submit multiple waiver wire requests, the waiver priority will cycle through each team. For example, if Team1 has a worse record than Team2, then Team1 has a higher waiver priority. Assume that Team1 wants, in order of preference, the Pictures 12 Mighty Orphans, Annette, and The Eyes of Tammy Faye, while Team2 also wants, in order of preference, the Pictures 12 Mighty Orphans, Annette, and The Eyes of Tammy Faye. Team1 would acquire 12 Mighty Orphans, Team2 would then acquire Annette, and Team1 would acquire The Eyes of Tammy Faye.
No. Any points gained from the dropped player up until the dropping will be kept by your team, but any future points by that player will not be credited to your team. Likewise, any points gained by an added player up until the add won’t be credited, but any future points by that add will be credited to you. In other words, free agency pickups are not retroactive.
Click on Trades from MyTeam and then choose the team you would like to trade with. You can then add players/picks to the trade and submit the trade when you are ready.
When you submit a trade you can select how many days the trade offer is valid for. During the time if the team you offered the trade to accepts the trade will be automatically processed. After this time, the trade will expire.
Also, while a trade is Pending the players involved in the trade are locked. This means that you will not be allowed to include these players in another trade or waiver wire transactions. Once a trade Expires or is Rejected then the players are unlocked.
1) Your favorite [Film/Actor/Actress/Celebrity/Musician] did not work on a film this year. If that's the case, they're not going to get you any points, so why do you even want to draft them?
2) They got overlooked when the player pool was populated. We are continually adding movies each week, and we'll inevitably miss some. There are literally thousands of movies made every year, and it would simply be too overwhelming for users if everything was included. We're also not pulling every single cast member from the movies. Yes, there are no small parts, but it's just impractical to include Security Guard #3 from the latest direct to video action thriller. To that end, if there is a good case to be made for inclusion (points are the BEST case), we can add them. Just email us at admin@redcarpetrosters.com.
