Fantasy Football is a game that belongs to a billion-dollar industry called fantasy sports wherein players, aptly called team owners, can acquire or draft an entire team of real-life professional football players. Arranged into leagues that mimic real ones, Fantasy Football participants gain score points through statistical capabilities or performances of the real world players which are included in the fantasy rosters of the respective owners.

In essence, the way to win in Fantasy Football is to always have high quality players. Since the performance of the real world players can change in between real world matches, you need to make regular updates or changes to the players in your fantasy roster to keep up with the fantasy games. This makes the changing of players a very important aspect of Fantasy Football.

The basic way for you to change the players in your roster is to add new players. To do this you just go the players’ page in your league’s website, there you will find the list of players to choose from. Commonly, for each player that you acquire, a corresponding member of your team should be dropped too.

All in all, after acquiring a new player and dropping an old one, your roster will be changed. But there are other ways of changing players in Football Fantasy and here they are.

Activating Bench Players To Active Status

One of the most overlooked ways of changing players in an existing lineup is by simply changing the status of a certain player from bench to active or vice versa. You can access this function online by simply going to your team’s webpage. There you will find a menu that permits you to change the status of each of the players on your roster. Always remember to save the changes before you exit the page.

Trading Players

This can be the easiest way of changing the player composition of a Fantasy Football team. For one, this method of changing players on a team is allowed even if the season has already started. And more importantly, this method has very few restrictions; so the process and the agreements that lead to the trading of players is entirely left to the preferences of the two teams that decide to trade.

However, there is one important regulation that all the teams that decide to trade their players should keep in mind and this is ensuring that the trades are not done disproportionately. This happens when one team decides to trade off players that have high quality standings with another team that has had a losing streak. The goal of this tradeoff is obviously to help the lackluster team win more games to the detriment of other participants in Fantasy Football. To address this kind of trading, which is considered cheating; most Fantasy Football leagues disallow trading after about two-thirds of the season has been played.

Allocating For Free Agents

Free agents are players who aren’t on the roster of any Fantasy Football team. If your league provides for a waiver system, then a free agent is a player who has been cleared or released from such waiver. Utilizing these free agents is another way to change the players on your roster.

You can acquire free agents on a first-come-first-served basis. You can also opt to bid for any free agent; in this case, all the teams that want to acquire a particular free agent should bid on this free agent and the highest bidder wins the right to acquire the player. There is also a scenario where the worst performing teams during the last season get the first rights to choose any player who is a free agent.

Draft Auction

Fantasy Football gives team owners a certain amount of fantasy cash so that they can bid on professional football players to fill in the spots on their respective rosters. In this system, Fantasy Football team owners take turns in bidding for players.

No matter what method you decide to use in changing your players, always remember that you need to beat a deadline which is about fifteen minutes before the start of the first game during the week; after which, your changes will not be valid. After this deadline, your player lineup is locked for the entire week of matches.

By: Regine Hehn

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