In public leagues, all free agents are acquired via blind bidding using your Free Agent Acquisition Budget (FAAB). All owners begin the season with a $1,000 FAAB, and to acquire a player on waivers, a minimum bid of $0 must be placed. Remember, this is blind bidding, so the other owners in your league cannot see what you have bid on a player until after waivers have been processed. Players dropped during blind bidding periods can be acquired during the same week in the following bidding period, unless Same Week Pickups is disabled in your private league. With Same Week Pickups disabled, anybody dropped during the week is not eligible to be added until the following Wednesday waiver run.
Blind Bidding Periods:
Preseason (before Week 1):
Wed, Sept 3 – 3:00 PM ET
Thu, Sept 4 – 3:00 PM ET
Sun, Sept 7 – 11:00 AM ET
Regular Season (Weeks 2–18):
Wed – 3:00 PM ET
Thu – 3:00 PM ET
Sun – 11:00 AM ET
Special Cases:
Week 13 (Thanksgiving):
Wed – 3:00 PM ET
Fri – 12:00 PM ET
Sun – 11:00 AM ET
Games with early kickoffs (e.g., international, Friday, or Saturday games):
Players from those teams cannot be added/dropped during the Sunday bidding period.
The same rules would apply to Friday games in Week 1 and Week 13, and Saturday games in Weeks 16-18, making players from teams playing in these games ineligible to be added or dropped for the next blind bidding period (11 AM ET Sunday).