What Time Do Fantasy Football Waivers Process?

Q: Team A dropped Andre Johnson at 4:20 PM October 29th. Team B requested a Waiver pickup October 29th.

Our league has a two day waiver wire making Andre Johnson available November 1st.

Team C had a higher waiver wire position than Team B and pickup Andre Johnson at 5 AM November 1st.

When does Andre Johnson Officially become a Free Agent? Midnight November 1st or Midnight November 2nd? Which team should have Andre Johnson?

A: Hi Chris. In these types of situations, we think you have to defer to your league - whether it be Yahoo, Sportsline or a different system. If your league assigned Johnson to one of those teams you’ll need to honor that decision.

If you have to assign free agents manually then you are using a flawed system since which team receives a free agent is based not on a specific timef rame but on the arbitrary moment your commissioner decides to complete the transactions. If this is the case then we think you’ll need to award Johnson to Team B since the actually time when a player officially becomes a free agent had not been previously established - and Team B did technically have higher priority and submit a request before Johnson was assigned.

Make sure you learn from this and set a specific free agent clearance time so you can avoid these types of disputes in the future.