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What is "bidding for players" when it is the wavier wire in fantasy football?

How does this feature work in yahoo fantasy football? Please describe in the best way, so I can understand what it is. I am commish in my league and a team wants to have it. We are voting on it now but I would like someone to explain it better to me.

Public Comments

1. The only thing that comes to mind when you state this is, depending on what place you are in, or how many moves you have made everyone has a certain waiver number. The lower the waiver number the better the chance you have of getting that player. Say there is a player that people are bidding on and there waiver numbers are 2,5,7. The person who has the lowest waiver number will get that player. GL
2. Since it's brand new, I understand the theory but not the exact implementation. With this feature, waivers are like a blind auction with one bid. Each owner in the league starts with a set amount of "money" to use and each week they can make a bid on a player. Highest bid wins that player. If you look in the settings, there's a section where you choose this option and then you pick a tie-breaker (usually reverse order of standings or rolling). So it's pretty easy. I just don't get the implementation, but I assume when you select it as a waiver option and pick your tie-break (FAAB in the settings) the amounts will pop up somewhere on the league or team page. And it will integrate itself into the waiver selection process. I think it's kind of cool myself! It makes you think about spending money on someone who's likely to slip into FA and saving it for when, say, a starting RB goes down.