Waivers are used in order to remove a player from a roster, either the Major League Roster or the 40 Man Roster, or to make them available to trade after the July 31st trade deadline. The trade deadline is addressed below, first, using waivers to remove a player from a roster will be covered.

There are two types of waivers. Revocable waivers and irrevocable waivers. If a player has revocable waivers, you are allowed to pull a player back off the waivers (revoke the waivers) at any point during the waiver period, even if another team has claimed him.

If a player has irrevocable waivers, that player cannot be called back if he is claimed by another team. If two or more teams put in a claim for the same player, the team with the lowest winning percentage will get the player. In the first month of the season, the previous years record is used.

The waiver process in the BBL is done online. When you wish to put a player on waivers, you must make a post on our Waivers Board with your team name, the players name and position, and whether the waivers are revocable or irrevocable. Two real days are needed in order for a player to clear waivers. For example, you place a player on waivers at 8pm Sunday night. He will have cleared waivers at 8pm Tuesday.

Removing a Player from the 40 Man Roster

To remove a player from the 40 Man Roster, first you must see if he will accept such a move. To check, open up the league in OOTP, and go to your team's Transactions page. Click and drag the player from the 40 man roster to the White area in the lower right hand corner of the screen. You may need to move the player to AAA in order to do so. You'll either receive the message, "The player would accept the assignment" meaning you can indeed place the player on waivers. Waivers where you seek to remove a player from the 40 man roster are always revocable. If instead, you receive the message, "The player would refuse the assignment. Release him or keep him on the 40 man roster", then you cannot place this player on waivers in order to remove him from the 40 man roster.

If you place a player on revocable waivers for the purpose of removing him from the 40 man roster, and he is claimed, then you can pull him off waivers. Of course, he then stays on your 40 man roster. If a player is claimed, and changes teams, he takes a spot on that new teams 40 man roster.

Sending a Player out of Waivers to the Minor Leagues

Each player has 3 "option" years where he can be sent to the minor leagues freely. You can see if a player has any years left by either looking at his player page on the website or by looking in game under "Show Financial/Roster Status" (they are also marked by a "+" on your teams Transactions page in game). After using those years up, it is necessary to have a player clear waivers in order to send him to the minor leagues.

First note that some players have the right to completely refuse being sent to the minors. If, in game, you drag them from the active roster to the AAA roster and receive the message, "The player refuses the assignment" then there's nothing you can do. He cannot be sent to the minors and you'll have to either keep him on your roster or trade/release him. If, however, you receive the message, "The player has to clear waivers before demotion. Put player on irrevocable waivers?" then, obviously, you can put him on waivers. All players put on the waiver wire for the purpose of sending him to the minors is automatically placed on irrevocable waivers, which means that if another team claims him they automatically get him, you cannot pull him off the wire once he's claimed. If he is claimed he is transferred to the new team and must go on their 25 man active roster.

If the player is not claimed, you can then move him to the minor leagues. Of course, during the season, there has to be 1 in-game day for the waiver process to occur. So if a player clears waivers before a sim, he'll have to stay on your active roster for the first in-game day of that sim. Simply include a message in your email who you'd like to call up in place of that player, and I'll make the changes for you after that one in-game day.

After Deadline-Trading

July 31st is the trade deadline in game. However, after that, waiver wire trading is available. Simply put, every player involved in a trade after July 31st must pass waivers, even prospects who are not on the 40 man roster. These waivers are revocable, so if you put a player on the waiver wire with the intentions of trading him, and he is claimed, you can then pull him back off waivers and not lose him.