Your Yahoo Fantasy Football roster has a built-in position for players that end up on the NFL's Injured Reserve list. The IR position is primarily used for keeper leagues because if a player is placed on injured reserve in the NFL, he'll most likely be deactivated for the season and not eligible to return.

Add a player to the IL, IL+ IR, IR+, or NA roster spot

1. Click the position next to the injured player in your roster. - The IL, IL+, IR, IR+, or NA roster position displays if the player is eligible for it.
2. Click IL, IL+, IR, IR+, or NA.
3. The player will be moved to that position.

About FAB (Free Agent Budget) waiver priority Offers can range from $0 to the remainder of your budget. Offers are blind, so other managers can't see what your offer is. The manager with the highest offer signs the player to their roster and has that amount deducted from their FAB budget.

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IR+ - Any player who is on IR, or labelled Out (O) or Day to day (DTD) can go on here. Notably, any NA player or Suspended player can NOT be placed on IR+. IR+ was created because people were frustrated by not being able to replace an injured player who doesn't get put on IR by their NHL squad.

You have to drop a player, add player on IR, place him in your IR slot, opening up a spot to fill. yeah, ok -- don't really want to drop anyone not on IR to get an IR player -- oh well - probably should drop Kupp anyway.

Only players with the Injured/Reserve (IR) or Out (O) tags are eligible for placement into an IR slot. Players tagged as Questionable (Q), or Doubtful (D) are not eligible for the IR slot. At its most basic and simple level, when you place an eligible player into the IR slot, you gain an open roster slot.

Managing IR on the ESPN Fantasy App

1. On your team's home page, click on "Edit Lineup"
2. ​Click on the "Manage IR" link at the top of the team page and follow the instructions to place a player on IR.
3. To move a player back from IR to your active roster, click on the "Manage IR" link on your team page and activate the player.

In a Free Agent Budget (FAB) waivers system, each manager receives a dollar amount to place blind bids on waived players. The manager with the highest bid at the end of the waiver period claims that player and that bid amount is deducted from the team's acquisition budget.

Use FAB (Free Agent Budget) waiver priority Offers are blind, so other managers can't see what your offer is. Your offer can range from $0 to the remainder of your budget. Highest offer at the end of the waiver period signs the player. Offer amount is deducted from the manager's budget that signs the player.

If a league has 10 starting roster spots (QB, RB, RB, WR, WR, WR, TE, W/R/T, K, DEF), the bench should have no fewer than six spots, and bumping that up to eight is advisable.

seven Bench Spots Play the No. 1 fantasy game. Standard rosters include one Quarterback (QB), two Running Backs (RB), two Wide Receivers (WR), one Tight End (TE), one Flex (RB/WR/TE), one Defense/Special Teams (D/ST), one Kicker (K) and seven Bench Spots (BE -- players on your roster who are not in your active lineup for a given week).