Player help
Short, source-backed answers for drafts, waivers, lineups, scoring, trades, league settings, and account support.
A real rugby player can belong to only one manager in a DraftXV league.
Every squad in a league is different. Unowned players are either available as free agents or temporarily held on waivers, so the player pool keeps changing throughout the season.
Join an existing league or create one with the format your group wants.
Commissioners choose the competition, league visibility, membership settings, and draft date. Draft creation requires at least six active managers; supported larger league sizes continue to work normally.
Draft, prepare, claim, process, play, then settle.
These stages are a memory aid, not six fixed deadlines. Free-agent and waiver windows can overlap with lineup preparation, so trust the exact status and player times shown in your league.
The order reverses after each standard round.
In a six-manager example, round one runs A to F and round two runs F to A. Manager F therefore makes picks 6 and 7 back-to-back.
The final valid pick triggers automatic finalization.
DraftXV creates ownership, free-agent, lineup, league, and schedule state together. The commissioner's Complete Draft control is a safe recovery action if automatic finalization needs a retry.
In a standard draft the server clock keeps running until a pick is made or the draft pauses.
Eligible means an active, positioned player in this season's draft pool who is still unowned in the league. It does not mean the player must fill a particular lineup position during the draft. When time expires, DraftXV tries the manager's first eligible watchlist player, then the highest-ranked eligible player. An administrator can pause the room; exceptional pool or configured disconnect conditions can pause it too.
Your private watchlist is your ordered fallback for a timed turn.
Other managers cannot see it, and you can also use it as a convenient shortlist for manual picks. Commissioners can start, pause, resume, undo the latest pick, force an auto-pick, cancel an unfinished room, or safely retry finalization. Those actions still enforce the current turn, player eligibility and availability, exclusive ownership, roster capacity, and draft state. Opening the Force Auto-Pick confirmation does not pause the clock; if the turn changes before confirmation, the stale action safely does nothing.
Waivers create fair claim periods around the game week and team announcements.
Managers submit private claims before the visible deadline, then valid league waiver rank resolves competition for the same player. Between waiver periods, eligible free agents are still first come, first served.
Lower numeric league waiver rank is considered first; only a contested valid win moves the winner to the back.
A claim is contested when two or more managers still have valid claims for the same player at resolution. The winner then moves to the back of the league waiver rank. An uncontested winner keeps their rank, and an invalid leading claim does not block the next valid claimant.
League waiver rank and your personal claim order answer different questions.
League waiver rank decides which manager wins a contested player. In the same standard batch, your personal order decides which of your own due moves is tried first after league waiver rank.
A waiver waits for resolution; an eligible free-agent move commits immediately while the league window is open.
A dropped player may stay on waivers until a personal deadline even while other free agents are immediately available. If league waivers are disabled, valid free-agent moves remain immediate.
Each player locks at that player's real-team kickoff.
The first fixture does not lock the whole squad. An early-fixture player can be locked while a later-fixture or bye player remains editable until its own boundary.
Live points are useful, but provisional.
Provider updates continue until the round-processing run scheduled for Monday at 12:00 UTC. That run performs a final provider refresh, computes the fantasy round once, and makes its scores and matchups final. A completed round is not recomputed later.
Head-to-head league rounds lead into playoffs, while odd leagues use League Average as a matchup opponent.
League Average never drafts or owns players. It fills only the unmatched side of an odd league's schedule and scores from the mean of real managers for that round.
Trades move players only after every ownership, lock, capacity, and approval check succeeds.
Managers can offer uneven multi-player trades, counter, reject, cancel, and choose an expiry. A trade can become invalid if a listed player changes squad, a required drop is no longer owned or unlocked, membership or transaction locks change, or either roster would exceed capacity. Acceptance rechecks everything and leaves ownership unchanged when invalid, so managers can refresh, correct the offer, and send a new one.
Commissioner controls are recovery and governance tools, not shortcuts around league rules.
Commissioners manage draft interruptions and optional trade approval, but cannot bypass ownership, roster capacity, player kickoff locks, or transaction locks.
Keeper behavior is commissioner depth and does not always follow a standard snake round.
A keeper league is intended to let managers retain selected players into a later season instead of redrafting every squad from scratch. First-season keeper leagues with no declarations can draft normally. Renewed drafts with declared or locked keepers currently stop before creation until retained-pick support is complete.
The core game is free; Pro adds optional tools and analysis.
Pro can add cross-league matchup views, player ownership and transaction trends, waiver popularity, live matchup event detail, fixture-status insights, and paid keeper controls. Availability depends on the current plan and account state, so use the signed-in Pro and account pages for the live feature list, regional price, subscription management, purchase restore, and support.
Refresh authoritative HTTP views once before repeating an ambiguous action.
Draft, ownership, claim, trade, lineup, and score state can change in another tab or server process. Reload the affected view, read the current status, and contact support with non-sensitive IDs and the visible error if it still disagrees.
