Fantasy Football injury issues

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So the number one issue that people solve in many different ways in fantasy football is the injury of one or multiple of your star players. There are many ways to go about solving this issue you can either go to the wavier wire to try to pick someone up that is starting to play well or is the back up who is now starting because of an injury. You can also try and trade multiple players with another person in your league to try and give your team some more depth incase of an injury. First, I am going to talk about how to work the wavier wire efficiently in order to keep your chances on getting the best players and back ups who will fill the role of starters when they get injured. So, the wavier wire is this tool that lists every team in the league by who has done to worst so far to the best. The worst team gets access to the wavier wire first because it's only fair to give the worst fantasy football owner the first chance to pick someone up to better their team. If you want to work the wavier wire efficiently it is VERY IMPORTANT to keep up on sports news because this will tell you which back ups are going to start and if any back ups are going to get a starting role because the starter has been underperforming. In the case of an injury as soon as you hear about it you will want to go to pick up the back up of that player who got hurt even if you do not need a player at that position because this will give you trade value. For example, Christian McCaffery gets hurt almost every season, but he's the best running back in the league because of the Carolina Panthers heavy rush offense. When he gets hurt his back up Chub Hubbard value increases immediately and immensely. Everyone will be trying to pick him up if the need a running back. So if you can pick him up and drop a player who has been dead weight on your bench this is the way to go. If you successfully do this you will have a strong bargaining power against any one who needs a running back and can use this power to leverage a trade in your favor. If someone needs a player they will most likely be open to trading a position away that they are strong in. So if you need a wide receiver or tight end you can trade for a player in that category with your newly acquired player from the waiver wire. Working the wavier wire can be tough sometimes like I said before the person who has first dibs off the waiver wire is whoever performed the worst during that week, but what is nice is once they pick someone up off of the waiver wire they go to the bottom of it. Sometime people don't notice players available on the waiver wire at all and you can snipe a player even if you are on the bottom half of the waiver wire order. The waiver wire can be underrated sometimes and that is why I believe it it the number one way to deal with player injuries and can turn a nobody on your bench to someone high trade value. Doing a multiple player trade is also a great way on how to solve injury problems on your fantasy football team. To use this method you would want to find someone whose team has players that you could trade for that could fill your needs for your fantasy team, at the expense of trading away players from your team from a position that you already have great value in. Doing a multiple player trade does have some downsides to it, for example if you trade 2 running backs for a wide receiver and a running back because you need a good wide receiver your running back dominance on your team just went down. This has to be the case sometimes because if there is no one available on waiver wires this could be your only hope. Sometimes you have to sacrifice positions you are strong in, in order to balance your team because you are weak in other aspects. This is a more rare form of trying to fill team needs, because in some leagues (like the one that I am in) people are skeptical to make trades. They are afraid that they are not getting fair worth for their player or they would rather play a third string or someone who is sharing snaps with another player than to give up people that make certain categories on their team very strong. I think this option is a more desperate option that should be utilized only if you cannot fill an active player spot on your roster because of injury. You usually never want to give up players that strengthen parts of your team just to balance your team out more. Sometimes it does work, but on the contrary it can also hurt you in the long run and once your player comes back off of the injury you still traded away good players to compensate for his injury. If this is the case then you would want to try and make another trade so you can get back that value you had in other positions before your player got hurt in order to maximize your potential points. By combing these two strategies of working the waiver wire and making multiple player trades you can keep your fantasy team on top regardless of who gets hurt. Also, working the waiver wire when you don't technically need a player in that position creates a lot of future value for trades, so these strategies go hand in hand. I hope that you gain some knowledge from this article on how to keep your fantasy football team afloat through all of the injuries that are to come this season. 

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