The Roster Manager is now available for Platinum members. If you're not a Platinum member, check it out and see if you're interested. (We'll give instructions at the bottom on how to upgrade your membership). If you are a Platinum member, you'll want to understand more about this valuable service.

Roster Manager is intended to address 2 problems:

• People have been asking us for rest-of-the-year rankings, instead of just week-by-week rankings, forecasting how players will do that week.
• When we give our standard Waiver Advice, we don't know the size of your particular league. There are some leagues where Yeremiah Bell is a solid option. There are other leagues in which I can't foresee owning Bell. The scoring, league size, number of players on the roster, number of starters, whether it's a seasonal or dynasty league - these all factor into whether to own a player or not.

Roster Manager comes to the rescue. In a very simple format, it gives rest-of-the-year rankings that pertain to your league. Note that it is intended as a supplement to our Starter Advice and Waiver Advice.

• In Starter Advice, we address who to start for this particular week's situation, based on things like: What matchups a player faces; how hot/cold the player has been; injury status; etc.
• In Waiver Advice, we identify players who might be worth picking up for either continued roster status or for one week only. Usually we identify which scenario we mean. Often we identify the best league fit (Tackle/Big Play/Balanced, or deeper leagues, etc.).

However, Roster Manager is the final authority when it comes to knowing what's right for managing rosters in your league. Using parameters that you set, Roster Manager creates a custom view that shows the typical starters and typical reserves for your league. It takes a rest-of-the-year view and should not be used in place of Starter Advice. For example, there is little consideration for whether a player has the upcoming week off.

Hopefully, examples will help. The following clip from the Roster Manager spreadsheet shows how to set up your league's scoring system. NOTE: A convention in the spreadsheet is that anything in light green can be modified, whereas cells of other colors contain

Roster Manager contains several tabs for evaluating players: DL, LB, DB and All IDP. Let's look at just one, the LB tab, which is similar to the others.

By the way, since we've entered an unusual scoring system, the rankings will look a bit different from our normal rankings. (You can't cheat and use these for your late draft :).

First, note the settings:

• Number of Owners - That's the number of teams in your league.
• # of LB on roster - In some leagues, this is fixed, while it's variable in others. Pick the best number that fits, in your opinion. If it is variable, you might try different numbers and separately see the results.
• # of LB to start - Again, this can be fixed or variable. Try different numbers if it's variable.
• Dynasty or seasonal - Enter D or S. The rankings vary slightly.
• Use of "The Mark" - If you read IDPBlitz for long, you'll learn about "The Mark." (Read more about it here). You can ignore "The Mark", or you can use "The Mark" given to the player in each of 3 league types: Tackle, Big Play or Balanced.

Now, to the output. The important point is that any player whose name is colored should ideally on a roster somewhere in your league. Obviously, if you look through the rosters in your league, it's unlikely that they will exactly match our assessment. Any color-coded player who is not on a team's roster is a good candidate to add to your team, according to Roster Manager.

Then Roster Manager fine-tunes the analysis by suggesting which players would typically be starters. These are color-coded in green. Typical reserves are color-coded in yellow.

Consider the opposite case. If you have a player on your roster who is not color-coded, then Roster Manager suggests you drop that player, and add one of the available color-coded ones.

Upgrading to Platinum

If you're a Basic (free) member and would like to upgrade to Platinum, it's quite easy. Simply click here and fill out the appropriate information.

For Premium members, it's a little trickier due to the nature of our subscription software. You have 2 choices:

1. Click on the same link as a Basic member, and when filling out the information, be sure you select YES when asked if this is a renewal. The subscription software will extend your subscription by a year and charge you $14.99. In effect, you can receive Platinum service for the rest of this year, plus an additional year, but at a lower price: the $9.99 you already paid for this year, and the $14.99 you've prepaid for next year. In effect, you get a lower price by extending your subscription.
2. If you do not wish to extend your subscription, you will have to use a manual method. Please do the following:
   • E-mail us at experts@idpblitz.com, and let us know that you want to upgrade to Platinum.
   • We will write back, tell you where and how to send a check, and upgrade you immediately to Platinum.
   • If the check doesn't arrive within 2 weeks, we will downgrade you to Premium until the check arrives.