Trades & Available Legislators

Your roster is not locked after the draft. Lex will show you how to add, drop, and trade your way to a stronger team.

Available legislators

Any member of Congress not on a roster in your league is an available legislator. Browse them from the members board, where you can sort by recent points to spot anyone heating up.

Add and drop

To add an available legislator, you drop someone from your roster to make room, an add and a drop together. The legislator you drop returns to the available pool, where another manager could pick them up.

Proposing a trade

In a standard league, you can trade directly with another manager. You propose the swap, they review it, and it happens only if they accept, a good way to fill a roster gap while giving them something they value in return.

Trades do not have to be even. You can send two and receive one, or the other way round. A roster carrying more than 15 legislators after an uneven trade scores nothing until it is back to 15, so trade up carefully and drop the extra before the week starts.

When a trade takes effect

If your matchup is already live, an accepted trade is held and applied at the start of the next week. Nothing moves inside a week that is already scoring, because a trade rewrites both teams at once. Both managers keep seeing the agreed trade on the trades page until it executes.

If a legislator in the deal leaves either roster in the meantime, through the waiver wire for instance, the trade is voided rather than reshaped. Both managers are told which player broke it, and nothing moves. The agreement was for specific legislators, so a trade that can no longer be honoured is cancelled instead of quietly becoming a different deal.

Commissioner veto

League commissioners can veto a trade at any time before it executes, and for 48 hours after it does. After that window the rosters have been scoring on those players and past matchups have been settled against them, so a reversal would undo results that are already on the board.