Methods and systems of automatic management online fantasy sports rosters

A computerized system of playing online fantasy football comprising:

• a processor configured to execute instructions;
• a memory containing instructions when executed on the processor, causes the processor to perform operations that:
• prior to the start of a fantasy sports game:
• provide an online fantasy sports league, wherein the online fantasy sports league comprises an online fantasy football league, wherein the online fantasy football league comprises a rotisserie-ruled based online fantasy football league, wherein a user interacts with the online fantasy sports league via an application in a computing device;
• receive a list of automatic substitution designations from the user via the application with respect to a user's starting roster;
• obtain a final injury designation for the player from an official league server;
• determine that a user available to manually select the substitute player;
• determine that the list of automatic substitution designations is due to be communicated to the online fantasy sports league server within a specified deadline set by the online fantasy sports league;
• determine that a player is ineligible to play in a game;
• determine that the player is on a user's starting roster;
• automatically select a substitute player for an ineligible starting player according a list of automatic substitution designations, and wherein the list of automatic substitution designations is stored in a memory of the computing device or an online fantasy sports league server;
• automatically select another substitute player in another position for an eligible starting player according the list of automatic substitution designations when it is determined that the player is ineligible to play in the game;
• and
• automatically update the user's team roster to include the substitute player in lieu of the ineligible starting player.