The Wire
Fantasy Forensics

Fantasy Player Values

Guest — no league Format Dynasty prices — long-term value, picks count
DYNASTY VALUE ALGORITHM

Price every player.
Win every trade.

Enter your Sleeper username — get your league analyzed

No password — Sleeper's public API only ever sees your username.

Loading your saved league…Signing you in and pulling your league.
Founding membersFree during launch. Join the founding list and lock in $3.99/mo or $29.99/yr for life — launch pricing for everyone else is $5.99/mo or $49.99/yr.

Superflex · PPR · TE +0.75 · 6-pt TD
# Player Pos Age Team Value Trend 3-wk

Letter grades are graded within each position — a quarterback's grade is measured against quarterbacks, a receiver's against receivers.

How this board works

Every price on this board is computed by our proprietary Dynasty Value Algorithm, built from deep analytics. It weighs production, role and usage, age, and availability into a single value for every player, priced for this league’s scoring — the format is set in the League Format tool. Where a player’s recent form runs ahead of his price — or behind it — he is flagged Leads algorithm / Lags algorithm. Tap “Why?” on any player for his season line, his usage, and his value history.

Risers & Fallers

How risers & fallers work

Every completed week is stored per player, so movement is a first-class signal, not an afterthought. A player’s role — his snap share and opportunities — often moves 1–2 weeks before his points do; where role and production disagree, the board flags a buy low (role rising, production lagging) or a sell high (production spiking on a flat role). Moves above are the latest weekly step at the format set in the League Format tool.

Insights

How this works

Data-first dynasty breakdowns drafted from the same numbers as the board — weekly value movement, rookie pick prices, and plain-English explainers for how the site scores trades. Every figure comes from the snapshot current when the piece was published.

Your league, analyzed

Connect a league and this page opens with your team — power rank, playoff odds, this week's matchup, and top waiver targets — followed by power rankings for every roster, each graded on starting-lineup strength, total roster value, draft-pick capital, and points scored, and tagged Win-Now ⏳, Dynasty 👑, Crossroads 🔀, or Rebuilder 🔨. You're browsing as a guest, so there's no league to show yet.

Your Team

Power Rankings

How this works

Your team first, then the whole league. The spotlight card up top carries your power rank, playoff odds from the 3,000-sim Season Outlook, the current matchup, and your top waiver targets — tap any number and that league opens in the matching tool. Below it, every roster is graded on the same algorithm-driven engine: starting-lineup strength, total roster value, draft-pick capital, and points scored so far this season, each tagged Win-Now ⏳, Dynasty 👑, Crossroads 🔀, or Rebuilder 🔨 from its age curve, pick share, and record — tap a team to see its full roster and picks, and exactly where yours stacks up. Power in Dynasty mode counts roster value beyond this season as well as this year's projection, so these ranks differ from Redraft mode on purpose.

Rosters

How this works

A separate engine that answers a different question: not what your players are worth, but what your team does this season. Every player is re-priced as a rest-of-season projection — a redraft lens: this year’s remaining points. Each team’s best lineup is projected, then the rest of the season is simulated 3,000 times (the remaining regular-season weeks, plus the playoffs). Nothing here feeds the dynasty values, the power score, or the trade calculator’s verdict — those stay exactly as they were. What it does feed is trade advice: Player Targets and the calculator show each deal’s title-odds swing next to its dynasty math, because a deal can be fair on value and still wrong for your window. Projections use this league’s actual scoring and do not move with the League format explorer.

League Storylines

Your league's storylines load here.

Start / sit lives here

The optimal lineup for your roster each week — byes and injuries auto-benched — plus your real matchup preview with a win probability and the decisions the game swings on. It starts from your roster, and a guest doesn’t have one.

How this works

The weekly question: who do I start Sunday? For the team you pick, this builds the optimal lineup for the current week from the weekly projections ESPN and Rotowire publish — printed exactly as the sources project them, never scaled up or down on this page. An injury designation rides as a tag on the player's name (Q, D, Out) for you to weigh yourself. A player on bye, or one the sources don't project at all, projects for zero and is auto-benched; a player listed Out who is nevertheless projected to play keeps his projection and is flagged a status conflict instead — a stale designation never erases a real projection. A player with no NFL team — unsigned, per the same live Sleeper players feed that carries the injury designations — projects for zero, is labeled Unsigned, and is excluded from the optimal lineup entirely, whatever his dynasty value says. A signed player outside the priced pool shows Unpriced rather than a fake zero: his projection is unknown, and he starts only when no priced option exists. Below it, the current real Sleeper matchup: both teams' optimal lineups, a win probability, and the decisions the game swings on. Same separation rule as everything else here — projections never touch dynasty values, and nothing in this tab moves a price on the board.

Trade Calculator

Opened from a shared link — this exact trade was restored from the URL, and the verdict below is computed from the current values.
Founding membersGrades like this are free during launch. Join the founding list and lock in $3.99/mo or $29.99/yr for life when premium opens.

How the calculator works

Build a deal from any two rosters (or the free-agent pool). The verdict weighs trade value and team fit — each side's raw sum plus its value adjustment, so the side whose value sits concentrated in its best players gets credit for that concentration and one stud is not outweighed by a pile of lesser pieces — and whether the pieces fill a need, cost a starter, or fight a team's competitive window.

Personalized Player TargetsFree during launch

Deals built for your team, not generic advice: your roster, your window, and your picks — matched against every other roster in your league. Rebuilders sell their aging veterans to the contenders who need them; contenders buy the veterans who raise their lineup. Every offer is graded Fair or Close before it is shown.

I wantfilters every trade idea below
Founding membersDeals built for your team — free during launch. Join the founding list and lock in $3.99/mo or $29.99/yr for life when premium opens.

Your targets live here

Connect your league and this page reads your roster, your window, and your picks — then builds the deals for you: rebuilders get graded offers for their aging veterans, matched to the contenders who need them; contenders get the veterans who raise their lineup, priced in picks and youth. Every offer is graded by the same fairness meter as the Trade Calculator. The calculator works without a league; personalized targets can't — a guest has no roster to aim at.

How Personalized Player Targets work

Pick a team and Player Targets works your window, not just your needs. A Win-Now ⏳ team only sees buys: picks, prospects and depth go out, production comes in — and every idea is checked against the rest-of-season projections, so a deal that lowers your optimal lineup’s projected points per week never appears, however the values balance. A Dynasty 👑 team sees buys too, but pickier ones: only clear upgrades, paid for with draft capital, so the young core stays intact. A Rebuilder 🔨 only sees sells: veteran starters converted into picks and young players, each one graded by the calculator’s fairness meter — value adjustment included — and only Fair or Close offers are shown. Crossroads 🔀 teams choose a direction: two labeled paths, Go Win-Now ⏳ and Go Rebuilder 🔨, each held to its own window’s rules.

Real Trades

Player prices are our algorithm's current values — what the pieces are worth today, next to what they fetched then. Pick prices use the mid slot on our pick ladder (2027–2029 rookie picks); picks from the 2025–26 classes — rookie picks dealt before their draft, and startup-draft picks in then-new leagues — are marked already drafted and shown unpriced: they really changed hands, but that draft is over and the pick itself no longer exists as a tradeable asset. A side with no players or picks listed received FAAB or considerations the feed doesn't itemize. Grades cover players and picks only — FAAB (waiver-budget) money that changed hands inside a deal isn't itemized in the trade data and isn't counted in the grade. Source: completed trades from public Sleeper leagues, collected Oct 27, 2026.

How this works

Not a hypothetical — completed trades from real public Sleeper leagues, with our algorithm's current price on every player and pick. Search a player and see what managers actually paid for him: the fastest way to sanity-check any offer on your table. One honest caveat: the sample leans toward active, multi-league managers, so read it as the live trade market, not a census of every league.

Trade Board

Every proposed trade still waiting on an answer, from every Sleeper league you play in — each one graded with the same engine as the Trade Calculator, picks priced by where they're projected to land. One screen for all of them: review them here — the accept / reject decision itself stays in Sleeper.

Team Portfolio

One roster, priced like a portfolio — every holding in a single total, with this week's move and the trend across the weekly snapshots on file. Any team in the league, not just yours.

Your Roster

Command CenterFree during launch

Your Next MovesFree during launch

Opportunity RadarFree during launch

Players whose role is bigger than their scoring — history says the scoring usually catches up.

Each player below is getting starter-level opportunities over his last three games but scoring like a backup. Most flags still don't break out — every card shows how often flags like it actually have, measured on 2024–25, seasons this screen was never tuned on.

Inefficiency BoardFree during launch

Where the stat sheet and the price disagree.

Bye Week Planner

Bye weeks live here

Every bye week still to come for the team you pick, the starters each one takes out, and the bench cover behind them — so a hole in Week 11 is something you see weeks ahead, not at lineup lock. It starts from a real roster, and a guest doesn't have one.

Waiver Targets

Waiver targets live here

Every unrostered player, ranked by what he would do for your lineup — his projected points per week against the weakest starter he’d have to beat. The ranking is relative to a roster, and a guest doesn’t have one yet.

How waiver targets work

Every unrostered player in the snapshot, ranked for the team you pick — not by dynasty value, but by what he would do for that lineup. Each target is ranked by what he would add over the weakest starter he’d have to beat at his position, flex and superflex slots included — his projected points per week against that starter’s. Young players with a rising role get their own stash list — in dynasty, that’s usually where the wire pays. One honest note: with deep rosters, most weeks this wire is thin, and this page says so instead of dressing up a name.

League Format

A second QB starts in the SUPER_FLEX slot — QB2s hold real value instead of riding the bench. Turn it off and quarterbacks re-price for a 1-QB league, where only 12 QBs start and a replacement is always on the wire — so QB prices fall hard, and every other position barely moves.
How much each reception is worth. As it rises, wide receivers and tight ends gain a little; running back values barely move.
Extra points on every tight-end reception, on top of PPR. The bigger the premium, the more the elite tight ends separate from the rest of the position.
Points for each passing touchdown — a QB-only lever.

How Values Work

Draft mode — pick your format
Fantasy Forensics · Draft Room

OWN THE
ROOKIE DRAFT.

Pick values with the veteran each pick is actually worth, the full rookie pool with draft-capital priors, post-draft grades, and a draft room your co-owner can follow from a shared code, powered by our value engine.

01 · The Ladder

Rookie pick ladder

Every pick priced by the Fantasy Forensics value algorithm and matched to the veteran it would take to buy it. An early 1st isn't an abstraction: it's a low-end fantasy starter. The ladder and the player board below run on the same scale, so every pick's price reads straight against the veterans beside it.

1.21×
Early 1st vs Mid 1st — the top tier of the round is worth about a fifth again the middle
1.31×
Early 1st vs Late 1st — draft position inside the round moves the price by about a third
1.25×
2027 Early 1st vs 2028 Early 1st — the one-year wait costs you about 20% of the value
PickValue Ovr rankWorth one veteranVet value

Every slot on this ladder carries an Early / Mid / Late price — there is no single generic price for a pick, because where a pick lands inside its round is worth real value (see the tier gaps above). The prices are the Fantasy Forensics algorithm's, on the same scale as the main board, with future years discounted for the wait.

Picks appreciate into the draft

Value index of a future 1st across the 12 months before its draft (12 months out = 100). Modeled seasonal pattern: an in-season trough while veterans win games, then a steady climb through the combine to the April–May rookie-fever peak at the NFL Draft. Sell picks at the peak; buy them in October.

How to read the ladder

  • Early 1st ≈ rank ~18 veteran. A genuine starter — never throw one into a deal as a sweetener.
  • Mid 1st ≈ rank ~33. A solid WR2/RB2. Late 1st ≈ rank ~47, flex territory.
  • Early 2nd ≈ rank ~79. Bench-with-upside money. The drop from late 1st to early 2nd is only 1.27× — the softest round-boundary cliff on the board, and the classic trade-back target.
  • Round-over-round: early 2nd → early 3rd falls 1.48×. After the 3rd, picks flatten out (~1,200–2,400) and become fungible throw-ins.
  • Future years decay fast — a 2028 1st prices like a late 2027 1st; a 2029 1st like an early 2027 2nd.
02 · The Pool

Player pool & rookies

The full value board, with a Rookies filter that isolates the rookie-eligible class and shows each player's draft-capital prior — where the NFL actually took them, the single best predictor for young players with thin stat lines. Values come from the same proprietary algorithm as Fantasy Forensics.

RankPlayerPosTeam AgeValueADPSF $ · per ESPNDraft capital / status

Market overlay (ADP snapshot Oct 20, 2026; SF $ refreshed weekly from ESPN): ADP is the player's average dynasty-draft position, SF $ is ESPN's SUPERFLEX auction value. A dash means no published figure for that player.

The rookie class below is the 2026 class — already drafted, already priced by the algorithm. Looking ahead? The 2027 Rookie Class board in the Draft Room ranks the upcoming class and prices what your 2027 picks are worth.
03 · Post-Draft

Draft analyzer

Enter a completed rookie draft and get it graded: a letter grade per team, every pick scored against what that slot was worth on the ladder, steals and reaches flagged, and the league's winners and losers called out. Built for rookie drafts specifically — the tool the big sites never bothered to make.

Demo league loaded: Demo League. Draft order defaults to reverse standings and snakes each round — change any slot's team below.

The report code encodes the whole draft — send it to your league, they paste it below and the grades rebuild. Slot expectations follow the ladder's tier curve, converted onto the algorithm's value scale and normalized to the value actually available in this class — so a chalk draft grades around par and the grades separate on pick quality, not class hype.
04 · Live

Live draft room

A draft board that thinks while you pick: best-available recommendations tuned to the clock, tier-cliff alerts when a position is about to run dry, positional-run detection, and trade-back windows when your slot is worth more than anyone left on the board. Copy the room code and your co-owner follows the same board pick by pick — the code carries the draft's current state, so re-copy it after new picks to keep them current.

The room code encodes the whole board: your co-owner pastes it above and follows the same draft — re-copy after each round so their board stays current. The code also rides in the page address (after the #), so a copied link works too.

Best available

Draft intel

Still on the board, by tier

RB position ▣ lime outline = your picks ▣ magenta pulse = on the clock Values: Fantasy Forensics algorithm · 12 teams · 4 rounds · snake

Fantasy Forensics — Draft Room — the rookie-draft room inside Fantasy Forensics, where the full value board, trade calculator, and season simulator live.

Player values: our proprietary dynasty value algorithm. Redraft values: the Fantasy Forensics rest-of-season engine — the same prices as the main site's Redraft mode. Pick ladder: the Fantasy Forensics value algorithm — the same ladder as the main site. Draft overlay: ADP and SUPERFLEX auction values (per ESPN) — market context shown next to our values; it does not change any price, recommendation, or grade. Grades score each pick against the ladder value of its slot — a pick is a steal when the player beats the slot, a reach when the slot beats the player.

Founding membersFree during launch. Join the founding list and lock in $3.99/mo or $29.99/yr for life — launch pricing for everyone else is $5.99/mo or $49.99/yr.