What is fantasy football?

Fantasy football is a game in which you and your friends each draft a roster of real NFL players, then score points every week from what those players do in their actual games: yards, touchdowns, catches and field goals. Your team plays one other team in your league each week, the higher score wins, and the best records reach a playoff in December.

How many players are on a fantasy football team?

Most leagues have 10 or 12 teams and each team drafts 15 or 16 players. A standard starting lineup is one quarterback, two running backs, two wide receivers, one tight end, one flex (a running back, receiver or tight end), one kicker and one team defense, with the rest on your bench. Your league's settings page shows the exact shape before the draft.

What is the difference between PPR and standard scoring?

PPR stands for point per reception: every catch is worth one point on top of the yards. Standard scoring awards nothing for the catch itself, so running backs who carry the ball and receivers who score deep are worth relatively more, while a receiver who catches eight short passes a game is worth relatively less. Half PPR splits the difference at half a point per catch. Parlae's board prints a separate ADP for each format because the same player is drafted in a different place in each one.

When should I draft a quarterback?

Later than most first time drafters do. Only one quarterback starts on a normal roster, and the scoring gap between the best and the twelfth best is smaller than the gap at running back or receiver, where you start two or three. The exception is a superflex or 2QB league, where quarterbacks go 40 picks earlier because a second one starts every week.

ADP is average draft position: the average pick at which a player is taken across thousands of public drafts. It tells you what the room expects to pay for a player, which is what makes it useful in a live draft: a player still available well past his ADP is a bargain relative to everyone else's judgement, and a player you want before his ADP will cost you an earlier pick than the room would. Parlae's board holds 11 players with a live ADP, taken from 143 recorded drafts.

FAAB is a free agent acquisition budget: a fixed pot of imaginary dollars, usually 100 or 1,000, that each team spends in blind bids for free agents during the season. The highest bid wins the player and the money is gone for the year, so the skill is in pricing a bid to the value of the player and the share of the season left, rather than in getting to the claim first.

What is the waiver wire?

The waiver wire is the pool of players nobody in your league owns. After each week's games, dropped and undrafted players sit on waivers for a day or two, and every team can put in a claim; the claims are settled by budget bid or by priority order, then anyone unclaimed becomes a free agent you can add instantly. Injuries and breakout games are what make a waiver claim worth a bid.

Is Parlae free, and do I need an account?

Yes, and no. Every fantasy football tool on Parlae is free, runs in the browser and needs no account, no card and no deposit. Parlae is not a sportsbook and takes no bets: it reads the sportsbook and draft markets as data and prints what they say, then grades its own calls in public.

Fantasy football, priced by the market

Rankings, ADP, a live draft assistant, a draft grader, weekly start or sit calls and the waiver wire. Every number comes from the draft and sportsbook markets, and every call is graded in public. Free, no account.

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Draftable players: each with a live ADP; 143
Drafts behind the ADP: recorded by Fantasy Football Calculator consensus ADP; 182
Players with a sportsbook price: 967 markets from 19 books; 830
Offensive players tracked: every one has a page

What fantasy football is

Fantasy football is a game you play against friends over an NFL season. Before Week 1 your league holds a draft: each of you takes turns picking real NFL players until every roster is full, usually 15 or 16 players deep. From then on, your team scores points every week from what those players actually do on the field: a running back's yards and touchdowns, a receiver's catches, a quarterback's passing, a kicker's field goals, a defense's sacks and turnovers. Each week your team is matched against one other team in your league, the higher score wins, and by December the best records play off for the title. Nobody plays a down. You pick, you set a lineup, you watch.

The skill is in three decisions. In the draft, who to take and when, which is where average draft position matters: it tells you what the room expects to pay for a player, so you can see who is a bargain at your pick. During the week, who to start and who to sit, because only your starters score. And on the waiver wire, which unowned player to claim when an injury or a breakout game changes a team. Parlae answers all three with the same source: the draft market, where thousands of drafts set every player's price, and the sportsbook markets, where a book that prices a player wrong loses money on it. That is what priced by the market means. No opinion poll, no hunches, and every call we make is graded after the games, misses included.

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Full fantasy football rankings

The first 24 players in PPR board order, each with his place in the ADP order beside him. Board captured Sep 18, 2026 at 7:06 AM ET. Tap a face for his page.

Every fantasy football tool

Seven tools, one board. Each one reads the same draft and sportsbook markets, so the grader, the assistant and the weekly call can never disagree about a player's price.

Fantasy football rankingsOne board in PPR, half PPR, standard, 2QB and dynasty, with a cut for every position. Players sit in the order drafters actually take them, and a tier line is drawn only where the gap between neighbours is a measured cliff.ADPEvery player's average draft position in every format, side by side, refreshed daily from recorded drafts. The number beside a name is his place in the draft order, one per player, never a rounded average that two players share.Live draft assistantPaste a Sleeper draft link and the board follows the picks as they land. After every selection it reranks what is left, flags who is sliding past his ADP, and says who is likely to survive until your next turn.Draft graderImport a finished draft and every pick is measured against where the market takes that player. A reach only counts for the picks you could actually have waited, and the letter cutoffs are printed on the page.Start or sitEvery same position pair inside the startable range gets a call each week, with the sportsbook markets on both players as the source. The call locks at the earlier kickoff and is graded in public when both games are final.Trade analyzerAny players on either side, one verdict: valued on where drafters take each one, and on the sportsbooks' projected points once every player in the deal is priced. Free, no signup, no league needed.ProjectionsThe fantasy points the sportsbooks imply for every priced player this week, by position: the player props de-vigged and scored in PPR. Not a projection we made, and refreshed through the day.Waiver wireWho is actually being added and dropped across Sleeper leagues over the last seven days, counted rather than guessed. A suggested bid is a share of your season budget, priced against the best free agent at the same position you could take instead.My team syncSync a Sleeper league or a public ESPN league and the weekly homework is done for you: lineup set from the start or sit calls, pickups flagged from the waiver scan, league read from the standings. Nothing is signed into on your behalf.

The fantasy football week

Week 2 runs on the same clock as every other. This is what arrives, and when.

TuesdayThe Tuesday emailWhat moved on the board since last week, and with a synced league, your team's exact moves for the week ahead. Free, one tap to stop.
WednesdayWaiver claimsThe adds and drops from the past seven days, ranked, with a bid priced for each claim before most leagues process.
ThursdayStart or sit callsEvery startable pair called from the week's sportsbook markets, published before the Thursday game and locked at the earlier kickoff.
SundaySunday activesWho is active, who is out and who benefits, refreshed through the morning inactives so a lineup can change before the early window.

How the calls are graded

A call counts the moment it is published, not when it turns out well. Nothing is added to the record after the fact.
A call locks when the earlier of the two games kicks off, and it is never edited afterwards.
A call is right when the player we said to start outscored the other one in your scoring format. A tie counts as neither.
The misses stay up beside the hits, and the hit rate reads nothing graded yet rather than zero until a real call has been scored.

Calls published: 594
Graded: 177
Right: 83

Fantasy football guides

All 36 guides

Written by the Parlae desk on the same board the tools run on, grouped by the question you arrived with. Every guide is free and none needs an account.

Draft strategy

How to build a roster from pick one to the last round.

ADP and the board

Where the pick numbers come from and how to read a move.

Scoring formats

PPR, half PPR, standard, superflex and what each one changes.

Waivers and FAAB

Ranking claims and pricing a bid once the season starts.

Start or sit and game week

The lineup call, the numbers behind it, and the hour before kickoff.

Tools and grading

What the grader sees, what a sync reads, and how a call is scored.

Studies

Dated, sourced findings with a line you can cite.

The 2026 Fantasy Football ADP Report: what 8,000 drafts say about how people are drafting14 min

Questions a newcomer asks

What is fantasy football?
Fantasy football is a game in which you and your friends each draft a roster of real NFL players, then score points every week from what those players do in their actual games: yards, touchdowns, catches and field goals. Your team plays one other team in your league each week, the higher score wins, and the best records reach a playoff in December.
How many players are on a fantasy football team?
Most leagues have 10 or 12 teams and each team drafts 15 or 16 players. A standard starting lineup is one quarterback, two running backs, two wide receivers, one tight end, one flex (a running back, receiver or tight end), one kicker and one team defense, with the rest on your bench. Your league's settings page shows the exact shape before the draft.
What is the difference between PPR and standard scoring?
PPR stands for point per reception: every catch is worth one point on top of the yards. Standard scoring awards nothing for the catch itself, so running backs who carry the ball and receivers who score deep are worth relatively more, while a receiver who catches eight short passes a game is worth relatively less. Half PPR splits the difference at half a point per catch. Parlae's board prints a separate ADP for each format because the same player is drafted in a different place in each one.
When should I draft a quarterback?
Later than most first time drafters do. Only one quarterback starts on a normal roster, and the scoring gap between the best and the twelfth best is smaller than the gap at running back or receiver, where you start two or three. The exception is a superflex or 2QB league, where quarterbacks go 40 picks earlier because a second one starts every week.
What is ADP?
ADP is average draft position: the average pick at which a player is taken across thousands of public drafts. It tells you what the room expects to pay for a player, which is what makes it useful in a live draft: a player still available well past his ADP is a bargain relative to everyone else's judgement, and a player you want before his ADP will cost you an earlier pick than the room would. Parlae's board holds 11 players with a live ADP, taken from 143 recorded drafts.
What is FAAB?
FAAB is a free agent acquisition budget: a fixed pot of imaginary dollars, usually 100 or 1,000, that each team spends in blind bids for free agents during the season. The highest bid wins the player and the money is gone for the year, so the skill is in pricing a bid to the value of the player and the share of the season left, rather than in getting to the claim first.
What is the waiver wire?
The waiver wire is the pool of players nobody in your league owns. After each week's games, dropped and undrafted players sit on waivers for a day or two, and every team can put in a claim; the claims are settled by budget bid or by priority order, then anyone unclaimed becomes a free agent you can add instantly. Injuries and breakout games are what make a waiver claim worth a bid.
Is Parlae free, and do I need an account?
Yes, and no. Every fantasy football tool on Parlae is free, runs in the browser and needs no account, no card and no deposit. Parlae is not a sportsbook and takes no bets: it reads the sportsbook and draft markets as data and prints what they say, then grades its own calls in public.

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