Fantasy football trade analyzer

Common questions

• How does this fantasy football trade analyzer value players?

  Each player's value is his market-based fantasy points per game, minus what a replacement-level starter at his position scores, times the games he has left from Week 6 through Week 17, his bye taken out. The points per game is the median of the weekly market-based projections we froze before each week's first kickoff. Nothing is an opinion or an expert ranking.

• What does the value number mean?

  It is rest-of-season fantasy points above a replacement starter, in PPR scoring. A value of 100 means the market expects him to outscore the player you could start in his place by about 100 points between now and Week 17.

• Why doesn't a two-for-one just add up the players?

  It does add them, but a player at or below replacement level is worth zero: you could pick up his production for free. That is why two bench players rarely buy one starter, and why the side receiving more players also has to cut someone.

• Why can't I find a player?

  A player needs market-based projections in at least two weeks to have a rate, and players on injured reserve, the PUP list or the non-football list are left out because the market projects no game they miss. Kickers and team defenses are not valued.

• Does it account for my league's roster needs?

  If you have synced a league on My Team in this browser, the analyzer shows your best starting lineup on these values before and after the trade, using your league's own lineup slots. Without a league it judges the two sides on value alone.

• How often do the values change?

  A new week of market-based projections is frozen before each week's first kickoff, and the games left fall by one as each week is played. The value chart is rebuilt with every update.