Fantasy football draft knowledge
Learn how custom scoring reshapes the board
Methodology, format guides, and platform tools — so you draft from your league's rules, not a generic sheet. Start free on your own league when you're ready.
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Live baseline boards you can filter and explore — then connect your league for rankings that match your scoring.
Research
The receipts: projection backtests with the failures left in, controlled format experiments, and the scoring math behind the board.
Projections and rankings are not the same question
Zoltan's August theme lists projections, rankings, and trades. Holdout accuracy and scoring-rule rank movement are separable — and the second can move a hundred ranks with zero projection change.
Read →Host vs research is the wrong map for draft week
Scoutcast's host vs research split is honest. Draft week still has a third job: rank from this league's scoring, not the host default and not a briefing.
Read →Rookie IDP Ranks Are a Scoring Setting
A rookie IDP list is a scoring setting plus a guess. Our published holdout measured neither, because pure rookies were never in that population.
Read →When a Spreadsheet (or Pairwise) Board Is the Wrong Tool
Fantasy Joes says Superflex, dynasty, and IDP readers are not their user yet. We agree — those formats change replacement. Here is the adjacent job.
Read →The 2026 Draft-App Roundup Is Missing a Category
Sean Ryan is right that a custom cheat sheet is the edge. The category his map has no row for is the sheet your league's rules generate instead of you.
Read →IDP Dart Throws: Volume Isn't One Number
A tackle dart and a sack dart are both volume bets, and they pay on different clocks. Our controlled sweep puts the gap at 2.5 versus 4.0 points per solo.
Read →Stay on Offense Until Round 7 - Unless Scoring Isn't
Davenport's 2026 IDP Draft Blueprint keeps vanilla leagues on offense for six rounds. We put a number on the scoring caveat he already states.
Read →Your IDP Ranking Is a Scoring System in Disguise
Jon Glosser publishes the scoring behind his Top 275 — including tackle values scaled by position. Here is how far a scoring change moves a fixed pool: 52 places.
Read →Three Scoring Families, Three IDP Drafts
Tackle-heavy, big-play, and True Position are three IDP drafts. We measure format span up to 52 ranks and why True Position is a slot change, like superflex.
Read →How We Learn Your League's Scoring Rules
Inside the unmapped-rules ledger: the 26 scoring codes in triage on 2026-08-10 — what we mapped, what we built with new measurement, and what we refused in writing.
Read →Why Season Pass Is $39.99 (Not $129)
What shipped since $24.99, why league-scoring rules remain the product, and why we still sit well below the category anchor.
Read →BeerSheets 2026: What Happened and What to Use Instead
The "no BeerSheets this year" notice has stood unchanged since 2023 — dated against the archive, plus an honest look at the replacements.
Read →2026 Fantasy Football Scoring Format Impact Report
One citation-ready report: historical projection accuracy plus controlled superflex, tackle-value, and four-format experiments with open data.
Read →What Is TE Premium in Fantasy Football?
Plain-English TE premium: +0.5 and +1.0 reception bonuses, why elite receiving tight ends re-price, and when to take TE early.
Read →How Does IDP Scoring Work?
What IDP means, common tackle and sack scoring patterns, and why offense-only rankings lose individual defensive player leagues.
Read →How LeagueFrenzy Values Players: Replacement and VORP
How replacement level and VORP-S vs VORP-D work, why CB vs DB labels and floors make IDP hard, and why roster-aware boards beat generic rankings.
Read →How Accurate Are Our Projections? Full Backtest
Eight target seasons with separate tuning and holdout years, latest-position detail, failed ablations, and an honest same-sample market comparison.
Read →How Much Is a Tackle Worth Before LB Beats WR1?
Sensitivity sweep over tackle points on a fixed research pool — crossover points for high-tackle, balanced, and sack-heavy LB shapes.
Read →The Superflex QB Premium, Quantified
1QB vs superflex on a fixed engine pool — who jumps how many ranks, and why projected points never move.
Read →15 Players Whose Value Swings Across Formats
Four scoring configs, one player pool, top 15 by rank standard deviation — poster children for league-specific boards.
Read →Why Generic Rankings Lose IDP Drafts (Do the Math Once)
One real IDP league, one linebacker outscoring an elite WR season by two rounds of value — and why the consensus board never sees it coming.
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Methodology
How value-based drafting ranks players for your league’s actual scoring — not a generic board.
Formats
Superflex, 2QB, IDP, TE premium, and stacked formats — how each setting reshapes the draft board.
Superflex rankings
A second QB in the flex nearly doubles quarterback demand — see who moves into round one.
Read →2QB rankings
Two mandatory QB slots means 24 starters in a 12-team league. Even QB2s become early picks.
Read →IDP rankings
Tackles, sacks and turnovers put every-down linebackers and edge rushers on the board.
Read →TE premium rankings
A per-catch bonus only tight ends get, and what it does to the top of the position.
Read →IDP superflex rankings
Two premiums stacked — quarterbacks and defenders both climb on one blended board.
Read →Standard rankings
Zero points per reception — which pass-catchers slide, and which volume runners climb past them.
Read →Half-PPR rankings
0.5 points per catch instead of 1.0 — who cools off, and who climbs past them on volume.
Read →Dynasty rankings
Dynasty ranks are a multi-year horizon (VORP-D and development curves), not a scoring toggle. Connect your league for a dynasty-capable board.
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Platforms
League-synced draft tools for Sleeper, MyFantasyLeague, Fleaflicker, ESPN, and Yahoo.
Sleeper draft tools
Custom scoring rankings and a league-adjusted board synced from Sleeper.
Read →MFL draft tools
MFL draft boards that read complex scoring, IDP, and superflex settings.
Read →Fleaflicker draft tools
Fleaflicker draft boards for deep IDP and dynasty leagues, synced from your league’s real scoring.
Read →ESPN draft tools
ESPN Fantasy draft board with advanced setup — unofficial cookie connect and custom scoring from your league.
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Comparisons
How LeagueFrenzy stacks up when tools you used before go away or fall short.
BeerSheets alternative
BeerSheets is gone — the custom VBD cheat sheet that replaces it for 2026.
Read →vs Footballguys
Content subscription versus league-scoring engine — what each one is actually for, and which leagues each suits.
Read →vs Fantistics
The closest comparison on the market — same premise, different answer to where your league settings come from.
Read →vs FantasyPros
Expert consensus versus a single published engine — both sync your league, so the choice is what the ranking is made of.
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