Trade value isn't team value.

1. It knows your lineup

   We build your best starting lineup before and after the trade and show the change in projected points per week. If a trade leaves you without a starting running back, you'll hear about it, even when the value looks good on paper.

2. It scores players your way

   Values come from stat projections scored with your league's exact rules: points per reception, 6-point passing touchdowns, TE premium, first downs, kicker distance and defense tiers. No generic PPR or Standard toggle.

3. It values scarcity in your league

   A player's value is how far he outscores the best player you could pick up instead, given your team count and lineup slots. That's why Superflex quarterbacks and deep-league running backs move the way they should.

4. It's honest about close calls

   Trades within 3% are called essentially even, because projections can't separate them. You see the reasons behind every verdict, and whether the projection sources agree.

5. It finds fair counteroffers from real rosters

   When a trade is lopsided, we suggest players from your trade partner's actual roster (or yours) that would even it out, skipping anyone whose loss would leave either team with a hole.

• Where values come from

  Typical: Crowd votes, trade data or expert ranks

  Here: Stat projections scored with your rules

• Custom scoring

  Typical: A few format toggles

  Here: Every scoring setting in your league

• Your roster

  Typical: Not considered, or a paid add-on

  Here: Lineup before and after, holes flagged, free

• Close trades

  Typical: A winner is always declared

  Here: Within 3% is called even

• Balancing a trade

  Typical: Any player in the league pool

  Here: Real players from the two rosters involved

• Market view

  Typical: Market value only

  Here: Projections and the trade market side by side

• Trend over time

  Typical: Today's values only

  Here: Momentum: the trade re-valued on each recent day

• Redraft in season

  Typical: Often dynasty-first

  Here: Rest-of-season projections, byes and injuries included

1. 1

   Set up your league

   Connect a Sleeper or Yahoo league to import scoring, lineup slots and every roster, or set the format by hand under Edit league settings. No league? Enter your roster to get the lineup check anyway.

2. 2

   Add the trade

   Search for the players (and, in dynasty, draft picks) you'd give and get. With a league connected, the search shows your roster on one side and your trade partner's on the other.

3. 3

   Read the verdict

   The headline number is the value you'd gain or lose. The scale shows how lopsided the trade is, and the recommendation tells you what to do about it.

4. 4

   Check value to your team

   See how your starting lineup changes, position by position. A trade that wins on value but opens a hole in your lineup is downgraded with an explanation.

5. 5

   Even it out

   If the trade is lopsided, pick a suggested add from the balancing panel, filter by position, and share the link: every trade lives in the URL.

Value

Every player gets a value on one scale for your league, where the most valuable player is about 100. A value of 50 is worth roughly half as much, not half the points: the scale grows faster than points, so one star is worth more than two average starters. Players who wouldn't start for anyone in your league are worth close to 0.

Side totals

Extra players take roster spots and rarely replace a starter one for one, so each additional player on a side counts a little less (100%, 90%, 80%, 70%, then 60%). Getting players worth 25 and 20 for one worth 40 totals 43, not 45.

The verdict

The verdict compares the two sides as a percentage of the bigger one. Small gaps under 3 value points are always even.

The recommendation

Accept

You gain at least 7% in value and your lineup holds up.

Fair trade

Between 3% behind and 7% ahead, or a value win that makes your starting lineup meaningfully weaker.

Ask for more

You're slightly behind, or the trade leaves a hole in your lineup. Use the balancing suggestions.

Decline

You give up 7% or more in value.

Value to your team

With your roster entered or imported, we show your best weekly starting lineup before and after the trade, the change in projected points per week, which positions get stronger or weaker, and any starting spot you can no longer fill.

Trade finder

With a league connected, the trade finder tries one-for-one, two-for-one and one-for-two swaps between your roster and every other team's, and keeps only trades that are close in value, improve your starting lineup, don't weaken theirs, and leave nobody with an empty starting spot. Tell it which positions you want to get and which you're willing to trade, and it lists the trades that improve your lineup the most first. Pick one to load it into the calculator.

Buy low, sell high

With a league connected, we compare each player's value in your settings today with two weeks ago. Your players who jumped are sell-high candidates; starters on other teams who dropped are buy-low candidates. A drop usually has a reason, so check the news first.

Market check

Next to our verdict we show how the trade market sees the same trade, using FantasyCalc's values built from real trades in your format. When projections favor you but the market calls it even, it's a fair-looking offer that still helps you; when the market favors you, expect your league-mate to push back.

Would they accept?

With a league connected and a trade partner chosen, we run the same checks from their side: the value they gain or lose and how their starting lineup changes. A trade that costs them a little value but fills a hole in their lineup is often worth pitching; one that leaves them without a starter rarely gets accepted.

Momentum

Projections change every day with injuries, depth charts and matchups. We save each day's projections and re-value your trade on every one of them, with your league's settings. Momentum is how much the gap has moved over the last week, in percentage points: +5% means the trade has swung 5 points in your favor. The chart shows up to 30 days, and the biggest movers are named. If a trade you like is moving against you, waiting could cost you; if it's moving your way, there's less rush.

1. Projections. We take each player's projected stats for the rest of the season, the sum of his remaining weekly projections, so bye weeks and injuries count. Before the season, full-season projections are used.
2. Your scoring. Each stat is multiplied by your league's points for it. With more than one projection source selected, we average them.
3. League-wide starters. We fill every team's lineup across the league: dedicated slots first, then flex, then superflex. In a 12-team league with 2 RB slots and a flex, around 30 running backs start.
4. Replacement level. The average of the next three players at each position after the starters: the kind of player you can find on waivers or a bench.
5. Value over replacement. Points above that level, scaled so the best player is about 97, with up to 3 more for useful depth.
6. Playoff weighting (optional). Turn on “Count double” for the fantasy playoff weeks (15–17) and those weeks' projected points count twice, favoring players with good playoff matchups and no late byes.
7. Dynasty. Adds four future seasons. Each year counts less depending on whether you're winning now or rebuilding, and production follows position-specific age curves (running backs decline earliest, quarterbacks latest). Rookie picks are valued against players.

• What your league-mates think. Values reflect projected production, not the trade market, so a fair trade by the numbers may still be a hard sell.
• News since the last update. Projections refresh daily and on Sunday mornings.
• Your playoff schedule, roster locks or league politics. Use the verdict as one strong input, not the final word.