2026 Draft Season
Not a list of autopicks. A process: scoring first, a board that can disagree with ADP, and a Coach you can talk to while you are on the clock.
Eighteen-plus years of roster-construction research, the same engine behind Cheat Sheets and Assistant Coach, written the way we actually want you to draft.
Half-PPR is not PPR, and a winner-take-all league is not a split pot. Format moves positional value. Payout structure picks your risk lens. Get those two right before you fall in love with a name.
Expected points, floor, and ceiling. VOR tells you how much a player is worth over a replacement starter. ADP tells you what the room is likely to do. The draft lives in the gap between those two.
You start one quarterback and one tight end in most leagues. Identify the values you will take at those spots, then spend the first few rounds on whichever of RB or WR the board is giving you. Multiple outs beat one hero pick.
The goal is a team that can survive a bust week, not a collection of your favorite names. Leave kicker and DST for the end. Do not take a third running back before you have a second receiver you can start.
Cheat Sheets rank every skill player by value over a replacement-level starter in your scoring format. That is the number that answers "how much does this pick actually help the roster?" ADP is what the room is likely to do. When our rank is earlier than ADP, the market is giving you a discount. When ADP is earlier than our rank, you are paying up.
Floor and ceiling keep you honest. A safe floor is how you protect a lead in a split-payout league. A real ceiling is how you win a winner-take-all. Six forecast models blend into each projection so one hot take does not run the board; the risk lens then decides whether you want the steady version of that board or the spiky one.
Superflex: treat quarterback like a feature position and get two startable passers before the well is empty. TE-premium: bump the whole position and spend real capital on a high-volume tight end. Ten-team leagues can wait a round versus this 12-team table. Fourteen-team leagues should grab starters earlier.
Players grouped by the round ADP is taking them, in Half-PPR on the balanced lens. This is not a human target list. It is the engine's current gap versus the market, and it moves when ADP or projections move.
The live value table unlocks with a free account.
Same carrot as Cheat Sheets: create an account to see where our board and ADP disagree, in every format and risk lens. No credit card.
Coach already talks draft when a league has not drafted yet. It cannot see other managers' picks unless you tell it. That is enough. Power users paste the board; everyone else just asks who to take next.
Connect the Sleeper or ESPN league, or pick the format by hand. Then choose Safe, Balanced, or Upside from the payout: protect a split pot, or chase a winner-take-all.
Print the board or leave it open. That is the pick list. Coach is the voice that compares the two or three names still up when you are on the clock.
Round, who you already have, who is on the clock. Two sentences is enough. Coach will pick one name and one backup, with a one-line why.
Hit Resync on Assistant Coach after the draft and the roster fills in. From there it is start/sit, waivers, and trades for the rest of the year.
Swap in your names. The more specific the clock, the better the call.
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A season-long fantasy stock market: buy and sell shares of NFL players priced from projections.
How Waiver Wire Exchange worksChallenge anyone, in any league or platform, to a head-to-head matchup with harmonized scoring.
How Open Field worksTen questions every Tuesday, scored as your margin against the Assistant Coach.
How Earnings Season works