Fantasy War Rooms

Help and FAQ

Fantasy War Rooms reads every roster in your league, compares it with trade values that update every morning, and tells you which trades to offer, who to pick up and whose value is changing. This page explains what each number and each tab means.

Getting started

How do I load my league?

Press Link account at the top and choose where your league is hosted.

There is no sign-up and no password. League rosters are public, so a username or league number is all the site needs. An MFL league has to be viewable without logging in.

How do I bring in the rest of my league?

Press Invite league-mates on the My Team or League tab and send them the link. It opens your league for them straight away, and each person picks their own team from the team menu. The link holds only the league, nothing about you. If someone who opens it already has a league of their own saved, theirs is left alone.

What is the sample league?

Until you link a league, the site shows twelve made-up teams drafted from today's values, so you can try every tab. Nothing in it is real.

Which leagues work?

Dynasty, keeper and redraft leagues on Sleeper, MFL, Fleaflicker and ESPN (and Yahoo where the link screen shows it), including superflex, TE premium and best ball. Sleeper guillotine ("chopped") leagues are recognised too. Grades for trades already made are not available for ESPN and Yahoo leagues yet.

The league type or my team is wrong. How do I fix it?

Pick a different team in the team menu at the top at any time. For MFL and Fleaflicker leagues, the site has to work out whether the league is dynasty, keeper or redraft; if it guessed wrong, change League type on the Tuning tab.

Is there a trade calculator I can use without a league?

Yes. The trade calculator works on its own: add players and picks to each side and it tells you who comes out ahead, in superflex or 1QB, dynasty or this season only, and in full PPR, half PPR, TE premium or 6-point passing touchdowns. Copy the link to send the trade to someone else.

Can I look up one player?

Every player we value has his own page, listed on the players page: his value over time and why it moved, this week's projection with his floor and ceiling, his season so far, and our outlook for his next three seasons.

How accurate are the projections?

We grade them every week, in public, on the accuracy page: how well the order of our projections matched the order of the scores, position by position, next to two plain baselines (each player's season average and his recent form).

Is there an app?

Yes, and it installs straight from the site, with no app store. On Android (Chrome or Edge) press Install app at the top of the page. On an iPhone or iPad, open the site in Safari, tap the Share button, then Add to Home Screen. It opens full screen from its own icon, updates itself, and keeps the latest values and your league on the device, so it still opens with a weak signal or none.

Is it free?

Most of it is. A paid plan, Fantasy War Rooms Pro, adds the AI analyst, every trade idea rather than only the top few, and the Shop and Target tools. The price and what is included are shown on the AI Analyst tab. A commissioner can also buy one league pass that gives Pro to everyone in the league.

The numbers

What is "value"?

Value is what a player or pick is worth in a trade, on one scale from 0 to about 10,000. It is the site's own forecast, not a copy of anyone's rankings. For every player the engine estimates, season by season for this year and the next seven, how likely he is to still be producing and how many points he is likely to score, learned from what happened to every player in a similar spot since 2003. Value adds up the points he is expected to score above a player you could start in his place, with later seasons counting for less.

The trade value chart lists the top 200 players and every rookie pick.

How are draft picks valued?

A rookie pick is worth what that slot has bought in past drafts: the engine values every rookie class since 2010 the summer each arrived, and a pick is the average of the players taken at that spot. Next year's picks are split into early, mid and late, projected from how strong the original team's lineup is today: a weak team's pick is treated as early. Picks further out are valued as a mid pick, a little lower for each year away.

What do the other figures mean?

30-day
How far the player's value has moved in the last 30 days. Where it says "7d", it is the change over the last week instead.
PPG
PPR fantasy points per game this season.
Last 2
Average over the player's last two games.
Expected points
What a typical player would have scored with the same carries, targets and field position. Scoring well under it suggests bad luck; well over it suggests a hot streak.
Snaps
The share of his team's offensive plays the player was on the field for in his last game.
Outlook
Contender, middle or rebuilding, from where a team's best starting lineup ranks in the league: top third, middle third or bottom third.
Needs and strengths
A position is a need when the team ranks in the bottom third of the league there, and a strength when it ranks in the top third.

How fresh is the data?

The database takes in the previous day's games and the latest injury reports every morning, and values, projections and headlines are rebuilt before 6 AM Central. The projection models are refitted each week once the week's games are in. Sleeper rosters load live each time you open the site. MFL and Fleaflicker rosters are at most ten minutes old. The foot of every page says when the data was built and which week the statistics run through.

Tab by tab

On a phone the tabs scroll sideways. Press More at the end of the row to see them all.

My team

Your record, outlook, where your roster value ranks, the value-weighted age of your best twelve players, and your waiver budget. "On deck this week" pulls out the top trade idea, your waiver priorities and headlines about your players. Below that is your roster with each player's value and trend (an injury tag also says how many games he is likely to miss), the fantasy playoff schedule for Weeks 15 to 17 with how each opposing defense has treated each player's position, then your draft picks.

Press the star beside a player to mark him not for sale. He will be left out of every trade the site suggests.

Lineup

Who to start and who to sit this week. The site projects every player's score, fills your league's starting spots with the highest projections, and lists the rest under Sit. Each player shows his opponent, kickoff time and how many points that defense has been giving up to his position. Close calls picks out the decisions that could go either way, and Compare two players puts any two of your players side by side.

Projections come from the site's own weekly models, one for each stat a league can score (attempts, yards, touchdowns, targets, catches, first downs and more). They have learned from every game since 2007 what a player's recent production, usage, expected points, depth chart spot, injured teammates, opponent and betting line say about his next game. Replayed over the 2020 to 2025 seasons, they ranked players about as well as the published expert consensus did. For Sleeper leagues the stat line is scored with your league's own settings, bonuses included, and the page tells you if the lineup you have set on Sleeper differs from the best one. For MFL and Fleaflicker leagues they are in full-PPR scoring with any tight end premium.

Under each player is his floor and ceiling (one week in ten has gone below the floor, one in ten above the ceiling) and his chance of a boom week (top 6 at quarterback or tight end, top 12 at running back or receiver) or a bust week (outside the top 18, or top 36 at running back and receiver). These come from how actual scores have spread around our projections in replayed seasons, and they have matched what happened.

Kickers are projected from the field goal and extra point attempts their team is expected to get (from the betting line and how the offense has been doing) and their own accuracy at each distance. Defenses are projected from the opponent's expected points and how often that offense gives up sacks and turnovers. Both are scored in your league's settings, points-allowed tiers included. In replays they ranked defenses more than twice as well as a season average did; kickers are hard for anyone to predict week to week.

When a player is on the injury report or a reserve list, his rest-of-season value counts the games he is likely to miss. That number comes from how often players with the same listing have missed the games that followed: a starter listed Out has gone on to miss three or four games on average, and injured reserve with a return date is very different from plain injured reserve. A projection is a starting point: check the injury report before kickoff.

Trades

The engine tries thousands of combinations with every other team, from one-for-one swaps to three-for-one deals, and keeps only the ones that are close to fair and make your team better: more projected points a week, more lineup value, more total value or, in dynasty, a better outlook. No two cards in a row share a player or a partner. Each card shows:

The buttons under a card let you rate the idea, share it as a link or a picture, copy a ready-made message to the other manager, open it in the analyzer to adjust it, or ask the AI analyst about it.

The controls above the list change what you are shown:

New ideas swaps the list for the next best set, leaving out what you have already seen. It is part of Pro where the list is limited.

The Trade analyzer has its own tab. It reads any offer you build yourself, for both sides, including the change in projected points a week.

Waivers

Free agents in the order the site would chase them, scored on value, whether their value is rising this week, recent usage and what your roster needs. Bid is a suggested share of the budget you have left; leagues without bidding get a claim order instead. Drop names your least valuable bench player when your roster is full.

Rankings

Every player who has played or is projected this season, scored in your league's own settings. Each row has the season's stats, season fantasy points, points a game played, this week's projection (with any injury or bye flag) and the projected points for the rest of the regular season, with games he is likely to miss already taken off. Use the buttons to see all players, only rookies or one position, and to narrow it to free agents or your roster; press a column heading to sort by it, or type a name to find a player.

Trends

Short lists of who is moving: the biggest risers and fallers in value over 30 days and over the last week, and players whose share of snaps is climbing or sliding. Buy-low candidates are scoring under their expected points; sell-high candidates are scoring well over them. Use the buttons at the top to see everyone, only your roster, or only free agents.

Under each of the week's biggest movers is what changed: a new team, an injury listing, a teammate hurt, a depth chart move, more or fewer snaps or targets, a hot or cold stretch, or a change in our projection. These compare each player's situation today with a week ago.

The small line beside a player is his trade value over the last four months. Press his name for the full chart, and move across it to read the value on any day. The same line appears under each player in a trade idea. The site began recording its own values every day in October 2026; the dashed part of a chart was worked out afterwards by valuing players as they stood at the end of each earlier week.

News

Headlines from CBS Sports, PFF, RotoWire and Yahoo Sports, each tagged with the team in your league that holds the player, plus War Room notes the site writes itself from the official injury report and its usage data. The links open the original story.

Rookies and College

Rookies lists this year's class with value, rookie rank, production and who holds each player in your league. College shows the leading college players per game from our own college database, with a prospect grade beside each, and a board of next year's draft-eligible prospects. The grade (0 to 100) compares a player's college production (his share of the team's receiving and rushing, yards from scrimmage, passing efficiency, seasons played and conference) with every skill player drafted since 2005, judged by what profiles like his went on to score in the NFL. Draft position in April tells you more; the grade is the early read.

League

Every team side by side: record, points, outlook, roster value, lineup strength and a rank at each position. Green is the top third of the league, red is the bottom third. Press a team to see its best players and what it needs, which is where to start when you are looking for a trade partner.

Power rankings put every team in one order, from its best lineup today, the points it has scored and its record. Arrows show how many places each team has moved since last week. For Sleeper leagues that is measured against where teams stood before the latest games; for MFL and Fleaflicker leagues it is measured against your last visit in an earlier week, so the arrows appear from your second week on. Below the list are the trade of the week and, for Sleeper leagues, last week's high score.

Press Share as a picture for two images made for your league chat. The rankings picture is free. The weekly recap adds each team's move, the trade of the week and the high score, and comes with Pro or a league pass.

Trades made this season lists every trade your league has completed, newest first. "Today" compares what each side received at today's values. In dynasty leagues, "On the day" uses the values recorded when the trade was made, so you can see who looked ahead then and who is ahead now. The site began recording daily values in October 2026; readings for earlier trades are marked "estimated" because they were worked out afterwards from where players stood at the time. A pick that has since been used counts today as the player it became, and on the day as a typical pick from that round. Where the host does not say who a used pick became, the trade is listed but not graded. The scoreboard above the list adds up what each team has gained or given up across its trades.

Tuning

Your strategy and fairness settings, and the weights the trade and waiver rankings use. Bars to the right of centre push an idea up the list; bars to the left push it down. Coloured bars have moved because of your ratings. You can clear your ratings here and start again.

Ratings

What do Useful and Not useful do?

Each rating teaches the site what you like. Rate a few ideas and the next list leans toward the kind you marked useful, for example more deals for youth and fewer two-for-one swaps. Press Re-rank now to see the change straight away.

Your ratings tune your own rankings in your browser. The scores behind each rating, with nothing that identifies you, your league or the players, are also pooled to improve the starting rankings for everyone. The privacy policy has the details.

AI analyst and Pro

What does the AI analyst know?

Before it answers, it reads a snapshot of your league: your roster and picks, every other team's record, needs and best players, the top trade and waiver ideas, your strategy and recent ratings, and the latest headlines. During the season it also sees each of your players' opponent and projected score this week, so it can help with start and sit calls. It can also look things up in the site's own database: any player's value, value history and why it moved, projections, stats and outlook, lists of players by position, a team's schedule including the fantasy playoffs, next year's college prospects, and how accurate our projections have been. It does not know about anything newer than the morning's data, such as an injury in the last hour or the weather, and it will say so.

How should I use it?

Ask the kind of question you would ask a league-mate who follows everything: "Who should I sell before his value drops?", "Is this trade fair, and would he accept?", "Which two teams are my best trade partners?" A follow-up question builds on the conversation, so you can ask "what about a cheaper option?" Press New conversation to start over.

The daily and monthly question limits are shown on the tab, and every question counts, follow-ups included. Answers are written by an AI model and can be wrong, so treat them as advice to weigh.

Under each answer you can mark it Helpful or Not helpful. That tells us how well the analyst is doing; only the count is kept, not your question.

Can I get alerts about my players?

Yes, with a Pro subscription. On the AI Analyst tab, under your access key, press Turn on for this roster with your league open. We then email you, at most once a day after the morning update, when one of your players gets an injury listing or comes off one, changes team, sees his snaps jump or drop, or moves 10% in value. Your roster is kept up to date each time you open the league. Turn them off in the same place, or with the link in any alert.

What is a league pass?

One purchase that gives Pro to every manager in one league. Open the league you want to cover, go to the AI Analyst tab and press the league pass button; the league's name is shown beside it and again on the payment page. Once it is paid, anyone who opens that league on the site has the AI analyst, every trade idea and the Shop and Target tools for that league. Nobody needs an account or a key. Send your league-mates the invite link so they can open the league and pick their team.

Each person can ask up to the daily number of questions, and the league shares a monthly number; both are shown before you pay and on the tab afterwards. A pass covers one league. It stays with a Sleeper league when the league renews for a new season. If you bought it for the wrong league, write to logan@fantasywarrooms.com.

How does my access key work?

After you subscribe you are shown an access key, and we email it to the address you paid with. It is stored in your browser, and it unlocks Pro on your other devices: open the AI Analyst tab, paste it under "Already subscribed?" and press Unlock. If you lose it, press Email me a new key in the same place, or write to logan@fantasywarrooms.com from the address you paid with.

How do I cancel?

Use the "Manage or cancel billing" link on the AI Analyst tab, or write to logan@fantasywarrooms.com. You keep Pro until the end of the period you paid for. All sales are final; the refund policy explains how that works.

When something looks wrong

"Sleeper could not be reached"

Your browser asks Sleeper for your league directly, and something blocked that request. Check your connection, pause any content blocker for this site, and try again.

My MFL, Fleaflicker or ESPN league will not load

Check the league number, and that the league can be viewed without logging in. A private MFL league cannot be read. An ESPN league loads only once its commissioner has made it viewable to the public (league settings, Basic Settings). A league that has not drafted yet has no rosters to analyse.

A player is missing from a roster

Kickers, team defenses and defensive players are left out of trade values on purpose. If the site says a few players could not be matched, they are usually deep reserves with no trade value.

A value looks off

Values follow the market and change every morning, and no single source is right about every player. Before you send a big offer, check it against another calculator, and remember that your league-mates have their own opinions.

Still stuck?

Write to logan@fantasywarrooms.com and say what you were doing and what you saw.

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