Getting started & FAQ
Set up your board, connect your league, run the draft, and use the same league context all season.
Start here
Four steps, in order.Make your board
Rank players head to head to build your positional rankings in as little as 5 minutes. Then build your big board.
The big board drives your drafts in the war room.
Connect your league
Connect Sleeper with your username, ESPN with a league ID, and Yahoo through Yahoo's own sign-in page.
Fantasy War Room imports your actual league to give in depth analysis.
Run your draft from the War Room
Use your big board to drive your draft. The war room keeps track of other players' rosters to give you the best pick in every instance.
Use it through the season
After the draft, identify rising players, analyze your league and get optimal trades to help propel you through the season.
Common questions
Setting up, connecting a league, drafting, and what the app does with your data.Begin in Rank.
Start by ranking a positional group. Once complete create an account and connect your league to take full advantage of the War Room on draft night.
When you are ready:
- After completing an initial big board.
- Connect the league from Leagues.
- Open the War Room for a mock or live draft.
The welcome tour gives you the quickest walkthrough.
No.
You can use expert rankings, but you should create your own to get your tailored draft board.
A typical positional ranking takes about five minutes and roughly 50 comparisons.
Open Leagues, choose your platform, and follow the connection steps.
Sleeper
Enter your Sleeper username, choose the season, and select the league(s) you want to link.
Fantasy War Room only needs your username.
ESPN
A public ESPN league connects with the league ID found in its URL.
Private ESPN leagues require two values from your logged-in ESPN browser session: espn_s2 and SWID.
- Sign in at fantasy.espn.com.
- Open browser developer tools.
- Open Application or Storage.
- Open Cookies.
- Copy
espn_s2andSWID. - Paste them only into the Fantasy War Room ESPN connection form.
Treat espn_s2 and SWID like a password.
Yahoo
Choose Connect Yahoo, sign in on Yahoo's own page, and approve read access.
Yes.
All three platforms support league import, scoring and roster settings, current rosters, in-season league data, matchup data, trade tools, player research, and waiver/free-agent analysis.
The draft-day difference is how picks reach the War Room:
- Sleeper: live picks sync automatically.
- ESPN: enter live picks manually.
- Yahoo: enter live picks manually.
The complete War Room remains available on all three platforms.
Link the Sleeper league before the draft or copy the mock draft url and paste it in the War Room.
As picks are reported by Sleeper, the War Room updates the available-player pool and identifies the league's selections.
Looking at a list or expert rankings causes bias in ranks. When you only choose between one player or another you are doing what you truly believe.
You can look at player stats, team depth charts and the previous year's offensive ratings.
Use the War Room for mock drafts and live drafts.
It is built to answer draft-day questions:
- Who is still available?
- Which players fit my roster?
- Which positions are likely to be picked before my next pick?
- Who can I wait on vs need to pick now?
Use Trades, Players and Season after the draft for roster decisions, player research, and league analysis.
Player statistics and supporting football data come from public football data sources and are refreshed regularly.
Fantasy War Room's projections and player values are generated by our own data science models.
Private ESPN leagues use espn_s2 and SWID. Think of these as a password.
You can remove the saved ESPN connection from Leagues.
No.
No that is only if you have an expert you want to follow. Fantasy War Room maintains a default player pool using current NFL rosters, depth charts, public football data and its own model outputs.
If you have a linked league we use that league's settings. Otherwise you decide what settings you want to use in the War Room.
Fantasy War Room currently supports:
- Redraft
- Snake drafts
- Best ball
- Standard scoring
- Half-PPR
- Full PPR
- Superflex
- Two-quarterback leagues
Yes.
All functionality that is on the desktop site is on mobile.
Feature glossary
Search for a term exactly as it appears in Fantasy War Room, or browse by section.
War Room
Your central draft headquarters.Best picks now
A short list of the strongest options for the current pick, based on your board, the players still available, your roster and the league settings.
Use this as a guide of who you think is best based on your rankings.
Cost of waiting
The estimated points lost based on getting to the next player at that position.
The drop off between your WR12 and WR 15 may only be around 15 points over the course of a season, but dropping from an RB10 to RB12 could be a 60 point drop. The model uses historic finishes and positional value to determine the points lost.
Position run risk
An estimate of how likely a position is to be picked between your pick now and your next pick.
If only 4 teams have QBs and we are in the RB dead zone there is a higher chance you will be getting a lower tier QB if you wait.
Startable left
The number of available players at a position who still would be considered a starter.
In a 2 RB league there are 24 starters. Any pick after the first 24 RBs is much more likely to be a flex or a bench player.
Traditional board
A familiar cheat-sheet view.
Market draft patterns help determine how positions are interleaved, while your rankings determine the order of players within each position.
Moneyball board
Ranks players by estimated wins added over a replacement option relative to the price required to draft them.
Use it to look for players whose expected impact appears stronger than their draft cost.
VBD board
Ranks players by projected points above a replacement-level starter.
Useful as a reference, but it focuses on value over replacement rather than the full draft context.
Tier
A group of players with similar expected outcomes at the same position.
Use the expected positions runs to help see if you will be dropping out of tiers or you are safe to get a player from one position vs another.
Boom / Bust
An estimate of how often a player's range of outcomes lands meaningfully above or below the price being paid for that player.
ADP
Average Draft Position.
Where a player falls on average in mocks and real drafts.
Points still on the board
The projected value of the best remaining option at each position.
A sharp drop signals that a tier drop is coming.
Live value
How far a player has fallen relative to your board and the current draft.
A positive value means that player is value based on your rankings.
Unmatched picks
A platform pick that could not be matched to a player in the current pool.
Someone picked a player that was not in our top 600 fantasy relevant players.
Rank
Build a positional board based on your thoughts.Blind ranking
Compare two players and choose the one you would rather have.
Relevant player and team statistics are available, but there is no bias being introduced from ADP.
Depth
The number of players you are ranking.
Greater depth will allow you to have a board that lasts the entire draft.
Expert order
Uses the current expert rankings.
The fastest way to begin.
Import a ranking
Uploads a CSV containing players in an existing order.
The order of players in that file will populate your board.
Trade Lab
Build and evaluate a possible trade.Market index
A relative trade-market value.
Use it to compare the size of the pieces in a trade.
Net index
The market value coming to a team minus the market value leaving it.
A result near zero means the exchange is roughly even.
Verdict
The estimated effect of the trade on a team's lineup.
There can be a fair trade however it would hurt or help a lineup.
Points per week
The estimated change in projected points from the starting lineup after the trade.
Chance they accept
An estimate of the other manager's willingness to accept based on projected points and change in lineup.
Trading 2 bench players for a starter will almost never be accepted, but a trade that helps weak parts of both teams will have a higher chance.
Like trades
Completed trades from other leagues that resemble the deal being evaluated.
See other trades that have used those players and what was needed to get them to move.
Find me trades
Looks at all teams in your league and looks for trades that help you and other teams.
Think of this as you have the QB 3 and QB7, but are weak at RB. It will identify weak QB teams with extra RB value to get to a starting point for a trade.
Depth moves
Bench-for-bench trades.
Use this as a way to get risers that you have identified that have not broken out yet.
Sell high / Buy low
Flags players whose current market value has moved meaningfully away from their recent production or role.
Season
Understand where every team stands.Power ranking
An estimate of team strength that combines season scoring, recent scoring and record.
It helps analyze actual team strength vs matchup luck.
Playoff odds
The estimated chance of making the playoffs based on the current standings and simulations of the remaining schedule.
Clinched / Out
Clinched means every remaining path leaves the team in the playoffs. Out means no remaining path reaches the playoffs.
Playoff race
A week-by-week view of how each team's estimated playoff odds have changed during the season.
Playoff machine
Choose winners for remaining matchups and see how those results change the playoff picture.
Use it to identify which remaining games matter most to a team's path.
Schedule comparison
Shows what each team's record would look like if it had played another team's schedule.
This helps separate strong performance from favorable scheduling.
Players
Find players worth adding or pursuing.Score
Measures whether a player's role is growing or shrinking using snaps, touches and targets rather than fantasy points alone.
Volume is king.
Fit
Adjusts the player value based on your roster.
Players at thin positions receive a boost. Deep positions matter less.
Bench bar
The easiest player to drop on your team.
Free agents should be worth more before dropping that player.
Clear add / Marginal / Below bar
Shows how a player compares with your bench bar.
- Clear add: meaningfully improves the roster spot.
- Marginal: a gut decision that could go either way.
- Below bar: does not currently improve your bench.
Opportunity watch
Highlights players who may gain touches due to injury or uptick in usage.
Risers / Fallers
Players whose usage and role are trending up or down.
Use the trend as one signal when considering additions, trades, buys or sells.
Free agents / Trade targets
Distinguishes between players available on the waivers vs other league mates' teams.
Setup & Leagues
The information Fantasy War Room uses.Player pool
The collection of players used throughout the application. The default pool is rebuilt regularly from current NFL rosters, depth charts, and public football data.
Replacement level
The last player at each position who could be considered a starter.
In a 12 team league think the QB12, RB24, WR24 and TE12. Then a slightly more on RBs or WRs due to flexes.
Use projections & ADP
Changes player-value inputs from long-run positional history.
Used if you want to use imported data instead of your rankings on draft day.
Linking a league
Connects a real fantasy league so Fantasy War Room can use its settings, rosters, draft state, transactions, matchups and results.