Best Auction Draft Cheat Sheet & Fantasy Tools

The Draft Sharks Draft War Room’s dynamic features make it the best auction draft cheat sheet on the market.

Static cheat sheets are outdated the second they're published, failing to account for the fluctuations of players' values during your action.

This live-syncing draft tool will be your draft-day cheat code.

Nearly all fantasy football sites offer an Auction Draft board with static bid suggestions.

Even though everyone knows that a fantasy draft is anything but static, especially an auction draft.

The Draft War Room offers you something completely different. “Next level” stuff.

It adapts throughout the auction draft, calculating:

• current team needs
• positional scarcity
• remaining budgets
• and remaining players

Then the Draft War Room gives you the optimal bid for every player. 

Dynamically. 

In real-time.

So you know when you’re getting value. Or when you should avoid overpaying. And the software has only gotten smarter for 2026.

Powerful Auction Tools That Simply Work

A fantasy football auction gives you a lot to think about. We’re here to simplify your process.

Live Sync Powers Your Draft

The Draft War Room can create this “dynamic fantasy football auction draft board” because it live-syncs with your fantasy football league.

That sync automatically pulls in scoring and lineup settings to give you customized fantasy football rankings for your draft, while you draft!

Your synced Draft War Room will automatically update as players are selected, monitoring 17 crucial in-draft indicators and delivering top-pick recommendations for every turn.

What are those 17 indicators?

Dynamic Value Updates

You can find our basic fantasy football auction values on the site at any time. But your most useful set of auction values resides in that Draft War Room.

That sync mentioned above sets player values according to:

• your league's scoring and roster settings
• your league's budget
• and our award-winning projections

But it doesn't stop there.

As you draft, those auction values will update according to:

• your roster
• your remaining funds
• who's still available
• and how much your league has left to spend

It's like a cheat code for your auction draft. And we’ve built that code out even further for 2026.

Auction Mock Draft Gets You Ready

And you don’t need to just trust that the Draft War Room algorithm will work for you. You can practice with it to make sure your strategy’s fully sharpened before draft day.

You can run an auction mock draft directly from your synced team, any time you want.

That means your mock draft will follow the EXACT same rules and settings as your league draft. And you can mock as many times as you want.

Trial different strategies and picks. See what works (or doesn't). And make sure you're prepared for the real thing.

You Also Get Access to All Our In-Season Tools

This trinity of powerful but simple tools will allow you to hit those title-winning in-season moves.

Team Dashboard

Your Team Dashboard page displays your entire roster and uses our exclusive 3D Projection system to recommend starters for your specific format.

3D Projections combine our player projections for the week, consensus projections from more than 30 other fantasy football sites, and our “ceiling” and “floor” estimates for that player that week.

Those 3D projections power our automatic start/sit recommendations on the Team Dashboard page.

You’ll also quickly see who has a potential injury problem for the week.

Free Agent Finder

You’ll find a fresh Waiver Targets article on DraftSharks.com every week, with recommendations sent to your inbox even earlier (Sunday night) if you’re on our email list.

But those articles can’t possibly know your specific league. Fortunately, the Free Agent Finder does.

That sync you used to create your Draft War Room sticks with you all season.

The Free Agent Finder syncs with your league to see who’s available, compares those players with your current roster, and gives you custom recommendations.

But what if you’re trying to look ahead for a bye-week filler or a streaming defense? No problem. You can simply sort by next week’s projections and get a jump on your league mates. 

Are you looking even longer term? Just sort by our Rest of Season projections instead. And we’ve even got modified versions of both options.

Trade Navigator

Sometimes you need more than the waiver wire can provide. You need to work a trade with another team in your league. And the Trade Navigator is designed to streamline your process and maximize your return.

There are two parts:

First, the Trade Partner Finder lets you select the position you need to fill. Then it scans your league in seconds to find the best trade partner.

Once you’ve found the ideal trade partner, it’s time for the Trade Analyzer. Pull up the other team’s roster from a dropdown list or by searching for a specific player you want.

Select the players you want to include on each side, and the Trade Analyzer will tell you what you’d be gaining or losing in the deal – both by that week’s projections and our Rest of Season projections.

Making that league-winning move just got a whole lot easier. 

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Frequently Asked Questions

These answers to some of the most common questions should help you feel ready for your next auction.

What are fantasy football auction values?

Fantasy football auction values represent the relative value of every draftable player in your auction. Pay attention to the source of those values, however, to determine their worth. You’ll likely find auction values in your league draft room. Those are nearly always set by the host site and not adjusted through draft season. Other auction values will align with general ADP to represent market pricing. Most auction values you’ll find will remain static rankings of player value for auction drafts, many of which fail to differentiate between fantasy formats. The auction values in the Draft Sharks Draft War Room, however, get customized to the specifics of your league and adjust as needed while you draft.

How are these auction values calculated?

Your auction values should be calculated by starting with player projections and then applying the specifics of your league’s scoring and roster formats. That’s the only way to properly assess player as well as appropriately compare players across positions. The Draft Sharks league sync connects directly with your league to apply those settings to our award-winning projections and deliver the best set of auction values.

How should I use auction values in my draft?

You should be using auction values primarily to help determine player tiers in your draft rankings. These values help show where guys belong relative to each other and give you a base for price expectation. You should not treat them as strict limits when bidding on players during your auction. The Draft Sharks Draft War Room sets an auction value for every player, specific to your format, and then updates those values as you draft, based on the specifics of your draft and the roster you’re building. It also automatically generates draft tiers, both by position and for the overall rankings.

Does draft position matter in auction draft?

No, draft position does not matter in an auction draft. Every manager in the league gets access to every nominated player, until you run out of bidding funds. So the order in which you nominate players does not matter.

How much to spend on each position in an auction draft?

How much you spend on a given position in your auction draft will depend heavily on your specific league and scoring settings. typically, the bulk of your bidding budget should go toward RBs and WRs. Obviously, the more players you have to start at a position and the higher that position scores within your format, the more you'll likely want to spend to fortify that area. But the variability makes it vital to get a good auction-draft assistant that can help you determine what level bids make sense at every turn.