Best Fantasy Football Tools

 

Powerful Fantasy Football Tools That Simply Work

You’ve already read about the seven pillars of our fantasy football draft strategy (and if you haven’t, you should).

Now here are the fantasy football tools that put it all into action for you:

Draft Tools

Draft War Room - Featuring LIVE Draft Sync

17 draft value indicators update in real time for you

Think of the Draft War Room as a “dynamic fantasy football cheat sheet.”

Or think of it as part of a system to help you win.

The Draft War Room LIVE syncs to all your leagues, and monitors 17 crucial in-draft value indicators – all while you’re drafting! 

As you draft, your live-synced Draft War Room automatically updates your board as players are selected.

When it’s your turn to pick, our top player recommendations will be highlighted

Here are the 17 in-draft value indicators the Draft War Room tracks for you in real-time:

 

You get the best fantasy football draft board. No matter the format.

From dynasty to best ball to auction. We’ve got you covered.

No more agonizing and panicking over every pick.

That's because our rankings aren’t just rankings.

Here’s what they really are...

They’re part of an entire system to help you win – no matter what format you play. We have:

• Re-draft rankings
• Dynasty rankings
• Rookie rankings
• Auction rankings
• Best ball rankings

And these format-specific rankings are all based on our Draft War Room. Different league formats require different player rankings and valuations.

So rankings HAVE to be adaptive and dynamic. Changing based on your league format – and then based on your draft. 

That’s exactly how our Draft War Room calculates your player rankings. 

And by the way – our rankings are powered by fantasy football projections that have won multiple industry awards for accuracy.

We've devoted hundreds of hours to these projections from January through today.

And we're still tweaking our projections every day!... That's because we use these projections combined with your specific league lineup and scoring settings to produce rankings tailored just for you.

Those are the rankings you’ll find in your Draft War Room, which can now power your dynasty startup and rookie drafts.

Listed on DraftSharks.com at the right times throughout the year, you’ll also find:

• Fantasy football draft rankings 
• In-season weekly rankings
• Rest-of-season rankings
• Dynasty rankings 

Mock Draft Trainer

Mock draft in minutes vs. the most realistic software available

Each league only gets one draft, so make sure you are as prepared as possible. That means it is time to mock draft!

Once you’ve synced your team – and before your league drafts – you can practice as much as you want with our Mock Draft Trainer.

From your My Leagues page, you can simply click the Mock Draft button for any team you have set up.

That will launch a mock draft tailored to your format, with “computer drafters” rounding out the league.

No need to gather a group of drafters

Keeper Calculator

Are you in a super competitive keeper league?

Your toughest decision is always “who to keep and who to throw back.” 

Which is why we created our Keeper Calculator. 

You won’t find another tool like this anywhere. Seriously:

It helps you answer the tough keeper questions:

• How much should a “cheaper-draft-cost” help a player’s value?
• How do you weigh WR value vs. RB?
• How much should you count long-term production vs. the coming season?

The Who Should I Keep tool (aka keeper calculator) considers those questions – plus more.

How It Works

It’s straightforward to use …

1. Choose your scoring and the number of keepers allowed.
2. Enter the players you’re considering.
3. Enter the draft costs associated with each player.
4. Gain clarity.

The Keeper Tool will load our proprietary keeper-specific ADP and 3D values that match your settings.

So you’re getting customized recommendations specific to your keeper league (no matter the scoring system).

As you add players, the Keeper Calculator automatically reorders them, displaying your best keeper options up front – highlighted in blue.

What you get next is a comprehensive “Keeper Score” for each player…

Keeper Score is the Key

How does the tool determine your best keeper options?

By Keeper Score.

Keeper Score is a weighted calculation factoring in:

• Current-year value
• Future-year value
• Overall player value

You need to know how much value you’re gaining compared to ADP for this year and next. So, we assigned a value to each draft pick…  then we use those values to examine the gap in cost vs. return.

Super simple! (Because the software does all the math.)

Yes, you also want productive players – so all overall player value is also included in the equation.

A positive score makes that player a potential keeper.

Negative? Throw him back.

Play in an auction league? Yep, the tool can handle your settings too.

Whatever your format, you come away knowing you made the best, most-informed keeper decisions possible.

ADP Market Index

Customizable ADP Insights – Tailored for Every League Format and Strategy

Fantasy ADP is a critical tool for savvy drafters.

That’s because it gives you a real-time gauge of where players are being selected in drafts. 

By leveraging ADP data:

1. You’ll identify potential steals.
2. You’ll avoid reaching for players too early.
3. You’ll make informed decisions on each and every pick. 

And that is why we made the most comprehensive ADP tool on the internet – ADP Market Index by Draft Sharks. 

Here’s what you can exploit it for your draft:

Continuous Preseason Updates: We give you updated ADP data to reflect current trends, injuries, and player news.

Customizable Settings: You can adjust settings for different league formats (redraft, dynasty, best ball, PPR, half-PPR, standard, and even TE-premium ADP.). We collect ADP data on the most common league sizes – 8, 10, 12, and 14 teams – from multiple sources to deliver the best up-to-date numbers across formats and by position.

Specific Hosting Platforms:  Are you looking for ESPN? Yahoo? Sleeper? CBS? We got them all!  

Historical ADP Trends: You get a visualization of how a player's ADP has changed over time, helping you identify rising or falling players. 

Expert Analysis: All of these ADPs are compared with our award-winning rankings to identify sleepers, values, and busts – in real-time. Just look at a player's Market Index value to get a color-coded glimpse into their value in the draft. 

Live-Draft Sync Integration: And the best part?! This comprehensive ADP tool is used to power our Draft War Room and Mock Draft tools with the latest, most precise ADP on the market. 

Injury Predictor

A critical injury or two can ruin even great fantasy football rosters. We’ll never promise that we can predict who'll get hurt or when. 

But our exclusive Injury Guide features a robust NFL injury database.

And it algorithmically determines who is most – and least – likely to miss time in 2025 based on factors such as a player’s injury history, historical injuries at his position, and his expected workload.

That gives you the power to plan whether you want to draft insurance behind that iffy RB or avoid a Round 1 landmine altogether.

 

Regular Season Tools

Once your season begins, the My Leagues page serves as a hub for managing all of your teams

Team Intel

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

3D Projections combine:

1. Draft Sharks player projections for the week
2. Consensus projections from more than 30 other fantasy football sites
3. Draft Sharks “ceiling” and “floor” estimates for that player that week

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

You’ll also easily tell 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 helps you all season.

The Free Agent Finder uses that sync connection to see who’s available in your league, compare those players with your current roster, and give you custom recommendations.

But what if you’re trying to look ahead for a bye-week filler or a streaming defense? No prob. 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:

Once you’ve found the ideal trade partner, it’s time for the Trade Analyzer

Simply pull up the other team’s roster, either 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.

Who to Start Fantasy Football

Our Who to Start tool helps you with those final start or sit decisions.

Not sure which guy to stick in your WR3 spot? Wrestling over who to put in the flex?

That’s exactly why we built this easy-to-use tool.

How It Works

This Who to Start fantasy football interface could not be easier.

All you have to do is:

1. Select the players in consideration
2. Choose your scoring
3. Get your answer

The tool applies projections from our fantasy football analysts to your specific scoring settings to tell you who to start this week.

That’s it.

League Analyzer

You like draft grades, right?

Well, how would you like to have that type of analysis available throughout the season -- at the click of a button?

You got it.

See How Your Team Measures Up

Just click that League Analysis button for any league on your My Leagues page and get instant analysis of every team.

See who's roster stacks up best overall, and get a position-by-position breakdown. You'll see where you could stand to improve -- and where you might be strong enough to sell off some value.

Wanna drill down even further?

Scroll down the League Analysis page, and you'll find the roster for every team in your league.

Sort players by:

• 3D Projections
• Rest of Season Projections
• 3D Value
• or Positional Rank

... to get the view you want.

It can be a great first step to deciding how you should work on improving your roster.

 

Frequently Asked Questions

What are the best fantasy football tools?

The best fantasy football tools are always created by analysts who are driven by the numbers (read: algorithms). In other words, you need people who understand fantasy football, and can work the numbers to create what you're looking for: Tools that are simple-to-use -- but powerful -- customized to your specific league set-up. 

What is the best fantasy football app?

The best fantasy football app for hosting your leagues is likely the ESPN app, due to its popularity and widespread usage. But if you're looking for an app that offers draft tools (including a live draft sync), the Draft Sharks app might be more of what you're looking for. 

How long has Draft Sharks been creating fantasy tools?

Draft Sharks has been creating fantasy tools since its very first year in 1999. That first tool was called the "MVP Draft Board" and was the internet's first dynamic draft tool. It used a value-based drafting (VBD) algorithm to create a customized cheat sheet for subscribers. That first customized cheat sheet was the progenitor of today's Draft War Room and live draft sync - two of the most powerful tools in the industry. 

Can fantasy football tools really make a difference between winning and losing?

That's like asking if using a hammer and measuring tape can make you a better carpenter. The technology that powers a modern fantasy football draft didn't exist when Draft Sharks was founded in 1999. Specifically, think of our Draft Sharks live-draft sync: It's a fantasy tool that recalculates player value after every pick -- while factoring 17 draft value indicators.  No human can perform that functionality in real-time. But a tool can do it easily.  Why WOULDN'T you use it? 

If you could use just one fantasy football tool, what would it be?

Hands down -- the Draft Sharks live-draft league sync. Check out the 17 draft value indicators in this article. If you think those are legit variables to calculate a player's true draft value (on the fly), next ask yourself:  "Can I do all those calculations in my head -- while tracking all the players picked in a live draft?..."  Now you have your answer on why it's a "can't-live-without-it" draft tool.