How It Works

How Values Are Calculated

Every player value is computed specifically for your league. The pipeline runs through six stages:

Player projections are scored using your league's exact scoring rules. Those points are compared to the replacement level at each position to produce VORP. VORP is blended with market consensus, then dynasty age adjustments and positional scarcity are applied to produce the final value.

VORP (Value Over Replacement Player)

VORP measures how much better a player is than the best freely available replacement at their position in your specific league. A QB projected for 300 points in a league where the replacement QB scores 250 has a VORP of 50.

Replacement level is calculated dynamically based on your league's roster size, number of teams, and flex slots. This means the same player can have different VORP in different leagues — a TE in a 2-TE league is more scarce than in a 1-TE league.

Consensus Blending

Market consensus aggregates dynasty rankings from multiple community sources to represent how the broader dynasty market values each player. MyDynastyValues blends this consensus with your league's computed signal — a value derived from your league's specific scoring, roster settings, and projections. You can control this blend with the Valuation Emphasis setting:

Consensus data draws on FantasyCalc's trade-value model, among other market sources.

Dynasty Age Curves

Player values are adjusted for age based on position-specific career arcs from NFL production data:

• RB: Peak 24–27, steep decline after 28
• WR: Peak 24–28, gradual decline into early 30s
• TE: Peak 26–29, slow developers with late breakouts
• QB: Peak 28–33, longest productive window

Young players at ascending positions receive a dynasty premium reflecting their remaining career upside. A 22-year-old RB is worth more than a 27-year-old with identical production because of the extra productive years ahead.

These curves represent league-wide averages — individual players may age differently based on play style, injury history, and usage. Elite outliers like late-career QBs or workhorse RBs can outperform or underperform their positional curve.

IDP Values

IDP consensus data is far more limited than offense — fewer sources publish defensive player rankings, and those that do cover fewer players. Because of this, IDP values lean more heavily on your league's scoring signals — tackles, sacks, interceptions, pass breakups, and other stats weighted exactly as your league scores them. Some smoothing and weighting is applied, but the values are fundamentally driven by your league's specific configuration.

This is a core strength of MyDynastyValues. Rather than relying on generic rankings, every value — offensive and defensive — is custom to your league's scoring rules, roster requirements, and league size.

Draft Pick Valuation

Draft picks are valued on the same 0–10,000 scale as players using a two-tier model. Rounds 1–4 use an expected-value formula: each pick's historical hit rate (the probability it produces a fantasy starter) is multiplied by a ceiling value to estimate its worth. Early picks are valued against elite players (top 12), not average starters, because a 1.01 that hits produces a league-winner, not a middling starter. That elite ceiling blends down to the starter tier by pick 24, so late first-rounders and second-rounders are valued against a realistic starter pool.

Rounds 5 and later use a roster-spot premium model instead — they're worth the gap between a bench player and the waiver wire, with steep decay each round. All picks receive a small rookie dynasty premium (youth at ~22 years old) and future picks are discounted 10% per year until they convey.

Team Status: Contender, Bubble, Middling, Rebuilder

Every team on your League Summary page gets a status badge. It's built from two independent scores, not a fixed quota — a league can have two contenders or six, and every count in between, depending on how the rosters actually shake out.

Win-Now Strength asks whether the roster can win right now: mostly your starting lineup's value, plus total roster value, usable bench depth, and taxi-squad depth. Draft picks never count toward it. If Win-Now Strength is high enough, a team is a Contender — full stop, regardless of age or draft capital. An older roster with an elite starting lineup is still a Contender; a team with a ton of picks but ordinary starters is not.

Future Profile only matters for teams that aren't already Contenders: average roster age, young-player value, taxi value, and draft-pick value. A team with low Win-Now Strength and a strongly future-oriented roster is a Rebuilder. Low strength on its own isn't enough — an old roster with weak starters and no real future assets is Middling, not rebuilding. A Bubble tier sits between Contender and Middling for teams that are clearly above average but fall short of the contender bar — often good starters undercut by a real hole elsewhere. A tightly-bunched league can show no Bubble teams at all; that's the model working, not a bug.

Both scores are computed relative to your league using robust statistics (median and median-absolute-deviation, not a simple average), with the most extreme values capped first. That keeps one dominant “superteam” from skewing what counts as average for everyone else, while still letting the count of Contenders or Rebuilders vary naturally from league to league.

Trade Analysis

The trade calculator evaluates deals through three lenses: