TRADE CALCULATOR

How these values work. A player's value is what you would lose if he vanished and you had to go and replace him. So we take the points he projects from here to the end of the playoffs, then subtract what the waiver wire could give you at that position - the average of the five best players there that nobody has rostered. Beat the wire by a lot and you are worth a lot. Match it and you are worth nothing, because anyone could have what you have for free.

Only the weeks still to play count. What a player has already scored is not on the table in a trade, and week 18 is ignored entirely because no Dark Horse league plays it.

That is why a quarterback scores the most points and is worth the least. Everyone starts one, so good quarterbacks are still sitting free, and losing yours costs you far less than losing a running back - where the wire is picked clean.

Pick your league above and the wire becomes literal: the actual free agents nobody in that league has rostered, which is the same thing the Strength view on Standings measures against, so a player reads the same number on both. Left alone it assumes a typical 12-team roster, which lands within about 25 points of the truth in 39 of the 48 Dark Horse leagues and drifts most at running back. Three of the leagues are 10-team, and a 10-team wire is deeper at every position but quarterback, so there is a typical 10-team choice as well, counted off a real one. The 8-team choice is the odd one out: no Dark Horse league has ever had eight teams, so there was nothing to count and those numbers are a line drawn through the other two rather than an observation.

Values are ours, computed from Sleeper's projections. Dark Horse plays full PPR and that is the default, but the Scoring control above switches the whole page to half PPR or standard, because a trade that reads as a win in one can be a loss in another. Kickers and defenses are not priced in any format: Dark Horse uses neither, and they are traded about as often as they are enjoyed. Projections are estimates, so treat all of this as the start of a conversation rather than a verdict. One thing the number cannot see: a two-for-one also frees a roster spot, which is worth something it does not count.