Best Fantasy Football Tools (2025)

Success in fantasy football isn’t just about drafting well—it’s about using the right tools to make informed decisions all season long. Whether you’re managing a dynasty squad, competing in redraft leagues, or grinding daily matchups, FantasyPros has everything you need to gain an edge. From expert consensus rankings (ECR) and draft simulators to waiver wire advice, trade analyzers, and lineup optimizers, our suite of fantasy football tools is designed to help you make smarter, faster decisions. Let’s dive into the best fantasy football tools and resources available to keep you ahead of the competition!

Top Fantasy Football Tools and Resources

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Feel free to use the links to jump ahead to any section. Each fantasy football tool/resource is explained and linked in the section.

My Playbook Dashboard

My Playbook allows you to sync your fantasy football league(s) from major platforms like Yahoo, ESPN, Sleeper, NFL.com, and others, giving you real-time roster insights. This sync enables personalized analysis and recommendations based on your league settings and scoring format. It streamlines team management by automatically tracking player performance, waiver wire options, and trade opportunities.

Fantasy Football Preseason Preparation

FantasyPros offers a comprehensive resource hub with rankings, projections, draft strategies, and expert advice to help fantasy football managers prepare for their drafts, such as:

• NFL Draft Wizard: A suite of tools that helps fantasy football managers dominate their drafts with expert rankings, customized draft strategies, and real-time recommendations.
• Draft Simulator: A fast and realistic mock draft tool that allows users to practice drafting against AI-powered opponents based on expert rankings and league settings.
• Mock Draft Lobby: A platform where users can join live mock drafts against real fantasy managers to test strategies and refine their draft approach.
• Draft Assistant: A real-time tool that provides expert-driven pick suggestions and analysis during a live fantasy football draft to help managers make the best selections.
• Cheat Sheet Creator: A customizable tool that lets fantasy football managers build personalized rankings and draft cheat sheets using expert consensus and personal preferences.
• Draft Analyzer: A post-draft evaluation tool that grades fantasy football drafts, highlights strengths and weaknesses, and offers insights for roster improvement.
• Draft Intel: Get insights into how your leaguemates draft and make your mock drafts more realistic.
• Salary Cap Simulator: A mock salary cap (auction) draft tool lets users practice bidding strategies and refine their approach for salary cap drafts.
• Salary Cap Calculator: A tool that helps fantasy football managers allocate their budget efficiently by providing recommended bid values and roster construction guidance based on league settings.

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Fantasy Football In-Season Management

FantasyPros provides expert-driven tools and insights to optimize your fantasy football team throughout the season, including:

• Auto-Pilot: Let the experts manage your lineup. Get emails with suggested lineup changes, let us auto-swap inactive players for you, or have your lineup fully optimized.
• Start/Sit Assistant: Offers personalized start/sit recommendations based on expert consensus rankings and matchup analysis.
• Who Should I Start?: Compares two or more players to determine the best start option using expert projections and matchup data.
• Waiver Central: See the best waiver moves for your fantasy football team with Waiver Central. Instantly see your team’s strengths and weaknesses, and identify the top waiver targets in your leagues.
• Trade Analyzer: Evaluates potential fantasy football trades by analyzing player values, team needs, and expert opinions.
• Trade Finder: Suggests trade ideas tailored to improve your team, considering roster strengths, weaknesses, and league settings.
• League Analyzer: Provides an in-depth breakdown of your league’s standings, team strengths, and weaknesses to help guide strategic decisions.
• Multi-League Assistant: Allows you to manage multiple fantasy football teams in one place with expert insights and recommendations.

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Fantasy Football Rankings

FantasyPros collects rankings from numerous experts to produce easily sortable lists for any number of league settings.

• 2025 Half-PPR Draft Rankings: Expert rankings of players for upcoming fantasy drafts, sorted by projected value.
• Average Draft Position (ADP): Aggregated data showing where players are typically being selected in fantasy drafts.
• Sleeper Rankings: Get sleeper picks from 50+ fantasy football experts. We compare expert rankings to ADP from Yahoo, ESPN, and CBS to uncover the NFL’s hidden gems.
• Weekly Rankings: Rankings specific to each week of the NFL season.
• Prospect Rankings: Rankings of the top minor league players based on future fantasy potential.
• Dynasty Rankings: Player rankings designed for long-term fantasy leagues, factoring in future value and career longevity.
• Rest of Season Rankings: Updated player rankings that reflect expected fantasy performance for the remainder of the season.

Fantasy Football Depth Charts

• NFL Team Depth Charts: Provides up-to-date projected starting lineups and bench depth for all 32 NFL teams to help fantasy managers assess player roles and opportunities.
• RB Handcuff Rankings: Provides up-to-date RB depth charts and ranks which handcuffs you should consider for your team.

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Fantasy Football News & Analysis

• NFL Home Page: The central hub for FantasyPros’ fantasy football content, featuring rankings, news, tools, and expert analysis.
• Fantasy Football Podcasts: Shows delivering expert insights, player analysis, and fantasy football advice to help managers dominate their leagues.
• Fantasy Football Articles: In-depth written content covering a variety of topics from industry experts.
• Breaking News: Provides up-to-the-minute updates on major developments affecting fantasy football, including trades, injuries, and lineup changes.
• Injury Report: A comprehensive list of current NFL player injuries, detailing statuses, expected return timelines, and fantasy impact.
• Injury News: Delivers the latest updates on player injuries, including diagnosis, recovery outlook, and implications for fantasy football managers.
• Player Transactions: Tracks all NFL roster moves, including signings, trades, call-ups, and demotions, with a focus on their fantasy relevance.
• Who Should I Start?: A head-to-head comparison tool that helps fantasy managers decide between players based on expert consensus rankings, matchups, and projections.

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Fantasy Football Reports

• Expert Accuracy: Looking for the most accurate fantasy football experts? View accuracy scores for over 150 fantasy analysts.
• QBBC Finder: Quickly spot the best Quarterback by Committee (QBBC) pairings during the 2025 NFL season.
• Fantasy Football Leaders: View fantasy scoring leaders for Standard, Half PPR, and PPR leagues broken down by week. Rankings can be sorted based on position.
• Snap Count Analysis: Snap counts represent the total number of offensive plays a player participated in. Higher snap counts and percentages indicate that the player had more opportunities throughout his games.
• Snap Count Leaders: View Offense snap count leaders by week. Quickly see snap totals for all players in one convenient table and import your fantasy team to find out who’s getting the opportunities and who isn’t.
• Target Distribution: See how each NFL team distributes targets to WRs, RBs and TEs.
• Target Leaders: Targets represent the number of times a player has had a pass thrown his way, regardless of whether a catch was made.
• TD Regression Analysis: Rankings in our Touchdown Regression report are generated by calculating a league-average touchdown rate for attempts and targets in each area of the field.
• Boom or Bust: The Boom or Bust report calculates the average points total for an RB1, WR1, etc, and tells you how often players hit those points thresholds.
• Quality Starts: Quality Starts measures a player’s consistency on a week-to-week basis. Each game is rated as “Poor”, “Quality” or “Great” based upon the player’s fantasy point production.
• Combine Results: Provides a comprehensive resource for NFL Scouting Combine results, including drills like the 40-yard dash, bench press, and more
• NFL Free Agent Tracker: Resource for fantasy football players to stay updated on player movement during the NFL offseason, specifically focusing on signings and trades that impact fantasy values.

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Fantasy Football Projections & Stats

• Weekly Projections: Don’t trust any particular projection system? We combine projections from all major fantasy football sites into a consensus.
• Season Projections: Using the combined projections to determine which players will be best for the remainder of the season.
• Projected Leaders: Find out which players are projected to lead the league in a variety of stats.
• Stats: Look up current and past year statistics for all of your fantasy team’s players.
• Advanced Stats: Advanced stats offer insight into a player’s performance beyond the standard box score.
• Fantasy Points Allowed: A metric that indicates how good or bad each NFL defense is at limiting fantasy production to their opponents.
• Red Zone Stats: Red Zone stats are important for fantasy football because more opportunities and production likely to result in touchdowns given the proximity to the endzone.

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