01What you get, and when
- Wednesday evening: one report for your roster, under the scoring you pick (full PPR, half PPR or standard): every slot decided, every close call explained, the odds where we can give them (which rows get them), and a plan for late news. Your lineup comes first, and setting it takes about a minute. The rest is the why.
- Why Wednesday evening: waivers have cleared, so you can update your roster first, and you still have a day before Thursday's game. A week with a Wednesday game gets its report that morning.
- Saturday, only if needed: teams file their final injury reports on Friday for most games. If Friday's injury report changes your lineup, the Saturday check tells you the swap. No news, no email.
- That's the whole inbox. The day you join, your welcome and your first report. Then one email every Wednesday, a second only when Saturday's check changes your lineup, and a confirmation button when you change your roster. No promotions.
- Your roster, your way: you paste it when you sign up, and again whenever it changes. Confirm a change by Wednesday afternoon (ET) and that evening's report uses it. No login, no league connection.
Bringing your roster over from an app? See what a copy from ESPN, Yahoo, Sleeper or CBS looks like, and, where the app has one, its default lineup.
02Reading your report
126.1 proj 94 – 158 realistic range
The % is the chance your starter outscores your best bench player at that spot, and the bar starts at 50% (a toss-up).
Realistic range: your projected total, give or take the week-to-week swing in your starters' scoring, combined. It shows how far the week can move, not where it will land.
Checked for you: 15 players, 9 slots, every kickoff time and the Week 9 injury report.
- Proj
- Projected fantasy points for that player this week, under the scoring you picked (full PPR, half PPR or standard). From Week 2; in Week 1 each row shows last season's points per game instead.
- The percentage on a row
- The chance your starter outscores your best bench player at that spot. 50% is a coin flip, and the bar starts there. A 70% call is a clear favorite, not a certainty: it can still lose.
- Rows with no percentage
- A row prints no odds for reasons like these:
- Not playing, or on the injury report. We give odds only when both players' teams play this week and neither was listed questionable, doubtful or out on last week's injury report.
- Reserve list or practice squad. Neither player may sit on a reserve list or the practice squad.
- Too few games. Both need enough games on record: three this season.
- A defense. Never on defenses: they get a projected score only.
- No bench player there. With nobody to compare against, there is no chance to state.
- A rising bench player. We hold them where your bench player there is getting more of the ball lately and his projection still counts his earlier games as much.
Early-season rules
There are no odds in Week 1, and each row shows last season's scoring instead of a projection. In Weeks 2 and 3, for full-PPR, 12-team standard lineups that start a kicker and a defense, last season counts toward a player's games on record.
- Realistic range
- Your projected total, give or take the week-to-week swing in your starters' scoring, combined. It shows how far the week can move, not where it will land.
Closest call with odds
Start George Kittle over Sam LaPorta
proj 14.1 vs 9.5 · games this season 7 vs 8
- The week's closest call with odds
- The tightest decision that carries a percentage, with a side picked and how sure to be. If a closer one has no odds this week, the report names it too.
The Saturday check: after Friday's final injury report, we email you if it changes your lineup.
- Game plan
- What to do this week and by when, each with its deadline. Tick the boxes and you're done.
- Byes ahead
- A line in the game plan when a bye still to come, playoff weeks included, leaves a starting spot nobody on your roster can fill, with players at that spot who play that week and their points a game this season, so you can line up cover while there's time. Whether they're free in your league is yours to check. No line means every bye ahead is covered. Check yours now, free: the bye planner.
If Tony Pollard (FLEX) is ruled out
Move Sam LaPorta into FLEX (projects 9.5).
Chase Brown (10.3) plays Thursday, before Tony Pollard's status is known.
- If/then for gameday
- What to do if a questionable player is ruled out, decided in advance so Sunday morning isn't a scramble.
| WR | Amon-Ra St. Brown@ HOU · Sun 8:20 PM ET+7.6 over Courtland Sutton on your bench2024: 16.8 a game · last 3: 25.2, 8.7, 18.6last 4: 5.2 targets a game | 16.9 |
- Slot by slot
- Every starter and bench player in full: his game and kickoff, the bench option he's measured against and by how many points, his season and last three games, and his recent usage.
The cards are rows from the 2024 Week 10 sample report, a real week built for a sample roster.
- Rising roles
- Players getting more of the ball lately. It points at who's getting more work; whether he's free in your league is for you to check.
- The Receipts
- Each call with odds in your last report and how it finished, in your next one. A call where neither player scored, or a tie, reads "no result".
03Where the numbers come from
Your roster and your scoring settings, plus public NFL data from nflverse, an open project: box scores, the schedule and the league's injury reports. A player's projection starts from his recent games, blends in last season, and allows for byes, announced injuries and how many points his game should produce. In Week 1 your slots are ordered by last season's scoring. Then the report sets your starter against your best bench player at that spot.
We have no inside information and no view into your league's other teams. Your report is built only from your roster and public data.
04How to check us
- Every call shows the projection behind it and the player's recent games, so you can look up the box scores and see for yourself.
- Every report after your first shows how the previous report's calls with odds finished.
- The sample report is a real one, built for a sample roster from a week of the 2024 season. Read it beside your own league app.This week's report is a real one, for a sample roster, rebuilt every Wednesday of the season. Read it beside your own league app.
05What it doesn't do
It decides who starts. It doesn't rank draft picks, value trades or tell you who to pick up; Rising roles only points at who's getting more work. Football is noisy: a good call can lose, and a bad one can win. What we add: every close call decided with a reason, and late news planned for, before kickoff. After the season you get a review of every call your reports made, and you can ask for the rookie report after the NFL Draft, free. Weighing a trade? The Trade Check in your plan shows what a deal does to your lineup and byes, and the decision stays yours.
06Who's behind it
Beat Your League is independent and small: one fantasy player built it, after too many lineups set at 12:55 on Sunday. It's paid for only by the people who buy it: no ads and no selling your data. Questions or something that looks wrong: hello@beatyourleague.com.
07The money, briefly
$14.99 a month for up to 3 teams, and it stops on its own after your title game. Add your other teams from the link in any report, at no extra charge. Cancelling ends them all together. Full refund before your first weekly report's first game. One per person (the exact terms). Running a league of up to 14 teams? The League Pass covers every manager.