Fantasy football guides

Plain-English explanations of the numbers that separate good fantasy teams from lucky ones, with worked examples you can check by hand.

• Fantasy football luck: good team or just lucky?

  How to measure luck in fantasy football with all-play records and expected wins, a worked example, and a free luck check for your Sleeper league.

• All-play record: your record if you played everyone

  What an all-play record is in fantasy football, how to calculate it week by week (ties included), why it beats your real record, and where to see yours.

• Expected wins: the record your points deserve

  How expected wins work in fantasy football, the simple all-play formula, a worked example, how median-scoring leagues are handled, and what the number does not mean.

• Strength of schedule: did your opponents rob you?

  How points against, strength of schedule and schedule-proof standings show whether your fantasy football schedule cost you wins, with a worked example.

• Is my fantasy football team actually good?

  Five quick, honest checks to tell whether your fantasy football team is actually good or just lucky, from all-play record to a cross-league score.

• A fantasy football power rankings formula that is actually fair

  How to build fair fantasy football power rankings for your league with all-play, points and recent form, a worked example formula, and its blind spots.

• Comparing fantasy teams across leagues and scoring formats

  Why raw fantasy points can’t compare teams across PPR, half PPR, standard and different league sizes, and how a format-neutral score like Matrix Score does it.

• Sleeper league analyzer: luck, all-play and where you really rank

  Analyze your Sleeper fantasy football league from a username: all-play, expected wins, luck for every team and a cross-league Matrix Score. Free, no Sleeper password.

• Points left on the bench: measuring lineup efficiency

  How to calculate fantasy football lineup efficiency, max points (optimal lineup) and points left on the bench, with a worked example and what it does and doesn’t prove.

• A global fantasy football leaderboard: how cross-league rankings work

  FantasyMatrix runs a free global fantasy football leaderboard that ranks teams from different leagues, league sizes and scoring formats on one Matrix Score scale. How it works and how to join.

Looking for exact definitions? See the Metrics Guide and the methodology.