All-play record: your record if you played everyone

Your head-to-head record answers "did I beat the one team I was scheduled against?" The all-play record answers a better question: "how many teams in my league would I have beaten this week?" It is the single most useful number for judging a fantasy team inside its own league, and it takes about thirty seconds to calculate.

How to calculate all-play

1. Take every team's score for the week.
2. Count how many of your opponents you outscored. That is your all-play wins for the week.
3. Count how many outscored you. Those are your all-play losses. Equal scores are ties.
4. Repeat every week and add them up.

In a 10-team league you play 9 hypothetical games a week. The highest score goes 9–0, the lowest 0–9, and everyone else lands in between based purely on points.

Example (illustrative numbers): In a 10-team league your 118.4 points beat six teams, tied one and lost to two. Your all-play result is 6–2–1. As a win rate, a tie counts as half a win: (6 + 0.5) ÷ 9 = 72.2%.

Why all-play is better than your record

Head-to-head records are noisy because one game a week is a tiny sample, and your opponent's score is out of your hands. All-play uses every team's score every week, so it measures what you control: how many points your lineup put up relative to your league. A team that keeps landing second-highest scores will have a mediocre record in a bad week and an elite all-play rate every week.

That is also why all-play is the backbone of expected wins and schedule luck. Your all-play rate is literally the chance you would have won that week against a random opponent from your league.

A full week, worked through

Say the ten scores in your league this week are 141, 128, 118.4 (you), 118.4, 112, 104, 99, 95, 88 and 71. Two teams outscored you, one tied you and six scored less. Your all-play result is 6–2–1, while your actual matchup might have been against the 141 and gone down as a loss. Over a season, those weeks add up: a team that keeps finishing third in the weekly scores will have an all-play rate around 75% even if its record is a coin flip.

All-play also handles median-scoring leagues cleanly. If your league awards an extra win for beating the weekly median, that result is already a mini all-play (you either beat half the league or you did not), so it sits alongside all-play rather than inside your schedule luck.

All-play rate versus all-play record

A season all-play record (say 52–29) is easy to read. A season all-play rate is easier to compare: 64.2%. If your league size never changes, averaging weekly rates and dividing total wins by total games give the same answer. FantasyMatrix averages weekly rates, so every week counts the same.

How to read it

• Above 50%: you outscore most of your league on a typical week.
• Near 50%: a middle-of-the-pack team. A great record here means luck is doing some of the work.
• Below 50%: you are mostly losing on points, not on schedule.
• All-play much higher than your record: you are unlucky. Hold your nerve before blowing up the roster.

The limitation: it only sees your league

All-play ranks you against eleven or so teams that share your scoring rules. It cannot tell you whether a 70% all-play rate in your 10-team PPR league is better than 70% in a friend's 14-team standard league, because the competition and the scoring are different. That is the question Matrix Score exists to answer.

See your all-play record

FantasyMatrix calculates all-play for every completed week, counting ties as half a win, and shows it on your Dashboard and in My League. A free account shows all-play, expected wins and luck for every team in your league. Definitions live in the Metrics Guide.