NBA Fantasy Trade Analyzer
A free fantasy basketball trade calculator for category and points leagues: see who wins every category, the games each side brings and, with your ESPN, Sleeper or Fantrax league, both teams' chances before and after.
How to evaluate a fantasy basketball trade, step by stepNBA fantasy trade analyzer for your league
A free NBA fantasy trade analyzer that judges a trade two ways: the players on each side, category by category, and what the trade does to both teams' chances in your league. Connect a league and it scores the trade on both rosters, fills the open roster spot and searches for trades worth proposing.
Put the players you would give on one side and the players you would get on the other. The players' board adds up each side - their averages a game, their totals over the rest of the season at the games each player is expected to play, or their category values - and marks every category a win, a loss or even, with the games each side brings and its Value a game. Each change is coloured by how much it matters: a deeper green or red the bigger it is, grey when it barely moves.
Start with the categories: a trade that wins the categories you are close in is worth more than one that piles onto categories you already lead. Then check the games each side brings and any injury, since a player out for weeks gives you nothing until he is back. With your league connected, the teams' board shows what decides it: your chance to win a week and your projected place, or your roto points in a roto league, before and after. Last, read the other side: a trade the other manager loses is one they will turn down, so Their side and Balance this trade help you find one both teams take.
With an ESPN, Sleeper or Fantrax league connected, the teams' board runs the Power Rankings forecast on the league as it stands and again with the players swapped: each category's chance for both teams before and after, the chance to win a week, the share of categories won, the projected place (roto points in a roto league) and each team's injury risk. In a head-to-head league, Through switches it to the playoff weeks. Injury risk is the starts a bad-luck season (one in ten) costs a team's lineup.
Each team keeps its roster size. The side that gets fewer players picks up the best free agent in your league; you can change your own. The team that gets more players has to drop someone, and the analyzer never picks who: you choose from that team's roster or, without a league, search for the player you would drop. Until you do, that team is counted with an extra player. A trade opened from Find trades or Balance this trade comes with the drop its search assumed, which you can change. Without a league, a replacement-level player fills the open spot.
The cards and the board compare what the numbers leave out: injuries and return dates, injury risk, games expected, a hot or cold start and how much of it usually lasts, minutes that come from a teammate's absence, buy-low and sell-high flags and the Trending page's tags, then each player's rank on our board, ESPN's and Yahoo's, and his % rostered on ESPN and Yahoo. Why, under each side, explains every badge.
Rankings works as a fantasy basketball trade value chart: every player has a Value on the same scale, on the board you choose (the preseason projection, the season so far, or the last month, two weeks or week). The season so far and the recent windows update every morning with the night's box scores. On those boards the analyzer adds up each side's values as Rankings shows them; on Blend, which mixes the projection and the season so far, the same formula runs on the mixed values. Each card's FE rank opens that player's row in Rankings.
Balance this trade shows the cheapest player that makes the trade good for both teams, and other trades with the same team that both gain from. Their side shows the trade from the other manager's seat as a picture, ready for your league's chat. Find trades reads every 1-for-1, 2-for-1 and 1-for-2 with each team in your league and lists the ones both teams gain from.
Full, the default once the season has begun, reads each player's season so far. Blend moves our projection toward it by the share of a start that usually lasts; Projection, Month, Two Weeks and Week each read one board. Average, Total and Values change what the players' board shows; the verdict always reads the rest of the season, at the games set under Games: Expected, the season-games model's, or Healthy, every team game from the day the sources have him back.
Yes. Add as many players to each side as the trade has. The side that gets fewer players fills its open spot with the best free agent, and the team that gets more has to drop someone: you pick who, from its roster or by searching.
Look at both teams. A fair trade raises both teams' chances in your league, which the teams' board shows before and after. When only one side gains, Balance this trade finds the cheapest player on a roster that makes it good for both.
The verdict under the two sides says it first: with your league, whether both teams gain, you gain, they gain or neither; without one, whether the players you get are the better ones. Then it says why: the categories you gain and give up and, with your league, your chance to win a week before and after (your roto points in a roto league) and how the other manager is likely to read it on ESPN's and Yahoo's ranks.
The categories your league scores, once a category league is connected, or the standard nine. FG% and FT% are worked out from makes and attempts, so a high-volume shooter counts for more.
With your league connected, it runs the same forecast as the Power Rankings on both teams' real rosters, before and after the trade: lineups night by night, injuries and the games each player is expected to play.
Yes. Each card shows a listed player's injury, when the sources have him back and our chance he plays each of his next five games, and the rest-of-season totals count only the games he is expected to play, or, under Healthy, every team game from the day the sources have him back.
Yes. It needs no account and no payment. An account is only needed to connect your own league.
Each player gets a value in every category from how far his production sits above or below the players at his position. Value is the average of those category values, the same number the rankings show.
Yes. In a points league the players' board adds the fantasy points each side brings, on your league's own scoring. The teams' chances are still forecast on the nine categories.
Any of them: on its own it works for any league. Connect an ESPN, Sleeper or Fantrax league and it also scores the trade on both rosters, fills the open spot from your free agents and searches for trades with every team.
It reads every 1-for-1, 2-for-1 and 1-for-2 with each team in your league, keeps the ones that raise your chance without lowering theirs, and scores the best on the full forecast. A trade is listed when both teams gain.