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A beginner's guide to the numbers on this site: what the scale means, why stars are worth more than the sum of their parts, and how to read the trade calculator without a finance degree. New to the lingo? See the dynasty glossary.
Every player on this site gets a single number from 0 to 1,000. The best player in dynasty football right now (Josh Allen at 1,000.0) sets the top of the scale. Everyone else is measured against him. A player at 687.7, like Jahmyr Gibbs, carries a little over two-thirds of Allen's championship equity; a player at 100 carries a tenth.
The number answers one question: how much does this player move the needle on winning a championship? It doesn't measure how many points he'll score next week or what he'd fetch in a redraft league. It measures how much closer he takes you to a title over the years you control him. Young players score higher than their current production alone would suggest, because they give you more years of that equity. Old players score lower, because the clock is ticking.
This is the single most important idea in dynasty trading, and most trade calculators get it wrong. Championships aren't won by accumulating points: they're won by outscoring one opponent in one week, three weeks in a row, in the playoffs. A 24-point-per-game stud doesn't just score twice as much as a 12-point player; he gives you roughly the title equity of 4.5 of them.
Our model fits this directly from what actually wins titles: per-year value rises with the 2.16 power of projected scoring, not linearly. That's the convexity: the curve bends upward, so the gap between great and good is far bigger than the gap between good and mediocre. It also means the stud premium is real but bounded: piling every point into two players and filling the rest with scrubs loses to a balanced roster tilted toward stars. And because the convexity lives inside the values themselves, trade math stays simple: just add the numbers up.
The calculator does one thing: it adds up each side and compares the totals. Because every value already bakes in age, injury risk, positional scarcity, and the stud premium above, a straight sum is the whole analysis. There's no second formula massaging the result. If your side totals 640 and theirs totals 600, you're winning by about 40 points of value, full stop.
Two things to keep in mind. First, small gaps don't matter much: a 20-point edge on a 1,200-point deal is noise, and the other manager's roster needs may matter more than the math. Second, always price both sides on the same scoring profile: mixing Superflex values on one side with 1QB values on the other quietly breaks the comparison.
Skeptical of calculators in general? That's healthy: the 3 myths about trade calculators is our honest case for what these tools can and can't do.
1QB is the classic format: one starting quarterback per team. Quarterbacks are plentiful, so only the elite ones carry big values: the 18th-best QB is freely replaceable.
Superflex lets you start a second quarterback in the flex spot. Suddenly 24 quarterbacks start every week instead of 12, and the position gets scarce fast: that's why the top of our Superflex board is a wall of quarterbacks. If your league has a superflex spot, use these values.
TE Premium gives tight ends extra points per catch (usually a full PPR for the position). It lifts every startable tight end (we scale TE equity by 1.35×) but it doesn't reshuffle the very top of the board.
When in doubt, match the profile to your league's starting lineup. Most modern dynasty leagues are Superflex, which is why it's our default.
Because values are convex, three 200-point players don't replace one 600-point star. If you're giving up the best player in the deal, you should be winning the total by a clear margin.
A "mid first" sounds vague until you see it's worth 252.8: the same as the 23rd-ranked player. Our 2027 rookie pick values page translates every tier into a player equivalent.
2027 picks are discounted for the season you'll spend holding them while they produce nothing. Don't pay 2026 prices for 2027 production.
Superflex values assume quarterbacks are scarce. Using them in a 1QB league overpays every mid-tier QB on the board. One click on the rankings page switches profiles.
Our printable cheat sheet lays out the top 200, tiered, for 1QB, Superflex, and TE Premium. Values refresh weekly, so print the morning of your draft. And if you can never find anything, site search covers every player, tool, and guide in one box.
Values update weekly through the season as production, injuries, and age change the math. A deal that was fair in September can be lopsided by November: run it through the trade calculator with fresh numbers.
Five questions, not a horoscope: your answers route you to the calculator's timeline view, which prices the same trade for both windows.