About OTC Dynasty Helper
Learn how each feature works and where the numbers come from.
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Dynasty trade values built from our comprehensive database of real trades, and adjusted specifically for your league's settings.
- Trade Calculations — Our goal is to create values/rankings that are intuitive to use for building trades. No fancy calculations needed, the values are scaled with the goal of four quarters actually equaling one dollar.
- Base Values — We're pulling real trade data from nearly 200,000 dynasty leagues, normalizing for differences in league settings using our league specific Points Above Replacement calculations, and then building trade values based on reality, not opinions, from this data.
- League Specific Adjustments — The base values we find are then re-adjusted to fit your league's specific scoring settings, roster composition, and waiver wire.
- Negative Values — You may sometimes see negative or zero values for players. Players values are shown relative to the top player at their position available on waivers. A negative number indicates there's a more valuable player available on waivers. For the purpose of any calculations, a negative value is treated as 0. Adding them to a trade will not hurt your side of the trade, it just makes no impact.
- Pick Values — Specific pick values (Like the 1.01) may seem too high. They're calculated the same way players are from real trades. Intuitively it doesn't make much sense to pay significantly more for the 1.01 than the highest rated rookies are actually valued at, but that's often what is happening in real trades. The "Rookie Fever" is real.
DH Values are used across the site for trade evaluation, power rankings, and more.
Your league dashboard. It shows power rankings for every team, team categorization, and recent trade activity.
- Value Score (V) — Each team gets a score based on the total DH Value of their roster and draft picks (negative values are counted as 0s).
- Contender Score (C) — Each team gets a score based on the total season long projected points for their team. This uses Sleeper's week to week projections, and assumes you set the "optimal" lineup each week. In the offseason before weekly projections exist, it falls back to year long projections.
- Overall Score (OVR) — Simple average of your Contender (C) and Value (V) scores.
- Normalization — The Contender (C) and Value (V) scores are normalized around a league median score of 100. A score of 100 means you are "average". A score of 120 means you are 20% above the league median, while a score of 80 means you are 20% below the league median.
- Team categories — Teams are categorized as Contender, Rebuilder, Win-Now, etc. based on their ranking relative to the league.
Displays all trades across all of your leagues, split between three different tabs.
- Active (Requires login) — All active incoming and outgoing trade offers for the selected league, or across all leagues if "All Leagues" is selected. You can click into any trade to accept, counter, reject, or withdraw it.
- Past (Requires login) — All trade offers you've sent or received in the past, whether they were accepted, rejected, withdrawn, or expired.
- All Completed — All completed trades by any user across the selected league/leagues.
Build trades, see the impact on both teams in real time, and send or discard the trade when finished.
- DH Value evaluation — As you add players and picks to each side, the trade is evaluated using a non-linear algorithm attempting to account for the fact that in fantasy football, four quarters often do not equal a dollar. Trade calculators are never going to be perfect, it should be a guideline not an absolute truth. You know your league and leaguemate's better than we do.
- Power ranking impact — See how the trade would change both teams' power ranking scores, helping you understand the real impact beyond just individual player value numbers.
- Send via Sleeper (Requires login) — Once you're happy with a trade, you can send it directly through Sleeper without leaving the app.
Generates random real trade ideas for your league. They won't be perfect, the goal is to inspire ideas rather than find exact trades. You can swipe left to skip to the next idea, or swipe right to send it directly into the Trade Builder.
- Need-based targeting — Suggestions are random, but slightly weighted towards trades where you receive players at positions of need.
- Balance filters — A trade idea must pass several basic fairness checks. We don't want to be suggesting you trade a 3rd round pick for Josh Allen.
- Configuration — You can configure the trade ideas generation to include a specific player or position group on either side.
Lets you build and send the same/similar trade offer across multiple leagues at once. Useful when you want to acquire or sell a specific player across all your leagues.
- Filters — Add players, or pick criteria to either side of the trade.
- Search All Leagues — Searches each of your leagues for potential trades matching the criteria.
- Results Page — Displays all matching trades. All trades are selected by default but trades can be manually deselected if you choose. Any exact trade you've already sent in the past 7 days is deselected by default.
- Send Trades (Requires login) — Sends all selected trades out on Sleeper.
View weekly matchups during the NFL season. See projected and actual scores for each team, and quickly identify which matchups are close and which are lopsided.
The Lineup page helps you set your optimal lineup each week. It uses projected points based on your league's scoring settings to suggest the best starters.
- Lineup Optimization — The optimize button shows you the optimal scoring lineup based on Sleeper's point projections. Saving them (Requires login) will set that lineup on Sleeper directly.
- Fix IR (Requires login) — Attempts to move ineligible players out of IR slots, and/or IR eligible ones into them.
- Optimize All (Requires login) — Visibile when "All Leagues" is selected from the League dropdown. Sets the optimal lineup across all of your leagues on Sleeper.
Browse your waiver wires. Submit or Modify Waiver claims directly (Requires login). Players are sorted by DH Value so you can quickly identify the best free agents available in your league.
View your league's draft board and draft live from OTC Dynasty Helper. Browse current and historical drafts, see who owns which picks, and use trade to guide draft-day decisions.
- Live Drafting — Make your picks directly from OTC Dynasty Helper during an active Sleeper draft. Players and picks are shown alongside trade values and projected draft positions so you can make informed decisions on the clock.
- Historical Drafts — Every past draft from your league is browseable from the same view, so you can revisit how prior startup and rookie drafts played out.
- Dispersal Drafts — Commissioners can create a dispersal draft to redistribute the assets of multiple teams. Choose the teams to include and OTC Dynasty Helper builds the asset pool from the selected teams' players and picks. When the draft ends, the commissioner pushes the resulting roster and pick moves straight to Sleeper in one click.
- Kept Picks — If every dispersal team still owns their own pick for a given year and round, those picks stay with their original owners automatically — only contested picks end up in the pool. Kept picks show up in the “My Team” tab of the draft so participants can see what they're already holding.
- Shareable Draft Links — Dispersal draft rooms are viewable by anyone with the link, no sign-in required. Only commissioners and the user on the clock can actually make picks.
View all players, displaying your % ownership across leagues, their DH Values, and other relevant statistics.
PAR measures how many projected points a player scores above a "replacement level" player.
- Replacement level — The tool calculates the theoretical best full list of starters for your league based on sleeper projections (or actual stats for past seasons), and ignoring which team's currently own the players. The first player left out at each position is considered the "replacement level"
- Why it matters — A player with high raw points but low PAR (like a mid-tier QB in 1QB leagues) isn't actually that valuable because you can easily find similar production.
- VALUE/PAR — Compares a player's DH Value to their PAR. Low VALUE/PAR indicates that the player provides a large scoring advantage relative to their trade value.
Historical rookie average draft position values for rookie drafts pulled from tens of thousands of real drafts on Sleeper.
Search real completed trades from active dynasty leagues across Sleeper. The database is continuously updated with new trades.
- Search both sides — Add players or picks to either side of the trade to find specific trade comps.
- Exact match — Toggle exact match to find trades where one side contains only the exact assets you specified (no extra players or picks).
- Filters — Filter by league size, scoring settings, and time ranges.