Draftool is an NFL fantasy football draft board. It is not an aggregator: the ranking, the scoring adjustment and the notes are original work. This page explains exactly how each part is made.
Every published draft list is calibrated for PPR, the format where each reception is worth a point. A good share of beginner leagues play Standard, where a reception is worth nothing. These are two different games, and the difference is large: a tight end who lives on volume can be the 17th pick in PPR and the 29th in Standard.
Almost nobody publishes the second list. People who play Standard end up drafting with the wrong order without knowing it.
The base is 200 players ranked by hand, in their own order. The board shows team, position and the rank within the position, and marks every player with a read with a tag:
The tags and the notes are a personal read, not market consensus. That is stated in the board's footer too, and it is deliberate: a ranking that only repeats the consensus is useless, because the consensus is already in the app where you play.
Each player gets an individual adjustment between the two formats, based on reception volume and touchdown rate. In Standard mode the board reorders and shows a ▲ or ▼ marker with how many spots that player moved.
If your opponents are drafting off the published list — and they almost always are, because that is the one you find for free — the difference between the two orders is exactly where your edge is.
You mark who is already off the board as the draft happens, and the board draws a line: above it, probably already gone; below it, should last until your turn. The math uses your draft slot and the snake format, where the order reverses each round.
The Windows tab does this for all 16 rounds at once, so you plan instead of react.
| Source | What it provides |
|---|---|
| Sleeper | How many leagues added each player in the last 7 days, and team depth charts. |
| Original work | Ranking, scoring adjustment, tags and every written note. |
A distinction the app repeats in several places: the number of adds measures demand, not quality. First-round names never show up in that queue, because they are already on every team. Whoever climbs there is usually the backup for someone who got hurt.
The list is revised weekly, on Tuesdays. The board shows on screen how many days ago it was last revised — including when it has been a long time. That is deliberate: the alternative is you trusting an old list without knowing it is old.
An automated collector runs twice a week and compares today's state with the previous collection, detecting changes in the injury report, in depth charts and in the market. What it finds shows up marked as script output, unreviewed, separate from the hand-written weekly notes — you always know what was signed by a person and what was not.