Magpie is an accuracy-weighted blend of public projection systems, validated
season-by-season per position. Jackdaw is our own independent regression system.
How this works →
Create my rankings
Customize the real scoring and roster rules below to match your own league — every ranking, VOR, and Auction $ on this page recomputes live from whatever's set here.
Pick a real platform default below (or Points/Categories mode, where offered) as a starting point.
Edit any weight, roster slot, or category directly to match your own league's actual rules — nothing here is locked to the default.
Every ranking, VOR, and Auction $ value on this page recomputes immediately from whatever's currently set, not a fixed default.
The Risk slider (Floor/Projected/Ceiling) shifts those same rankings toward each player's real floor or ceiling, using the real spread across independent projection sources.
Scoring
Defaults
Custom
Risk
Moves rankings, VOR, and Auction $ toward each player's real floor or ceiling
instead of the projected midpoint, using the real spread across independent projection sources. A
player without enough independent sources to measure a real spread is unaffected.
Moves rankings, VOR, and
Auction $ toward each player's real floor or ceiling instead of the projected midpoint, using the
real spread across independent projection sources. A player without enough independent sources to
measure a real spread is unaffected.
Sleepers & Busts
Diff = ADP rank minus
system rank under your current scoring settings. A sleeper's system rank is much better than where the
market is drafting them; a bust's is much worse. Shown here: anyone the market and the model disagree on by
a full round or more (one round = your league size) — a gap of a spot or two isn't a real signal, just
where two reasonable rankings happen to differ.
How accurate is each system?
Jackdaw: strengths & weaknesses
Paul, 2026-08-25: "for jackdaw
strengths and weaknesses we should show against the average and not the baseline" — real numbers computed by
fantasyfootball: margin over the mean error across every scored source for that stat AND position
(leave-one-out, so Jackdaw is never scored partly against its own opinion), not against a fixed hand-set
baseline as this panel showed before. Split by position on purpose where a stat is scored for more than one
(e.g. rushing yards means something very different for a QB than an RB) rather than one blended number that
would hide exactly that gap. Only stats this site actually scores by default are shown — nothing here that
isn't in defaultPointsWeights. + / ++ / +++ and − / −− / −−− —
each tier is the real number's rank within its own third of every positive (or negative) value on this page,
not a fixed cutoff. Refreshed 2026-08-26 against a real re-fetch (seasons 2023-2025, half-PPR scoring,
FantasyPros' feed back after a dead API key got rotated) — real movement since the 2026-08-25 numbers, not
just a re-send: DEF picked up a real weakness (blocked kicks) it didn't have before.
DEF — a real strength, with one real exception
Strengths
Fumble recoveries +++
Defensive TDs +++
Safeties +++
Interceptions ++
Sacks ++
Points allowed, weakest of the group but still real +
Weaknesses
Blocked kicks — the one real exception, everything else beats the field average −
K — real strength across the board
Strengths
50+ yard field goals made +++
Field goal misses ++
Extra points made ++
40-49 yard field goals made ++
0-39 yard field goals made, weakest of the group but still real +
Weaknesses
None — every scored kicking stat beats the field average.
RB — a real mix
Strengths
Fumbles lost +
Rushing TD +
Weaknesses
Receiving yards −−
Receiving TD −−
Rushing yards −−
Receptions, weakest of the group but still real −
WR — one real strength, receiving volume a weakness
Strengths
Fumbles lost +++
Weaknesses
Receptions −−−
Receiving yards −−
Receiving TD, weakest of the group but still real −
TE — flips entirely against the field average, no real strengths left
Strengths
None
Weaknesses
Fumbles lost −−−
Receptions −−
Receiving yards, weakest of the group but still real −
Receiving TD, weakest of the group but still real −
QB — the field's single worst cell is here
Strengths
Interceptions thrown, weakest edge on the page but still real +
Weaknesses
Rushing yards — the single worst cell anywhere on this page −−−
