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Classic FanDuel: QB, 2 RB, 3 WR, TE, FLEX (RB/WR/TE), DST. Balanced maximizes projected points, nudged by real Vegas game totals, real defense-vs-position matchups, real season form, and salary (the most points that fit under the cap). Doubtful and Out players are excluded from builds entirely; Questionable carries a small risk discount for that player and a boost for his same-position backups. Cash leans toward each player's real statistical floor for a safer, more repeatable score. GPP leans toward ceiling and adds a bonus for stacking your QB with his own pass-catchers, so one big offensive game lifts multiple players at once — the classic tournament move for a shot at a high score. Single game (MVP) slates have one game, 5 total roster spots — 1 MVP who scores 1.5x points (at normal salary) plus 4 FLEX who can be any position, including kickers and D. Only FanDuel single-game rules are modeled right now.

Single-game slates only cover one matchup, so set the line once and apply it to every player in the pool.

This week's pool, salaries, and projections are curated by The Spread — load the current slate and run the optimizer on it. Uploading or hand-editing the pool is limited to the site owner.

Click 🔒 to force a player into every lineup the optimizer builds, or 🚫 to ban them entirely. Locked and excluded players are highlighted below.

Ranks every player in your pool by projected points per $1,000 of salary, adjusted for that player's Vegas game environment (implied team total) and for injury-driven opportunity — a cheap player whose same-position teammate is out or questionable gets a value bump for the extra work he stands to see. Grouped by position by default; pick one position to see just that group. This is a research view — use it to scout cheap plays and smart pivots before you build a lineup.

This is for your regular season-long fantasy league — not the FanDuel DFS lineup builder. Trending Adds/Drops are real, live add and drop counts from Sleeper's platform, not a rostered-percentage scrape. Breakout Radar is computed on this page from real season stats, not pulled from anywhere. Injuries are still covered on the Injury Report tab, so a player being hurt does not by itself put him here.

Real add counts from Sleeper's public trending feed over the last 48 hours across their whole platform — not a scrape, not last week's snapshot. Paired with real season points and the matchup they're stepping into.

The same live feed, the other direction — players being cut across real Sleeper leagues right now.

Not a scrape at all — computed straight from this week's real stats: players beating their own projection by a real margin over the games they've played, while their rest-of-season outlook has not caught up yet. This refreshes itself whenever the season data does, no separate pull needed.

Needs at least one game played and a projection to compare against, so it is empty in Week 1.

Want to write up your own waiver-wire column with this?

Compare two players head to head using real data for whichever week you pick: real season PPG, a real matchup-specific weekly point projection (RotoWire via Sleeper), the game's real Vegas point total and spread, real weather at kickoff (or dome, if it's controlled climate), the real rank of the defense they're facing at their position (nflverse), recent-form trend, and where you have each of them ranked that week — then a clear Start/Sit call built from all of it.

Ranking numbers come from whichever week you pick above (your own tiers from the Rankings tab). Everything else — projection, total/spread, weather, and matchup rank — is pulled fresh for the exact week you pick, from the real schedule and lines, independent of whatever slate happens to be loaded on Player Pool.

These are The Spread's published rankings for the week — uploading or reordering them is limited to the site owner.

Your rankings, your tiers — nothing computed or auto-generated mixed in. Upload a CSV to start a week, then drag players between tiers (or reorder within one) to match exactly how you see it. Each player shows their real opponent this week and that defense's real rank against their position (color-coded green/yellow/red) wherever they're in a slate you've loaded, so you can factor matchups in as you rank. Rankings are saved per week — switch weeks with the selector above and each one keeps its own tiers. Use the position filter below for a clean position-only view across every team in your rankings — it hides everyone else rather than just dimming them, and dragging still works safely without losing anyone who's filtered out.

Position filter dims non-matching players so you can find them, without disturbing the tier layout — drag still works across all players.

Deep player-trend analytics for prop research — the same kind of factor-based approach that tools like props.cash or PropFinder use, built from real data instead of guesswork.

Straight talk: no tool, including this one, has a live feed into FanDuel Sportsbook's actual odds — sportsbooks don't publish an open API for that, and this page can't connect to one. So every number below is a real advanced-stat signal built from this slate's actual data — not a copy of today's live prop numbers.

The Score now combines four real factors: Trend (last 5 games vs. last 10, from real box-score averages), Matchup (the opponent's rank defending that position over their last 5 games, 1 = toughest, 32 = easiest), Environment (the game's Vegas-implied team total from the real spread and over/under), and Usage (real 2026 snap%, target share, or rush share for players where that data exists — high-volume roles add a point since more opportunity means a steadier floor). A score of +2 or better is a "Strong Over" lean, -2 or worse a "Strong Under." Pull up the real line in the FanDuel app, compare it to the signal here, and log your own read below.

Usage data isn't available for every player in the pool — it's a real, named leaderboard for the season's highest-volume players (RosterAudit snap%/target share, sticktothemodel.com RB rush share), not something extrapolated for everyone. Players without a match just don't get that factor.

Actual 2026-season target share (WR/TE) and run share (RB) for notable players — the kind of role/opportunity data that drives prop volume, matched against whoever's currently in your pool.

Type in the real line you see on FanDuel right now, next to this slate's trend signal for that player, and note your own lean. This is your own private tracker — nothing here is a real-time odds pull.

Every game in your loaded slate, ranked by real Vegas-implied total — the shootout games at the top are where "over" player prop leans get the most support; the games at the bottom favor unders and defense/kicker props.

Every team's real rank defending each position over their last 5 games (1 = shuts it down, 32 = gives it up easily), pulled straight from your loaded slate's advanced stats. A team ranked 25+ against a position is where you target that position's props on their opponent.

The small number under each rank is a real stat, not a guess: it's the actual scoring average (last 5 games, or projection where that's not available) of the real players in your pool who are facing that defense this week at that position. I looked for a full league-wide "season points allowed by position" stat to show here too, but every source I could verify was either an old season or had no current data loaded — rather than show you a number I couldn't confirm was real and current, I built this one from data already in the app instead.

Research your own anytime-TD leans, organized by game so you can work through one matchup at a time. Built from real underlying factors: the game's Vegas-implied total (more scoring plays for that team), the opponent's real rank defending that position, real usage share where we have it, and any real teammate-injury bump in expected role. We don't have actual red-zone touch counts or real TD totals, so this is a composite research signal — not an odds feed or a guaranteed prediction. Cross-check it against whatever anytime-TD price you see in the app.

The full 18-week regular season slate, all 32 teams. Pick a week to see every matchup.

The latest injury outlook and roster moves, each with its source and date. This is a dated snapshot, not a live feed, since a static page cannot maintain one. Transaction wires checked (ESPN, CBS Sports) showed mostly practice-squad moves since Sept 19; nothing here is attributed to an insider unless the report actually came from one.

Every player with a projection this week who is listed Out, Doubtful, Questionable or on IR, from Sleeper's live injury designations, plus anything you add below. Sorted by severity, then most recent update.

The Spread is a DFS lineup builder and fantasy football research tool built around one rule: every number on the page says where it came from. Real season stats, real Vegas lines, real weather, and real advanced metrics sit next to the parts you fill in yourself — rankings, salary uploads, your own scouting notes — and the two are never presented as the same thing.

A quick tour of every section, and exactly which numbers are real versus entered by you. Questions, cancellations, or data requests: thespreadfantasy@gmail.com

Weekly fantasy projections for every player, in PPR, 0.5 PPR or non-PPR. For weeks already played, the real result sits next to the projection. The matchup chip shows how soft or tough that week's opponent has been against the player's position — green is a good matchup, red is a tough one. Click any player's name for their week-by-week breakdown.

How many fantasy points (or yards / touchdowns) each defense has allowed per game to every player at a position. Green = soft defense, a good matchup for the offense. Red = tough defense, a bad matchup. Click a position header to sort by it.

Totals are for the whole position, not per player — e.g. every WR who played against that defense, summed per game. Rank 1 = toughest, 32 = softest. Early-season samples are small (one or two games per defense), so treat these as directional until more weeks are in.

How accurate were the projections? Every player who was projected and played is compared here — the average miss, whether projections run high or low, the biggest beats and the biggest busts. Most sites never show you this. Click any dot or name for that player's full breakdown.

Dots above the dashed line scored more than projected; dots below scored less.

Pick two to four players and get a call with the reasoning attached. Every input is pulled from real data: the week's projection, how soft or tough the opposing defense has been against that position, whether the player has been beating his projection, and how much work he's getting. Drag the weights to match how you play.

Projection: scored against a typical range for the position. Matchup: the opponent's rank against the position (1 = toughest, 32 = softest). Form: points per game above or below projection so far (±30% spans the bar). Usage: touches per game for RBs, targets per game for WRs and TEs, passing yards per game for QBs. Any factor with no data yet — a bye week, or no games played — is skipped and the score is re-weighted over the rest.

You're viewing the published board — editing is limited to the site owner.

Offense only — QB/RB/WR/TE. Pick a board below: Overall is one mixed ranking; QB/RB/WR/TE are separate, independently-saved tier lists for that position alone, the way most fantasy sites actually publish rankings. Drag players into tiers — drag them back to Unranked, or click ✕, to remove them. Click a name for their full breakdown, or 📝 for a note. Each chip's small badge is that game's real weather and Vegas total — hover it for the full line, and shows next week's PPR / 0.5 PPR / Standard projection, in that order. "Sync to Overall" rebuilds the Overall board from your QB/RB/WR/TE boards, ordered strictly by PPR points within each tier. "Send to Rankings" does the same merge and copies it onto the Rankings tab for the upcoming week, as numbered tiers (S=1 … D=5) with real PPR/Half/Standard points attached. "Graphic" saves the current board as a wide shareable image; "Story" saves its S and A tiers as a vertical 1080×1920 card sized for TikTok, Instagram, or YouTube Shorts — on the Claude app it opens your device's own share sheet, so you can send it straight to those apps.

Every player in your DFS pool who has been matched to real season data gets a statistical floor and ceiling, not just a single projected number. Floor is a bad-week estimate; ceiling is a big-week estimate. The gap between them comes from how volatile that position typically is, blended with how volatile this specific player has actually been over the games he's played — a player with only a couple of games gets mostly the position's typical spread, and it narrows toward his own real pattern as more games come in. Use the safe-floor plays for cash games and double-ups; use the high-ceiling plays when you're building a tournament lineup and want a real chance at a huge score, even if it sometimes busts.

Build both sides of a trade and get a grade. Each player's trade value starts with their real rest-of-season projection (through Week 18), then gets a modest adjustment for how soft or tough their remaining schedule is and a discount for any current injury designation — the same data used everywhere else on the site, not a separate guess.

This is a research starting point, not a verdict — it doesn't know your league's roster needs, bye weeks you're trying to cover, or how the other manager values things. Always weigh it against your own team context.

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