DraftDesk

Fantasy basketball tools built around your league, not generic rankings.

New for the 2026-27 season

Season Desk

Your league, week by week. Add your rosters and Season Desk shows how your team stacks up, who to pick up, which trades help both sides, and how to win this week's matchup.

  • Trade ideas scored for both teams, with how likely each one is to land
  • Waiver pickups and streams ranked for your roster and this week's schedule
  • This week's matchup: your chance in every category, and who to start
  • Add your league from screenshots, a copied Rosters page, or a Sleeper or ESPN league ID
Open Season DeskFree, no sign-up. Your leagues stay in your browser. How it works.

Under the hood: Season Desk

Not a weekly ranking. A model of your league.

Most season tools rank players by one fixed value. Season Desk plays out your actual roster against the teams in your league, day by day on the real schedule, and shows you why.

Every week, Season Desk plays out

  • Each day's games on the real 2026-27 schedule, filling your lineup slots and positions the way your platform does
  • Injuries with return dates, and starters who miss a game handing their slot to your best bench player with one
  • Your chance of winning each category, from how much real teams' weekly totals swung in 2023-26, scaled by the games both teams play
  • Daily or weekly lineups, active slots, games caps and punted categories
  • Days already played, banked from real box scores, so only what's left is projected

Every trade idea, Season Desk weighs

  • Every 1-for-1, 2-for-1 and 1-for-2, and the most promising 2-for-2, with every team in your league
  • What it does for both teams for the rest of the season, against your whole league
  • How likely they are to say yes: a third the names, two thirds what it does for their team and the categories they're short in
  • Whether they could get the same just by picking up a free agent
  • Sell high and buy low: this season's numbers against what we expect from here

What it runs on

85%of teams made the playoffs with Season Desk running their pickups and a trade idea every week, across 96 replays of the real 2024-25 season, against 50% with a simple pick-up rule. More than three times the titles, too.
1 tapadds every Sleeper league you play in. Sleeper, ESPN and Fantrax leagues then keep themselves up to date: rosters, trades, waiver results and league settings, with nothing to re-enter.
30,000+trades checked with a 12-team league each time Trade ideas runs, the best 90 played out in full.
2023-26real head-to-head weeks behind every category chance, so a close category counts for what it's really worth.

The draft boards

Snake Draft Board

Log each pick as it happens and the board re-ranks every player by how much he raises your chance of winning each category against the actual teams in your draft.

+1.1more categories won per week than drafting by ADP
  • The board's pick for your team, with fallbacks in order
  • Who's likely to last to your next pick
  • A "Why" breakdown for every player, plus your own targets
  • Snake, third-round reversal or linear draft order
Open the snake board

Auction Draft Board

Log each sale and the board re-prices everyone: your max bid for every player, from the best roster your money can still buy against the teams in your room.

+1.4more categories won per week than bidding average auction values
  • "Bid up to" advice for whoever's on the block
  • Who to nominate to drain other teams' budgets
  • Your plan for the money left, built around your targets
  • Keepers, and prices that learn your room's habits
Open the auction board

Tested in over 150,000 simulated drafts and auctions. What's inside the boards.

Under the hood: the draft boards

Not a rankings list. A model of your draft.

Most boards sort players by one fixed value. DraftDesk re-solves your draft after every pick and every sale, against the teams you're actually drafting with, and shows you why.

Every pick, the snake board weighs

  • Your roster so far, and every other team's, forecast to the end of the draft
  • How far apart teams finish in each category, so a close category counts for more
  • How much each category swings week to week, in head-to-head leagues
  • Who's likely to last to your next pick, from draft positions and how your room has drafted
  • Lineup slots, positions, games played, and daily or weekly lineups
  • Keepers, 8 or 9 categories, roto or head-to-head, 6 to 16 teams

Every sale, the auction board weighs

  • The best roster your remaining money can still buy, re-planned after every sale
  • What rooms really pay, fitted on real and mock auctions and adjusted live as your room spends
  • Every other team's money and roster, and who can still outbid you
  • Price uncertainty: every max bid is averaged over 12 price scenarios, 24 for the player on the block
  • Who to nominate to drain other budgets, around your own targets and max bids
  • Keepers, and prices that learn from your saved auctions

Tested, not guessed

138,600simulated snake drafts, 8 to 14 teams, every draft slot. The board beat drafting by ADP, plain z-score rankings and every punt strategy.
14,000+simulated auctions against five bidding styles, from bargain hunters to star chasers, 8 to 14 teams.
+1.1categories won a week in snake drafts, and 24% more matchups, than drafting by ADP, scored on real 2025-26 box scores, schedules and absences with daily lineups.
+1.4categories won a week in auctions than bidding average auction values, scored on real NBA weeks with daily lineups.

The Monday Desk

Every Monday: our waiver pickups and calls for the week, plus how last week's did. Free, and your first month of Pro free when it launches.