Yahoo Fantasy Football Trends (2024)

FAQs

What are transaction trends in fantasy football? ›

Follow which players' values are rising and falling to stay ahead of the competition.

Rostered Percentage shows the number of fantasy leagues in which a player is on a roster divided by the total number of fantasy leagues. This helps indicate how the public views a player.

Only moderately useful for fantasy, stars simply show how well a player has performed overall. Players with the most stars often tend to be the highest ranked fantasy players.

While standard fantasy football scoring is the most common, PPR scoring systems awarding points for every reception are gaining steam as the league continues to be pass-heavy. Regardless of the system, make sure you take fantasy football scoring types into account as you get ready to join a league.

It's how many other fantasy teams across all the other leagues have that player in their starting line up (% start) or if that player is on their team whether starting or on the bench (% rostered).

Play the No. 1 fantasy game. Standard rosters include one Quarterback (QB), two Running Backs (RB), two Wide Receivers (WR), one Tight End (TE), one Flex (RB/WR/TE), one Defense/Special Teams (D/ST), one Kicker (K) and seven Bench Spots (BE -- players on your roster who are not in your active lineup for a given week).

Those numbers increase (or decrease) depending on how many you're required to start at each position and how many flex positions your lineup has. You'll most commonly want to draft 5-7 RBs and 5-8 WRs.

Who to pick #1 fantasy football? ›

Anyone with the top overall pick should take Christian McCaffrey with little hesitation. He scored over 100 more PPR points than any other running back last season and has the perfect combination of talent, opportunity and situation. Anyone missing out needs to pivot to a wide receiver.

While there isn't a right or wrong league size, most agree that 10 or 12 people is just about right. If there are too few people in the league, everyone has a team full of superstars, which removes some of the skill aspects of fantasy.

Your Level is based on your end-of-season Rating since 2009. Levels are broken into five categories grouped by Ratings and percentiles: Diamond - 900+ Rating and 99th Percentile.

Green indicates a top-10 matchup. Yellow indicates an 11-22 matchup. Red indicates a 23-32 matchup.

Yahoo Fantasy experts rank players based on how they think they will perform this season. X-rank is based on the default scoring settings for each game (1/2 point per ppr in football, 10 categories in baseball, etc.)

Trade offers can be made each Gameweek until the waiver deadline. If trades in your league require approval, then the trade deadline will be 24 hours before the waiver deadline. A trade offer involves proposing to swap one or more players in your squad with the same number of players from another squad in your league.

Transfer points are deducted at the start of the next Gameweek. Transfers are free of charge before the start of the season. If you join the game after the start of the season, transfers are free until your first deadline.

If you play in a fantasy football league for money, there's a good chance that the payout structure is something like: Champion gets 60-70% of the pot, Runner-Up gets 20-30%, and Third Place gets 10% (or their money back).

Trade Review Process

Standard leagues: During the trade review period, if four of the ten team managers vote to veto a trade, the trade will be canceled. A link on the main League Office page allows you to view pending trades and submit your veto if you choose to do so.