Dynasty Trade Value Chart Plus: A New Era
I've been publishing the Dynasty Trade Value Chart article monthly since 2014. This month's edition is different. You may have noticed it is hitting Footballguys a week later than usual. There is a good reason for that. I've spent the last two months building something I'm really excited about, and it is finally ready: the Dynasty Trade Value Chart Plus app.
This week's format is a departure from the usual monthly column. The first half of this article is a full walkthrough of the new app, tab by tab, with screenshots. The second half is the position-by-position breakdown you're used to: key value movers from free agency, a look ahead to the NFL draft, and updated rookie pick values.
Before we go any further, here is the link to the new app:
Dynasty Trade Value Chart Plus
I am going to suggest three options here:
- You can click that link right now and start poking around on your own. Explore as much as you want and come back to this article when you are ready for more context on what the app is all about.
- You can open the link in a second window or tab and follow along, clicking back and forth between the app and my explanations of each tab.
- You can keep reading and let me walk you through every feature before you dive in.
Totally your call.
Dynasty Trade Value Chart Plus
Why a New App?
The Dynasty Trade Value Chart Plus combines two older Footballguys apps, the Dynasty Trade Value Chart and the Sleeper Dynasty Assistant, into one integrated tool that is faster, more powerful, and loaded with new features. If you used either of those tools, you know they worked, but they had real limitations. They would time out on you. They did not remember who you were from one session to the next. Load too much data, and everything starts to drag. The new app is built from scratch and solves all of those problems. It is faster, it remembers your settings between visits, and it handles a lot more data without breaking a sweat.
It also does a bunch of things the old apps simply could not do and adds some fun new features. Here are a few of the highlights:
- Full dynasty write-ups for 310 players, available right inside the trade value chart
- Dynasty ADP from Sleeper and redraft ADP from Underdog, updated daily
- A massive database of real dynasty trades with filters to show the players and picks on your roster that are trending, each with a league similarity score that tells you how closely the league where the trade occurred matches your own
- 2027 and 2028 future picks in the trade calculator with ownership tracking and estimates of whether each pick projects to be early, mid-round, or late
- Deep Sleeper league integration with automatic roster imports, pick tracking, and league power rankings showing each team's positional strengths and weaknesses
- Light and dark mode toggle (editor's note: I'm a dark mode guy, so the screenshots that you will see below are all in dark mode.)
And that is just the starting point. I will walk through all of it below.
A Note on League Host Support
Before we get into the walkthrough, a quick word on compatibility. Right now, the app has a deep integration with Sleeper. If your dynasty leagues are on Sleeper, you are going to love what this thing can do.
If you're on MyFantasyLeague or another platform, you can still use the app, and it is a major upgrade over what we had before. You'll just need to manually configure your league's scoring in the Customize Scoring tab to get custom trade values. You won't have access to all the bells and whistles that come with the Sleeper integration, like automatic roster imports and pick tracking.
I want to be upfront about this, but I also want to be clear: this is just the starting point. There is no reason we can't add full support for other league hosts in the future, and more features are coming for Sleeper leagues, too. Almost exactly half of my own dynasty leagues are on MFL, and one of my guiding lights as a fledgling app designer is to build the tool that I want to use. So trust me when I say this is on my mind. I just didn't want to let perfect be the enemy of good and sit on this until every last thing was finished.
A Thank You and a Disclaimer
Before I get into the features, I want to take a second to thank the 20 Dynasty Trade Value Chart readers who volunteered their time last month to beta test the app. They caught a whole lot of bugs that got fixed before launch and made some genuinely great suggestions for improvements. This app is better because of them.
That said, new software will have some bugs. I tested this thing extensively, and the beta testers put it through its paces, but issues are bound to pop up. I'm hoping they're all minor. If you spot something that isn't working right or something behaves differently than you'd expect, please contact customer support or drop me an email directly at hindery@footballguys.com. I want to hear about it so I can get it fixed.
The App Without Sleeper Connected: Core Features
Trade Values
The main trade value page will look familiar if you used the old Shiny app. The layout is similar, but there's a big new addition: expandable rows. Click on any player and the row opens up to reveal a full dynasty write-up, key stats, a 2026 projection based on whatever scoring settings you have configured, and current ADP pulled daily from both Underdog and recently completed dynasty startup drafts on Sleeper.
I wrote or updated dynasty write-ups for 310 players in the last week alone. The best way to experience them is to open the app and start clicking around. This is also why I didn't want to use too much ink on player write-ups in this month's article. Here is what the app looks like with Jahmyr Gibbs' player row expanded:
Trade Value Calculator
The trade calculator works as you'd expect, but it now includes specific 2026 rookie picks as trade assets, along with 2027 and 2028 future picks.
Trade Database
This tab gives you access to actual dynasty trades. You can browse recent transactions or select a specific player or 2026 rookie pick to filter the database down to just trades involving that asset.
Each trade includes a league similarity score. This tells you how closely the league where the trade happened matches the scoring settings you've configured in the Settings tab. The closer the match, the more relevant that trade comp is for your league. Here are recent trades involving Rashee Rice:
Trending Players
The Trending tab shows which players or 2026 rookie picks are appearing most frequently in recent trades. Click on any name to drill into the specific deals.
Dynasty ADP
This tab shows current dynasty ADP, pulled daily from Underdog and Sleeper dynasty league drafts. It is currently set to have two separate ADPs, one for Superflex and one for one-quarterback leagues. It also filters out drafts where the TE Premium is greater than 0.5. Here is a look at Superflex ADP. You can see there is a real separation between the top seven players and everyone else:
The App With Sleeper: Full Integration
This is where things get really fun. My hope is that this becomes your dynasty command center, the place where you explore trade ideas, evaluate offers, see how your roster stacks up against your leaguemates, and maybe kill some time during a slow afternoon at work when you feel like thinking about fantasy football instead of whatever you are supposed to be doing.
Connecting To Sleeper
Look for the Sleeper integration button. You only have to enter your Sleeper username once, and the app will remember it across sessions. One important heads-up: your username is case-sensitive. Your phone's keyboard will want to auto-capitalize the first letter. Make sure you type it exactly as it appears on Sleeper, or it won't connect.
My username is bengalbuck, so that's what I'll use for this walkthrough. Once you click the small Sleeper button with the link icon in the upper-right corner, a little box will pop up. You type in your Sleeper username, hit connect, and that's all it takes to fully integrate all of your Sleeper dynasty leagues. Here's what that looks like:
Once you click connect, you'll see a list of all your Sleeper leagues. Just click on any one of them to select your league. I'm going to pick my league, LFG Reddit, which I co-manage with my 12-year-old son, as the example league for the rest of this walkthrough.
After you are connected, switching leagues is easy and almost instantaneous. Just click on the small arrow next to the league you are connected to, and the league menu above will reappear. Now that I am connected to my league on LFG Reddit, clicking the green box with the league name (see below where it says my league name in green) will return the list of all my leagues.
That's all you need to know to connect your Sleeper account, select a league, and then switch from league to league.
Trade Values (Connected)
Back on the main trade value page, players on your roster are now highlighted. You can immediately spot your guys as you scan the full list. We own Ashton Jeanty in this league, so he is highlighted in the main Trade Value Chart table. You will also see your league name and details of the league's scoring at the top of the page:
Click on a player who is on someone else's roster and expand the row. Two things to notice here. First, the stats and 2026 projections now reflect the exact scoring settings of the league you selected. The app pulled those in automatically when you connected. Second, you'll see which leaguemate's roster that player belongs to, and there's an "Add to Trade Calculator" button right there in the expanded row.
The orange text in Burrow's expanded player row shows what team the player is on in the connected league ("meisterman"). Clicking the Blue button that says +Trade Calc will automatically load the player you want to trade for into the trade calculator and take you to that tab. This is what I see when I click the button for Burrow:
Trade Calculator (Connected)
In addition to adding players directly from the values table, you can also go and manually select which team you want to trade with in the small drop-down menu on the right-hand side (blue box):
Pick the leaguemate you want to trade with, and the app automatically pulls in all of their assets and lists them in order of their trade value in your league. Their full roster, their current rookie picks, their future picks. Everything.
Your assets are all in there automatically, also on the left-hand side.
Rookie Tab (Connected)
The Rookie tab generates a custom projected draft board based on your league's scoring and settings. It shows who owns each pick, with your own picks highlighted.
As with all tabs in Sleeper Connect, the player values automatically adjust to the league settings and scoring. In a small 10-team league with 0.5 PPR and TE-Premium, the running backs and tight ends get a value boost in comparison to the wide receivers.
Trade Database, Trending Players, and Similarity Score (Connected)
When you're connected to a league, the Trending Players box automatically filters to show the players on your roster and the picks you own. In the trades section, any player on your roster is highlighted in orange with a "MY" tag next to their name, so you can quickly spot deals involving your assets. We have a lot of rookie picks in this league, so most of our trending assets at this time of the year are picks.
The My Roster box on the left shows all of our assets ordered by how many times they have been traded in the past week. Clicking any player or pick automatically filters to show only trades involving those assets. You can see the players highlighted in orange, who are on our roster in the trade ticker.
My Team
This one is simple. It's just a quick view of your full roster. No screenshot needed here, but it's handy when you want a fast reference for who you've got and a quick and easy way to access my latest dynasty write-ups, since each row has the same expanded layout that gives you more information.
Power Rankings
This is the feature I'd really encourage everyone to spend time with. Power Rankings show how your team stacks up against every other team in your league, both overall and broken down by position. It also factors in the value of future picks owned by each team. Expand any team's row, and you'll see every player and pick on their roster.
This is incredibly useful when you're brainstorming trade ideas. You can see exactly where your roster is strong, where it's thin, and where every other team in your league has surplus or need. That's how you find the deals that actually make sense for both sides.
In this league, my son and I are trying to trade from our surplus of draft capital and depth at running back to add a true #1 wide receiver, and we can figure out which teams to trade with from this tab.
Within this power rank tab, we can click any team to expand the row and see all their players and picks in one place.
That covers some of the app, but there is plenty more. The Waivers tab shows you the best available free agents alongside the players on your roster who are most droppable. The Change Log includes some of my thoughts on player value changes I found most noteworthy. The FAQ tab provides details on many of the app's features.
Go play with it, and let me know what you think.
Player Value Movement
What follows is a handful of players at each position whose valuations I find interesting right now, whether because I think the market has them wrong, because their situations meaningfully changed this offseason, or because they represent the kind of risk-reward profile worth discussing. This is not an exhaustive position-by-position ranking. For that, open the app. These are just some of the guys I have been thinking about the most.
Quarterbacks
Jackson is going off the board as the QB2 in redraft at Underdog (ADP 51.2), with almost a full round of separation between him and the next tier of Daniels (62.7), Burrow (63.8), and Maye (70.4). That short-term value, combined with the fact that he is still just 29, makes it easy to argue for him as high as QB3 in dynasty superflex. I still have him tied for third in dynasty value with Burrow, and slightly ahead of Daniels and Williams.
But here is where I have to be honest with you. I am typically willing to pay a real premium to upgrade a tier or two at quarterback in superflex. If I am sitting on Jared Goff, Brock Purdy, or Dak Prescott and a leaguemate offers me a path to a top-five dynasty quarterback, that is usually a deal I want to make. And yet over the past month, I have had Jackson offered to me in multiple leagues and found myself unwilling to actually pull the trigger. Strip out the 2024 outlier, where his 8.6% passing touchdown rate was nearly double his career norm of 4.2 to 5.3%, and his passing production has been fairly modest throughout his career. What has always made Jackson special from a fantasy perspective is his legs. The rushing production is the gap between him and every other quarterback not named Josh Allen. But he has missed time in four of the last five seasons, and while 29 is not old by quarterback standards and there is no reason to expect regression in his passing numbers anytime soon, it is fair to start pricing in some real medium-term regression on the rushing side. We already saw that last season when his rushing yards dropped to 349 on just 67 carries, both career lows by a wide margin. We know that players at other skilled positions start hitting sharp drop-offs as they approach 30, and while quarterbacks are different, the rushing component of Jackson's value is not. His value on my chart sits at 39, which is QB3 in superflex behind Allen and Maye. I think that is roughly right, but I would not argue with anyone who wanted to shade him a tick lower.
Outside of the 2025 disaster with J.J. McCarthy, Minnesota quarterbacks have been remarkably productive in Kevin O'Connell's offense. Kirk Cousins averaged 17.2 and 19.7 half-PPR fantasy points per game in 2022 and 2023. Sam Darnold stepped in and put up 4,319 yards and 35 touchdowns in 2024, good for 18.6 points per game. Darnold proved in 2025 with Seattle that he is a very good NFL quarterback, but even while having a strong season for the Seahawks, his numbers paled in comparison to what he did in Minnesota: 14.3 points per game on 10 fewer touchdowns. The infrastructure matters. The Vikings have a very good offensive line when healthy, an outstanding scheme for quarterbacks, home games played indoors, and regular road games on turf. Minnesota is better set up than most teams for passing success. Most importantly, Justin Jefferson is a weapon who raises the fantasy expectations for any quarterback throwing him the ball, and Jordan Addison and T.J. Hockenson round out an elite pass-catching group.
What this all means for Murray is hard to price in. This is a player who essentially wore out his welcome in Arizona. He is undersized, does not always see the middle of the field well, and his work ethic has been questioned at times. There is no guarantee he locks down this starting job or any starting job long-term. But you have to counterbalance that risk with the extreme upside if he puts it all together in this setting. Look at what Darnold did in 2024 or Cousins did in his stint as the Vikings starter, and then add what Murray can contribute with his legs, and it is easy to see QB1 fantasy upside. How highly you value Murray is, in part, going to come down to how risk-averse you are, because there are much safer players with similar dynasty evaluations. But no one in his current vicinity of the dynasty quarterback rankings can match his realistic ceiling.
Willis is going off the board 127th overall in recent Sleeper dynasty startups as the QB27, and I get why. While he signed a three-year deal with Miami, this is essentially a one-year audition, and it is in a bad situation with arguably the league's worst receiver corps after the Waddle trade stripped away his best weapon. This could be Justin Fields in New York all over again.
On the other hand, I cannot help but be excited about Willis's fantasy upside. The small samples in Green Bay have been genuinely impressive. He completed 74.1% of his passes in 2024 and 85.7% in 2025, throwing 6 touchdowns against zero interceptions across 10 appearances while adding 261 rushing yards and 3 touchdowns on just 42 carries. Those are small samples, and they came mostly in relief stints rather than full games with defensive game-planning, but the trajectory of improvement is hard to ignore. As with Murray, how you value Willis comes down to risk tolerance and your individual roster construction. Ideally, he is your QB3 behind a pair of solid starters who are locked into starting jobs over the medium term. But I do feel Willis has legitimate top-10 fantasy quarterback upside this season, especially if Miami adds weapons in the draft. The Dolphins are well-positioned to do exactly that with seven top-100 picks, including a pair of first-rounders. If they add a top young wide receiver with the 11th pick and grab another pass catcher and some offensive line help later in the draft, Willis could be a guy whose value slowly but steadily rises over the summer.
