Auction CipherFeatures
Auction draft values, calibrated to your league, and the workspace to put them to use. Here is everything the product does.
Draft day values, built from your history
A two-phase engine reads every auction your league has run, builds the price of each positional slot, and maps this year's players onto those slots in ranking order. The result is a value for every player that reflects how your league spends.
Your league, your market. View what each player costs for your league, updated throughout the offseason as rankings and tiers mature leading up to draft day.
Every source side by side. FantasyPros, your own uploaded Expert set, and your platform's draft-room board in one view, with a delta column to identify mis-priced players.
Tag and annotate. Mark targets and avoids, keep a note per position, and copy a whole set of tags from one league to another.
Adjust the market, preview, then commit
The Market page is where your league's price structure lives: how much of the room's money goes to each position, how heavily recent drafts count, and what is tied up in keepers, kickers and dead money. Everything is anchored to what your league actually did.
Allocation sliders. Move dollars between positions and every slot reprices. Allocations are league-wide shares, so the number describes the whole room, not one team.
Year weights and reserves. Weight the drafts that matter most, set dead money, carve out kickers and defenses, and enter this year's keepers so the board prices around them.
Preview before you commit. Compare the new market against the current one price by price, then commit once. Strategy rows tied to changed values are flagged for review, never overwritten.
Your draft day plan
A strategy is where it all comes together: the roster structure you want, targets for each slot, and what you are willing to pay. Prices come from your league's market. Build up to three and pivot when the room does not cooperate.
A running budget. Track your remaining budget and bench allocations against your overall draft budget. Dollars recompute with every edit.
Ideal player and other targets. Name the players and/or tiers you want in each slot, and flag the cornerstones that you must leave every draft with on your roster.
Comments and overrides. Document notes for each position group and each overall strategy. You can also override any player's assigned price to create your perfect plan.
Take your numbers into the draft room
One printable page per league, every position ranked and priced by your market, with your targets and avoids in color. Print it, save it as a PDF, or take the CSV and build your own.
Customize your view. Set how many players show at each position, pick a font size, and toggle the team, bye, and rookie values until it prints the way you need it.
Your tags, in color. The targets and avoids from the Values page come through green and red, making it easy to make quick decisions on draft night.
Print, PDF or CSV. Print it and bring it to the draft, or download it and use it for your own pre-draft preparation processes.
Every pick, then the verdict
Draft results are free on every league, every year: who bought whom, for how much, by position, by manager, or as the whole board. Once this year's draft is in, the Recap grades it.
Pick by pick, three ways. Switch between position, manager and league views, pick any season, and export the whole history as per-position CSVs.
Know your rivals. Each manager's draft at a glance: total spend, roster shape, and where the money went, across every season you have.
The Recap. Power rankings from projections, the optimal team the money could have bought, the biggest values and overpays, and how this year's prices moved against last year's.
Where the money goes in your draft room
How your league's budget splits across positions year over year, and which managers pay up or save at each position. The macro view behind every value on the site, free on every league.
Positional spend over time. Dollars and share of the cap for every position, including unspent dead money. You see every season side by side, highlighting year over year spending trends.
Your view, your years. Show or hide any season, drop a position row, and hide managers who have left the league, from one view menu.
Manager spend heat map. Who spends big at quarterback and who waits, tinted by how far each year sits from the league norm.
Connect a league in a minute
Connect a league once and we pull its settings, managers and full auction history. Credentials are stored encrypted and never shown back to you, and we only ever read; nothing is written to your league on any platform.
Four platforms, or a CSV. ESPN, Yahoo through its official sign-in, Sleeper with a username only, MFL with your league login. Use another platform? Upload via our manual upload CSV template.
ESPN's two cookies, filled for you. ESPN has no public API, so it needs two browser values. Our free Chrome extension fills both with one click. Prefer not to install the extension? The page walks you through pulling the cookies by hand.
Find My Leagues does the rest. We list your auction leagues, walk each platform's season chain for the full history, match every player to one identity, and keep a manager as one person when the team name changes.
Every league in one place
Sign in and your leagues are waiting, one card each, whichever platform they live on. Free leagues and unlocked leagues sit side by side, and the pages you use most are one click from the card.
One card per league. Platform, team count, budget and scoring at a glance, with a Paid or Free badge so you know what each league has unlocked.
Per-league sync status. The status line tells you when every league is current. If a sync fails or a Yahoo session expires, the card says what to fix.
Straight to the plan. Strategy and Draft open from the card. Add League connects another; Link Leagues joins a league that moved platforms.
Free values and analysis, no account needed
Two public pages built from real leagues synced to Auction Cipher: average auction values by league setting, and a market analysis of how prices moved from last year to this year. Browse, filter and download them without signing in.
Values by league setting. Pick the season, team count and scoring, 1 QB or superflex, and read the average, low and high price for every slot across hundreds of drafts.
Market Analysis. Price bands and slot-by-slot changes against last year, plus how each platform's default draft board disagrees with the market.
Export or analyze. Every cohort downloads as a CSV, and one click takes a values page to its market analysis.
Free on every league
Your full draft history and its exports, the post draft Recap, league spending trends, and league linking are free for every league. A demo league lets you view all paid features, no account needed.
Unlock for all features
Activating a league adds the engine-backed pages on top: Values, Market, Strategy and the printable Cheat Sheet. One-time, per league, per season. Never a subscription.
$10 first league, $5 each additional
Leagues linked across platforms count as one. Taxes where they apply.
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Ready to decode your league?
Connect your league and turn years of auction history into values that actually fit your draft room. Start free and explore the demo first.