Draft HQ
Your draft, with someone smart next to you.
A board that shows you where the markets disagree. A war room that watches your real draft pick by pick. A coach who tells you what the run forming three seats away is about to do to your roster — while there's still time to move.
Included with every season plan · nothing to install for Sleeper or Yahoo · ESPN, Yahoo, and Sleeper leagues · 18+ · US only
Real ADP, three real markets, as of 9 Sep 2026 — shown side by side because they disagree, and the disagreement is the edge. The highlighted rows are where one market is a round-and-a-half off another. Ribby's column is his own tier read on your scoring, with the reasoning attached.
Two RBs went in the last four picks and the tier you were waiting on just cracked. Take the back now — the receiver room you like is eleven deep and it'll still be there at pick 31.
Sample draft. In a real room the picks arrive on their own: Sleeper and Yahoo through their official APIs, ESPN through the Ribby companion — you never type a pick somebody else made.
Four lenses, no mush
Consensus is where edges go to die.
Every other board averages the market and hands you the average. We show you the markets separately, because the row where ESPN says pick 19 and one of the others says pick 10 is the only row on the page that can win you anything.
Three real markets
Live ADP from ESPN, Sleeper and Fantasy Football Calculator, plus a licensed projections core — each in its own column, updated daily through draft season.
Ribby Rank, with its reasoning
Our own read: projections recomputed under your scoring, value over replacement at your roster shape, tiers, and a plain-English "why" on every row.
Honest about where we stand
On the top ~200 our rank is level with the sharpest public sources; it pulls ahead on the deep board. We measured it, we publish the shape of it, and we don't claim more than that.
How a draft goes
Prep, practice, draft, recap.
Build a strategy, not a printout
Set your scoring and lineup once — superflex, TE premium, whatever your league actually does — then save as many strategies as you want. Zero RB in one, hero RB in another, and a queue for each. The board re-ranks under the scoring you picked, not under generic PPR.
Draft against bots that reason
One button spins a full mock the bots fill around you at a pace you choose. They pick the way Ribby thinks — positional dropoff over raw value, ten different archetypes — so the run that ruins your plan in practice is the run that would have ruined it for real. Zero tokens to draft.
The war room watches your draft
Picks arrive on their own and the board updates itself. When a correction comes in, you hear about it in words you can check — "36 was wrong, and your guy is at 47" — because a silent correction is worse than a loud one.
A grade, and a card for the group chat
A letter grade computed against your own board, the picks that earned it, a public share page and a download card. Plus a print sheet if you like paper on the table.
Where the picks come from
ESPN, Yahoo, and Sleeper.
3 platforms, 3 honest answers about how each one works — because "supported" means different things and you deserve to know which one you're getting.
Sleeper
Live sync, official API. Paste your draft link and the room tracks it. Connecting is a username — no password, no cookie, nothing that expires. Mocks track live too.
ESPN
Live sync via the Ribby companion, a small browser extension that reads the frames off your own draft tab. ESPN allows one draft connection per member, so the companion is the only way to watch your draft without taking your seat. Post-draft import works with no extension at all.
Yahoo
Live sync, official API. Import your league, and the room follows the real draft as it happens. Yahoo has no API-visible mock lobby, so practice drafts there run against our bots instead.
Read-only, every one of them, and revocable from your account whenever you like.
What asking him looks like
You're on the clock. Type the question.
A real answer over real 2025 season lines — this is the product's own card, verdict pill and all.
Gibbs or Bijan at 1.02?
Either one wins you the pick — this is a coin flip the market has already flattened. Take the back your league's scoring likes.
Bijan carries the bigger workload and the bigger receiving line; Gibbs got there on nearly twice the touchdowns. In half-PPR that's a wash — in full PPR the target volume nudges Atlanta. What I will not do is pretend there's a gap here that the numbers don't show.
The rules we hold ourselves to
A draft is unforgiving. So are we.
It never picks for you
Ribby reads your draft and tells you what he sees. He does not autodraft, he does not touch your league, and he cannot submit a pick — the connection is read-only in both directions.
A player can only be taken once
Availability is derived from the pick log itself, not from a second list that can drift. If somebody is gone, he is gone everywhere at once: the board, the queue, the recommendations, and Ribby.
Nothing bricks a draft
If the provider feed dies mid-round the room says so and marking keeps working. A draft night outage is allowed to cost you convenience. It is never allowed to cost you a pick.
Byes and designations are in the bytes
Ribby cannot recommend a player without knowing his bye week and his injury designation, because those are baked into the line he reads — not bolted on afterwards for him to forget.
What it costs
Included with every season plan.
The board, the war room, the practice drafts, the live sync and the graded recap come with any plan — nothing extra to buy, and everything you build in the off-season is still here when your league drafts again.
- On every plan: boards, strategies, queues, practice drafts, live sync, the recap and the share card.
- Ribby's voice is metered. Asking him a question inside the room draws one Ribby Token.
- Or start a season plan and the monthly allowance covers your draft too.
Drafting is zero-token by construction — there is no model anywhere under a pick.
One more thing
Football today. Baseball's draft tool is a 2027 job.
Draft HQ covers fantasy football drafts. If you're here for baseball, the in-season product is the one you want — full-league analysis, the trade desk, and the analytics suite. We'd rather tell you that than sell you a board we haven't built.
Board figures on this page are real ADP as of 9 Sep 2026. 18+ · US only.