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New here? Start with Getting started, it walks through the league settings everything else depends on.

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Everything on the site is calculated from your league settings, so it is worth getting these right before anything else.

League sizeTeams, player count, and optionally a Roto game limit. The limit is per team, so 82 games with 10 active players is 820.

Active roster spotsOptional, but we use them to work out your best active players, and the bench fills itself in once they are set.

Auction settingsFill these in and dollar values get calculated. For $1 players, set this to the total bench players across all teams.

Quality gamesA game on a light schedule day, based on your game limit. More of them means fewer wasted games on your bench.

Playoff weeksSets the number of playoff games, and can move the end of your season to the end of the playoffs.

Fantasy providerNeeded for correct positions, and required to import rosters or connect the draft tracker.

CategoriesCategory or points based. Weights are available if you want to emphasize a category, but most leagues do not need them.

Each square is one set of projections or rankings, showing games played and minutes per game over that period.

Blue numberA top player, in the top 80% of owned players.

Purple numberPlayable, worth owning.

Gray numberNot playable.

Before the seasonJosh Projections, Bonus Projections, last season, last season final two months, last season final three weeks.

Values are z-scores. 0.00 is your league average, 3 or higher is very good, and minus 3 or lower is very bad.

Balance valueHow evenly a player's value is spread across categories. Someone giving you almost all of it in blocks scores low.

Positional valueValue adjusted for how scarce the player's position is given your active roster spots. Useful as a tie-breaker.

Advanced ownershipOwnership percent in money leagues at standard size, updated daily, so you can see what active owners actually think.

If you decide to give up on a category, punt it. Values across the site then leave that category out.

The rest of your league still cares about it though, so we also show LeagueV and League$, which is the player's value to everyone else including the punted categories, and Punt+, the extra value the player gains from your punt.

Two projection sets, both updated constantly as news breaks or opinions change. Full season sets refresh several times a day. Daily and short-term refresh as soon as news happens, and cover the next three weeks.

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Column	What it is
JoshG	Josh Lloyd's projected per game value
JoshT	Josh Lloyd's projected total value
BonusG	Bonus Projections projected per game value
Day	Stats from the past day
NextWk	Projected stats for the next week, usually Monday through Sunday
Short	Projected stats for the next two to three weeks
Value30	Per game value assuming at least 30 minutes

Color	Meaning
Dark green	Your player, active
Light green	Your player, inactive
Dark amber	Another team's player, active
Light amber	Another team's player, inactive

Code	Meaning
ST	Starter
mST	Matchup starter
BN	Rotation bench
mBN	Matchup bench
limBN	Limited bench
EM	Emergency only
NVR	Never plays

Tag	Why the player is marked
Injury	A physical injury
Illness	Sick, not injured
Rest	Scheduled rest, often a back-to-back
Injury maintenance	Managing an existing problem
Personal	A personal matter
Coach's decision	Held out by the coach
Possible suspension	Discipline pending
Trade pending	In a trade that has not been finalized

Column	What it is
Conf	Projection confidence, 1 to 10, where 10 is most confident
USG	Usage rate
...V	Anything ending in V is the value for a single category
Standard 8-cat	pts, 3s, reb, ast, stl, blk, fg%, ft%
Standard 9-cat	The 8-cat list plus turnovers

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