The questions we hear most often about how AutoTiers builds a board and why it makes the choices it does.
AutoTiers takes fantasy football projections, adjusts them with a stack of transparent rules you control, and clusters the result into draft tiers so you can see where the real drop-offs are instead of staring at a flat list of 200 names.
Dramatically. The reception-point setting — standard (no points per catch), half-PPR (half a point), or full PPR (a full point) — is not a cosmetic toggle; it re-scores every player from scratch. Full PPR rewards volume pass-catchers and pushes receiving running backs up the board, while standard scoring leans toward touchdown-dependent, early-down runners. AutoTiers recomputes each player's projected points, re-derives value over replacement, and redraws the tiers whenever you change the format. You never need to mentally translate a PPR ranking into your standard league.
Yes, and it is more than a label. In a superflex league most teams start a second quarterback, which roughly doubles quarterback demand. AutoTiers responds by moving the replacement-level quarterback much deeper — to around QB18 in a 12-team league instead of the single-QB baseline near QB8. Because value is measured against that baseline, elite quarterbacks gain a large, correct jump in value and stop being buried beneath running backs and receivers the way they are in one-QB formats. Set your QB starter count and the whole board reorganizes.
Average draft position measures what the market thinks, not what a player is projected to do. Folding ADP into a player's score would make AutoTiers partly a mirror of the crowd — and the entire value of a tiering tool is that it can disagree with the crowd when the projections and rules point somewhere else. That is exactly where drafts are won: on the players the room is mispricing.
So ADP never touches a player's adjusted score. It earns exactly one job: breaking ties within a tier. When two players are close enough in value to land in the same tier — genuinely interchangeable on the projections — ADP orders them, because at that point the market's read on who tends to go first is useful, low-stakes information. It decides presentation order inside a tier; it never decides which tier you are in.
AutoTiers blends two things: a player's actual production from last season and current-season consensus projections. You control the weight on each. The prior-year term is discounted for missed games so an injury-shortened season is not read as a full, bad year. Rookies, who have no NFL history, lean entirely on the consensus term. See the methodology page for the exact blend.
Rules are optional adjustments that encode a specific football idea — a committee-backfield penalty, a target-share boost, a touchdown-regression haircut, and so on. Every rule is off by default. You turn on the ones you believe in and leave the rest alone. Nothing is hidden: the app shows you how each enabled rule moves each player, and these guides explain where every threshold comes from. Browse them by theme from the guides index.
Yes. Effects are multiplicative, so a player can pick up several boosts or penalties at once — for example an aging back who also carried a huge workload last year. That compounding is deliberate and, in a few cases, specifically calibrated (see volume & workload for how the 370-touch and over-the-hill penalties are tuned to co-fire without double-counting). Because every effect is visible, you can always see why a player moved.
Your settings and profiles are saved so your board persists between sessions, and connected fantasy accounts are used only to read your league setup. The full details — what is collected, how it is used, and how to disconnect — are in our Privacy Policy.
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