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Better fantasy calls every week, without the homework.

If you play fantasy football with your friends, After The Timeout helps you decide who to start, who to pick up off waivers, and whether that trade is fair. You get a straight answer and the reason behind it, so you learn as you go.

When you want to try more, like best ball or daily fantasy, it is all in the same place, and we walk you through it step by step. No betting required.

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  • Free tools, no account
  • $10 to try everything for a week
  • Nothing here needs a bet
Four ways in, one site

Pick your path

Start with the one that sounds like you. You can come back for the others whenever you like.

01 · Most people start here

I play in a league with friends

Weekly help with your lineup, the waiver wire and trade offers.

Your league ↓ 02

I draft best ball

Keep track of every team you have drafted, all in one place.

Best ball ↓ 03

I'm curious about DFS

Learn daily fantasy for free first, then build lineups step by step.

Daily fantasy ↓ 04

I want betting info

Odds with the bookmaker's cut removed, and calculators for bets you already hold.

Betting tools ↓
Path 01 · Season-long leagues

The three questions every week

Most leagues with friends are redraft leagues, and every week brings the same three decisions. Here is where each one gets answered.

RedraftA normal season-long league: draft in August, manage the team all season, start over next year.

  • Who should I pick up?The waiver wire: players nobody drafted, free to add during the season.
    Waiver WingmanFree

    Enter your Sleeper username or a public ESPN league ID and pick your team. You get pickups ranked for your roster and your league's scoring, each with the reasons behind it. If your league bids on players (FAAB), you also get a bid sized from what your league has actually paid.

  • Who should I start?Your lineup call for the week.
    NFL projections and start/sitMembers

    Put two players side by side and see how often one outscores the other, along with each player's range of likely outcomes, not just a single number.

  • Is this trade fair?Before you accept, or before you send one.
    Trade CalculatorMembersBeta

    Grades a trade by what it does to each team's best starting lineup for the rest of the season, in your league's own scoring and roster spots. Works with Sleeper and public ESPN leagues.

Also free for your league

ADP by site Free Mock draft room Free Draft room with friends Free NFL weekly report Free

ADP means average draft position: where a player usually gets picked. The mock room drafts against the ADP of the site you play on, so practice looks like your real draft.

Path 02 · Draft it and let it play

Best ball

Best ball is popular because there is nothing to manage after the draft. The hard part comes later, once you have drafted a lot of teams and lost track of who you own.

Best ballYou draft a team and never set a lineup. Your best scorers each week count automatically. No waivers, no trades.

  • What do I actually own?Across every best ball team you have drafted.
    Best Ball Portfolio ManagerMembers

    Every team you draft in one place: which players you own the most of, and a weekly scoreboard for each team. College football and NFL.

  • Who should I draft?Before and during a college draft.
    College player spotlightsFree

    The college players we draft most, and why, written up one player at a time.

Also free College schedule and byes NFL schedule College weekly recap
Path 03 · Learn it free, then build

Daily fantasy, one step at a time

DFS moves faster than a season-long league and has its own vocabulary. Learn the format for free, then let the builder do the heavy lifting.

DFSDaily fantasy sports: you build a lineup for one set of games under a salary cap, and it is scored that day. No season-long commitment.

  1. Play a real contest, free

    Pick one of four lineups real people entered in a real DraftKings contest, then see where it finished. Nothing simulated.

    Beat the Field →

  2. Learn the words

    Every term we use in plain English, and a walk through what the simulator actually does.

    Glossary → How it works →

  3. Build your lineups

    The builder makes lineups for the contest you are entering and ranks them by how they did across thousands of simulated contests.

    Lineup builder Members

  4. Upload them

    DraftKings lineups export in DraftKings' format. On FanDuel, a guided upload walks you through it in three steps: get the entries file, choose it here, upload the filled copy.

    What works today →

Works today: NFL and college football on DraftKings and FanDuel. College basketball and NBA DFS are coming this season. The slate-by-slate table on the DFS page says what has been tested.

Path 04 · Optional, never required

Betting info

Nothing on this site needs a bet. If you do bet, these show what a price really means and what to do with a bet you already hold. 21+ where required.

The vigThe bookmaker's cut, built into every price. Removing it shows the chance the price really implies.

Free No account

For a bet you are already holding, or a quick look at the lines.

Members Any plan

Prices compared across sportsbooks, with the vig removed.

Free to start, $10 to try it all

What costs what

Plenty works with no account. A plan opens everything else, and every plan opens the same tools.

Free No account

Members Any plan

  • NFL projections and start/sit
  • Trade Calculator (beta)
  • Best Ball Portfolio Manager and weekly team scoreboards
  • DFS lineup builder and tournament simulator
  • Odds board, NFL props and the college moneyline sheet
Founding member spots45 of 50 left

We are opening accounts to 50 founding members while we add server capacity. When the spots are gone, signups close until we add more.

$10 / week

Every members tool for a week. It renews weekly until you cancel, and you can cancel any time from your account. Want longer? $25 a month, or $99 once for the whole football season.

Weekly charges are not refunded, so cancel before the next week if one is all you want.

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Asked by people new to this

Questions

Do I have to bet to use this?

No. The league tools, best ball and DFS have nothing to do with sports betting. The betting tools are a separate section you can ignore completely.

I'm not a stats person. Will I follow it?

That is the point. Each tool gives you the answer first, then the reasons, in plain words. Any term you have not seen is in the glossary.

Which league sites work?

Waiver Wingman and the Trade Calculator read Sleeper leagues and public ESPN leagues. We never ask for a password, and nothing in your league is changed. A private ESPN league needs the commissioner to make it viewable to the public in League Settings.

Which sports are covered?

NFL and college football today. College basketball and NBA DFS are coming this season.

Will this win me my league?

No tool can promise that. What it does is take the guesswork and the hours of research out of each decision, and show you why, so your calls get better and you learn the game as you go.

How does the $10 week work?

The weekly plan is $10 and renews every week until you cancel, which you can do any time from your account. Weekly charges are not refunded. All three plans open exactly the same tools; the only difference is how long they run. See the plans.

Two minutes, no account

Start with this week's waivers

Enter your league, see who to pick up and why. When you want the rest, it is $10 to try it for a week.

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