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Welcome RotoBallers! Build your own customized fantasy football draft cheat sheets in seconds. Configure your league settings, select PPR, Half-PPR or standard (non-PPR) scoring, and you will get customized rankings and projections. Download, export, or print your cheat sheets easily as PDF, Excel, or .csv.
As the 2023 NFL season approaches, it's time to prepare for upcoming fantasy football drafts. In today's landscape of fantasy football, there is no shortage of fancy new tools and advanced analysis, but cheat sheets have always been a staple of draft season.
Fantasy gamers have never been more up-to-date with the latest developments and have a general idea of which players they prefer over others, but organizing your pecking order with a Free Customizable Cheat Sheet will help you stay on track. That's where our Custom Cheat Sheet Tool comes in!
Fantasy football cheat sheets are also useful for in-person fantasy drafts. In many cases, the picks from those drafts are entered manually later on, so fantasy managers might not have easy access to draft assistants or interactive tools.
Simply put, There is no "wrong" way to use cheat sheets! Just be sure to double-check your league's scoring settings since the rankings can vary widely from one cheat sheet to another. You can ensure you're setting are correct by automatically syncing your league to create a cheat sheet (as discussed below).
We have a few different fantasy football draft cheat sheets at RotoBaller - something for everyone! Check out both the free and more advanced Premium tools as well below, and scroll down for more details and screenshots:
1. Free Draft Cheat Sheets
The first cheat sheet tool we'll dive into is the Free Fantasy Football Draft Custom Cheat Sheet. This is the highly useful resource that allows fantasy managers the opportunity to quickly and easily build cheat sheets the way they see fit.
2. Printable One-Page Color-Coded Cheat Sheets (Premium)
Not everyone has the time to spend hours reading articles, practicing with mock drafts, or studying projections, so our expert cheat sheets are the most convenient source for last-minute fantasy draft preparation. That said, even hardcore fantasy gamers who follow news, data, and projections all offseason long should have a cheat sheet at their disposal to make sure they stay on track or compare their sheet cheats with the experts.
3. Team Sync Platform - Custom Cheat Sheets (Premium)
Our Team Sync feature automatically customizes rankings and projections based on your league settings, scoring, and rosters. This tool can be used to simplify your process for setting up scoring settings but there are also advanced tools within Team Sync that can aid with enhancing your cheat sheet. Cheat Sheets are also available within the Mock Draft Simulator and Draft Assistant.
Some fantasy managers want to rely solely on expert or consensus rankings cheat sheets, but others want an easy way to craft their own draft-day guide. We give you that option!
In the free fantasy football custom cheat sheet tool where you can configure your league settings, select PPR or standard scoring, and export your cheat sheet easily as PDF, Excel, or .csv.
To create your own Fantasy Football Draft Cheat Sheets, simply add a name for your sheet and select the league scoring type (PPR, Half-PPR, Standard). Use your various fantasy football team names for each of your leagues to easily know which Cheat Sheet to open for each draft.
Fantasy Football Custom Cheat Sheet
Once your name is saved, enter your league settings and select the positions used in your league. You'll then be taken to the easy-to-use interface with the current projections sorted for you. Don’t agree with a ranking or projection? No problem. Just use the drag-and-drop interface to put the player where you wish. You can also add notes for each player, such as how their ADP has changed in recent days.
Fantasy Football Custom Cheat Sheet
Once you are finished customizing your Fantasy Football Draft Cheat Sheet and rankings, simply click on the icon to export your cheat sheets via Excel, .csv, or a PDF file. You can easily print the cheat sheets once the downloads are complete. Then prepare to dominate your drafts.
While cheat sheets are mostly used during "real" fantasy drafts, it's never a bad idea to get practice with using them alongside our Mock Draft Simulator Tool. That way, you can give your custom cheat sheet a "test run".
RotoBaller has several cheat sheets that can be used in a multitude of ways to help fantasy gamers crush preseason drafts. Whether you're looking for cheat sheets with overall rankings or broken down by position, we have you covered for standard, half-PPR, and PPR formats.
All of our fantasy football cheat sheets are easily printable in PDF form for those who want a hard copy on draft day. This is especially helpful for manually crossing off each player as they come off the board.
To access our cheat sheets, premium subscribers can navigate to the Premium Tools section of the site. All eight cheat sheets are housed just below the preseason premium tools list.
As shown below, there are PPR by position, PPR overall, Half-PPR by position, Half-PPR overall, standard by position, standard overall, Mariano's overall rankings, and Mariano's positional rankings cheat sheets at your disposal. Nick Mariano is a three-time top-12 ranker in FantasyPros' fantasy football weekly accuracy competition and one of the top analysts in the industry.
These cheat sheets will cover the majority of redraft leagues for 2023.
The overall rankings cheat sheet for each format gives fantasy gamers an overview of the pecking order and power ranking of all players at every position. The sheet also includes tier breakdowns, bye weeks, auction values, and ADP data. Understanding when the end of a tier is coming helps managers cash in on the best value with each of their selections.
Cheat Sheet Overall PPR Rankings
It can be difficult to refrain from drafting solely based on "team needs" but the breakdown by tiers should help managers focus on a "best player available" approach. The selections in fantasy football drafts obviously don't go in order by position, so the cheat sheet stacking up all players at all positions is key. A set of rankings without tiers makes it a significant challenge to know when to pull the trigger on a defensive unit or kicker, but this sheet has those positions covered, too.
There are plenty of benefits provided by the overall rankings cheat sheets, but positional breakdowns are important, too. While we just discussed the importance of drafting the "best player available" instead of for "team needs", there is a certain point in the draft where you'll have to start focusing on a position -- based on what position you're lacking after several rounds. This is where the positional rankings cheat sheets come into play.
Cheat Sheet Positional Rankings
It's always tough to choose between two fringe options at quarterback, running back, wide receiver, and tight end, so these cheat sheets give fantasy managers a more focused view of the positional pecking order. These sets of rankings also have tier breakdowns for all positions including defense/special teams units and kickers.
There are plenty of fantasy football drafters who use cheat sheets as their only tool and stick to its rankings from start to finish, while others utilize the resource as just a general guide to stay on track and use the cheat sheet rankings as a tie-breaker between two players they're considering.
It's worth noting our cheat sheets work great in conjunction with our wide array of premium tools and articles, so you can get as in-depth with these resources as you choose.
The Team Sync platform will automatically customize your rankings and projections, tailored for each league that you import, and create a customized Draft Cheat Sheet.
Team Sync will understand your league scoring, format, roster settings, and players available including your opponents' rosters. It will then automatically customize your rankings and projections within the Team Sync Draft Cheat Sheet module and the Draft Assistant tool. See Screenshot below.
As shown above, an imported cheat sheet is accessible during a live draft! This will prevent fantasy managers from having to flip back and forth between browsers while precious time is coming off the pick clock.
The Fantasy Football Team Sync Draft Helper will automatically cross off players from your selected cheat sheet as they are selected, so no need to worry about doing that manually!
For an in-depth guide on how to use the Team Sync and Fantasy Football Draft Assistant tool, click here.
