Upside asks the only question that pays in best ball: can your teams win a week? The ring blends Ceiling (how high, 40%), Spike Weeks (how often, 40%), and CLV (how cheaply, 20%). Start with the whole book, then drill into each.
Upside Score by Teammarket-anchored · 50 = average-ADP team · scale 0–100
Draft order · By score62vs 50your avg vs market
Each bar = one of your 25 teams. Lime beats the market (50). Click a bar to open the roster.
Where Your Upside Comes From
R1-5R6-10R11-15R16-20
QB100959158
RB89785531
WR76685747
TE92736049
Average upside by position × round — where your ceiling comes from.
Boom-or-Bust Profile
43%27%29%
Steady floorBalancedBoom-or-bust
Share of exposure that is boom-or-bust ceiling vs steady floor. Tournaments pay the tail.
Knockout-Week Path
62%
Wk 15
×
62%
Wk 16
×
62%
Wk 17
=
23%
title run
A title needs a spike week three weeks in a row. Illustrative.
Ceiling Clearance Rate
76%clear the bar
Share of teams whose ceiling clears the winning-week bar.
Ceiling Score
60vs market
Ceiling is your teams' 90th-percentile week — the top-end score a build can post. Best ball pays the ceiling, not the average, so this asks the first question: can a team post a knockout-week score at all?
A knockout week is won near ~20 fantasy points at a skill position — ceiling measures how close your teams get.
Early picks carry real ceiling; late picks are dart throws that rarely clear the bar.
Team Ceiling is 40% of the Upside ring — tied with Spike Weeks for the heaviest weight.
Every team is graded against the market (50 = an average-ADP team).
Ceiling Score by Teammarket-anchored · 50 = average-ADP team · scale 0–100
Draft order · By score62vs 50your avg vs market
Each bar = one of your 25 teams. Lime beats the market (50). Click a bar to open the roster.
Ceiling by Round
R1-523
R6-1020
R11-1515
R16-2010
Ceiling Drivers
Malik Willis QB · 44%21
Parker Washington WR · 48%19
Chase Brown RB · 32%23
Christian McCaffrey RB · 20%35
Makai Lemon WR · 36%18
George Kittle TE · 24%24
Your takeawayYour ceiling is anchored by your QBs and early RBs — the late-round rooms are where it thins out.
Spike Week Score
70vs market
Spike Weeks measures how often your teams can boom — the count of weeks expected to clear the position winning-bar. Ceiling says how high; this says how frequently, which is what actually strings a title run together.
A best-ball title takes three spike weeks in a row (Weeks 15, 16, 17) — raw boom-frequency is the engine.
Spike capacity is front-loaded, but a single late boom can decide a knockout week.
Spike Weeks is 40% of the Upside ring.
Graded vs the market (50 = average-ADP team).
Spike Week by Teammarket-anchored · 50 = average-ADP team · scale 0–100
Draft order · By score50vs 50your avg vs market
Each bar = one of your 25 teams. Lime beats the market (50). Click a bar to open the roster.
Spike Weeks by Round
R1-538
R6-1022
R11-1513
R16-206
Spike Week Drivers
Chase Brown RB · 32%53
Christian McCaffrey RB · 20%82
Parker Washington WR · 48%31
Makai Lemon WR · 36%26
Jaylen Waddle WR · 24%38
Cam Skattebo RB · 24%38
Your takeawayYour biggest spike sources are your highest-boom skill players; the book is built to boom rather than grind out floors.
CLV Score
50vs market
CLV (closing-line value) asks whether you bought your ceiling at a fair price — how each pick compares to where its ADP closed.
Not scored for this bookCLV needs the exact order your players were drafted in. When the browser extension captures your DraftKings pick order, this lights up automatically — but this book was synced without it, so CLV is held neutral (50) in your Upside score rather than helping or hurting it. It scores live on Underdog and on any DraftKings or blended book that carries pick order.