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 score58vs 50your avg vs market
Each bar = one of your 92 teams. Lime beats the market (50). Click a bar to open the roster.
Where Your Upside Comes From
R1-5R6-10R11-15R16-20
QB100939163
RB90764938
WR80695458
TE93756446
Average upside by position × round — where your ceiling comes from.
Boom-or-Bust Profile
38%30%32%
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
68%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 score58vs 50your avg vs market
Each bar = one of your 92 teams. Lime beats the market (50). Click a bar to open the roster.
Ceiling by Round
R1-520
R6-1018
R11-1513
R16-209
Ceiling Drivers
Parker Washington WR · 42%15
Zach Charbonnet RB · 36%17
Cam Skattebo RB · 24%21
Trevor Lawrence QB · 18%26
Baker Mayfield QB · 22%22
Brock Purdy QB · 14%31
Your takeawayYour ceiling is anchored by your QBs and early RBs — the late-round rooms are where it thins out.
Spike Week Score
72vs 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 92 teams. Lime beats the market (50). Click a bar to open the roster.
Spike Weeks by Round
R1-536
R6-1022
R11-1512
R16-207
Spike Week Drivers
Parker Washington WR · 42%25
Cam Skattebo RB · 24%38
Stefon Diggs WR · 21%35
Zach Charbonnet RB · 36%19
Jaxon Smith-Njigba WR · 9%76
Makai Lemon WR · 25%26
Your takeawayYour biggest spike sources are your highest-boom skill players; the book is built to boom rather than grind out floors.
CLV Score
39vs market
CLV (closing-line value) asks whether you bought your ceiling at a fair price — how your picks compare to where each player's ADP closed. Positive means you were early; negative means you paid up.
Beating the closing line is the sharpest signal you're drafting real value.
You tend to draft near the line early and pay up in the later rounds — that's where CLV leaks.
Book CLV is 20% of the Upside ring — the tie-breaker once ceiling and spike are set.
An injury after your draft shows up here as a large negative.
CLV Score by Teammarket-anchored · 50 = average-ADP team · scale 0–100
Draft order · By score39vs 50your avg vs market
Each bar = one of your 92 teams. Lime beats the market (50). Click a bar to open the roster.
CLV by Round
R1-5-0.5
R6-10-1.0
R11-15-2.1
R16-20-3.9
CLV Drivers
Stefon Diggs 21%+17
De'Zhaun Stribling 12%+23
Keenan Allen 9%+23
Jayden Higgins 14%-81
Sean Tucker 34%-12
Eli Stowers 32%-9
Your takeawayYour book sits near the line (book CLV -2.2); the late rounds are where you overpay.