Welcome to Nickknowsball
Nickknowsball is built around three ideas:
- You spend more time analyzing trades than you should. The Trade Finder
surfaces every mutual-benefit deal in your league in one click. Both sides improve their starting-lineup expected points (SLEP) — no lopsided lowballs.
- You don't actually know who's good in your league. Every manager gets
a recency-weighted grade across draft, trade, waiver, and luck-adjusted record. The "Trade?" badge tells you who actually responds to offers.
- Off-the-shelf rankings ignore your scoring. Switch to half-PPR or
superflex and most sites' rankings break. Ours recompute on every league setting change.
The trade calculator works without an account
Drag any two players to either side of /calculator. The pool comes from our default-scoring rankings. League-size slider penalizes 3-for-1 stacking. Use it, share the link, no signup.
When to connect your league
The connect flow needs your ESPN league ID and (for private leagues) your SWID + espn_s2 cookies. Once connected, every tab becomes league-aware: trade suggestions use your roster, the calculator pool comes from your league's players, manager grades pull from your league's history.