Fantasy Football Team Sync In-Season Toolkit, User Guide and Tutorial

October 22, 2024

Learn about RotoBaller's team sync in-season tools with a tutorial walkthrough regarding fantasy football tool features such as the Lineup Optimizer, Trade Analyzer, Projections, and more.

This is a tutorial for RotoBaller NFL Team Sync In-Season Tools. If you are interested in the Tutorial for NFL Preseason Tools, click here.

Hello, RotoBallers! We’re thrilled to see your interest in our exclusive Team Sync tools! If you're here, you're one step closer to dominating your fantasy football campaigns. Team Sync is an industry-leading bundle of tools to help you win your fantasy football drafts and dominate your leagues. It provides plenty of advanced features -- automatically customizing all projections, rankings, and tools to your specific leagues, settings, scoring rules, and rosters.

Team Sync allows you to link unlimited fantasy football leagues from popular platforms such as ESPN, Yahoo, CBS, Sleeper, and many more, covering those who play best ball, redraft, or dynasty. Syncing your leagues allows you to prepare for any upcoming season with mock drafts, cheat sheets, and projections, which you can read more about in our Preseason Team Sync tutorial here. However, this piece will focus on our platform of in-season tools and reports tailored specifically to your league, roster, scoring, and matchup settings.

Read on for our Tutorial and User Guide to familiarize yourself with the Team Sync platform, and put you on the path to winning more! For a more detailed video tutorial, check out our Video Tutorials on Youtube.

Loading Up The Team Sync Tool

Starting from Step 1, you're already here at RotoBaller so head to the Premium Tools vertical under the NFL menu on our top site banner. You will then select “Team Sync Tools” to get started. You may skip this section if you've already synced your leagues during the preseason.

For the rest of you, once you click through on RotoBaller’s premium tools dropdown, where you’ll be presented with “Your Leagues,” “Sync New League,” and “Manage Best Ball Leagues.”

Let’s start with Sync New League, where you’ll pick which platform the league is hosted on. Once you’ve done this and selected the league, the system will sync your matchup, roster, and scoring settings to provide an experience tailored to you. Platforms currently supported are ESPN, Yahoo, CBS, Fantrax, NFL.com, Sleeper, Fleaflicker, Real Time Fantasy Sports (RTFS), MyFantasyLeague (MFL), FFPC, and Ottoneu.

And now you can select "My Platform Isn't Listed" and proceed with most of the tools operating as if it were included after some additional user input to maintain league settings, rosters, and so on.

Once your league is synced, you will have an abundance of tools and reports available on the League Dashboard. We will provide a brief overview of these here and then you can proceed further for more details and screenshots for each of them.

In-Season Tools Overview

Enjoy further insights and fun with in-season management tools. There are 10 key tools that you can run. The tools are:

1. Category Results - Breakdown of applicable scoring categories, with access to per-period trends and how you compare to league averages.
2. Free Agent Finder - View a report showing the top available free agents by lineup slot for your league based on our projections.
3. Lineup Optimizer - Maximize projected points with our start/sit recommendations, which include free agents who would improve your score.
4. Matchup Analyzer - This tool previews your upcoming matchup(s) with win-loss projections.
5. Roster Experiments - Play out "what-if" scenarios and witness the consequences of add/drops or trades on your roster.
6. Weekly Newsletter - AI-generated newsletters in the voice of famous commentators, drunk uncles, and more make for fun banter.
7. League Standings - These are straightforward standings and relevant data for each team's scoring thus far.
8. Scoreboard - Look at current and recent matchups, as well as each team's top-performing players.
9. Playoff Primer - See if you're projected for the playoffs with matchups, NFL team schedules, the best free agents, and more.
10. Bye Week Guide - Avoid any bye-week blues with your roster's bye outlook and the best free agents who can help step in.

League Reports Overview

On top of those useful in-season tools, we offer plenty of reports to aid your quest for knowledge and leverage:

1. Trade Analyzer - Uses your league settings to compare trades of up to three players per team, providing an analysis of winners and losers.
2. Who Should I Start - Supplies a detailed analysis of who to start and who to bench between two players.
3. Roster News - Get our RotoBaller news tailored to your players.
4. Projections - Stats projected for your league with each scored category, with different intervals available.
5. Statistics - Detailed stats for players based on your league settings.
6. Top Performances - Want to see which efforts stood out?
7. Role Changes - Highlights players who have seen a change in usage.
8. Defense Rankings - Color-coded report to help you find those DST targets.
9. Weekly Schedule - Easy way to see your league's schedule, with the strength of schedule color-coding.
10. ROI Report - See which players have provided the best (and worst!) return on investment given their draft slot and stats.
11. Missing Teammate Impact - Learn about how a player's absence impacts the rest of the team.
12. Sleepers/Busts - Monitor which players are doing notably better and worse than preseason projections had hoped.
13. Consistency - Analyze how often a player scored above or below a customizable deviation percentage of their average points per game.
14. Home vs. Away - View player splits based on venue.

In-Season Tools

The first tool is straightforward but critical, as it takes projected point totals for either everyone’s optimized lineup (starting the best players) or full roster and shows you how each team stacks up. You can select the entire rest-of-season window or just the upcoming week in a vacuum, as well as raw point totals or averages if that’s easier to digest.

This Projected Team Rankings sheet shows the projected ranking for each team in your league for every statistical category and each position slot utilized by your league. This helpful overview of each team's relative strengths and weaknesses can inform you of what needs your attention.

Projections/Stats/Schedules pulls up your current roster for the current week as a default and shows you all of their projected points, their matchups, and things such as average fantasy points scored per week. The “Game Details” column will be shaded green for a great fantasy matchup, while red will indicate a subpar position vs. defense outlook.

You may move off the default “Roster” tab at the top and go to “Projections” to see a specific breakdown of how each player is set to meet their projected point total. “Stats” does the same for performance to date.

And “Schedule” pulls up a strength-of-schedule grid for the road ahead and can help show you whether your QB has a rough playoff outlook while your RBs may have a few bad matchups for now but their Week 13-17 window is all green. This can help you build out your bench depth efficiency and construct trades that best help you reach the ultimate goal of a championship!

The Free Agent Finder is a one-stop shop for making adds. Here you’ll find drop-down menus for each position, such as Top Available QB, then RB, WR, and so on. You can choose to have your rostered players displayed for comparison or not, with matchups, projected points, and total/average points scored shown for everyone to assist you in making an educated call.

Once you feel confident you have the best roster group possible for the week then fire up the Lineup Optimizer to ensure you’re making the best Start/Sit decisions. Perhaps you rope in the Matchup Analyzer here as well to see whether you have a projected advantage or disadvantage against your opponent and need to take riskier swings for ceiling or not. You can modify your lineup on that page and re-run the projections to see how you fare with different configurations.

The Roster Experiments tool allows you to enter a research lab and play out a plethora of “what-if” scenarios before you do it. You can set parameters for just the upcoming week or the entire rest-of-season window and then see how adding and releasing players play out. You can pair this with the Sleepers/Busts report to see what trading for key pieces or ditching underperformers will look like.

This comes via color-coded scoring categories showing you how much you improved or fell, with roster grids displaying each starting lineup as well. Unleash your inner mad scientist and construct a monster! Let's look at a hypothetical Tank Dell and Kyle Pitts for DK Metcalf trade, where Isaiah Likely is a free agent and could be added to the team dealing Pitts:

Then you can also get the roster visualization:

Investigate potential trade options or simple add/drops for fringe bench options. Once you have the inputs for your experimental move then hit enter and you’ll find a breakdown of how your current roster compares to the experimental one.

The weekly newsletter is a great way to spice up the banter after each week of play. This tool deploys AI-generated newsletters in the voice of famous commentators, drunk uncles, and more as you enjoy the highs and lows of each fantasy football slate. You can control the level of trash talk (between 1-10) provided!

Then there are a handful of straightforward tools such as League Standings and Scoreboard that make sure you can see all league information within the Team Sync universe and aren’t stuck tabbing between tons of browser windows. One can’t forget the basics!

Once the first several weeks are out of the way then ambitious teams might start peeking towards a run to the title. Use the Playoff Primer tool at any time to see how your current roster, optimized or not, stacks up against the competition in the weeks that your league uses for playoffs. Don’t fret if it’s ugly, as scrolling down will show you the top projected free agents to add for those weeks, followed by more detailed projections showing your guys and top FAs.

An entertaining recent roll-out is the “Draft Battle” page, which strictly evaluates each team based on how their players drafted have performed. Late sleepers popping off will slingshot you to the top, while busts and injuries to key early picks will torpedo your score

While we know waivers and trades are a massive piece of the season, it can be a fun tool to judge your draft strategy and razz leaguemates about their scores. You can view these scores by “position group rank” where taking the fifth quarterback off of the board is graded against how the fifth-best quarterback has scored thus far.

League Reports

Navigating the trade waters is chaotic enough so let Team Sync help compare trades of up to three players per team, providing a breakdown of who wins and loses the deal based on your settings. Whether you want to craft a trade that looks objectively fair or make sure you are walking away a calculated winner, this is a great tool in the utility belt.

What fantasy football page would be complete without a way to determine who to start? Weigh up two players on the scales and see which one is worthy of your starting lineup! Use this in tandem with Roster News, which takes our award-winning updates and supplies you with the news items relevant to your players.

Click over to the Projections page and receive stats projected for your league with each scored category, with different time intervals available. If you’re in the mood to look ahead then check out the Defense Rankings and Weekly Schedule tab too.

This looks at upcoming matchups color-coded by strength to help you identify D/STs to target and how to plan for future opponents. Let's look at which defenses have fared poorly through the first five weeks of the 2024 NFL season:

These forward-facing pages make for a nice pair with the Statistics sheet that tells you what has unfolded thus far. Top Performances go hand-in-hand with that as well, showing the best gameday stat lines of the year for you to celebrate or curse.

You may want to peel another layer back behind the matchup trends and see which players perform better or worse at home or on the road. The Home vs. Away splits tool helps you check on this if you’re seeking a tiebreaker on a tough call. This can be of particular interest to those evaluating dome players who are facing an outdoor game, such as the Cowboys.

But that’s not even close to the extent of matchup-related tools, as the Consistency page shows how many times a player scores above or below their average output. You can set the percentage for what a standard deviation should be. If you set that at 20% for a player averaging 20 points per game, then will give you a “Greater Than” score for 24+ games and a “Less Than” score for games of 16 or fewer points. Evaluate boom-bust or Steady Eddie’s appropriately!

Another pair of exciting reports comes via Role Changes and Missing Teammate Impact. The former helps you identify surgers and fallers thanks to changes in snaps, targets, rushing attempts, and passing attempts over a customizable window of games.

The MTI page allows you to observe the ripple effects of a player being out. Want to see exactly how much more work Darius Slayton got without Malik Nabers or how Tyrone Tracy Jr. and Eric Gray split work without Devin Singletary?

The ROI Report stands for Return on Investment and illustrates the best and worst profitability based on each fantasy football player’s average draft position and statistical performance.

Whether you want to evaluate your draft or laud/roast your leaguemates for theirs, this is a fun report that can filtered by each NFL team, position, start date (e.g. Since Week 3), and by ADP. Here's an example showing the top eight WRs by ROI score with an ADP of 100 or later through five weeks of the 2024 season:

As you can see, there are loads of tools ready to help you from start to finish, week in and week out as you march toward a championship title. There are even a couple that'll let you have fun along the way (as opposed to strictly business when crushing the competition)! Let us elevate your fantasy football experience so you can have the best possible time as you stack wins!

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