How the numbers work
The League Times converts each platform into one normalized season model before any statistic runs. That keeps definitions consistent across Sleeper today and Yahoo next.
Official reality
Actual scores use the platform's reported totals, including commissioner corrections. Regular-season boundaries come from league settings.
Legal alternate history
Optimal lineups obey every configured starter slot, multi-position eligibility, flex rule, and negative score. Missing historical roster data is surfaced as a warning.
Explicit edge cases
Ties count as half a win in expected-win rates. Sleeper median games are included in actual and optimal records. Playoffs and consolation games are excluded from core season analytics; completed winners-bracket games are imported separately for rivalry records.
Definitions
pointsLeaderThe manager whose starting lineups scored the most total points during the regular season.
Format: points · Inputs: weekly lineups · Audit tolerance: 0.001lineupEfficiencyActual starter points divided by the maximum points from a legal lineup each week.
Format: percent · Inputs: weekly rosters, lineup slots · Audit tolerance: 0.001scheduleLuckActual wins minus expected wins based on weekly all-play performance.
Format: wins · Inputs: weekly matchups · Audit tolerance: 0.001biggestLineupMissThe single week with the largest difference between actual points and the highest-scoring legal lineup.
Format: points · Inputs: weekly rosters, lineup slots · Audit tolerance: 0.001actualStandingsTeams ranked by their official regular-season record, including platform median games when enabled, with points scored as the tiebreaker.
Format: record · Inputs: weekly matchups · Audit tolerance: 0optimalStandingsEvery weekly matchup is replayed after giving each manager their highest-scoring legal lineup. Opponents, schedule, and enabled median games stay the same.
Format: record · Inputs: weekly rosters, lineup slots · Audit tolerance: 0scheduleLabSeason superlatives derived from weekly opponents, scoring variance, and optimal-lineup standings.
Format: collection · Inputs: weekly matchups · Audit tolerance: 0.001scheduleStrengthThe highest average points scored by a manager's weekly head-to-head opponents.
Format: points per week · Inputs: weekly matchups · Audit tolerance: 0.001consistencyThe population standard deviation of actual weekly starter points. Lower variation means more consistent scoring.
Format: points · Inputs: weekly scores · Audit tolerance: 0.001heartbreakThe highest team score that still resulted in a head-to-head loss during the regular season.
Format: points · Inputs: weekly matchups · Audit tolerance: 0.001greatEscapeThe lowest team score that still resulted in a head-to-head win during the regular season.
Format: points · Inputs: weekly matchups · Audit tolerance: 0.001biggestRankJumpThe largest improvement from actual standings rank to optimal-lineup standings rank.
Format: rank · Inputs: actual and optimal records · Audit tolerance: 0allTimeLeaderboardRegular-season results combined across every linked completed season. Managers are matched by stable platform owner ID even if team names change.
Format: table · Inputs: linked seasons · Audit tolerance: 0.001seasonsPlayedNumber of completed linked seasons in which this owner managed a roster.
Format: count · Inputs: linked seasons · Audit tolerance: 0historicalRecordCombined official regular-season wins, losses, and ties across the available league history.
Format: record · Inputs: linked seasons · Audit tolerance: 0historicalOptimalRecordCombined wins, losses, and ties if every matchup used optimal legal lineups.
Format: record · Inputs: linked seasons · Audit tolerance: 0historicalPointsCombined actual regular-season starter points across all available seasons.
Format: points · Inputs: linked seasons · Audit tolerance: 0.001historicalEfficiencyCombined actual points divided by combined optimal lineup points across all available seasons.
Format: percent · Inputs: linked seasons, weekly rosters · Audit tolerance: 0.001managerScorecardA side-by-side view of results, scoring strength, schedule luck, and lineup decision-making for every manager.
Format: table · Inputs: weekly matchups, weekly rosters · Audit tolerance: 0.001careerHighestWeekThe manager's highest actual starter score in a recorded regular-season matchup across every linked completed season. Weeks without an opponent are excluded.
Format: points · Inputs: linked seasons, weekly matchups · Audit tolerance: 0.001careerBestFinishThe manager's best final placement across linked completed seasons. Postseason placement is used when available; otherwise the official regular-season standing is used.
Format: rank · Inputs: linked seasons, postseason placement · Audit tolerance: 0careerRecordsOwnedCurrent real-stat record-book entries held by this manager across the imported league history. What-if records are excluded.
Format: count · Inputs: linked seasons, league records · Audit tolerance: 0royalRumbleRemoves head-to-head schedules and compares every manager with every other manager each regular-season week, using the engine's audited all-play records.
Format: standings · Inputs: all-play record, weekly scores · Audit tolerance: 0royalRumbleRecordThe audited all-play wins, losses, and ties already produced by the calculation engine. No separate all-play tally is calculated for this view.
Format: record · Inputs: all-play record · Audit tolerance: 0royalRumbleWinPercentageAll-play wins plus half of all-play ties, divided by total all-play comparisons.
Format: percent · Inputs: all-play record · Audit tolerance: 0.001weeklyCrownsWeeks in which the manager tied for the league's highest score. Every manager tied for the high receives a crown; crowns are not limited to outright weekly wins.
Format: count · Inputs: weekly scores · Audit tolerance: 0royalRumbleWeekLossesWeeks in which the manager tied for the league's lowest score. Every manager tied for the low receives a week loss.
Format: count · Inputs: weekly scores · Audit tolerance: 0averageWeeklyWinsThe engine's audited all-play wins divided by weeks in which the manager has a score. Missing weeks are excluded rather than treated as zero.
Format: wins per week · Inputs: all-play wins, weekly scores · Audit tolerance: 0.001averageWeeklyFinishAverage competition rank across weeks played, where weekly rank is one plus the number of managers with a higher score. Tied scores share a rank.
Format: rank · Inputs: weekly scores · Audit tolerance: 0.001finishConsistencyPopulation standard deviation of the manager's weekly competition rank. Lower values indicate steadier weekly finishes.
Format: rank standard deviation · Inputs: weekly scores · Audit tolerance: 0.001royalPodiumRateShare of weeks finishing in the top three or bottom three among managers with a score that week. Ties at either boundary share the placement.
Format: percent · Inputs: weekly scores · Audit tolerance: 0.001royalRumbleStreaksLongest run of consecutive scored weeks without finishing last and longest run of consecutive weekly crowns. A missing team week breaks the streak.
Format: weeks · Inputs: weekly scores · Audit tolerance: 0formatDeltaActual standings rank minus Royal Rumble rank. Positive means the manager rises without the head-to-head schedule; negative means the actual format ranked them higher. Official actual records include median results when enabled, while Royal Rumble does not.
Format: rank change · Inputs: actual record, all-play record · Audit tolerance: 0alternateScheduleReplays every manager's actual weekly points against the opponents on every other manager's regular-season schedule.
Format: matrix · Inputs: weekly scores, weekly matchups · Audit tolerance: 0alternateRecordWins, losses, and ties produced when a manager's weekly scores are replayed against one selected manager's schedule. Median results are carried over unchanged.
Format: record · Inputs: weekly scores, weekly matchups · Audit tolerance: 0bestAlternateScheduleThe schedule that produces the most wins for the selected manager. Ties and roster order break equal-win results for display.
Format: record · Inputs: alternate schedule matrix · Audit tolerance: 0worstAlternateScheduleThe schedule that produces the fewest wins for the selected manager. Ties and roster order break equal-win results for display.
Format: record · Inputs: alternate schedule matrix · Audit tolerance: 0averageAlternateRecordThe selected manager's average wins, losses, and ties across every schedule in the league, including their own.
Format: record · Inputs: alternate schedule matrix · Audit tolerance: 0.001alternateScheduleLuckActual wins minus average wins across every league schedule. Positive means the manager's real schedule helped relative to the available draws.
Format: wins · Inputs: actual record, alternate schedule matrix · Audit tolerance: 0.001alternateScheduleSwingBest-case wins minus worst-case wins across the league's schedules, showing the range attributable to the draw.
Format: wins · Inputs: alternate schedule matrix · Audit tolerance: 0kinderSchedulesNumber of other managers' schedules that would have produced more wins than the selected manager actually earned.
Format: count · Inputs: actual record, alternate schedule matrix · Audit tolerance: 0leagueScheduleDifficultyAverage wins a schedule produces when every team's weekly scores are replayed through it. Lower is tougher; higher is easier.
Format: average wins · Inputs: alternate schedule matrix · Audit tolerance: 0.001alternatePlayoffSchedulesNumber of league schedules under which the manager ranks inside the season's known playoff field, using record and then points scored as the tiebreaker.
Format: count · Inputs: alternate schedule matrix, playoff field · Audit tolerance: 0actualRecordThe manager's official regular-season wins, losses, and ties.
Format: record · Inputs: weekly matchups · Audit tolerance: 0optimalRecordWins, losses, and ties after replaying each matchup with both teams' highest-scoring legal lineup.
Format: record · Inputs: weekly rosters · Audit tolerance: 0pointsForTotal points scored by the manager's actual starting lineups.
Format: points · Inputs: weekly scores · Audit tolerance: 0.001teamPointsPerWeekAverage actual starter points across weeks with a recorded head-to-head matchup. Missing weeks are excluded.
Format: points per week · Inputs: weekly scores · Audit tolerance: 0.001currentStreakConsecutive recorded weeks ending with the same head-to-head result. A different result ends the streak.
Format: games · Inputs: weekly matchups · Audit tolerance: 0completedTradesCompleted trades involving the selected manager during this regular season. Each trade counts once for that manager.
Format: count · Inputs: transactions · Audit tolerance: 0expectedWinsThe wins implied by the manager's audited weekly all-play performance, before the actual head-to-head schedule is applied.
Format: wins · Inputs: all-play record, weekly scores · Audit tolerance: 0.001allPlayThe record produced by comparing this team's score with every other team each week, removing schedule effects.
Format: record · Inputs: weekly scores · Audit tolerance: 0luckActual wins minus expected wins. Positive values indicate favorable weekly matchups; negative values indicate an unfavorable schedule.
Format: wins · Inputs: weekly scores, actual record · Audit tolerance: 0.001efficiencyActual starter points divided by maximum legal lineup points. Higher means fewer usable points were left on the bench.
Format: percent · Inputs: weekly rosters, lineup slots · Audit tolerance: 0.001benchPointsTotal points this manager could have gained by starting their highest-scoring legal lineup every week.
Format: points · Inputs: weekly rosters, lineup slots · Audit tolerance: 0.001weeklyActualPointsPoints scored by the lineup the manager actually started that week, including platform score corrections.
Format: points · Inputs: weekly scores · Audit tolerance: 0.001weeklyOptimalPointsMaximum points possible from a legal lineup using players on that week's roster.
Format: points · Inputs: weekly rosters, lineup slots · Audit tolerance: 0.001weeklyPointsLeftOptimal lineup points minus actual starter points for this week, never below zero.
Format: points · Inputs: weekly rosters, lineup slots · Audit tolerance: 0.001lineupChangesPlayers marked Start appear in the week's optimal legal lineup but were benched. Players marked Sit were actual starters omitted from that optimal lineup.
Format: players · Inputs: weekly rosters, lineup slots · Audit tolerance: 0historicalRosterThe players recorded on the selected manager's roster for that week. Starters and bench players come from the provider's archived weekly roster snapshot; missing snapshots are never reconstructed.
Format: players · Inputs: weekly rosters · Audit tolerance: 0playoffOddsA deterministic simulation using only results known through the selected week, each team's scoring distribution to that point, the remaining schedule, and median games when enabled. It is an estimate, not a platform projection.
Format: percent · Inputs: weekly scores, remaining schedule · Audit tolerance: 0.1Retrospective positional value
Each non-keeper selection is compared with every other drafted player at the same position. Expected rank comes from draft order; actual rank comes from points scored while the player appeared on a league roster. A pick starts at 82, then gains or loses as many as 36 points based on how far it beat or missed its positional expectation. Grades are capped from 45 to 100. Keepers are shown on the board but excluded from pick and manager grades.
Repeatable snapshots
Completed reports are cached for 24 hours and carry their import timestamp and calculation-engine version. Active seasons refresh every five minutes. Changing the calculation version makes future cached reports independently identifiable and auditable.