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Fantasy football, priced by the market2026 draft kit live
The draft kit priced by the market. Built to win the room.
Your league doesn’t reward the hottest take. It rewards the right pick. NovaPredict turns ADP, expert consensus, Nova budgets, and tracked market lines into one value-based board for 986 players. Free lets you inspect the board and public record. Pro turns it into the War Room, Start/Sit Probability Lab, weekly briefs, trades, waivers, and league-specific decisions.
986
Board players
19,123
Drafts in ADP feed
4
Scoring formats
Draft board: liveADP: through 2026-09-05Profiles: 258 reportsSleeper: live sync
START/SIT PROBABILITY LAB · PPR · 2026-09-05
Compare outcome ranges before you set the lineup.
NP
Chance at 18.0 points17.5-18.5 pts
4%
4%
4%
3%
Bijan RobinsonRB · ATL
Nova 20.0 PPG · weekly swing 8.8
34%
14.0-22.0 pts
Jahmyr GibbsRB · DET
Nova 20.9 PPG · weekly swing 10.7
28%
14.0-22.0 pts
Puka NacuaWR · LA
Nova 21.1 PPG · weekly swing 9.8
30%
14.0-22.0 pts
Ja'Marr ChaseWR · CIN
Nova 20.1 PPG · weekly swing 12.1
26%
14.0-22.0 pts
Weekly use: keep this on Over Total, enter the score you need from a starter, and compare who is most likely to clear it. Use Point Range when you want to compare floor outcomes, like who is most likely to land between 12 and 18.
Why users pay
Free proves the board. Pro helps you make the call.
The paid product is for moments where timing matters: your draft pick is on the clock, two starters are close, a waiver claim costs priority, or a trade offer hits your inbox. That is where the War Room, Start/Sit Probability Lab, and weekly decision briefs earn the season pass.
Pro$29 founders->
Draft War Room
Free: Read our draft research and methodology.
Pro: Open a live draft room that updates every pick, prices scarcity, tracks your roster needs, shows who can wait, and syncs to Sleeper.
Pro$29 founders->
Start/Sit Probability Lab
Free: Read public weekly notes.
Pro: Compare real lineup choices by win probability, floor, ceiling, boom risk, bust risk, and the reason the call could fail.
Pro$29 founders->
Weekly Decision Briefs
Free: Read public articles and board notes.
Pro: Get the week condensed into start/sit edges, waiver priorities, buy-low and sell-high reads, injury shifts, and players whose roles changed.
Pro$29 founders->
Trade Analyzer and Trade Finder
Free: Read public player-value analysis.
Pro: Grade both sides of a trade from current value, roster need, positional scarcity, and rest-of-season range before you accept.
Pro$29 founders->
League-Specific Sync and Reports
Free: Explore our methodology and public record.
Pro: Connect Sleeper, save your league context, generate roster report cards, export boards, and carry your scoring rules into the tools.
Pro$29 founders->
Full Edge Boards
Free: Review public articles and accountability.
Pro: Unlock the full Divergence board, values and reaches, waivers, line movers, scenarios, What-If, Ask Nova, and unlimited mocks.
Founders season pass is $29. Regular 2026 season price is $59.
Where the room is divided
Expert disagreement is draft-day oxygen.
The current expert board has players with wide rank spreads. NovaPredict treats that disagreement as a signal to inspect, then puts it beside ADP, value edge, player range, and roster context instead of hiding it inside one consensus number.
Expert spread watchPPR · 2026-09-05
Jayden DanielsQB · WAS
27-90ECR 48 · SD 14.7
Colston LovelandTE · CHI
16-96ECR 39 · SD 14.7
Drake MayeQB · NE
25-90ECR 35 · SD 13.9
Malik NabersWR · NYG
9-70ECR 29 · SD 13.0
Joe BurrowQB · CIN
27-68ECR 43 · SD 12.1
Rashee RiceWR · KC
9-65ECR 27 · SD 11.8
Current imported expert board fields shown here: consensus rank, best rank, worst rank, and standard deviation. Nova turns that spread into a draft-day inspection list instead of burying it inside one consensus number.
The players, up close
A real scouting report on every player who matters: a range of outcomes, a DNA grade, and where Nova splits from the market, not just a number. Current profile scope: 258 player reports.
Jahmyr Gibbs
RB · DET
Nova has Jahmyr Gibbs, 1st overall, RB, DET, Tier 1, 154.2 VORP, 317 projected PPR points, 20.9 PPR points per game.
Bijan Robinson
RB · ATL
Nova has Bijan Robinson, 2nd overall, RB, ATL, Tier 2, 145.3 VORP, 308.1 projected PPR points, 20 PPR points per game.
Puka Nacua
WR · LA
Nova has Puka Nacua, 3rd overall, WR, LA, Tier 2, 153 VORP, 321.3 projected PPR points, 21.1 PPR points per game.
Ja'Marr Chase
WR · CIN
Nova has Ja'Marr Chase, 4th overall, WR, CIN, Tier 2, 150.2 VORP, 318.4 projected PPR points, 20.1 PPR points per game.
Christian McCaffrey
RB · SF
Nova has Christian McCaffrey, 5th overall, RB, SF, Tier 3, 136.4 VORP, 299.3 projected PPR points, 21.5 PPR points per game.
Amon-Ra St. Brown
WR · DET
Nova has Amon-Ra St.
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Four decisions win leagues. We make all four.
Not a wall of numbers. The actual calls, made for you, with the reasoning shown so you can trust them or overrule them.
Draft
Draft the right guy
A live War Room that values every pick against replacement, prices in scarcity, and tells you who to take before the run starts. It recalculates on every pick as your roster fills.
Start / Sit
Start the right guys
The Start/Sit Probability Lab is built around a full range of outcomes, not a single number. In season, each call carries a win probability and the honest reason it might be wrong, so you set a lineup you can defend.
Waivers
Win the waiver wire
Nova Nuggets shows where Nova splits from the market and, in season, who your league is adding, with Nova's read on each. Grab the breakout candidate, skip the name that fizzles.
Trades
Never get fleeced
The Trade Analyzer prices both sides off the same live engine that builds the board, so you know a robbery from a rip-off before you accept. No gut feel, no trade-chart guesswork.
NovaPredict vs everything else
Most advice comes from expert consensus, a static projection spreadsheet, or a chatbot. Here is the honest comparison across the dimensions that decide leagues.
| Expert rankings | Projection sites | AI chatbots | NovaPredict | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Source of truth | Analyst opinion, averaged | A site's internal model | Whatever it read, undated | ADP, expert consensus, Nova budgets, and tracked market lines |
| Update speed | When analysts re-rank | Weekly or preseason | Frozen at training | Refreshable as ADP, injuries, props, and weekly data move |
| Projection form | A rank number | One point total | A confident guess | Full range: floor, median, ceiling, boom + bust odds |
| Ranking basis | Gut-weighted consensus | Raw projected points | Nothing consistent | Value over replacement, scarcity priced in |
| Draft-day help | Printable list | Printable list | Chat while you panic | Live War Room, Sleeper sync, roster + opponent aware |
| Season tracking | None | None | None | Point-pool pace: buy-low / sell-high flags as results come in |
| Accountability | None, rankings vanish | Self-graded backtests | None, it apologizes | Built for locked pre-kickoff calls, graded in public |
| Beat it and prove it? | No | No | No | Yes, Challenge the Model tracks your calls against Nova |
The one question that separates every tool
“Show me every projection you locked before kickoff, and how each one turned out.”
Expert rankings can’t answer it. Projection sites show you a backtest they graded themselves. NovaPredict is structured around that standard: calls lock before kickoff, get graded in public after games close, and include the misses. See the record →
Built to win your draft, and your season
One engine, everywhere you make a decision. Draft tools, core research surfaces, and season tools carry the same value engine into every weekly decision.
Draft dayLive→
Draft War Room
Open it beside your live Sleeper draft. Value-first picks read scarcity, your roster, tier cliffs, and who survives to your next pick, recalculated every time a name comes off the board.
The boardLive board→
Preseason Rankings
Every player priced across PPR, half, standard, and superflex. ADP, Nova Rank, tiers, floor-median-ceiling bands, DNA, and Divergence in a single view.
ResearchLive→
Divergence Watch
Where the edge lives. The players Nova most disagrees with the market on, both directions, ranked, so your sleepers, fades, and trade targets come from measured gaps.
In-seasonLive→
Trade Analyzer + Finder
Grade any trade on value over replacement, not a chart that went stale in August. Trade Finder suggests deals worth making from your surplus to your needs.
In-seasonLive→
Season Budget Pace
The season is a point pool. Each player's preseason budget powers pace tracking as scores post; we flag who's ahead or behind pace and turn it into buy-low, sell-high, and start/sit calls.
The recordAccounts live→
Challenge the Model
Think you can beat it? Log Agree, Override, or Skip on Nova's calls and get scored against the engine across the 2026 season. If you win, you will have the receipts.
Bring your league
Sync your draft from the platform you already play on
Sleeper connects natively. ESPN, Yahoo, and CBS sync through the public NovaPredict Chrome extension. Manual mode works for every draft, including in-person leagues.
Graded in public. Misses included.
Talk is cheap and backtests are cheaper. The accountability surface is built to lock projections before kickoff and score what actually happened, with proper scoring rules, out in the open. No retroactive edits, no self-graded hype, no deleted misses.
CRPS scores the whole rangeCoverage vs an 80% target bandBrier + skill on boom / bust oddsCalibration ledger for start/sit
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Every tool
The full toolkit, grouped the way the nav is. Draft, rankings, profiles, league sync, weekly decisions, pace, scores, scenarios, and accountability all point back to the same Nova value engine.
Draft and rankings
Draft War Room
Open it beside your live draft. Value-first pick recommendations that account for scarcity, your roster and flex needs, tiers, opponent needs, and who is likely still there next pick. Syncs to Sleeper.
Preseason Rankings
The full board: every projected player, ADP, Nova budgets, DNA, VORP, outcome bands, 4 formats.
Mock Draft
Full snake draft against AI opponents across the whole pool. Nova recommends each pick.
Rookie Board
The 2026 class ranked by draft-capital prior, with the pick curve.
Handcuff Finder
Lead backs paired to their backups, with high-value handcuffs flagged.
Strength of Schedule
Team-by-position SOS heatmap, early and playoff-week windows.
Bye Planner
Every team's bye plus a roster bye-week conflict grid.
Cheat Sheet
Printable tiered position board with the tier cliffs drawn in.
Values and Reaches
Where Nova disagrees with ADP: the biggest sleepers and the biggest reaches.
Scarcity Curve
VORP dropoff by position so you can see exactly where each cliffs.
Stack Finder
Best QB plus pass-catcher stacks to draft for correlated ceilings.
In-season
Weekly
Projections, start/sit, flex ranker, and the slate dashboard for weekly lineup decisions.
Season Budget Pace
Each player's season is a point pool. Track the drawdown as scores post, flag who's ahead or behind pace, and turn it into buy-low / sell-high calls.
Lineup Optimizer
Build a roster, get the optimal starting lineup and full-roster start/sit.
Waiver Wire
Deep stashes, rest-of-season pickups, and streamers ranked through the same value engine.
Injury Watch
The daily Sleeper injury poll, surfaced for your board.
Trending
Most-added and most-dropped players across Sleeper, with Nova context.
Scenarios
How game environment signals such as shootout, weather, and pace shift position expectations.
Scores
NFL schedule, game state, and kickoff weather for fantasy context.
Tools
Connect League
Pull your real Sleeper roster and scoring, resolved to Nova's numbers.
Lineup Optimizer
The optimal lineup and start/sit for any roster you build.
Compare
Players side by side: budgets, bands, DNA, and where Nova splits from ADP.
Trade Analyzer
Grade a trade you are considering by value over replacement.
Trade Finder
Suggests value-positive trades from your surplus to your needs.
What-If
Stack scenarios on a player and watch the whole distribution move.
My League
Your exact scoring and roster rules genuinely reorder the board.
Teams
All 32 teams with depth charts, projections, byes, and schedule strength.
Roster Report Card
Build a roster and get a graded analysis: strength, depth, byes, floor/ceiling.
Export
Download the board as CSV or JSON with the format, positions, and columns you pick.
Research
Divergence Watch
Nova versus the market, ranked by disagreement, with the reasoning.
Signal Library
72 historical situational signals across 6 seasons, each with sample size.
Armchair QB
Plot any metric against any other. Scatter, correlation, custom tables, leaders.
Floor / Ceiling
Safest floors, highest ceilings, and the biggest boom/bust spreads.
Ask Nova
Natural-language board search that answers from the current rankings and player data.
Opportunity
2025 usage leaderboards: target share, WOPR, snap share, red-zone touches.
Consistency
2025 week-to-week scoring: who was steady versus boom/bust, with sparklines.