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For over twenty years, our primary contribution to help fantasy sports players win their leagues is a custom cheatsheet and draft tool called, Draft Buddy. Today, I am happy to announce a new partnership with top fantasy content provider RotoBaller. The result of this partnership is a RotoBaller-exclusive version of Draft Buddy, or RotoBaller Draft Buddy.

This is the same Draft Buddy Excel software you know and love, loaded with RotoBaller fantasy football projections. These projections earned RotoBaller multiple Top 10 accuracy awards from FantasyPros!

RotoBaller Draft Buddy is a great match to help fantasy players prep for and track their drafts. Sign up today to download a copy of RotoBaller Draft Buddy. The price is $19.95 for new members or $16.95 for returning Draft Buddy members.

Draft Buddy requires Microsoft Excel for Windows or Mac.

Draft Buddy Features

Key Draft Buddy features include:

• Create custom cheatsheets for your league rules and scoring
• Edit projections and/or re-rank players as you like
• Generate auction values
• Keeper and dynasty league support
• Various format ADP including FFPC and NFFC ADP
• Depth charts, player news
• Prior three years of player stats
• Keeps you organized to maximize draft results
• Marks players off your cheatsheets
• Updates team rosters
• Sync with MyFantasyLeague.com, Fantrax, and Sleeper
• Trash-talking sound effects

Here are some screenshots of Draft Buddy:

Prep For Your Draft

It may not seem like it with the lack of NFL preseason, but the 2020 NFL regular season is fast approaching. The primary fantasy football draft weekends are the final two weekends of August and Labor Day weekend. My home league annually drafts Thursday night during the first NFL game, this year Houston Texans at Kansas City Chiefs on September 10th.

There is still time to get you up and running with Draft Buddy to prep for your drafts. I recently posted a series of videos to create custom cheatsheets for your league. This is the first video in the series:

After the cheatsheets are ready, then it is time to draft. If your league’s draft is on any of MyFantasyLeague.com, Fantrax or Sleeper, then it is very easy to track your draft. Buddy syncs with drafts for each of these sites. After inputting the league identifier, you can click a button to pull in draft results. Draft Buddy then marks all the players off the cheatsheets and updates rosters.

Even if your league does not use one of those league managers, you can still input the picks as they happen. Select a player name on any of the cheatsheets and click the Draft Player button to add him to the draft report (or auction report) tab.

Tech Support

If you have any questions using Draft Buddy then we can connect through a variety of social networks, or by email.

Sign Up and Download

Once again, check the special RotoBaller sign up page to purchase this version of Draft Buddy. Once the purchase is processed then you receive access to download.

Thanks very much to RotoBaller for helping make this happen! We hope to expand the partnership to the fantasy baseball version of Draft Buddy for the next MLB season.

I first created the Fantasy Football Draft Buddy over 20 years ago. Not only did it have a different name back then (anyone? see comments), but it included a unique feature that is a double-edged-sword. You can import fantasy football projections from other sources to create your cheatsheets.

Make Them Your Cheatsheets

The good about this feature is you get total control over the data that helps create your cheatsheets. I always felt it is important to stress Draft Buddy is a fantasy tool to help you make decisions about your team. It isn’t a, “here–do this,” tool. It is a support tool to help stay organized and up to date and to make better decisions – your Buddy! This feature aligns with that goal.

Import up to three sets of projections from whatever source(s) you trust. Certainly, there are many more premium subscription-based fantasy football services now than there were 20 years ago. If you use one of those, then maybe they have projections you want to use to create custom cheatsheets.

You can even edit the fantasy football projections after they are in Draft Buddy, if you want to adjust things for your own feelings about certain players. And, if you import multiple sets of projections, combine them using any weighted average you choose.

Problems Importing Projections

The difficulty with this feature is getting the projections into Draft Buddy. Since the projections come from many different possible sources, they are in a wide range of formats. For example compare CBS, ESPN, and FF Today projections.

Thankfully, FF Today’s fantasy football projections are included in Draft Buddy. But, there is no magic button to get CBS or ESPN or hundreds of other website projections into Draft Buddy.

And it isn’t as simple as copying and pasting into Excel. How do we line them up with the players and data already in Draft Buddy? How do we get the projections under the right column headings for touches, yards, and touchdowns?

Projection Pal To The Rescue

I created Projection Pal, which is a separate Excel file, to help import and make sure to line the projections up with the right players and in the right columns. Find Pal on the Draft Buddy download page. Using Pal, and with a little patience, then you can import projections. You’ll probably learn more about Microsoft Excel, to boot.

Below is a new demo video importing CBS fantasy football projections into Draft Buddy using Projection Pal. This covers most scenarios people experience importing projections. Before watching the video, here are some key points to think about with this process:

• Player names should be full first and last names. They can be formatted last name, first name, like, “Barkley, Saquon”, but (while not impossible) hopefully not, “S. Barkley”
• It may be necessary to clean data to remove extra info that is the same cell as each player’s name, like their team abbreviation. Sometimes there are funny characters that look like spaces but aren’t spaces, which a find-replace can often fix.
• If names are not formatted first name-last name then Projection Pal’s clean tabs may show errors prior to clicking the Copy to Draft Buddy button. Click the button, and see if Pal cleans the data for you.
• Many websites now offer their projections as comma-separated values (CSV) file download, which makes things much easier. If available, download, copy and paste it into Projection Pal. Split the data using Data > Text to Columns.

Importing Fantasy Football Projections Demo Video

Here is the video. If you have issues importing projections then post in the comments and we can help figure it out. For more Draft Buddy demo videos check my YouTube channel.

It isn’t normal to release a new version of fantasy football Draft Buddy this late in the summer. As we know, however, 2020 is far from normal. Draft Buddy version 3.0 is now available with a brand new feature – Sleeper integration.

What is Sleeper? Sleeper is a fantasy football league manager that continues to grow in popularity. The UI (user interface) is crazy-good. Serious props to the coders and designers for their mobile and design skills.

You can use Sleeper for redraft, keeper, or dynasty leagues. The scoring options are practically endless. You can mock draft on Sleeper to practice drafting. Sleeper supports individual defensive players (IDP). It does pretty much everything you would expect from a fantasy league manager except auction drafts, and I’m sure that is on Sleeper’s radar.

Sync Draft Buddy and Sleeper

We want to make things easier for our Draft Buddy members who play at Sleeper. Draft Buddy now includes Sleeper fantasy football integration as of version 3.0.

This works very similar to existing integration with MyFantasyLeague.com and Fantrax, allowing Draft Buddy to sync with fantasy football leagues on those platforms. You can access franchise names, keepers and draft results to import into Draft Buddy.

To use Sleeper integration, go to the sync tab and select Sleeper from the drop-down menu. Then input your Sleeper league ID in Draft Buddy. Visit your league in a web browser and look at the URL. An example is:

https://sleeper.app/leagues/525573093652869120

For this league, the ID is 525573093652869120. Note, the similarly looking ID for the draft board is different than the league ID. Make sure you are on the league main page to find the league ID. Once input, then try the links to franchise, keepers, and draft results. You can pull draft results using the button on the draft report tab.

If you notice any players that appear as ?? that means they are not currently matched in our player database. Please let me know the unmatched players to help me update our database.

Thanks Sleeper for making the API available for us to sync Draft Buddy with your leagues!