Schedule Grid

How to read the grid

Each cell is the number of regular-season games that club plays inside that fantasy week, counted from the league's published calendar. Fantasy weeks run Monday to Sunday here, which is how the major hosts score a head-to-head matchup by default, and a game belongs to the Eastern calendar date it tips off on. A green count is four or more games, a full week; a red count is two or fewer, a light week; three is the ordinary case and stays plain. The row of letters under each count is the nights the club plays, Monday first: M W F S is a Monday, a Wednesday, a Friday and a Saturday. Two letters side by side are a back-to-back, and the second of the pair is printed in gold because that is the night a coach is most likely to sit a player who is nursing something. The small line under a count says how many of those games fall on light nights. The last column totals the back-to-backs inside the window.

The four-game clubs and the two-game clubs

The two preset chips above the picker do the Monday sort for you. Four-game clubs this week fills the grid with every club playing four or more games in the current fantasy week, which is the list a manager streams from and the list to check before benching a starter for a game-count reason. Two-game clubs this week fills it with the clubs playing two or fewer, which is the list to look at before a trade: a player on a two-game week is worth less to you this week and exactly as much next week, and a trade partner who is only looking at the season line will not notice the difference. The East and West chips fill a conference, Every club fills all thirty, and the picker under them lets you tap any club in or out. A shared link carries the chosen clubs, so a screenshot is never needed.

Day by day: the one-week grid

The Day by day chip swaps the four-week count for one week drawn night by night: seven columns, Monday to Sunday, the league-wide game count in each column head and, per club, the opponent in the cell, with an at for a road game and a dash for an off night. This is the view for setting a daily lineup and for streaming. On a night with twelve games nearly every club plays and your bench is full of players who can start; on a night with three games most of your roster is idle and any player on one of the six clubs playing is a starter by default. The week picker beside the chip moves through the season, so the same grid answers the question for a week that has not arrived yet, which is how you know on Wednesday that next Monday is a two-game night worth planning an add around.

The playoff weeks

The playoff chip swaps the window for your league's playoff weeks, with a total column at the end. The default is weeks 20 to 22, the three-week playoff the most-used category host runs by default; the other major host runs a four-team bracket over weeks 21 to 24 with two-week rounds, and the two pickers beside the chip set any range up to six weeks. A club with eleven games across the playoff weeks is worth more in March than its season ranking says, and a club with seven is worth less, and this is the table to have open when a trade deadline offer arrives in February. The league's own calendar shapes those weeks too: the week that holds the All-Star break in February is light for every club at once, so the grid goes red across the board, and the last week of the regular season is when contenders rest starters and the counts stop meaning what they usually mean.

Compare two players

The two search seats under the light-night list take two players from the directory and show, week by week, the nights each one's club plays and the nights both do. Those shared nights are the ones a single bench seat has to choose between them; the nights only one plays are free. Two players whose clubs play the same nights every week are worth less together than their separate lines suggest, because one of them is always sitting; two whose clubs alternate are a full week between them from one roster spot. The pair is written into the address with the rest of the grid, so the comparison can be sent to the person on the other side of a trade.

What this page does not do

It does not project points, and it does not know your roster. It answers one question, how many times each club takes the floor and on which nights, and leaves the judgement to you. A four-game week for a club that rests its stars on the second night of every back-to-back is not the same as a four-game week for a club that plays them through, and the injury report, not the calendar, decides who suits up. The clubs you pick, the threshold, the view, the playoff range, the week and the two players you compare are all written into the address, so a link to this page carries your grid to anyone in the group chat. Read it beside the streamers page for who to add on the thin nights and the category board for the player-level value.

The schedule is read from the league's published calendar and refreshed on our own feed. If it is not available the page says so rather than showing a stale grid.