FantasyPros - Fantasy Advice

Review by eFreeware

FantasyPros is a free sports app from the company of the same name, and it has spent years building a reputation around one promise: telling you who to start, who to sit and who to draft. The app covers fantasy football and fantasy baseball, and it folds two older products, Draft Wizard and My Playbook, into a single place. That combination is the main reason to consider it. Instead of jumping between a rankings site, a draft tool and a league page, you get research, draft help and in-season management under one roof.

The scale is considerable. The app has passed 500,000 installs on Google Play and holds a 4.5 average from more than 31,000 ratings, which suggests a lot of managers keep it installed through a season. It came out in August 2016 and has been updated since, most recently in October 2026 with a round of fixes and performance work. It is free to download, carries ads and offers in-app purchases, including a Premium subscription that the developer describes as unlocking draft and in-season features across sports.

What appeals to me most is the scope of the advice rather than any single tool. Rankings, projections, news and lineup suggestions are the daily bread of fantasy sports, and this app is built to deliver all of them in one flow, from your first pick through the weeks that decide your league.

Draft day, with a second opinion on every pick

The draft side of the app is where the toolset is thickest. A mock draft simulator lets you rehearse with your own league settings and hands out a draft grade afterward, which is a useful way to see how a strategy plays out before it counts. You can set scoring to Standard, Half PPR or PPR, adjust the number of teams and positions, and build custom cheat sheets from expert rankings and average draft position. For keeper leagues, you can record each team's keepers so the mock runs closer to your real draft.

The part I would lean on is the Draft Assistant. It syncs with a live draft and offers pick suggestions in real time, so the app is effectively sitting beside you while your league picks. The developer describes the expert suggestions as showing who the experts would take at every single pick, which is the kind of nudge that matters when you are on the clock and second-guessing yourself.

There is a catch worth knowing before draft day. Live draft sync works with a specific set of hosts: Yahoo, Sleeper, CBS, NFL.com, MyFantasyLeague, RT Sports, Fantrax and NFFC. You can bring ESPN leagues into the app, though live sync there is limited to the manual draft assistant, with real-time syncing handled through the developer's browser extensions on the web. Salary cap drafts are not covered by the assistant in the app at all. If your league runs on one of the supported hosts with a standard snake draft, the setup is straightforward; if not, you are working manually.

Weekly lineup calls without the guesswork

Once the season starts, the app shifts from drafting to managing. The start/sit assistant produces an optimal lineup for the week based on the expert consensus, and a separate comparison tool lets you put two players side by side when you are stuck on a close call. The waiver assistant points to players worth adding and dropping with analysis attached, and the trade assistant evaluates offers and proposed deals so you can judge whether a swap actually improves your team. A league analyzer shows how your roster stacks up against the rest of the league, which is handy context when you are deciding whether to push for a title or start planning for next year.

All of this rests on the Expert Consensus Rankings, which the developer says draws on more than 100 experts. Rankings are available for dynasty, draft, season and weekly decisions, and each player has stats and projections attached for research. That breadth is the real value here: rather than one analyst's opinion, you are getting an aggregate, which tends to smooth out the hot takes.

The app also acts as a news feed. It carries NFL and MLB player news and can send notifications about your players, so a late injury or a depth chart change does not sit unnoticed until kickoff. For managers in several leagues, that kind of alert is often the difference between a wasted week and a quick fix.

Every league in one place, and live game day

One of the more practical features is league sync. The app can pull in leagues from more than 15 hosts, including Yahoo, Sleeper, ESPN, CBS Sports, NFL.com, MyFantasyLeague, RT Sports, FleaFlicker, Fantrax, NFC, FFPC, FFWC, FanStar, DataForceFF, Reality Sports Online and LeagueTycoon. If you run teams across several platforms, that means one app for lineup decisions instead of three browser tabs and a notes file.

On game day, the app turns into a live companion. Live fantasy scoring covers your league matchups, a leaderboard and a real-time football feed, so plays update your matchup as they happen. A scores and plays section adds a live NFL scoreboard, play-by-play, team and player stats, and betting odds. For anyone who likes to keep one eye on the league while watching a game, this is the section that earns its keep.

The developer has also added Coach AI, described as a personal fantasy assistant that knows your league and team. It sits alongside the other tools rather than replacing them, and the pitch is that it tailors advice to your specific roster and settings rather than offering generic rankings.

What you need before the advice starts

Getting useful output depends on connecting your league. The app syncs from the supported hosts, and once that is done, the lineup, waiver, trade and analyzer tools have the roster and scoring context they need. If your host is not on the list, or if you play in a format the sync does not cover, you are entering information yourself and the experience is more manual.

Draft day has its own requirements. Live draft assistant support is limited to the eight hosts named above, and ESPN managers are directed to the manual assistant inside the app or to browser extensions on the web. Salary cap drafts are not supported by the assistant in the app. It is worth checking your league's setup against that list well before your draft, because discovering a mismatch an hour before you pick is not a good position to be in.

The app is free to download and carries ads, with in-app purchases available. A Premium subscription covers draft and in-season features for all sports; subscriptions renew automatically and can be managed in the settings.

A fit for managers who want the research done

This app is built for people who take fantasy football and baseball seriously enough to want rankings, projections and second opinions at hand. If you play in multiple leagues across different hosts, the sync and the single dashboard are the strongest argument for installing it. If you are the manager who reads three rankings columns before setting a lineup, the consensus approach here saves you the tab juggling.

It also suits draft-focused players. The mock simulator, custom cheat sheets and live draft assistant cover the whole arc of draft preparation, and the ability to run mocks with your exact scoring settings is genuinely useful for testing a strategy. Keeper league managers get the same treatment, with keeper tracking built into the mock setup.

Baseball players are covered too, with MLB news and rankings alongside the football tools. The app is rated for everyone and the tools are explained in plain terms, so a newer manager can follow the suggestions without needing to interpret a wall of statistics. The app has industry awards for projection accuracy, service and innovation, which fit its pitch of expert-driven advice rather than gut feeling.

A research desk for serious fantasy managers

FantasyPros earns a place on the phone of anyone who plays fantasy football or baseball and wants the research handled in one place. The combination of expert consensus rankings, draft tools, weekly lineup and waiver advice, and live game day scoring covers the full season, and the league sync across more than 15 hosts makes it practical for managers juggling multiple teams. The 4.5 average from over 31,000 ratings suggests that formula has landed with a lot of players.

The caveats are about coverage, not quality. Ads and in-app purchases are part of the free version, and Premium is a subscription that renews automatically. None of that undermines the core tools, but it does mean the app fits some league setups more cleanly than others.

If you play in a supported league and want draft and lineup decisions backed by a wide panel of experts, this is a straightforward install. If your league runs on a host or format outside the supported list, the app still offers rankings, news and manual tools, but the automated parts will not carry as much of the load.

What's new in version 3.2.6

This update includes miscellaneous enhancements, performance improvements, and fixes.