The jargon barrier
Target share, opportunity score, route participation. These get used as though everyone already knows them. We define the metric in the same view where you use it, and we show the arithmetic instead of asking you to trust it.
About
Fantasy football that finally works for everyone.
Rankings, league tools, and news that read the same by ear as by eye. Built by a blind dynasty manager who got tired of stats trapped in charts he could not reach, for anyone who has ever been talked past by a fantasy analyst.
- Free tools
- 6
- Scoring formats
- 13
- Value sources
- 4
- Cost
- $0
No paid tier
Redraft to dynasty
You pick
All of it
Mission
Two gaps, closed in one product
Most fantasy tools were built by analysts for analysts, then bolted onto an interface that assumes you can see the chart.
The accessibility gap
Stats trapped in an unlabeled chart. Filters you can only reach with a mouse. Player news that updates silently. Every screen here is written as semantic HTML first, then driven with a keyboard and a screen reader before it ships.
The product
What you can do here
All of it free, all of it without an account, apart from the parts that save something to one.
Rankings board. Values, tiers, positional ranks, and seven-day movement, with a full profile behind every player.Sleeper League Pulse. Sync a league and read every roster, trade, and waiver move in it. Power Pulse scores what each team should win from here.On The Clock. Connects to your live Sleeper draft and flags who is falling while the clock is still running.Signal Check Trade Calculator. Grade a trade and get the verdict, the value margin, and how confident the read is.Start / Sit. Who should I start? Beacon Breakdown answers it from this week's projections and matchups.FAAB Calculator. A suggested bid range for a waiver pickup, weighed against your budget and your roster.The Beacon Brief. NFL news with the fantasy impact spelled out. 442 stories published so far.Guides. A glossary of every term that does real work, and a draft guide that rebuilds itself all preseason.Signal Scout. Decode the profile, name the player. A guessing game built on the same data as the board.A free account. Save your Sleeper leagues, build a rankings board in your own order, and claim a public Signal profile.
How we build
Accessibility, in practice
The six rules that decide whether something is finished.
- Semantic HTML firstA button is a button. ARIA is used where HTML cannot express the meaning, not as a substitute for it.
- Everything works by keyboardEvery control is reachable and operable without a mouse, and the focus ring is never removed without a replacement.
- Nothing is dropped on a phoneWhen a table will not fit, the row restacks. A column is never hidden at a breakpoint to make the layout easier.
- Color never carries meaning aloneEvery colored state is paired with text, so a verdict reads the same to a screen reader as it looks on the page.
- Contrast has a floorWCAG AA is the minimum anything ships at, and AAA is the target wherever the type size allows it.
- One time zone, always labeledEvery timestamp on the site is shown in US Eastern with the zone attached, so nothing depends on what your device believes.
Data
Where the numbers come from
You pick the source and the format. The rest of the site follows that choice.
Player values come from DynastyProcess, FantasyCalc, FF Beacon, and KTC. Pick the one you trust and every page follows it, including the trade grades and the league power rankings.
13 scoring formats are live, from redraft standard through dynasty superflex with a tight end premium. A source only offers the formats it genuinely publishes, so you are never shown a number that was copied sideways from a format it was not built for.
Values rebuild nightly and the trend windows recalculate with them, so a seven-day move covers seven real days. Projections are Sleeper's weekly numbers rescored under each format's own rules rather than read off a generic column, which is why a tight end premium actually counts.
Inside a synced league, values use that league's scoring settings rather than whatever you have picked globally. A trade is graded in the league it happened in, because that is the only format it ever meant anything in.
Support
Free to use, funded by one person
No subscription, no paywall, no locked tier, and no company behind it.
FF Beacon is entirely self funded. The hosting, the database, the data feeds, the domain and the email all come off one personal card. There is no investor waiting for a return and nobody to answer to about what the numbers say.
Everything stays free whatever you do. The tools, the rankings, the Brief, the guides, and the help you get from real people in Discord are open to anyone who turns up. There is no donor tier, no early access, and no advantage on the board, because a site that reads the same for everybody is the entire point of this one.
If it has saved you from a bad trade, or made a draft easier to follow by ear, a one-time donation puts something back into the bill. Card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, PayPal and Venmo all work, and any amount is welcome. None is expected.
One thing worth saying plainly rather than burying: a donation is a gift, not a purchase, so it is final and is not refunded. Nothing is being sold here, so there is nothing to send back. If a charge is clearly a mistake, a duplicate or an amount you did not mean to send, get in touch and we will try to put it right.
Make a donation
The Donate button in the site header opens the same thing without leaving the page you are on.
Founder
Who builds it
Michael, founder of FF Beacon
Twenty seasons in fantasy, played stats-first across redraft, dynasty, superflex, and tight end premium. Partly because that is how you win, and partly because most fantasy interfaces are not built for a blind dynasty manager. FF Beacon is what happened when reading the game by the numbers stopped being a workaround and became the product.
Read the full storySee it in action
Come see the mission in practice.
The best way to understand FF Beacon is to use it. Drop into our Discord and real fantasy players will show you around, free, or jump straight into the tools built on everything above.