Fantasy Blacksmith: NBA Fantasy Basketball Tools

Fantasy Blacksmith is a free toolkit for NBA fantasy basketball, built on real ESPN and Yahoo projections. Track a live draft, grade a finished roster, rank every team in your league, or weigh up a trade before you make it.

Draft Companion

Track your draft pick by pick, preview any player before you commit, and see which available players fit your team best.

Post-Draft Analyzer

Grade a finished roster against the league average, or compare two teams head to head to see who is favored.

League Analyzer

Build or auto-fill every team in your league and see the full standings, ranked by points, categories or rotisserie score, with a projected record for each team.

Trade Machine

Pick the players each side sends and see how a trade moves each team, with an optional full-team before and after.

All five tools share one player database and one scoring engine, so a roster from the Draft Companion can go straight to the Post-Draft Analyzer or the League Analyzer, and the Trade Machine and the standings run on the same projections.

Fantasy basketball guides

• Punt Strategies in 9-Category Fantasy Basketball, Explained – What punting a category means, why it works, the most common punt builds, and the risks to weigh before you commit to one.
• ADP in Fantasy Basketball: What It Is and How to Use It – What average draft position means, what it can and can't tell you, and how to use it to avoid reaching and to find value in your draft.
• Points Leagues vs Category Leagues: How Your Draft Strategy Changes – How the scoring format changes who is valuable in fantasy basketball, from volume and turnovers to punting and positional balance.
• How to Evaluate a Fantasy Basketball Trade – A practical checklist for judging a fantasy basketball trade: roster spots, availability, category effects, schedules, and what the numbers cannot tell you.
• Fantasy Basketball Roster Positions: Slots, Eligibility and Flexibility – How roster slots and position eligibility work on ESPN and Yahoo, why flexible players are valuable, and how to fill your lineup without wasting picks.

How We Calculate This explains the math behind every tool.