How To Review And Manage Your Fantasy Football Best Ball Portfolio

It's finally here–Fantasy Life's new-look Best Ball Hub.

This is the ultimate tool for best ballers, as it allows you to review and manage your portfolio in a variety of different ways. 

How To Manage Your Best Ball Portfolio

To get started:

1. Use promo code 'PETE' and grab a Tier 2 sub at 20% off
2. Download a CSV from Underdog and upload to the Hub
3. Portfolio: scan a complete overview of your contest breakdown, top CLV teams, highest-value stacks, biggest ADP risers & fallers, and total player exposures.
4. Player exposure: get detailed player insights, including Fee%, total fees, average pick, current ADP, average CLV, top stacks, most commonly paired players, W17 DvP, and Fantasy Boost scores. 
5. Player combo tool: search up to any three players to see exposure percentage to a specific combo.
6. My teams: team-by-team breakdown with ROS projections, average CLV, roster construction insights, and stacking data for every single draft.

I've completed over 200 best ball drafts since the NFL Draft and below I'm going to share five specific ways I'm leveraging the Hub to make better decisions in the rest of my 2025 drafts.

Finding Blind Spots Via The Player Combo Tool

Even having drafted hundreds of teams, I'm still amazed at how many blind spots I have in my portfolio. 

I care about this the most when it comes to my most drafted players. In a perfect world, I want to spread out my bets around a high-owned player. The conviction is in the player itself, not an accidental combo that includes my favorite player targets.

With the "Player Combo Tool" you can quickly review which players are paired most frequently with another player. 

For example, Luther Burden is my most drafted WR so far this summer at nearly 20% (please start practicing soon, bro):

But for some reason, I only have him stacked up with his QB–Caleb Williams–on three teams, which represents only 1.5% of my portfolio. You can see this is below average when compared to our community:

There's a pretty obvious reason why this is happening for me and it is because Burden goes after Williams in drafts.

Most drafters, myself included, are more compelled to complete a stack when the pass catcher goes first. For example: despite having only 3.5% Rome Odunze, I've paired him with Caleb more times than I have Burden because it is easier to "star" Caleb after selecting Rome in Round 6 than it is to take Caleb and hope Burden makes it back to you at the next pick. 

Takeaway: Because Burden is such a big target for me, I need to prioritize selecting Caleb in more drafts and setting up the back stack with Burden.

Why CLV Matters

CLV stands for "closing line value," which is basically a fancy way to say whether a player has gotten cheaper or more expensive since drafting them.

CLV is important for hard-core best ballers who are drafting all summer because we want to make sure we are always getting the best possible price on players. When we draft players who later rise in price (positive CLV) or avoid players who later drop in price (negative CLV), our teams are inherently stronger.

Take for instance, Rashee Rice. Fortunately, I was mostly fading him at his Round 2 prices. With a suspension now looming, his ADP is in a free fall (currently 37.5), which means my average CLV on Rice teams is very poor (-9.1):

For the rest of the summer, my second and third-round Rice teams will be competing against teams who will select him in the fourth and fifth rounds. Put simply, those latter Rice teams will be better than my early Rice teams.

On the flip side, when players rise—like J.K. Dobbins and Dylan Sampson—we have the opportunity to build "super teams."

I wish I had taken more Dobbins before he signed with Denver, but I had fortunately been loading up on Sampson. 

On one Best Ball Mania team I drafted on June 8 with Shawn Siegele, we got Dobbins at pick 173 and Sampson at pick 188, which results in pretty dominant RB room:

Takeaway: Try to anticipate risers and fallers and act accordingly. I think Keenan Allen could make a Dobbins-esque rise when he eventually signs with a team. It's hard to imagine him getting much cheaper than he is now (ADP: 200.8). On the flip side, stay patient on guys like Jordan Addison (looming suspension), Chris Godwin (bearish injury news), and Brandon Aiyuk (no timeline to return), who are a lock to get cheaper in the coming weeks.

The Difference Between Exposure % & Fee %

When reviewing your "Player Exposures" in The Hub, you will notice that you can sort by both Exposure % (the percentage of your teams that include that player) and Fee % (the percentage of your total entry fees tied to this player).

This is a helpful distinction for drafters who are playing in multiple contests with different price points.

To illustrate this difference, let's say you played $201 worth of entries (20 $5 Puppy Drafts and 1 $101 Dalmatian draft). 

And in those drafts, you took Bo Nix in all 20 Puppy drafts and you took one share of Kyler Murray in the Dalmation. This is what your exposure/fee breakdown would look like:

• Nix: 95% exposure, 49% fee exposure
• Murray: 5% exposure, 50% fee exposure

So even though you selected Nix 19 more times, you have a nearly identical fee exposure ($100 on each).

Savvy drafters can leverage this dynamic to help balance out their portfolio in higher dollar contests.

Takeaway: I've received the 1.06 in only 4% of my drafts, which means I have less Jahmyr Gibbs (6%) than any other Round 1 player. I love Gibbs, though, so this is something I will be looking to correct by selecting him in a higher-dollar contest at some point this summer. If I'm able to land him in a Big Dog contest ($500 draft), I can quickly get my fee % up on him and rest easy that I still have significant exposure (via dollars instead of entries).

Mixing and Matching Playoff Stacks

If you've made it this far in a best ball portfolio review piece, you are probably familiar with the concept of stacking up teams in the fantasy playoffs, specifically Week 17. It is the most important week of the best ball season because that's when the majority of the money is paid out.

It is a common (and smart) strategy to stack up players from the same Week 17 game in the hopes of that game going nuclear and resulting in big fantasy scores for multiple players.

Broncos rookie WR Pat Bryant is one of my favorite late-round clicks, especially on teams where I've drafted Kansas City Chiefs, who they play in Week 17 ("Bo & Arrow"... now you'll never forget, you're welcome).

But in reviewing the Hub, I noticed that I've paired Bryant with Chiefs WR Xavier Worthy and Chiefs rookie RB Brashard Smith 25% of the time:

I have no problem with the Worthy pairing, as he's another one of my most drafted WRs, but I do not love how often I've paired him with Smith.

I recently wrote about why I'm not high on Smith and why I'd prefer to take other late-round RB selections, so this is another good wakeup call.

Takeaway: Going forward, I want to avoid Smith on any teams with Bryant and try to pair Bryant with some other Chiefs, like Isiah Pacheco and Travis Kelce. 

See What The Community Is Doing

One of the coolest features in The Hub is that thousands and thousands of teams are being uploaded. This means that we can get a snapshot of what our overall community is doing in drafts.

The "wisdom of the crowds" is a very useful benchmark for reviewing our portfolio and identifying where we are above or below the market on certain stacks. 

I think it is funny that there is a pretty big overlap with my Brock Bowers combos as there is with the Community:

There's no reason Bowers should be paired this frequently with seemingly random players like Bhayshul Tuten, Tetairoa McMillan (put some respect on his name), and Worthy, yet that is exactly what is happening. I guess us Bowers drafters have a type!

You can also quickly review your exposures to the biggest ADP risers and fallers over the past week:

I've barely scraped the surface here as far as all of the different things you can do with the Hub. Let me know any interesting insights you get from reviewing your teams. 

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