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TheTradeCalc

Fantasy football trade calculator built from real trades

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Details

External ID
1267968
Source
PH
Company
—
Product
TheTradeCalc
Website domain
producthunt.com
Launched
Oct. 4, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
1
Upvotes percentile
0.3252774120744781
Tags
Analytics, Sports, Football
Fetched at
Oct. 5, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Updated at
Oct. 5, 2026, 1:01 a.m.

Description

TheTradeCalc values every player and pick from over 2.2 million real trades plus community votes. Check any dynasty or redraft trade, then connect your Sleeper, ESPN, Fantrax or MFL league to compare rosters, find trade partners and spot waiver pickups. Free.

Enrichment

Niche
sports entertainment and gaming utilities
Vertical
Media & entertainment
Function
Analytics & BI
Audience
B2C
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Commercial product
Normalized one-liner
trade analyzer for fantasy football players
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Partial Integrating with fantasy league APIs (Sleeper, ESPN, etc.) is standard, but assembling and processing a proprietary dataset of 2.2 million historical trades into an accurate valuation algorithm is a major data challenge.

What it would actually take: The front end and API integrations with Sleeper/ESPN are straightforward web dev. The hard part is the data pipeline: continually scraping millions of public league trades, cleaning multi-team/multi-asset transactions, and training an ongoing value calibration model (e.g., Elo-based or machine-learning value curves) that reflects market fluctuations.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one — 127 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #50 of 128 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 234 days after the earliest competitor.

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