Matchup ratings in Fantasy Football

Yahoo Fantasy Football provides several ways for you to get a leg up on your competition each week. Matchup ratings and opponent rankings can give you a better idea of what the players you are facing, are projected to do, as well as give you an idea of how your starting lineup is projected to play against those players.

Matchup Ratings

With Matchup Ratings, you can see how your Fantasy team's players, your opponent's players, and all available players rate on a 5-star scale in their individual matchups that week, along with detailed notes from our Fantasy experts.

You can access this information from three places:

  • The Notes icon next to each player.
  • The Matchup Ratings link under the Research tab on your league homepage.
  • The Fantasy Matchups link under the Game Day Decision tab on your team homepage.

Opponents Rankings

View how your player's opponent fares against that particular Fantasy position by clicking on the Research tab on your team page.

The column "Opponent Points Against Rank" ranks, from 1-32, how many Fantasy points the opponent has allowed during the season -- the lower the number, the more points allowed.

In this example, Julio Jones is facing a Rams defense that allows the 21st most points against wide receivers. Looked at another way, the Rams have the 12th-best defense in the league against wide receivers.

Green indicates a top-10 matchup.

Yellow indicates an 11-22 matchup.

Red indicates a 23-32 matchup

Game Day Decision

This provides you with the most up-to-date information as you make your last-minute decisions. You access it by clicking on the Game Day Decision tab on your team page.

  • Overall: You'll find both your Matchup Ratings and the Opponent Points Against Rankings, along with a player's injury status and how they're trending in terms of how many Yahoo Sports managers are adding or removing a player from their starting lineup.
  • Fantasy Matchups: Provides you with the same info as the Matchup Ratings page.
  • Game Day Calls: Provides you with up-to-the-minute updates on a player's status, including in-game changes based on injuries.

  Look for updates - Matchup Ratings typically are posted to the Fantasy site by Thursday morning..