How a DCC value is built (plain language)
The number next to a player is not a KTC price and it is not an ADP. It is a displayed value from two layers: a player profile, then a format layer. That matches /methodology: values are built from the player’s own profile and your league format — no outside price is involved.
Profile, then format
The profile blends multi-season production, age curve, role, pedigree, opportunity, upside, and risk. The blend is proprietary. The inputs we name are Sleeper rosters and depth charts, plus nflverse production and draft records. We do not ingest third-party rankings or market prices. “Market aware, not market copied” means the model can notice that Superflex prices quarterbacks differently without pasting someone else’s board.
The format layer is why the same player is not the same number in 1QB, Superflex, and TE premium. Superflex swings quarterback value. TE premium swings the tight end. If you skip the league import, you are reading a default, not your league.
Independence — and the known limit
Independence, from /about: verdicts are never sponsored. No one can pay to move a player. There is no Pro tier.
Known limit, from /track-record: this construction still loses a straight last-season PPG sort (0.601 vs 0.660). That is a feature of the question being asked, and we keep the number public. We are publishing that because it is true.
About’s phrase “market signals” stays quoted, not erased: the model “blends production, age, draft capital, and market signals.” Methodology’s operational rule for the tools is also quoted, not erased: “we do not ingest any third-party rankings or market prices at all.” Both lines stand. We do not invent a reconciliation that erases either one.