BeatADP vs Fantasy Joes (and When the $2 Is Worth It)

TLDR: BeatADP is a paid dashboard plus Chrome extension that overlays your custom rankings inside Sleeper and ESPN draft rooms, for $15–$24 a year. Fantasy Joes is free, needs no extension, and builds the board itself through head-to-head picks instead of handing you a blank sheet. Short verdict: BeatADP is the better in-room draft experience on desktop Chrome. Fantasy Joes is the better way to arrive at the rankings in the first place, and it costs nothing.

What BeatADP actually is

BeatADP is two things. The first is a web dashboard where you build custom ranking sheets by hand: drag players into order, set tiers, add attributes, assign auction values, then export to CSV or PDF. Note the direction of that arrow — you can export a CSV out, but you can't upload one in. If your rankings live in a spreadsheet today, you'll be rebuilding them inside BeatADP's editor.

The second thing is the reason people pay. The Chrome extension syncs your sheet into the live draft room itself, where it sits as an overlay and crosses drafted players off in real time. It works on Sleeper and ESPN today; Yahoo is listed as coming soon. It is Chrome-only: no Firefox, no Safari, and no mobile.

Pricing is two tiers — the pricing page doesn't name them — both billed annually: $1.25 per month for one ranking sheet (about $15 a year) and $2.00 per month for unlimited sheets (about $24 a year). Both are currently shown as sale prices, marked down from $1.42 and $2.50, so at list price you'd be closer to $17–$30 a year. There's no trial of the draft tool. Depending on which BeatADP page you land on, you'll also see $1.08 a month quoted; the pricing page lists the two tiers above.

On the Chrome Web Store, the extension shows 234 users and a 5.0 average from 2 ratings, last updated June 7, 2026. That's small, but it's alive and actively maintained.

What Fantasy Joes actually is

Fantasy Joes is free and starts anonymous — no signup to try it. The core difference from a sheet editor is where the rankings come from. Instead of giving you a blank list to arrange, it gives you duels: two players, pick the one you'd rather draft, repeat. ELO math turns those picks into a ranked board roughly 174 active players deep, and a drag-and-drop pass at the end lets you fine-tune whatever the duels got slightly wrong. That's the practical way to make your own fantasy football rankings when you don't already have 174 ordered opinions sitting in your head.

When the board is done, it exports five ways: standard CSV, FantasyPros-format CSV, Underdog-format CSV, a draft-day TXT file, and a printable PDF cheat sheet. The full breakdown is in the draft kit doc.

Draft day works without any extension. If your league drafts on Sleeper, live sync follows the draft by username — no password, nothing installed — polling about every 3 seconds and crossing drafted players off your board automatically. Here's how to use your own rankings in a Sleeper draft, start to finish. On ESPN, Yahoo, or at an in-person draft, you tap players to cross them off yourself. Less automatic than an overlay, but it runs on anything with a browser, including the phone in your hand.

If you already keep rankings in a spreadsheet, CSV import seeds your board from it so you're not starting at zero. Boards get public pages you can share, and in season there's a free weekly accuracy challenge scored golf-style — lower is better.

One hard limit, stated plainly: Fantasy Joes is 12-team, snake redraft only. It does not do dynasty, superflex, IDP, auction, or best ball. Scoring is half-PPR by default, with full-PPR and standard available as extra boards.

Head to head

When the $2 is worth it

BeatADP's overlay is genuinely the most convenient way to see your rankings during a draft. Nothing to glance over at, nothing to alt-tab to — the list lives inside the draft board and shrinks as picks come off it. If the following describes you, the $15–$24 a year is fairly priced, and you should pay it:

• You draft on a desktop or laptop, in Chrome.
• Your leagues are on Sleeper or ESPN.
• You want your rankings inside the draft room, not on a second screen.
• You already maintain rankings somewhere else and mostly need them in-room on draft night. You'll re-enter them in BeatADP's editor once, since there's no CSV upload in, but after that they're in the room.
• You play auction drafts. BeatADP sheets carry auction values; Fantasy Joes doesn't do auction at all.

The cheaper tier's single sheet covers one set of rankings; the $2 tier's unlimited sheets are for running different boards in different leagues.

When free wins

• You draft on a phone or tablet. BeatADP has no mobile option.
• You use Firefox or Safari, or you'd rather not install an extension at all.
• Your draft is in person, or on a platform the overlay doesn't reach.
• You don't actually have a full set of rankings yet — you have conviction on 30 players and a shrug on the rest — and you need a tool that builds the board, not one that stores it.
• You want to try before spending anything. BeatADP's sheet builder and overlay have no trial (its site offers a free base-rankings page, but that's a reference, not the tool); Fantasy Joes is free and doesn't ask you to sign up first.

The differences that don't fit a table

There are two.

First, overlay versus second screen. In a fast draft — short clocks, runs at your position, your pick arriving sooner than you expected — a list inside the draft room beats a list next to the draft room. BeatADP wins that moment, and we're not going to talk around it. Fantasy Joes' answer is to make the second screen as close to zero-effort as possible: on Sleeper the cross-offs happen on their own, and everywhere else it's one tap per pick. That's workable, and it travels. But in-room is in-room.

Second, arranging versus building. BeatADP's editor assumes the hard part is already done — that you know your round-9-through-15 order and just need a clean place to record it. For most drafters that assumption is wrong. Opinions run out around pick 40, and dragging rows through that fog produces a list, not a belief. Duels attack the fog directly: one small choice at a time, with the ELO math finding the order you'd actually draft in, about 174 players deep. The drag-and-drop pass comes afterward, when there's something real to adjust. One tool stores rankings. The other produces them.

Who builds them

Both of these are indie projects, which is worth knowing before you compare either one to the big-brand tools.

BeatADP is a solo build by developer Owen Kremer, per his site. The June 7, 2026 update on the Chrome Web Store says it's actively maintained, and it carries the usual solo-project rough edges — the homepage title still says 2025, and the per-month price reads differently depending on the page. There's also almost no public track record to lean on either way: no Reddit threads, no forum reviews, just those two Chrome Web Store ratings, both five stars. That's 234 users, happy so far, with a sample size of two.

Fantasy Joes is the same species: one person building the tool they wanted for their own leagues. Neither product has a support department or a marketing budget behind it. You're picking between two solo builds — one paid and polished at the exact moment of the draft, one free and broader everywhere else.

Bottom line

Pick BeatADP if you draft on desktop Chrome in a Sleeper or ESPN league and the in-room overlay is the thing you want. For that job, $15–$24 a year is fairly priced, and the developer keeps shipping.

Pick Fantasy Joes if you draft from a phone, play outside Sleeper and ESPN, don't want an extension, or — the big one — don't have a board yet and need a way to build one you believe in. Start dueling without an account, or import your CSV if the board already exists, and walk into draft night with rankings that are actually yours.