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What Is an All-Play Record in Fantasy Football?

All-play record explained: how it's calculated, why it's the best measure of a fantasy team's strength, how luck is measured, and how to use it with schedule swap and strength of schedule.

By Pigskin Press · October 22, 2026

The short version

Your all-play record is what your record would be if you played every other team in your league every single week, not just your scheduled opponent. In a 10-team league, every week counts as 9 games, so after seven weeks your all-play record covers 63 games.

How it's calculated

Take your score each week and compare it with every other team's score that week. Each team you beat is a win, each team that beat you is a loss, and an exact tie is a tie. Add those up across every week of the season.

Example: in week 3 you score 112 in a 10-team league, and only two teams score more. Your all-play record that week is 7-2, even if you happened to play one of those two teams and lost.

Why it matters

Head-to-head records are noisy. Over 14 weeks, the order you play opponents in can swing a record by two or three wins. All-play removes that schedule luck, so it's a far better measure of how good a team actually is, and a better predictor of how it will do from here.

Measuring luck

Compare all-play with the real record. If your all-play win rate is 60% over 7 games, you'd "expect" about 4.2 wins. If you have 6, you've been lucky by about 1.8 wins. If you have 2, the schedule has been cruel. Pigskin Press shows this as a Luck number next to every team.

Two more ways to see schedule luck

Schedule swap: your weekly scores against another team's opponents. If you'd be 5-2 on someone else's schedule and you're 3-4 on yours, now you have receipts.
Strength of schedule: how many points your opponents have scored against you per game, compared with the league average.

All three are calculated automatically for Sleeper and ESPN leagues on Pigskin Press's Standings tab, along with power rankings and playoff odds.

Questions

Is all-play the same as a power ranking?

No, but it's the best ingredient for one. Pigskin Press's power rankings weight all-play at 40%, with points per game, recent form and record making up the rest.

Does all-play count playoff weeks?

Usually not. Most leagues calculate it over regular-season weeks only.

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