Sample report
This is what Shoulda Started makes from a Sleeper league. The league is real: 12 teams, half PPR scoring, the full 2025 regular season of 14 weeks. The player names and every point are real too. Only the managers and team names are replaced (Team 1 to Team 12), so nobody in the league is singled out.
Everything below was worked out by the same code that runs when you enter your own Sleeper username, from the same public data Sleeper shows every league member. Nothing is estimated and no projections are used: only the points players actually scored.
LOSS
95.7 - 139.2
Best lineup: 142.3
Benched R. Harvey (23.6) for A. Kamara (5.5)
-18.1
Benched A. Rodgers (16.8) for B. Mayfield (4.1)
-12.7
Benched I. Davis (15.4) for I. Pacheco (5.8)
-9.6
2 smaller lineup calls
-6.2
Of every lineup set in this league all year, this is the one that left the most points where they could not count. In week 8, Team 6 scored 95.7. The best legal lineup from the same roster would have scored 142.3. The difference, 46.6 points, is the bench tax.
That gap decided the game. Team 6 lost 95.7 - 139.2, and the best lineup would have won it. That is why the receipt carries the stamp it does.
The biggest single call: R. Harvey scored 23.6 on the bench while A. Kamara put up 5.5 in the lineup. Every flag on the receipt is one real swap that would have kept the lineup legal, and the flags add up exactly to the bench tax.
Every week page opens with the league's awards. They are worked out from scores alone, so they are the same for everyone in the league and nobody can argue the math.
The whole league that week, sorted by bench tax. The average team left 13.3 points on its bench. One loss would have been a win with the best lineup. A bench tax of zero is possible but rare: it means every start/sit call was right.
| Team | Result | Points | Best lineup | Bench tax | Efficiency | All-play |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team 6 | Lost* | 95.7 | 142.3 | 46.6 | 67% | 2-9 |
| Team 5 | Lost | 80.5 | 117.4 | 36.9 | 69% | 0-11 |
| Team 10 | Won | 126.9 | 152.5 | 25.6 | 83% | 8-3 |
| Team 4 | Won | 118.3 | 133.5 | 15.2 | 89% | 7-4 |
| Team 11 | Won | 108.0 | 119.7 | 11.7 | 90% | 6-5 |
| Team 2 | Won | 157.7 | 168.9 | 11.2 | 93% | 11-0 |
| Team 3 | Lost | 95.7 | 101.8 | 6.1 | 94% | 3-8 |
| Team 7 | Lost | 91.8 | 96.3 | 4.5 | 95% | 1-10 |
| Team 12 | Lost | 97.4 | 99.0 | 1.6 | 98% | 4-7 |
| Team 8 | Lost | 99.8 | 99.8 | 0.0 | 100% | 5-6 |
| Team 9 | Won | 139.2 | 139.2 | 0.0 | 100% | 9-2 |
| Team 1 | Won | 144.4 | 144.4 | 0.0 | 100% | 10-1 |
* Lost, but the best lineup from the same roster would have won.
Win-loss record says who won. The season report says how. Across 14 regular season weeks the league left 2424.5 points on its benches, and 21 losses would have been wins with the best lineup.
| Team | Record | All-play | Expected wins | Luck | Bench tax | Efficiency | Losses benched |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team 4 | 12-2 | 113-41 | 10.3 | +1.7 | 161.4 | 91.5% | 2 |
| Team 12 | 11-3 | 104-50 | 9.5 | +1.6 | 271.7 | 86.8% | 1 |
| Team 9 | 9-5 | 107-46-1 | 9.8 | -0.8 | 176.3 | 90.9% | 0 |
| Team 2 | 9-5 | 90-64 | 8.2 | +0.8 | 219.4 | 88.7% | 1 |
| Team 10 | 8-6 | 79-75 | 7.2 | +0.8 | 119.6 | 93.0% | 1 |
| Team 3 | 7-7 | 85-69 | 7.7 | -0.7 | 167.7 | 90.5% | 3 |
| Team 8 | 6-8 | 86-67-1 | 7.9 | -1.9 | 189.2 | 89.5% | 1 |
| Team 11 | 6-8 | 67-87 | 6.1 | -0.1 | 242.9 | 86.3% | 3 |
| Team 1 | 6-8 | 58-96 | 5.3 | +0.7 | 192.5 | 88.5% | 2 |
| Team 7 | 5-9 | 70-84 | 6.4 | -1.4 | 234.2 | 86.8% | 3 |
| Team 6 | 3-11 | 46-108 | 4.2 | -1.2 | 179.0 | 88.6% | 3 |
| Team 5 | 2-12 | 18-136 | 1.6 | +0.4 | 270.6 | 79.4% | 1 |
Team 4 went 12-2, but its weekly scores were worth about 10.3 wins against an average schedule. That is +1.7 wins of pure scheduling.
Team 8 went 6-8 with an all-play record of 86-67-1. Its scores deserved about 7.9 wins.
Team 10 started its best possible lineup more often than anyone, scoring 93.0% of its possible points.
Team 5 scored 79.4% of its possible points and left 270.6 on the bench over the season.
Bench tax compares the lineup a manager set against the best legal lineup from the same roster, after the games are played. It is a hindsight number by design: nobody can start the perfect lineup every week, but over a season it shows who keeps leaving points on the table. More in the guide to lineup efficiency and bench tax.
All-play plays every team against every other team, every week. Over a season that is 154 games per team instead of 14, which makes it a far steadier read on team strength. See the guide to all-play record.
Expected wins and luck turn each week's all-play share into the wins an average schedule would have given. Luck is actual wins minus expected wins: positive means the schedule helped. The guide to schedule luck walks through an example.
Your own league also gets FAAB return (what each waiver dollar bought in started points) and trade receipts (who won each trade by the points both sides actually started). They are left out here because they need the league's full transaction history.
Enter a Sleeper username or league ID and you get this for every week of your season, plus a receipt for each team you can save as an image and drop in the group chat. It is free, needs no account, and reads only public league data.