# FantasyPros Rankings, ADP & Projections Scraper (`artsiom_k/fantasypros-scraper`) Actor

Fantasy football, basketball, baseball and hockey expert-consensus rankings, average draft position and projections from FantasyPros - with best/worst rank, tiers and expert disagreement.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/artsiom\_k/fantasypros-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Artsiom Kunitsyn](https://apify.com/artsiom_k) (community)
- **Categories:** Other, E-commerce
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.50 / 1,000 results

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Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

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# README

## fantasypros-scraper

Scrapes fantasy-sports data from [FantasyPros](https://www.fantasypros.com): **expert-consensus rankings**
(with best, worst and average rank, expert disagreement, tiers and ADP), **average draft position** by
fantasy site, and **projected stats** — for **NFL, NBA, MLB and NHL**. No login required.

### Contents

- [Key features](#key-features)
- [Output](#output)
- [Input](#input)
- [Input examples](#input-examples)
- [What the site shows for free](#what-the-site-shows-for-free)
- [FAQ](#faq)

### 🔑 Key features

- **Four sports.** Not just football: NBA, MLB and NHL boards too.
- **Consensus rankings with the spread behind them.** Per player: consensus rank, best and worst rank any
  expert gave, average rank, **standard deviation** (how much the experts disagree), tier, ADP, ADP-vs-rank
  gap and rostered percentage — for the full board, not just the top rows.
- **Every kind of board.** Draft cheat sheets (standard, half-PPR and PPR for the NFL), rest of season,
  dynasty, dynasty rookies, devy, best ball and prospect boards — overall or by position (QB, RB, PG, SP…).
- **ADP by site.** Each fantasy site's average draft position next to the overall average.
- **Projections.** Projected stats per player (points/rebounds/assists, hitting and pitching lines…).
- **Freshness stamp.** Every ranking row carries the board's `last_updated`, so you can tell a live board
  from a stale offseason one.
- **`maxItems` defaults to 50** — a fast, cheap preview. Clear it (`null`) for everything you selected.

### 📋 Output

See [`.actor/dataset_schema.json`](.actor/dataset_schema.json) for every field.

**`rankings`** — one row per player per board:

```json
{
  "source": "fantasypros",
  "external_id": "nfl:ppr-cheatsheets:19788",
  "sport": "nfl",
  "board": "ppr-cheatsheets",
  "board_type": "draft",
  "scoring": "PPR",
  "season": 2026,
  "experts": 179,
  "last_updated": "9/10",
  "player": "Ja'Marr Chase",
  "team": "CIN",
  "position": "WR",
  "position_rank": "WR1",
  "rank": 1,
  "rank_best": 1,
  "rank_worst": 6,
  "rank_average": 1.55,
  "rank_std_dev": 1.07,
  "tier": 1,
  "owned_pct": 99.9,
  "bye_week": 6,
  "player_url": "https://www.fantasypros.com/nfl/players/jamarr-chase.php"
}
```

**`adp`** — one row per player per board with `adp_average` and `adp_by_site` (`{"Yahoo": 12, "ESPN": 10, …}`).

**`projections`** — one row per player per board with a `stats` object (its keys differ by sport and position,
e.g. `PTS`, `REB`, `AST` for basketball; `HR`, `RBI`, `OPS` for baseball hitters).

### 🔧 Input

| Field | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `entityType` | string | `rankings` | `rankings`, `adp` or `projections`. |
| `sports` | array | all four | NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL. |
| `boardTypes` | array | `["draft"]` | Rankings only: draft, rest-of-season, dynasty, dynasty-rookies, devy, best-ball, prospects. |
| `boardScope` | string | `overall` | Rankings only: `overall`, `positions` or `all`. |
| `boards` | array | — | Exact pages instead of the selection, e.g. `nfl/rankings/ppr-cheatsheets` or a full URL. |
| `maxItems` | integer | `50` | Stop after this many rows. `null` = everything selected. |
| `concurrency` | integer | `5` | Parallel page requests (max 20). |
| `impersonate` | string | `firefox` | Browser TLS fingerprint. Change only if requests are blocked. |
| `proxyConfiguration` | object | no proxy | Apify Proxy settings. Not needed in testing. |

### 📥 Input examples

**Default preview (50 rows from the overall draft boards):**

```json
{}
```

**Every overall board for the NFL (standard, half-PPR, PPR, superflex…):**

```json
{ "sports": ["nfl"], "maxItems": null }
```

**Every NBA and NHL ranking board, overall and by position, all types:**

```json
{ "sports": ["nba", "nhl"], "boardTypes": ["draft", "rest-of-season", "dynasty"], "boardScope": "all", "maxItems": null }
```

**MLB average draft position, all boards:**

```json
{ "entityType": "adp", "sports": ["mlb"], "maxItems": null }
```

**One exact board:**

```json
{ "boards": ["nfl/rankings/ppr-cheatsheets"], "maxItems": null }
```

### 🆓 What the site shows for free

FantasyPros shows some data only to logged-in subscribers, and this actor reads what a logged-out visitor
sees:

- **NFL average draft position** is not shown to logged-out visitors, so NFL ADP boards return no rows.
- **NFL projections** show about the top 10 players per position. NBA and MLB projections are complete
  (hundreds of players per board).
- **MLB prospect boards** show about 10 players each.
- A board with nothing listed right now (for example an NHL board while experts re-rank before the season)
  returns no rows and is not an error.

Ranking boards are complete for every sport (for example 560 players on the NFL PPR overall board and
1,605 on the MLB overall board).

### ❓ FAQ

**Are these rankings live?** They are as fresh as FantasyPros' own boards. Check `last_updated` on each row.

**Can I get a history of rankings?** The actor returns the current board. Schedule it daily or weekly and
keep the results; `external_id` (`sport:board:playerId`) plus `last_updated` lets you diff runs.

**Why is `tier` empty on some boards?** FantasyPros doesn't assign tiers to every board (most position
boards have none).

**Do you cover golf, NASCAR or college sports?** Not yet — NFL, NBA, MLB and NHL only.

# Actor input Schema

## `entityType` (type: `string`):

"rankings": expert-consensus rankings, one row per player per board, with best/worst/average rank, standard deviation, tier, ADP and ownership. "adp": average draft position by fantasy site. "projections": projected stats per player.

## `sports` (type: `array`):

Which sports to pull: NFL, NBA, MLB and NHL. Out-of-season sports still return their latest boards.

## `boardTypes` (type: `array`):

Rankings only. "Draft" is the standard cheat sheet / draft board (NFL: standard, half-PPR and PPR); the others are rest-of-season, dynasty, dynasty rookies, devy, best-ball and prospect boards. Most sports only have some of these.

## `boardScope` (type: `string`):

Rankings only. Overall = every player on one board; positions = QB, RB, PG, SP... boards.

## `boards` (type: `array`):

Optional exact pages instead of the selection above, e.g. "nfl/rankings/ppr-cheatsheets", "nba/adp/overall" or a full FantasyPros URL. Only pages matching the chosen data type are used.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Stop after pushing this many rows. Defaults to 50 - a fast, cheap preview, and what keeps an unconfigured run within Apify's automated 5-minute QA check. Set to null for everything selected.

## `concurrency` (type: `integer`):

Parallel page requests (max 20). Each page is one board.

## `impersonate` (type: `string`):

curl\_cffi browser TLS-impersonation target. Defaults to "firefox" internally; change only if requests are blocked.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Apify Proxy settings. Not needed: FantasyPros answered every request from Apify's infrastructure in testing without a proxy.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "entityType": "rankings",
  "sports": [
    "nfl",
    "nba",
    "mlb",
    "nhl"
  ],
  "boardTypes": [
    "draft"
  ],
  "boardScope": "overall",
  "maxItems": 50,
  "concurrency": 5,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("artsiom_k/fantasypros-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("artsiom_k/fantasypros-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call artsiom_k/fantasypros-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,artsiom_k/fantasypros-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/gJy21picFnCUenAGx/builds/Mu2P2hQShbhsEdqmX/openapi.json