TapThatDraft: Easy Starter Guide | Quick Steps to Get Your "Hold-My-BeerSheets"
By Subvertadown Updated August 19, 2026
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The purpose of TapThatDraft is to distill the essential information to decide on your pick, in the heat of a draft.
That’s why it’s designed as a serious tool with a minimalist look.
From a clear, logical interface, you can “Grab-’N’-Go” your draft rankings, knowing they’re driven by solid math that’s hidden in the background.
Just a few basic steps will quickly produce your rankings— and your printable Hold-My-Beer-Sheets.
The tool generates lists better suited for guiding your roster construction, because it accounts for many factors that ordinary rankings don’t.
The Least You Need to Input: (1) Draft Type and (2) Number of teams
Before you click “Save and Enter” to get your rankings, the most critical step is selecting:
Whether you’re in a Snake draft or Auction draft, and
The correct number of teams in your league.
If you think your roster settings are “normal” and your scoring settings 0.5 PPR, that might be all you need.
The options look like this:
Beyond this bare minimum input, you should consider 2 other key questions :
Do my league’s starting roster slots match the “normal” (default) roster? and
Are my league’s scoring settings pretty “normal” and 0.5 PPR?
If so, then you’re done! Otherwise, read further below. But first, here’s how you can print the sheets.
Printing
You don’t have to print, of course— you can always use the rankings list directly on your computer screen or mobile.
To find your sheets for print-out, scroll to the bottom of the rankings and find these options:
Personally, I like the “Single List” view for Snake drafts.
And for auctions, sometimes I prefer the “By Position” view.
For colorized or shaded print-outs, make sure you have “Background” enabled in your optional printer settings.
(3) Adjust Roster Starting Positions (if not “Default”).
Using the correct Roster composition is just as important as adjusting for the #teams (above).
If your league roster slots are ANY different from “normal”, then the supply-demand balance makes it better to take some positions earlier versus later.
For example, some leagues have 2QBs. Some have 3 or 4 WRs. Some leagues have an extra FLEX spot.
Most ordinary published rankings list don’t adjust for these roster variations.
But a key purpose of TapThatDraft is to adjust for roster structure, so you can prioritize your picks optimally.
Simply choose the correct number, and the tool will re-calculate to optimize your advantage.
(4) Different Scoring Settings? Double-check, and adjust them.
Most league settings differ in their PPR— points per reception.
I think most of you will change perhaps only this one field.
For other people, the tool is engineered to deal with leagues that have scoring settings deviating widely from “normal”.
If you’re up to this point, of editing scoring settings, then you might as well learn to save the URL to your personal rankings page.
It’s located at the top of the rankings list, as shown here:
The copied link will conveniently bring you back to your personalized rankings page— which will automatically be refreshed with the latest updates for ADP and player rankings.
Optional: Change the “Reference” List (the draft ordering that you’re “drafting against”).
In my opinion, this one should be near the top of your priorities, if you’re in a Snake draft. (It’s not used for Auctions.)
The “Reference” list feature was my invention to bring improved positional scarcity considerations to TapThatDraft.
I created it because I believe there’s a powerful advantage from combining value-based drafting with knowledge of opponent preferences.
When you tell the tool which player ordering your opponents are likely to follow (in a snake draft), it will adapt the output rankings to help you avoid drop-offs in positional value.
Simply select the reference from the drop-down menu.
The default option is “Own Rankings”, which is a way of avoiding to use a reference, and getting the players in your order of preference.
Also use this setting if you don’t expect your league to behave similar to any of the other Reference options— then they will not help you.
But if you’re drafting on ESPN (for example), then I recommend to use the ESPN Draft Room ordering, instead.
When you assign any reference for “drafting-against”, the algorithms calculate and re-shuffle, to find you bargains in relation to how your league drafts..
These adjustments affect both the static print-out (Hold-My-BeerSheets) AND (even more strongly) the recommendations given during responsive / dynamic drafts.
With this assumption of your opponents’ drafting preference, the tool estimates a “look ahead” of player availability (and positional “cliffs”).
This helps you with TIMING:
Prioritize scarce players, before they disappear
Wait on positions that are likely to linger a while, till your next turn.
When you use the cheat-sheets with ADP Referencing, you will also have to pay attention to YOUR player ordering, as indicated in the positional columns (such as R5, R6, R7).
Optional: Tweak Your “Own Rankings” List
Most people don’t need to bother with this. By default, players are ranked (within their position) according to average Positional ECR.
But TapThatDraft enables some flexibility in tweaking the player ordering. If you want to put Lamar Jackson above Josh Allen, you can generate a custom list. Simply click on “Edit Rankings” (it’s on the output page, not the entry form page), to find the “My Rankings” page for tweaking. Re-ordering players will affect their assumed draft VALUE, not just their rank.
The reasons for doing this depend on your draft type:
Auction drafts: It will tailor higher auction prices for the players you prefer.
Snake drafts: It will work together with the “Reference” (ADP) to find advantages, and give you a better recommendation.
Advanced Settings
Most people should only really need to input the above steps. In fact, as I stated, even the last couple sections can be safely ignored by people wanting a high-quality cheat sheet in a hurry.
But for the fantasy-nerds among us, there are several additional features you can consider:
Positional “Boost” is a way to express that your league overvalues a certain position.
Roster limits (“Max”) is only applicable if your league has a rule against taking too many at one position. This has the effect of devaluing the position.
TE premium: You’ll know if this applies to you.
QB streaming: This is a Subvertadown specialty, to indicate you think streaming QB is possible in your league, and you’re open to it.
Baselines: I’ve written additional articles getting into “Baseline theory”, which underpins Value-Based-Drafting. Most people shouldn’t touch it.
The Basic Concept: Generating Player Rankings
The key function of TapThatDraft is to generate a player ordering (a “ranking list”) that’s most relevant for your league situation.
If your settings are close to “default”, you don’t need to do much: You can quickly get a high-quality cheat sheet.
If your settings are more complicated, then the tool will assist with doing the thinking for you— packaging all the information, converting it into tailored rankings.
(This is one reason TapThatDraft can be so lean: Dozens of complicated columns aren’t necessary, because the tool processes all that information into one dimension: player VALUE.)
I hope the above makes everything simple, for the vast majority.
TapThatDraft— and Hold-My-BeerSheets— brings a lot of benefit by being customizable, to give you an edge. While there are many knobs and buttons, most people don’t need to do all that much to obtain that edge!
/Subvertadown