Cap Penalties is a dynasty fantasy sports site built for managers who play the long game. We publish weekly NFL dynasty rankings, a 2026 rookie board, MLB rankings as the season unfolds, and analysis that holds up beyond a single Sunday.
What we do
Dynasty is its own format. Redraft rankings get recycled every August and most of them lean on last season's box scores. Dynasty asks a harder question: which players hold their value across three, five, and seven year windows, and which ones are about to fall off the cliff? We build our rankings around that question.
Every player on the site has a tier, a trajectory, a trade window, and a short one-liner that captures the case in plain English. The numbers update weekly. The tier and trajectory move when the underlying situation moves, not when the recency-bias clock says they should.
Who we are
Cap Penalties is run by a small independent team of dynasty managers who have been playing the format for over a decade. We are not affiliated with a network, an ad platform, or a fantasy provider. The site is funded by the newsletter and by direct subscribers. That is the whole business model.
Because of that, we can say what we actually think about a player without worrying about pageviews on a take we do not believe. Nothing we publish is gated by what drives the most clicks.
How the site is organized
The two sport hubs are NFL and MLB. Each hub has rankings, rookies, analysis, and tools. Inside rankings you get an overall board plus dedicated views for every position. The rookie page is a draft board built around the upcoming class, with tier coloring that matches the overall rankings so you can read both side by side.
Player profiles live at /[sport]/players/[name] and include the current rank, tier, trajectory, trade window, age and college (for NFL), and any analysis tagged to that player.
No ads, no noise
There are no display ads on Cap Penalties. No autoplay video, no popovers, no sponsored rankings, no affiliate links wedged into player blurbs. The site is designed to be readable on a phone in the middle of your draft and printable for the people who still print things.
How rankings are built
Our process is documented in detail on the methodology page. The short version: we blend long-window production data with situation (team, role, surrounding talent), age curves at each position, and the consensus from a small set of trusted dynasty sources. The blend is weighted by position, and we override the model when the situation calls for it.
Contact and feedback
Press, partnerships, ranking corrections, and reader feedback all go to hello@cappenalties.com. We read every email. If you spot a player who is on a team they were traded away from, or a tier that does not match the write-up, we want to hear about it.
To get the rankings in your inbox each week, head to the subscribe page. It is free and we do not share the list with anyone.