Red Dot Finder

What's a loop, and why buy a red dot?

A red dot is a player who won't score this round — injured, dropped, not named, or on a bye. Sitting on your bench he's not dead weight: he's the hole a loop runs through. Because he scores nothing, an emergency's score gets promoted into his slot, so a bench player you'd otherwise waste ends up counting.

What makes a red dot good has nothing to do with his points. It's how long the hole stays open. You can only move a player before his own game kicks off, so a red dot whose team plays the last game of the round leaves you the whole weekend to see who scores. A red dot whose team has the bye is better still — he has no kickoff at all, so the hole never shuts.

That's why the ranking here ignores projected points. It's the same rule the lineup optimiser uses to choose the buffer on your own bench — this page is the market-wide version, for deciding who to buy. Once you own one, play the week out in Loop-o-Matic.