Everyone now ranks for guillotine.
We're the only one that simulates whether you survive the week — and tells you the exact bid to clear.
ESPN Knockout is weekly elimination — one wrong start ends your season. Fantasy Heartbeat runs your roster through a survival simulation: floor-first rankings, win-only FAAB bidding with the exact bid to clear, and a full-season chop simulator that shows you exactly where your roster stands.
How ESPN Knockout works
Every week, the manager with the lowest score is eliminated and their entire roster hits the waiver wire as free agents. Everyone still alive can bid for those players in a blind FAAB auction. Last manager standing wins the season.
That single mechanic rewrites the entire strategy. Ceiling chasing gets you eliminated early. Consistency — not upside — keeps you alive through the grind. And when a roster drops at the elimination wire, knowing exactly which players are worth bidding on (and how much) is the difference between advancing and going home.
The guillotine community has been running this format for years under different names. Now that ESPN has launched Knockout on their platform, the player pool just got a lot bigger. r/guillotineleagues is the community home — thousands of managers who've been playing this format since before it had a brand.
Built for elimination. Ready for Knockout.
Floor-First Survival Rankings
Ranked by consistency, not ceiling. Our survival board weights floor performance so you start the players least likely to get you eliminated — week after week, until only you're left standing.
Win-Only FAAB Bidding
Our FAAB engine calculates bids you pay only if you win — calibrated to real guillotine clearing prices. No burning budget on players you lose out on. Every dollar is optimized for the waiver wire battles that matter.
Season Survival Simulator
Run your roster through a full Knockout season. The chop simulator projects your elimination risk week-by-week and flags where the floor gaps are — so you can fix them on waivers before week one.
The guillotine format has a home: r/guillotineleagues — strategy threads, waiver wire debates, and managers who've been playing weekly-elimination long before ESPN called it Knockout.
The window is open. Get the edge now.
Most Knockout managers are flying blind in their first season. Connect your league and run the survival board before your first lineup lock.
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