In the last two decades, fantasy football has gone from a niche game played principally by stats dorks and hardcore football fans to a mainstream cultural addiction that has infected groups as far afield as old college roommates, offices, and church groups. Where players once had to tabulate their point totals using box scores at the back of the newspaper every week, a veritable cottage industry of websites has sprung up to do the legwork for them.

If there was one part of the fantasy football experience that has managed to elude this transformation, however, it’s the draft. Fantasy fanatics know all too well the hassle of printing out dozens of guides and projections and trying to shuffle through them to try and find a value in those arduous middle rounds. With the help of Fantasy Football Cheatsheet ’10 and an iPad, those concerns are a thing of the past.

FFC basically gives you all the tools a fantasy fanatic could need right at your fingertips. It includes stat projections and tiers for players based on their average draft position, as well as projections for the coming the year. Users can customize the draft order based on their specific preferences for individual players, and the given projections themselves are flexible based on the myriad of scoring systems that a given league may choose to use. They’ve even included BYE weeks in the mix as well as strength of schedule for drafters who like to take it to the next level. This is serious stuff here.

Even veterans of online fantasy leagues are familiar with the terrible user interface and player tracking solutions in the draft rooms of fantasy sites like Yahoo and CBS Sports. FFC is thus a handy compliment for online players as well, since you can track drafted players with ease and compare a list of available players with a wish list of your own choosing. Something about the touch screen of the iPad just makes it perfect for this task.

If that were everything the app did, it would still be worth the fairly reasonable price of $2.99. Developer 290 Design has taken it a step further though by adding features to make FCC useful throughout the season. The app gives you weekly projections based on past performance and your league’s individual scoring system, as well as start recommendations based on those projections. This is useful stuff.

With the NFL season right on our doorstep, iPad-owning fantasy football nuts will find a lot to like about Fantasy Football Cheatsheet. Check it out.