Chase Stuart
Footballguy
Now that the season is over, I thought it might be fun to look at the most valuable players in FF. I'm using this scoring system:
1/20 for passing yards, 5 for TDs, -2 for INT
1/10 for rush/rec yards; 6 pt for TDs; 0.5 PPR
I'm assuming a 1 QB, 2 RB, 3 WR, 1 TE league. To get the value for each player, I gave them the difference between their FP/G production and the FP/G production of a replacement player for as many games as they played. A replacement player is defined as the average back. For quarterbacks, I took the difference between the 18th best QB in FP/G and each QB, and multiplied that by the number of games. For RBs, I used RB 30; for WRs, I used WR 42; for TEs, I used TE18.
So for say, Arian Foster. He produced 283 FP in 13 games, an average of 21.7 FP/G. In a start-2 RB league, a replacement level RB (i.e., your average backup) would be the 30th best RB (in FP/G). The 30th best RB in FP/G averaged around 9.2 FP/G. Multiply 21.75 - 9.2 by 13 games, and you get Foster providing 163 FP over average. That puts him as the 3rd most valuable RB, even though he was the 4th highest FP getter and the 1st highest FP/G producer.
Do that for each player at each position, and you can get a top 100.
Listed below, in order, are the following columns: Player, position, team, games played, fantasy points scored, rank within position, fantasy points per game, value across positions (the category by which the list is sorted), position rank in terms of value, and overall rank in terms of value.
1/20 for passing yards, 5 for TDs, -2 for INT
1/10 for rush/rec yards; 6 pt for TDs; 0.5 PPR
I'm assuming a 1 QB, 2 RB, 3 WR, 1 TE league. To get the value for each player, I gave them the difference between their FP/G production and the FP/G production of a replacement player for as many games as they played. A replacement player is defined as the average back. For quarterbacks, I took the difference between the 18th best QB in FP/G and each QB, and multiplied that by the number of games. For RBs, I used RB 30; for WRs, I used WR 42; for TEs, I used TE18.
So for say, Arian Foster. He produced 283 FP in 13 games, an average of 21.7 FP/G. In a start-2 RB league, a replacement level RB (i.e., your average backup) would be the 30th best RB (in FP/G). The 30th best RB in FP/G averaged around 9.2 FP/G. Multiply 21.75 - 9.2 by 13 games, and you get Foster providing 163 FP over average. That puts him as the 3rd most valuable RB, even though he was the 4th highest FP getter and the 1st highest FP/G producer.
Do that for each player at each position, and you can get a top 100.
Listed below, in order, are the following columns: Player, position, team, games played, fantasy points scored, rank within position, fantasy points per game, value across positions (the category by which the list is sorted), position rank in terms of value, and overall rank in terms of value.
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Player Pos Tm G FP Rk FP/G VAL PR OVRodgers, Aaron QB GB 15 489 2 32.6 234 1 1Brees, Drew QB NO 16 490 1 30.7 219 2 2Brady, Tom QB NE 16 462 3 28.9 190 3 3Johnson, Calvin WR DET 16 313 1 19.6 190 1 4Rice, Ray RB BAL 16 335 1 20.9 186 1 5Gronkowski, Rob TE NE 16 286 1 17.9 183 1 6McCoy, LeSean RB PHI 15 306 2 20.4 167 2 7Foster, Arian RB HOU 13 283 4 21.7 162 3 8Stafford, Matthew QB DET 16 433 4 27.0 161 4 9Newton, Cam QB CAR 16 428 5 26.8 157 5 10Welker, Wes WR NE 16 275 2 17.2 151 2 11Graham, Jimmy TE NO 16 247 2 15.4 144 2 12Jones-Drew, Maurice RB JAX 16 286 3 17.8 136 4 13Nelson, Jordy WR GB 16 250 3 15.6 127 3 14Cruz, Victor WR NYG 16 249 4 15.6 125 4 15Fitzgerald, Larry WR ARI 16 229 5 14.3 106 5 16White, Roddy WR ATL 16 228 6 14.2 104 6 17Smith, Steve WR CAR 16 227 7 14.2 103 7 18Jackson, Fred RB BUF 10 193 15 19.3 100 5 19Harvin, Percy WR MIN 16 222 8 13.9 99 8 20Manning, Eli QB NYG 16 367 6 22.9 96 6 21Colston, Marques WR NO 14 202 10 14.5 95 9 22Lynch, Marshawn RB SEA 15 234 5 15.6 94 6 23Hernandez, Aaron TE NE 14 177 3 12.6 88 3 24Forte, Matt RB CHI 12 199 13 16.6 87 7 25Peterson, Adrian RB MIN 12 198 14 16.5 86 8 26Wallace, Mike WR PIT 16 209 9 13.1 86 10 27Mathews, Ryan RB SD 14 216 8 15.4 85 9 28Nicks, Hakeem WR NYG 15 199 13 13.3 84 11 29Jennings, Greg WR GB 13 182 17 14.0 84 12 30Romo, Tony QB DAL 16 355 7 22.2 84 7 31Sproles, Darren RB NO 16 228 6 14.3 79 10 32Ryan, Matt QB ATL 16 350 8 21.9 79 8 33Jones, Julio WR ATL 13 177 21 13.6 78 13 34Turner, Michael RB ATL 16 225 7 14.1 76 11 35Jackson, Vincent WR SD 16 200 11 12.5 76 14 36Marshall, Brandon WR MIA 16 200 12 12.5 76 15 37Robinson, Laurent WR DAL 14 179 19 12.8 72 16 38Vick, Michael QB PHI 13 292 11 22.5 72 9 39Green, A.J. WR CIN 15 186 16 12.4 70 17 40Gates, Antonio TE SD 13 152 7 11.7 69 4 41Gonzalez, Tony TE ATL 16 170 4 10.6 67 5 42Jackson, Steven RB STL 15 205 10 13.7 65 12 43Rivers, Philip QB SD 16 336 9 21.0 65 10 44Washington, Nate WR TEN 16 188 14 11.7 64 18 45Bowe, Dwayne WR KC 16 188 15 11.7 64 19 46Bradshaw, Ahmad RB NYG 12 176 19 14.6 64 13 47Bryant, Dez WR DAL 15 179 20 11.9 64 20 48Bush, Reggie RB MIA 15 202 11 13.4 62 14 49Witten, Jason TE DAL 16 164 5 10.2 61 6 50Bush, Michael RB OAK 16 206 9 12.9 57 15 51Johnson, Steve WR BUF 16 180 18 11.3 57 21 52Davis, Fred TE WAS 12 127 12 10.6 51 7 53McFadden, Darren RB OAK 7 116 35 16.6 51 16 54Johnson, Chris RB TEN 16 199 12 12.4 50 17 55Finley, Jermichael TE GB 16 152 6 9.5 49 8 56Maclin, Jeremy WR PHI 13 148 31 11.3 49 22 57Austin, Miles WR DAL 10 122 47 12.2 48 23 58Floyd, Malcom WR SD 12 137 34 11.4 47 24 59Lloyd, Brandon WR STL 15 162 23 10.8 46 25 60Pettigrew, Brandon TE DET 16 149 8 9.3 46 9 61Davis, Vernon TE SF 16 148 9 9.3 45 10 62Garcon, Pierre WR IND 16 169 22 10.5 45 26 63Best, Jahvid RB DET 6 99 44 16.5 43 18 64Sanchez, Mark QB NYJ 16 314 10 19.6 43 11 65Smith, Kevin RB DET 7 107 40 15.2 41 19 66Keller, Dustin TE NYJ 16 144 10 9.0 41 11 67Gore, Frank RB SF 16 189 16 11.8 40 20 68Tolbert, Mike RB SD 15 180 17 12.0 40 21 69Celek, Brent TE PHI 16 142 11 8.9 39 12 70Britt, Kenny WR TEN 3 55 92 18.5 39 27 71Heyward-Bey, Darrius WR OAK 15 154 28 10.2 38 28 72Jackson, DeSean WR PHI 15 153 29 10.2 38 29 73Brown, Antonio WR PIT 16 161 24 10.1 38 30 74Gaffney, Jabar WR WAS 16 159 25 9.9 35 31 75Wells, Beanie RB ARI 15 175 20 11.7 35 22 76Gresham, Jermaine TE CIN 14 124 14 8.8 34 13 77Wayne, Reggie WR IND 16 158 26 9.8 34 32 78Roethlisberger, Ben QB PIT 15 288 12 19.2 34 12 79Crabtree, Michael WR SF 15 149 30 9.9 33 33 80Smith, Torrey WR BAL 16 155 27 9.7 32 34 81Mendenhall, Rashard RB PIT 15 171 21 11.4 31 23 82Schaub, Matt QB HOU 10 200 24 20.0 30 13 83Moore, Lance WR NO 14 137 35 9.8 30 35 84Johnson, Andre WR HOU 7 79 72 11.2 29 36 85Greene, Shonn RB NYJ 16 178 18 11.1 28 24 86Boldin, Anquan WR BAL 14 135 36 9.7 28 37 87Winslow, Kellen TE TB 16 126 13 7.9 23 14 88Stewart, Jonathan RB CAR 16 171 22 10.7 22 25 89Moore, Denarius WR OAK 13 120 49 9.3 22 38 90McGahee, Willis RB DEN 15 161 23 10.7 21 26 91Benson, Cedric RB CIN 15 158 25 10.6 19 27 92Holmes, Santonio WR NYJ 16 142 32 8.9 18 39 93Daniels, Owen TE HOU 15 113 16 7.5 17 15 94Cook, Jared TE TEN 16 118 15 7.4 15 16 95Burleson, Nate WR DET 16 139 33 8.7 15 40 96Fitzpatrick, Ryan QB BUF 16 286 13 17.9 15 14 97Moss, Santana WR WAS 12 105 53 8.8 15 41 98Ballard, Jake TE NYG 14 103 19 7.4 14 17 99Thomas, Demaryius WR DEN 11 96 62 8.7 13 42 100
