How to Rank Fantasy Football Players - Player History Method
If you're wondering how to rank fantasy football players then I can give you five ways to do it: ranking fantasy football players by player history, gut feel method, tweak expert rankings method, league to player stats method, and average points method. This article details how to build a fantasy football player ranking sheet based on player history. There is a simple four step process to follow in order to rank fantasy football players by taking into consideration their historical statistics:
1) Find a source of football player statistics for last season or the previous 3 seasons. You can download fantasy football statistics from previous seasons into a spreadsheet through CBS Sportsline's fantasy leagues. Yahoo Fantasy Football also provides football player statistics from the last 2 years but there is no option to download the data which means you'd have to copy, paste, and modify the data to get it into a spreadsheet.
1) Find a source of football player statistics for last season or the previous 3 seasons. You can download fantasy football statistics from previous seasons into a spreadsheet through CBS Sportsline's fantasy leagues. Yahoo Fantasy Football also provides football player statistics from the last 2 years but there is no option to download the data which means you'd have to copy, paste, and modify the data to get it into a spreadsheet.
2) Take those football player statistics and use the spreadsheet to apply your fantasy football league's scoring system to them. If you used CBS Sportsline or Yahoo data this may already be done for you as long as it matches your league's scoring rules.
3) When you rank fantasy football players using average stats from the previous 3 seasons, you should weight the most recent years. So your formula could look like this:
(0.6 x one year ago stats) + (0.3 x two years ago stats) + (0.1 x three years ago stats) = Weighted average fantasy points for a given player.
4) Rank fantasy football players for each position by fantasy points. You now have a baseline list for each position. See the article listed below called "How to Create Your Own Fantasy Football Draft Cheat Sheet" for additional articles on how to tweak and refine your baseline list for each position.
A couple things to keep in mind when ranking fantasy football players with this method is that partial seasons missed due to injury are not compensated for nor are rookies and the impact they may have on the fantasy scene. You would need to devise a special formula to account for injuries over the last 3 seasons and you would need to add rookies manually as you rank fantasy football players for each poisiton with the player history method.
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3) When you rank fantasy football players using average stats from the previous 3 seasons, you should weight the most recent years. So your formula could look like this:
(0.6 x one year ago stats) + (0.3 x two years ago stats) + (0.1 x three years ago stats) = Weighted average fantasy points for a given player.
4) Rank fantasy football players for each position by fantasy points. You now have a baseline list for each position. See the article listed below called "How to Create Your Own Fantasy Football Draft Cheat Sheet" for additional articles on how to tweak and refine your baseline list for each position.
A couple things to keep in mind when ranking fantasy football players with this method is that partial seasons missed due to injury are not compensated for nor are rookies and the impact they may have on the fantasy scene. You would need to devise a special formula to account for injuries over the last 3 seasons and you would need to add rookies manually as you rank fantasy football players for each poisiton with the player history method.
Back to How to Create Your Own Fantasy Football Draft Cheat Sheet
Back to Fantasy Football Strategy home page
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