How to Create Rankings for Fantasy Football - Average Points Method

If you want to know how to create rankings for fantasy football players then I can give you five methods to consider: fantasy football player rankings by average points, player history method, gut feel method, tweak expert rankings method, and league to player statistics method. This article details how to create fantasy football rankings based on a player's average fantasy points over the last three seasons.

Create rankings for fantasy football players with avg points
To create fantasy football player rankings based on average points, the first thing you'll need to do is find a source of football statistics for the last two to three years. You can download NFL statistics from previous seasons into a spreadsheet format through CBS Sportsline's fantasy football leagues. Yahoo Fantasy Football also provides NFL stats from the last 2 years but there is no option to save or download the information which
means you'd have to do some copying, pasting, and modifications to get the data into a spreadsheet.

Create rankings for fantasy football players continued:
Apply your fantasy football league's scoring system to the data you have collected. If you downloaded or copied data from CBS Sportsline or Yahoo Fantasy Football, then that part of the job is already complete assuming you're ranking fantasy football players for a CBS or Yahoo league with the same scoring system as the league you pulled the data from. For a given year take each position separately and rank the players based on total fantasy football points(again this may already be done for you if you used CBS or Yahoo data). Remove the names of the players from each list. At this point you are only interested in the ranking numbers and the fantasy football points associated with each number.

Calculate the average fantasy football points over the last two to three years for every ranking number at each position. For example for the 3rd ranked WR the calculation might be 198(fantasy points last season) + 212(two years ago) + 176(three years ago). Take that sum and divide by 3 years and you'll get 195 fantasy football points per year. When all of the calculations are complete you'll have lists of ranking numbers with associated fantasy football points. The next step is to match player names to the fantasy points. In order to do that you can create your own rankings for fantasy football players by gut feel or you can find fantasy football player rankings from a fantasy football resource that you trust and use that as a baseline.

I like the average points method because the fantasy football points are based on historical trends and the player rankings are based on what is expected to happen this season. Regardless of whether you used your gut feel or a fantasy football resource to create fantasy football player rankings, you will want to tweak your rankings for fantasy football players based on several factors which are covered in other articles on this site. See the fantasy football draft cheat sheet article listed below for links to the "tweak your rankings" articles.

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