2026 Season
Fantasy Football Draft Rankings
Ranked by our in-house 2026 season model (v2), last updated Sat, 18 Jul 2026 15:49:59 GMT. Every board below sorts by value over positional baseline, not raw projected points — see "What are VBD draft rankings?" below.
Rest of Season
Heading into Week 6: what every ranked player is worth over the games that are left, rather than over a season that has already started. From Week 3 the accuracy ledger grades this board and nobody outside it.
Weekly projections
One hub per week, Week 1 through Week 18: projections with ranges once each slate posts, start/sit calls, and grades on the accuracy ledger when the games are final.
Quick answer
What are VBD draft rankings?
Our draft order sorts by value over positional baseline (VBD) — a player's P50 season projection minus the P50 projection of the last startable player at that position (QB12, RB30, WR36, TE12) — not raw projected points. That's why a high-scoring QB can rank below a lower-scoring RB or WR: quarterbacks are drafted from a deep pool, so the 13th-best QB is usually still available; the 31st-best RB usually isn't.
Every projection behind these rankings is a range, not a guarantee — each player carries a P10–P90 band, and real seasons land across that whole range.
FAQ
How often are these rankings updated?
This draft board comes from the season model, which we rerun by hand — the "updated" timestamp on each scoring page shows its latest run. The weekly model runs on a clock instead. It reruns daily, and the week hubs and start/sit carry its latest run. The accuracy ledger holds each week to the first version posted before kickoff.
What scoring formats are covered?
PPR (1 point per reception), half-PPR (0.5 points per reception), and standard (0 points per reception) — pick the board that matches your league's settings.
Why does a QB with more projected points sometimes rank lower than a RB or WR?
Overall rank sorts by value over positional baseline (VBD), not raw points. QBs are drafted from a deep, replacement-level-rich pool, so even a big point total often trails a scarcer RB or WR in value. Position rank ("QB3", "RB12") is unaffected — VBD only changes the all-position order.
Where's the accuracy record?
It's live on the accuracy page, and it's empty. The ledger opens at zero at Week 1 of 2026, and no week gets written in after the fact. From there, one row a week posts how far our projections landed from real results, averaged over the players we graded. The backtest is already public on the methodology page: four held-out seasons against a repeat-last-year baseline, three won, one lost. The loss was wider than any of the wins.