About & Methodology
FootballFantasyRankings.com is a free fantasy football rankings site: weekly and rest-of-season rankings for every scoring format, no login and no paywall. Here is exactly how the rankings are built.
Where the data comes from
Player projections, box-score stats, the NFL schedule, injury designations and waiver-wire add counts come from the public Sleeper API. Sleeper's weekly projections are produced by RotoWire. We do not hand-edit individual ranks.
How players are ranked
- Weekly rankings sort players by projected fantasy points for the current week, separately for PPR, half-PPR and standard scoring. Overall boards include QB, RB, WR and TE; kickers and defenses are ranked within their positions.
- Tiers group players with similar projections. Tier sizes grow as you move down the board, and each break is placed at the largest projection gap near that size, so a tier change means a real drop-off.
- Rank change (+/−) compares a player's rank this week with where last week's projections placed them. “NEW” means the player wasn't ranked last week (bye, injury or role change).
- Matchup grades use the average fantasy points (PPR) each defense has allowed per game to the position this season. Green means a top-8 matchup, red a bottom-8 one.
- Rest-of-season rankings add up a player's weekly projections from this week through Week 17 (the end of most fantasy seasons), so bye weeks and remaining schedule are built in.
- Waiver wire lists the most-added players across Sleeper leagues over the last 24 hours, with their projection, rest-of-season rank and next three opponents.
Start/sit picks and “why this rank” notes
Start and sit of the week are chosen automatically: the start pick is the healthy player whose projected positional rank this week beats their season-average finish by the widest margin; the sit pick is a usual starter projected well below their season average. The notes and “why this rank” write-ups are generated automatically from the same data — projection, matchup grade, recent scoring and injury status. No human writes or edits them, and we label them as such.
Update schedule
The site checks for new data every 6 hours, every day of the week. Projections change as injury, depth chart and practice news comes in, and a new week's board goes live once the previous week's games are final — usually Tuesday. Every page shows when the rankings were last updated; if the projections are ever more than 7 days old, a warning appears at the top of the board.
Limitations
Projections are estimates, not guarantees. Late-breaking news (Sunday-morning inactives, weather) may not be reflected until the next refresh. Always check your league's scoring settings, and use tiers rather than exact ranks to break close calls.
Odds & win simulator
The NFL and college odds board, win simulator, CFP rankings and top football states have moved to their own page.