Abusing Draft Rankings 2021

A few years ago I began to notice that the draft rooms on sites like ESPN and Yahoo used drastically different in-draft rankings.

Because these rankings were the default order of players to appear in drafts, they had a heavy influence on ADP and when players were taken. Since that was the case, I figured it would be useful to know which players in draft rooms were being shown too early or too late in comparison to expert rankings in an effort to find value.

I created these sheets, which can be accessed below, as a way to visualize the differences in draft rankings to FantasyPros rankings. DSTs and Kickers have been removed from the sheets to better show value in skill position players.

These sheets compare the FantasyPros ADP and Expert Consensus Rankings (ECR) to the draft rankings of ESPN, Yahoo, Sleeper, and CBS that you may find in their respective draft rooms, they are then split up between Standard, .5 PPR, and PPR scoring.

CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THE 2022 VERSION

Feel free to make a copy of these sheets to view and sort at your pleasure!

Good luck and happy drafting!

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