2008 Average Ranking Positions

I've pulled together an average ranking position spreadsheet from 11 different freely available Top 100 overall rankings from expert fantasy football sites. There are a few important details to note - first, as I mentioned earlier this week, I tried to ensure that sites all used the same scoring system to create their rankings, but the majority didn't list their scoring system. Second, I gathered all of these lists within about 36 hours of each other so they should be as close to comparable as possible in terms of player news. Third, as with last year, players that didn't receiving a ranking within the top 100 from an expert were given a ranking of 125 for purposes of averaging.

Keep in mind that there are lots of useful tools out there including ADP (average draft position; based on where players are drafted in thousands of mock drafts), a tiering system (for an example, see the tiers in the Bruno Boys draft webazine), and of course your own gut instinct. This can merely be another supplement to help you while drafting. And for those who want a position focus, this weekend I'll create an average rankings within positions from this list.

The top 30 overall average ranking positions are as follows (but for the full spreadsheet from Scribd click here or contact me if you'd like the excel version):

LaDainian Tomlinson	RB	1.0
Adrian Peterson	RB	2.7
Brian Westbrook	RB	2.9
Steven Jackson	RB	4.5
Joseph Addai	RB	5.5
Tom Brady	QB	7.1
Randy Moss	WR	8.0
Clinton Portis	RB	9.5
Frank Gore	RB	10.6
Marion Barber	RB	10.7
Larry Johnson	RB	11.2
Marshawn Lynch	RB	11.3
Ryan Grant	RB	15.1
Terrell Owens	WR	15.4
Reggie Wayne	WR	16.1
Peyton Manning	QB	16.8
Maurice Jones-Drew	RB	17.9
Braylon Edwards	WR	20.1
Willis McGahee	RB	20.1
Jamal Lewis	RB	21.8
Larry Fitzgerald	WR	21.9
Tony Romo	QB	22.3
Andre Johnson	WR	23.5
Marques Colston	WR	27.2
T.J. Houshmandzadeh	WR	28.7
Brandon Jacobs	RB	30.3
Drew Brees	QB	31.5
Reggie Bush	RB	33.4
Steve Smith	WR	33.6

The sites I pulled overall rankings from included:
Yahoo!
FFToolbox (10-team, performance-based scoring)
ESPN
NFL.com
Fox Sports
CBS Sports
ProFantasySports
SI
Ask the Commish (12-team, TD+ yardage scoring)
KFFL (TD+yardage, non-PPR scoring)
Football Burrito (used a PPR, 6 points for pa TD system)

Let me know if you have any questions - I'm certainly open to looking at this in other ways. Since the last two sites clearly have different approaches to PPR (point-per-reception), you could rerun this analysis pulling one of them out - let me know if you want the Excel version to play around with this.

Enjoy!