About player ranks in Yahoo Fantasy

Yahoo Fantasy has a number of different types of players ranks throughout the product, each giving different insight into how a player has performed or is projected to perform. Use these rankings to find out how your players stack up against each other.

Pre-draft rankings

  • Customize your own rankings to prepare for all your drafts.
  • Default pre-draft rankings (Rank) are based on your league settings and not expert rankings (X-rank).
  • Fantasy plus is not required.

XRank

  • Yahoo Fantasy experts rank players based on how they think they will perform this season.
  • X-rank is based on the default scoring settings for each game (1/2 point per ppr in football, 10 categories in baseball, etc.) 
  • Determines autopick rankings for drafts.
  • Fantasy Plus is not required.

Composite Expert Rank

  • This is the average ranking for a player based on the expert ranks of Yahoo Fantasy analysts, and our trusted partner, Rotowire.
  • Fantasy Plus is required.

Position Rank

  • Shows how a player stacks up against other players at his position.
  • The higher the player's positional rank, the better they are at that position.
  • Fantasy Plus is required.

Default Rank

  • Default Rank is based on the total projected Fantasy points according to your league's scoring settings.
  • These rankings do not take position into consideration.
    • i.e. You may see quarterbacks ranked higher than other offensive positions.
  • Also known as Rank in the draft client.
  • Fantasy Plus is not required.