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.