2026 draft board

Rendered from Data/players.csv by Data/build_board.py on 2026-08-02. No rank on this page was typed by hand. Projections are FFToday stat lines updated 2026-07-30 (complete base-plus-pagination snapshot), scored under this league's own rules; ADP is Fantasy Football Calculator's 10-team PPR 4,121-mock snapshot captured 2026-08-02 — a labelled proxy for ESPN ADP, not ESPN's own (_PLAN.md §10.5).

How to read the columns

• Rk — rank on this board, by value over replacement. Pos rk — rank within his own position on this board. RB4 means the fourth-best running back in this file; it is not a claim about the wider fantasy world.
• Tm — the three-letter NFL team code. The 32 offenses lists all thirty-two with full names, byes and the players who matter.
• Bye — the one week that team does not play, when the player scores zero. See Bye-week planning.
• Proj pts — projected points for the season under this league's scoring. VOR — those points minus what the same position gives you for free. See Value over replacement in fantasy football.
• ADP — average draft position: where he actually goes, averaged over thousands of mock drafts. Board rank minus market pick is shown only when this board and the market disagree by 15 draft slots or more. A positive number means the market takes him later than this board ranks him, which is a value; a negative number means the market pays up.
• Risk — low, med or high, assigned mechanically, not by judgement. It is high when a teammate at the same position projects for at least 60% of his touches, or when this board and the market disagree about him by twelve places or more within his position; med at 35% and six places. It is a flag for how contested or contested-looking the role is, not a durability rating. Durability lives in the Avail and Adj VOR columns, which are computed from games actually played; Risk knows nothing about health.
• Age — his age on the season opener, 9 September 2026, computed from his date of birth. Observed, though rounded to whole years here; Data/player_context.csv carries it to one decimal.
• Avail — the share of his team's games he has actually played over the last three seasons, shrunk toward his position's average so one clean rookie year does not read as proof of durability. 0.95 is iron; 0.75 means he has missed roughly a quarter of the games he could have played. Rookies carry their position's base rate, because there is nothing to measure. See Availability and injury risk.
• Adj VOR — value over replacement after scaling each projection by how that player's availability compares with his position's average. This is a model. It is the column that answers the objection the first version of this board could not: that a projection assuming seventeen games from everybody flatters the players who never play seventeen games.
• Why — the archetype from Player archetypes, then the number that makes the case.

The board

Replacement baselines used

Computed from this league's own roster (_PLAN.md §1.2), not from a published source's assumed lineup. In this confirmed 10-team, one-FLEX format, replacement is RB24, WR26, TE10 and QB10; K2 and DST2 express the documented streaming judgment.

Read the fifth column for what a position is worth. It is the per-week edge the best player at each position holds over replacement — the last player at that position you could still start, which is the 24th running back and the 26th receiver once the FLEX is accounted for, but only the 10th tight end and the 10th quarterback. That is the table behind Value over replacement in fantasy football.

The sixth column is a different and narrower question — the edge over the 10th-best player at the position, one per team. For tight end and quarterback the two columns are the same number, because only ten of each get started. For running back and receiver the fifth column is larger, and it is the one that matters, because the FLEX means more than ten of each are started every week.

The K and D/ST rows in the VOR column are deliberately small: those are the two positions the waiver wire restocks every week, so their draft value is far below their positional edge.

The turn map

Derived, never hand-edited (_PLAN.md Gate E): board rank crossed with ADP at each of Andrew's 16 picks. Likely gone counts players whose ADP is inside the pick; likely there are the best boarded players whose ADP is at or past it.

Kickers and defences are left out of this table on purpose. They are taken in the last two rounds by rule, not because value says so — see The last two rounds — kicker and defence.

Open questions

• ADP here is a proxy. ESPN's own ADP could not be extracted programmatically, and ADP is platform-specific. Mock drafts on ESPN are the substitute measurement.
• Market ADP is a weak signal for a late-August draft. This board must be regenerated within 48 hours of the draft; expires: 2026-08-09 is the audit's tripwire.
• Every row of players.csv still projects 17 games, so Proj pts and VOR are unadjusted; Adj VOR is where availability is priced, and it is a model that counts a missed game however it was caused — a suspension reads the same as a torn ligament. The rows where that distinction matters are listed in Availability and injury risk.