The Draft

11 pages.

2026 draft boardThe whole draft on one page: 130 players in full-PPR value order, with what each one is and where the market has him.
Availability and injury riskWho actually plays — measured from three seasons of games played, not from reputation.
Drafting from the 1.01The 1.01 gives you the first anchor, then an eighteen-pick wait before the 20/21 turn. The task is not to predict every pick while you wait. It is to enter each turn with a position-aware queue and let verified health/role news veto an attractive name.
How much to spend on running backsIn this 10-team PPR league, start with an elite anchor at 1.01, then let the board—not an old zero-RB slogan—decide when the first and second backs belong.
Late-round quarterbackWith one QB slot and ten managers, the comparison is not QB points—it is the edge over QB10, the current replacement baseline.
Reading the draft roomThe room is not nine copies of your plan. Track what the other nine managers have actually bought, then use the eighteen-pick gap after 1.01 to take the tier that will not survive.
The last two rounds — kicker and defenceKicker and D/ST are rentals, not draft investments. In a ten-team league, wait until the final endgame picks—140, 141, and 160—then draft one of each and preserve the remaining pick for upside or a verified IR stash.
Tiers by positionFive stacks of tiers cut at the gaps in projected value — the only thing you actually need to read off the board during a live pick.
Value over replacement in fantasy footballValue over replacement (VOR) is projected production minus what the position gives away for free. It is the comparison that matters in this ten-team draft.
When to start drafting for upsideThe round-seven crossover was an assertion. Measured, it does not survive — and neither does the premise underneath it.
Who to take at 1.01If the draft were now, take Puka Nacua at 1.01. This is a current-evidence