In a classic movie trailer voice:

In a world, where number-crunching has gone haywire and stat geeks have taken over the fantasy landscape, there comes a man who will dive right in to this madness, a man whose number-crunching has crunched the competition in the past.

And now he is back, with a new way to crunch those numbers, tweaking his geeky fantasy formula again, once again. He embraces the madness and seeks to add new maddening layers.

This isn’t just any man, this is a madman, a Fantasy Madman. And he is back to deliver his new incarnation: the DVQ Quatro.

Think of it more as the DVQ Version 4.0. Previous incarnations required cross-referencing ratings to gauge value. We eliminated that cumbersome requirement two seasons ago with DVQ 3.0, which delivered a universal number that reflected the point in the draft at which a player met his projected points value.

The 3.0 was good. We liked it. That was our best yet. But complacency leads to stagnation, and you never get to the top of the rankings by being stagnant. So this season, we have stuck to our one-number philosophy, but altered the path to get there.

Our motivation for such an endeavor can be summed up in two words: Travis Kelce.

For years, the Madman has played down the importance of drafting a tight end early. Part of this is due to positional roster requirements, and part of it was due to the overall shallow draft pool at the position. There have been so many who are unreliable that it would drag down the evaluations of all tight ends, even those at the top.

We were classifying fine dining as a fine diner. Did we undervalue the difference between an expertly prepared steak dish and a slab of meat served with mushy garnishes?

Well, sort of. Maybe. We stand by the notions that because you need more running backs and wide receivers, tight ends inherently are less important. The tops among them were more like the best chicken you could find — which might be hard to find, but it still is just chicken. But the fantasy numbers produced by top-tier tight ends couldn’t be ignored. And the differential in fantasy scoring from the top to the bottom tier of starters in basic 12-team PPR leagues did not appear properly represented. We needed to grade them on a steak scale instead of that of a chicken dinner.

Thus, we changed our mathematical menu. We shifted the emphasis of our analysis. Instead of basing key criteria on how many players at a particular position you can start, we have redirected that focus to the disparity between the projected points of players drafted to be starters at each position compared to the value of their replacement.

Because we use roster requirements to determine the ranking of the comparative differential, those requirements remain a vital component. But by emphasizing the disparity in scoring, we no longer overly penalize the top tight ends for the shallow depth at that position.

The difference in DVQ ratings is, um, notable but not drastic. It has elevated from bland to tasty, but not yet achieving delicious designation. In the past seasons, we often saw the first tight end ranked anywhere in the 40-70 range. That is no longer the case. Kelce actually had narrowly cracked the top 25 before slight adjustments based on Tyreek Hill’s full availability. That downgrade pushed Kelce to 34th — higher than last year with a similar projection, but not remarkably higher.

It is exciting to have a tweak we believe will make us even better at guiding you, and us, to fantasy titles. So buckle up and reap the rewards of the Madman’s newest version of the DVQ. Welcome to a new layer of madness. Welcome to the Quatro.