One of the most misleading pieces of information used by essentially everyone, including myself, in the fantasy football community is a player’s end of season ranking.

Carson Palmer was the “fifth-best” quarterback. Lamar Miller was the “sixth-best” running back. Doug Baldwin was the “seventh-best” wide receiver. We use these designations because they are easily attained and understood, but in a weekly game like fantasy football they are often misleading.

For quarterbacks, the performance benchmarks over the last three seasons based on a standard scoring system of one point per 25 passing yards and four points per passing touchdown are 27 points for a top-three or “elite” performance, 19.1 points for a top-10 or “QB1” performance, and 16 points for a top-15 or “passable” performance.

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