Tim Riordan: Dynasty Fantasy Football Rankings Explained
Welcome back to another installment in our series of articles where DLF rankers not only explain their dynasty fantasy football rankings, but also include a number of the 2024 rookie draft pick selections so you can see how we each, individually, value those dynasty rookie picks in comparison to players as if it were a dynasty fantasy football startup draft. As would be expected, you will find a great degree of variability in the valuation of these picks as well depending on the style of the ranker. Each draft class has its own quality and depth and, depending on how the ranker values that quality and depth, individual rookie selections will appear earlier or later on the list.
Be sure to catch all of the Dynasty Fantasy Football Rankings Explained series.
DLF has always offered our readers multiple sets of dynasty fantasy football rankings from different experts to provide a broad view of player rankings. With many different strategies for building a successful dynasty team, no single set of rankings could possibly meet the needs of every coach. Instead, we've long subscribed to the idea of our experts providing their own individual rankings, ultimately giving our readers the opportunity to gravitate to a particular expert who closely matches their own style of ranking or, perhaps, instead choosing to use an average ranking across all experts.
A note about the tables. The Rank column indicates this ranker's personal rankings. The AVG column indicates the consensus rankings value at the time these rankings were created. The "+/-" column indicates how much higher or lower the ranker is to the consensus average.
Each week we will provide rankings for 120 players and 2024 rookie draft picks, alternating between 1QB and Superflex rankings. For a deeper list of rankings, please visit our consensus dynasty fantasy football rankings.
1QB DYNASTY FANTASY FOOTBALL RANKINGS: Tim Riordan
Over the last week, I participated in my first-ever dispersal draft! For those who do not know, a dispersal draft is a way to hit the reset button in a dynasty fantasy football league. All the assets on the team are released into a limited draft pool, and the participating teams draft from that pool. In this case, I joined the DLF Family Squabble Dynasty League. I was replacing a manager who left, along with two other new managers. Two more managers decided to add all of their assets into the dispersal draft and restart their dynasty, so it was a five person draft.
My 2024 Dynasty #FantasyFootball drafts are underway already! I'm joining a @DLFootball dynasty league via a dispersal draft. It's my first time doing a dispersal and it has been really fun! Check out the results here - https://t.co/R7OdFvQxfq pic.twitter.com/rnGfIUjRKn
The draft was so much fun, and such an interesting exercise in player and draft pick values. With a limited player pool, you had to analyze where the strengths and weaknesses of the draft were going to be. The league is superflex and tight end premium, so I had to prioritize those positions to make sure I would have a chance to compete this season. It was important to analyze where the tier drops were, and sometimes I had to throw out my rankings to fill a position of need.
The other fun wrinkle with a dispersal draft like this was that we had to draft rookie draft picks for 2024 and 2025. With only three 2024 first round rookie picks available, the managers in the draft were forced to make decisions between known players and the sexiness of the unknown rookie draft pick. I missed out on the very high picks this year, and all of the 2025 picks (picking at the turn cost me a few times there), but I was able to get three picks in the top 20 of this very exciting class.
I open up with this story because that is what we’re doing with this series. We’re taking our dynasty rankings and slotting in where we believe the rookie draft picks belong. It can be really difficult at a time like this, where we know the rookie class and who the studs and duds are, but we don’t know where they were drafted or what the draft capital is. Right now, I have picks 1-3, Marvin Harrison Jr., Malik Nabers, and Rome Odunze (not necessarily in that order) in the top 20, but there are some awful teams that they could end up on. While landing spot may not move any of those three out of the top rookie draft picks, they could push their value down on a list like this.
A note on my approach to dynasty fantasy football rankings. I put a lot of stock into this upcoming year. The years beyond that are important, but if I think an older player can help me win a title this season, while a younger player is unproven and may be a project, I am going to take that player earlier. You’ll see I push wide receivers down the board a little bit because of this. I want to make sure every position has fantasy football winners in it this season, and I’ll build for the future on my bench or with trades. There is so much depth at the wide receiver position, and we’re going to see another influx of young talent coming in in this year’s draft, that I have to push them down a bit in favor of harder-to-find positions like running back and tight end. I even push the elite quarterbacks up a bit because I think they can be dynasty game-changers in one quarterback leagues.
Without further ado, my top 120 one quarterback rankings, including 2024 rookie draft picks.
