Justin Taylor: 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: Justin Taylor

As a dynasty fantasy football player these days, it can be difficult to navigate the dynasty values of certain players across leagues. The biggest problem for most fantasy managers in one quarterback leagues is how to actually value quarterbacks. In my experience, this is the number one question from dynasty owners. They struggle to find the data they need to make a decision or too often when they ask for advice from peers or analysts, those people are not quite sure what to tell them.

Dynasty values for quarterbacks in start 1QB leagues are vastly different than a start-two quarterback league or even a superflex league. In the aforementioned formats, quarterbacks are highly valuable and often taken extremely early in drafts. Quarterbacks are also extremely over-drafted because of scarcity, as opposed to a 1QB league where there seems to be plenty of options, even if they aren’t great.

The value of quarterbacks in a 1QB league can really depend on your league mates or scoring options. There are a lot of strategies that say to wait on quarterback as long as you can, but I’m not sure that is prudent advice in a dynasty league. Maybe in a redraft league that idea makes more sense and won’t bury you for more than one season. But you don’t want to be perpetually underscoring at the QB position especially if QB is weighted extremely heavily in the scoring.

Looking at where players are typically being drafted - their ADP - is definitely valuable information to have, plenty of which you can find on the DLF website. But where the real strategy comes from is reading your league mates and checking their lineup builds.
Knowing what everyone around you is doing helps inform your decisions and draft choices. A player 10 spots down on the draft board per ADP might be the player you need to take now.