Week 8 Fantasy Football Rankings Results — How Rex's Rankings Did

Board accuracy

Start-call hit rates assume a 12-team league starting 1 QB, 2 RB, 3 WR, 1 TE, 1 DST and 1 K. Rank correlation compares the order the board set against the order players actually finished in. Mean rank error is the average number of spots each player finished away from his ranking; it scales with board size — compare it within a board across weeks, not between boards. Rank correlation is the scale-free measure. FLEX and superflex have no fixed lineup slot, so no start-call hit rate applies. Flex-call rate instead asks how often the board put the better player on top when two closely ranked players finished far apart. Chance is what picking that many names at random would hit. A rate close to chance means the board showed no edge at that position this week, not that it failed.

Against the obvious alternatives

Chance is a low bar. The real question is whether this beats what you would do yourself — so every week, the same players are also ranked by season points per game and by last week's points, and scored the same way.

Lineup points are what a manager would have scored starting the top of each board — 1 QB, 2 RB, 3 WR, 1 TE, 1 DST, 1 K. Closer on disagreements counts only players where the two methods differ by ten or more places; agreement proves nothing about either.

What we got right

Smallest rank error among players ranked inside the top 24 of their board.

Surprises

Ranked low and delivered anyway — an error in the other direction, leaving points on the bench.

Every graded Week 8 board

• Week 8 QB
• Week 8 RB
• Week 8 WR
• Week 8 TE
• Week 8 FLEX
• Week 8 SUPERFLEX
• Week 8 DST
• Week 8 K