Fantasy Football Rankings vs. ECR: Week 14
Bradley Stalder's Fantasy Rankings vs. Expert Consensus Rankings
Every year FantasyPros hosts a Fantasy Football Rankings Accuracy contest with over 200 of the industry's top writers and experts. The scoring is fierce and requires experts to perfectly predict the order in which Quarterbacks, Running Backs, Wide Receivers, and Tight Ends will rank at the end of every NFL Week. Check out the bottom of the article for my most up-to-date rankings and notes on FantasyPros, as I anticipate a lot of news will come out to change my ranks between now and Sunday at 1 PM EST.
Last week, I finished 66th overall in the contest, with a top-8 finish at WR, top-5 at Kickers, and top-4 in IDP. Entering Week 14, I stayed at 42nd overall in accuracy out of 211 fantasy rankers year-to-date. Just a reminder that I also advise FantasyData's weekly Rankings. They're an excellent resource for anyone looking to win their league along with their player projections and advanced metrics.
Follow me on this journey as I highlight a few players I want to be higher or lower than the consensus for Week 14.
Higher Ranked QB
Jared Goff - The Lions have scored the 6th most points on the season and enter Week 14 projected for the 2nd highest game total on the week, squaring off against the Minnesota Vikings at home. All three of Jared Goff's top-8 weekly performances have happened at home this year, including his QB1 overall finish Week 4 against Seattle. As for the matchup, the Minnesota Vikings give up the most passing yards (280) to opposing QBs on the season, and just allowed Mike White to finish as the QB7 overall despite the fact that White did not throw for a TD in the game. Amon-Ra St. Brown and DJ Chark have good matchups, even without counting what 1st round pick Jameson Williams could do if given a few more snaps and targets makes me interested in Goff. It also helps that pass-catching RB D'Andre Swift is off the injury report. The Lions are full go, and so will Jared Goff for my fantasy lineups. Jared Goff is my QB7 on the week.
Goff is the consensus QB11.
Lower-Ranked QB
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Bradley Stalder
Bradley Stalder has over twelve years of fantasy football experience in auction, dynasty, redraft, and bestball formats. Before developing the Fantasy Football Fanalysts Podcast (@FFFanalysts) with Billy Muzio (@FFMuzio), he also wrote fantasy football articles and created comprehensive player and team projections for 3CoSports.com. He earned his BS in Mathematical Science from Franciscan University and MEd with focus in Mathematics Education from the University of Notre Dame. He lives near Detroit, Michigan with his wife and three daughters. He teaches Math by day to 7th and 8th graders. You can follow him on Twitter at @FFStalder.