Vol. I — No. 1 An almanac of the fantasy gridiron PPR · 12-team

The Gridiron Almanac

A reckoning of the 2026 fantasy football landscape, drawn from public play-by-play, market values, and the cold arithmetic of the season just past.

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§ 01

The Board

Sorted by current market value. Click any player for the full dossier.

Position
Rk Player Pos Team Age Archetype '25 PPG '25 Fin. 30d
§ 02

The Half-Life of a Star

Of the top-12 finishers at each position in year N, how many remained top-12 in year N+1?

2023 → 2024 retention

What share of top-12 held their station the following year?

2024 → 2025 retention

Same calculation, more recent vintage.

§ 03

The Arc of a Career

Median PPR per game by age, pooled across three seasons. Each point requires a sample of at least three players.

Age curves, 2023–2025 pooled

Caveat: this is descriptive, not destiny. Survivor bias is real — older players who remain on rosters tend to be the ones still producing.

QB RB WR TE
§ 04

A Taxonomy of Roles

Distribution of archetypes among the players on the board. Tags are rule-based on 2025 usage.

Skill-position roles

Heuristic tags — useful as a sorting tool, not a verdict.

Reading the room

A few notes on what the taxonomy is telling us.

Notes on method, with appropriate skepticism

Market value comes from FantasyCalc, which computes a value rank from real trades in active redraft leagues. It is a market signal, not a projection. The 30-day trend column shows momentum.

Historical stats are from the nflverse project's play-by-play data. PPR points are computed from raw stats using the standard 1/10/25 formula. Position rank is the player's finish among all players at their position in regular-season PPR.

Caveats: archetype tags are heuristic, not predictive. Age curves suffer from survivor bias. Top-12 retention is computed on small samples per position. Real 2026 ADP did not yet meaningfully exist at the time this was compiled — re-run the pipeline in July for fresher data.

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