Fantasy Football Player Rankings: Week 1

Here is another new feature on MSF Fantasy Sports: Each week I will provide you with my unscientific-but-still-useful positional rankings.

I say “unscientific” because I didn’t crunch numbers or figure out projections for every player to come to these rankings. The fact is that there really is no perfect way to rank players because different leagues count different stats, which skews the whole scale.

So here is how I arrived at my rankings (and I tell you this so you can decide for yourself whether or not you want to pay attention to them): I went to the Yahoo player page, listed each position individually, and then went one-by-one organizing players in order based on skill, history, matchup, and my trust level with them. The whole process took about 25 minutes because I trusted my gut instinct on almost all of the tough decisions.

Basically it boils down to this: all things being equal, I’d start Aaron Rodgers over Drew Brees this week. And I’d start Drew Brees over Peyton Manning this week, and on and on.

Enjoy. Hopefully this gives you a general guide of my expectations for players based on the many variables that can determine a guy’s statistical output.

If you need more lineup advice, here is our Week 1 start em, sit em and my first Fantasy Football 3-2-1 video blog. You can also sign up for our Friday live chat and our Sunday live chat.

Fantasy Football QB Rankings for Week 1:

1. Aaron Rodgers
2. Drew Brees
3. Peyton Manning
4. Matt Schaub
5. Philip Rivers
6. Tom Brady
7. Carson Palmer
8. Kevin Kolb
9. Jay Cutler
10. Donovan McNabb
11. Tony Romo
12. Eli Manning
13. Matt Cassel
14. Matt Ryan
15. Alex Smith
16. Matthew Stafford
17. Joe Flacco
18. Brett Favre
19. Kyle Orton
20. David Garrard

To see the Week 1 rankings for RB, WR, TE, and D/ST, follow this link to the Week 1 player rankings at MSF Fantasy Sports.

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