Default rankings are the bane of any well-prepared fantasy player. Every fantasy platform that offers season-long drafts has a set of default rankings or an order in which they arrange each player.
An unprepared fantasy player relies heavily on these rankings to try and build a reasonable fantasy roster. Although they do help at times, they usually aren't up to date with the latest information available, which means they will inevitably end up too high or low on certain players.
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One of the easiest ways to gain an edge in home-league redrafts is to understand the discrepancies in these rankings, as it allows the well-prepared fantasy player to draft off of their league-specific, custom-built rankings from PFF while being aware of the players over and undervalued on that specific fantasy platform.
To make things even easier, I have compiled the ADP for the top 200 players from the major fantasy outlets. We can build a plus/minus metric for each player on each fantasy site to see how closely their ADP compares to PFF’s consensus rankings. A negative number means the player's ADP falls further than our consensus rankings, making him a solid value on that fantasy platform. A positive number means PFF’s consensus rankings don’t offer as positive of an outlook as his ADP, meaning he's a player to avoid.
Let’s go by position to find some of the best options on each fantasy platform.
QUARTERBACK
| Player | PFF Pos Rank | PFF Consensus | CBS Sports | Underdog | ESPN | RTSports | MFL | Fantrax | FFC | Sleeper |
| Patrick Mahomes | QB1 | 40 | 28.7 | 6.3 | 21 | 16 | 25 | 19 | 16 | 25 |
| Josh Allen | QB2 | 46 | 28.4 | -1.7 | 17 | 11 | 19 | 12 | 12 | 18 |
| Lamar Jackson | QB3 | 51 | 15.3 | -6.4 | 9 | -1 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 11 |
| Kyler Murray | QB4 | 52 | 15.8 | -1.8 | 15 | 8 | 17 | 9 | 8 | 16 |
| Dak Prescott | QB5 | 63 | 11.3 | -6.1 | 10 | 3 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 5 |
| Russell Wilson | QB6 | 72 | 22.3 | -2.7 | 20 | 5 | 24 | 9 | 1 | 24 |
| Justin Herbert | QB7 | 74 | 31.2 | -9 | 14 | 5 | 15 | 5 | 5 | 19 |
| Jalen Hurts | QB8 | 81 | -9.8 | -27.6 | -14 | -22 | -5 | -13 | -23 | -25 |
| Aaron Rodgers | QB9 | 91 | 52.6 | 6.6 | 44 | 26 | 42 | 27 | 27 | 31 |
| Tom Brady | QB10 | 92 | 39.5 | -8.2 | 31 | 9 | 24 | 15 | 11 | 17 |
| Ryan Tannehill | QB11 | 99 | 20.2 | -14.4 | -2 | 10 | 23 | 6 | 2 | 1 |
| Joe Burrow | QB12 | 101 | -5.4 | -23.9 | -19 | -15 | 2 | -2 | -13 | -4 |
| Matthew Stafford | QB13 | 106 | 21.0 | -9.5 | 14 | 18 | 22 | 15 | 18 | 17 |
| Trevor Lawrence | QB14 | 116 | -2.3 | -19.3 | -15 | -22 | 4 | -10 | -44 | 20 |
| Trey Lance | QB15 | 120 | -11.8 | 14.9 | -40 | -19 | 0 | -22 | -3 | -22 |
| Matt Ryan | QB16 | 122 | -3.0 | -23.9 | -35 | -2 | 8 | -8 | -11 | -35 |
| Justin Fields | QB17 | 123 | -3.5 | -1.1 | -20 | -19 | -3 | -25 | -9 | -13 |
| Baker Mayfield | QB18 | 130 | -3.2 | -27.7 | -2 | -25 | 12 | -10 | -11 | -1 |
| Tua Tagovailoa | QB19 | 134 | -5.0 | -8.2 | -11 | -24 | -8 | -12 | -49 | -48 |
| Kirk Cousins | QB20 | 137 | 14.8 | -19 | -36 | 0 | 15 | -8 | -57 | -28 |
| Ryan Fitzpatrick | QB21 | 139 | -10.1 | -27.4 | -42 | -43 | -16 | -56 | -49 | |
| Zach Wilson | QB22 | 158 | 3.5 | -11.2 | -29 | -39 | -25 | -28 | -33 | |
| Daniel Jones | QB23 | 170 | -29.3 | -23 | -17 | -10 | -46 | |||
| Carson Wentz | QB24 | 176 | 30.8 | -17.2 | -32 | 3 | -123 | -44 | ||
| Mac Jones | QB25 | 177 | -31.9 | -36 | -90 | -114 | -47 | |||
| Jameis Winston | QB26 | 179 | 45.2 | 10.5 | 14 | 16 | 25 | -42 | 25 | 0 |
| Derek Carr | QB27 | 180 | 49.3 | -7.8 | -4 | -1 | 33 | 1 | -30 | |
| Ben Roethlisberger | QB28 | 182 | 46.7 | 8.4 | 21 | 22 | 41 | 16 | 32 | -7 |
| Sam Darnold | QB29 | 189 | 2.8 | -32 | 9 | -3 | -37 | |||
| Jared Goff | QB30 | 194 | -17.6 | -15 | -67 | -19 | -68 |
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