Welcome, if this is your first time stumbling upon my customizable cheat sheet, and welcome back, if you’ve been here before.Some of you already know (and some of you soon will) that this is an essential tool for your 2026 fantasy football aspirations. In this fully customizable cheat sheet generator, you can input your league rules and settings and even change stats and projections to create a set of rankings and projections unique to your league and fantasy needs.A lot goes into creating this tool, so I ask that you please read the instructions. With a little guidance, what was once complex will become simple.If you’re new to the cheat sheet, download it using the link and read on for detailed guidance and definitions. If you’re familiar with the sheet, dive on in.Download the fully customizable 2026 projections and rankings sheet Want to skip the work and check the rankings?
2026 fantasy football rankings
2026 dynasty and rookie-only ranks
If you don’t want to get your hands too dirty, in the default view, you’ll find player projections grouped by both position and team, rankings based on a players’ value over a replacement-level fantasy starter at their position, as well as my rankings ahead of training camp, which I’ll update until the start of the 2026 season.Default projections and settingsWhen you first open the file, you’ll see a more detailed set of instructions for customization. Behind that, you’ll find a series of projections and rankings you can navigate via the tabs at the bottom left of the sheet.If you don’t touch any of the league settings, your rankings and projections will be based on:Also, the scoring categories you see are the only ones I project. If you have odd bonuses or extra categories like first downs, there isn’t a way to account for those.Getting orientedAt the bottom left of the sheet, you will see tabs with the following labels:Instructions: Guess what you’ll find here?Settings: Customizable league setting valuesPOS Ranks: Players at QB, RB, WR, TE and D/ST ranked by their projected fantasy points. (No kickers. Never kickers.) These will auto-sort with any changes to player projections. (More on that below.)OVR & VORP: Rankings based on a player's value over a replacement-level player — defined as a starter with some bench players due to flex variance at RB and WR — at their position. These are sorted individually by position (orange), overall (blue), and by WR/TEs for leagues that lump those positions together (yellow).Ranks w PROJ: Rankings for QBs, RBs, WRs and TEs accompanied by their projected statistics. These will also automatically update with changes to player projections.Jake Ranks: Rankings based on my preseason assessments, so you will see players with lower projected point totals ranked above players with higher projections. That is a feature of how I’m valuing the draft pool, not a bug. For example, I might be willing to gamble on an injured player missing the first few weeks over a player who is less productive on a per-game basis. The auction values and projected points re-adjust when you manually adjust player projections, but the rankings do not because, well, those are my rankings, and you can't tell me what to do. I pour milk into my bowl before the cereal, and you can’t change that either. But you can ask questions in the comments related to your changes.
