Fantasy Football Rankings 2012: Top 100 Cheat Sheet For PPR Leagues

You say you want a cheat sheet for the Top 100 Fantasy players going into your draft? Well, we're more than happy to oblige. Whether PPR or standard, we've got it; on this page, you'll find a Top 100 Ranking for a points per reception, or PPR, league. We'll have a standard ranking later.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Check out our Standard Rankings Cheat Sheet!

Keep in mind that SB Nation Fantasy has multiple fantasy writers and sometimes our opinions differ. Therefore, check out our positional rankings to get a full picture of what different experts think. For my part, here are some notes to clue you in regarding rankings where I stray a bit from my cohorts here and on other websites.

1. I like Drew Brees slightly ahead of Tom Brady. I fully expect that the Patriots will remain a pass-first team, but you never know what Bill Belichick will do from season to season. In 2007, he decided to have Brady and Moss set a ton of records. Last year, he went so tight-end crazy that he could have Gronk set records and still have a second TE be a quality fantasy player. Maybe this is the year Stevan Ridley scores 15 touchdowns, I don't know. I do know that Drew Brees will still be passing. A lot.

2. Because of #1 above, I worry about taking Gronkowski too early. As I've said before, past performance is the best indicator of future performance, but crazy outlier performances aren't often duplicated. My New England worries have spread slightly to Brandon Lloyd as well.

3. I'm not a big fan of dropping players too far due to prior health issues, but if Michael Vick is going to be healthy this season, it will be because he is prohibited from running unless absolutely necessary. And that drops his fantasy value some.

4. I think Foster, Rice, and McCoy are fairly interchangeable, but Rice is more reliable to me in PPR leagues. He's who I would choose with #1. Foster should go #1 in standard leagues.

5. I totally understand why Larry Fitzgerald is dropping like a rock for some people-our own Mike Gallagher has him as the #10 or 11 WR depending on scoring. The Cardinals quarterback situation is a mess. Their offensive line is a mess. Anything Arizona-related should be approached with oven mitts. But how much different is this than last year, when Fitz was still one of the top half-dozen WRs? He has shown he is extremely consistent despite any obstacles, and I still think you can make an argument for him as the second WR off the board. However, because I do think Fitzgerald is even with a bunch of others, Megatron is the only wide receiver worth a first-round pick this year.

6. I have tried to be helpful here by ranking players according to a drafting strategy that keeps in mind the value of the next available player at that position. So, a player may be ranked highly in part because there is a huge difference between that player and the next likely available player at that position. See, for example, Jimmy Graham.

So, without further ado, here are my Top 100 PPR player rankings: