Fantasy Football Scoring Leaders Standard scoring

The Fantasy Football Scoring leaders table displays the fantasy scoring results from the previous season for every single player in the NFL. 

It displays average fantasy points per game, total fantasy points scored in the entire season, and game-by-game fantasy point production. 

You can search for a player via the search bar function, or sort the players via position (QB, RB, WR, TE, FLEX). You can also sort the players from top to bottom (or vice versa) in any of the previously mentioned categories to quickly determine the leaders. 

Why do we separate this data by scoring format? 

Fantasy football scoring can take many different forms. The three most common types of scoring in redraft and best ball leagues tend to be standard (no points per reception), 0.5 PPR (0.5 points per reception) and PPR (1.0 points per reception). 

Standard scoring isn’t as prevalent as it once was but many redraft leagues and niche fantasy football leagues still use standard scoring settings. Standard scoring awards no points for a reception which means that high-volume receivers become less valuable, while short yardage backs and redzone receiving specialists tend to thrive. 

Since there are no bonus points for your player securing a reception, the only way to gain points in the non-quarterback positions are through gaining yards and scoring TDs. This makes players who score TDs at a high rate insanely valuable.

Unlike PPR scoring where target share, routes run, and target volume are often key indicators of potentially strong fantasy targets, red zone usage and red zone targets become more important in standard scoring. Players like Williams who are likely to carry a huge role and get plenty of opportunity when his team is inside the 10 and five-yard line, become much better overall values in standard leagues as a result. 

The top fantasy WR season of all-time in standard scoring came in 2007 courtesy of Randy Moss. He scored 23 TDs that season and 287.3 fantasy points in standard league scoring, a mark that was 22.0 points better than the second-best standard league WR score of all-time, which also came from Moss in his 2003 season.