If you visit the Fantasy Football History Project over the next few weeks, months, and years to come, you are going to see the term Relative Fantasy Value or RFV used. I thought I'd take a second to explain exactly what it is.
Back in the mid-1990s, Joe Bryant of the FootballGuys came up with a concept called Value-Based Drafting or VBD. The basic idea behind VBD is that the value of a player is determined not by the number of points he scores, but by how much he outscores his peers at his position. Bryant's concept was created to be used during fantasy football drafts, using player projections and player baselines to determine if you should draft the #10 quarterback, the #22 running back, or the #39 wide receiver.
For a more in-depth explanation of Joe Bryant's VBD concept, check out his article Principles of Value-Based Drafting from August 2019.
