2005 Mid-Season Player Rankings

Here we are in the middle of the 2005 Fantasy Football Season… has the first half really gone by so quick? We have seen many surprises in the last couple months. Who would have guessed Steve Smith would do as well as he has? Who would have known that Jamal Lewis and Tony Gonzalez would be struggling at this point in the season? If you are starting to play Fantasy Football in the mid-season, the following rankings will be helpful.

Should you draft Jamal or Gonzo? At what point should Peyton Manning go off the board? Which team has the top ranked defense? Can Neil Rackers really live up to the hype?

To answer these questions and help you at your mid-season drafts, 6 of our best fantasy football brains have joined forces to create a rankings list.

To create these composite rankings, each player was assigned a rank by all six of the fantasy buffs who shared their cheat sheets with us; the lower this score compared with other players at the same position, the better. By combining these lists, we can see both individual preferences and the overall consensus among the rankers.

Average rank indicates the average of the scores assigned to a player by each person (for this calculation, players not appearing in an individual list were assigned a score of 21 for QBs, TEs, Ks, and Defensive Teams, 31 for RBs, and 51 for WRs). Each ranker’s individual list can be seen in the six columns on the right.

QB RB WR TE K D

QUARTERBACKS	Avg Rank	d a n	A l k a	C a p	b a s s	j e t s	P l i n d
Carson Palmer – Cin	1.33	1	1	2	1	2	1
Peyton Manning – Ind	2.00	2	2	1	3	1	3
Donovan McNabb – Phi	3.17	3	3	4	4	3	2
Brett Favre – GB	4.33	5	6	3	2	5	5
Tom Brady – NE	7.33	9	10	5	5	6	9
Drew Bledsoe – Dal	7.50	4	5	8	11	9	8
Mark Brunell – Was	7.83	12	4	6	8	11	6
Marc Bulger – StL	8.17	7	21	7	6	4	4
Eli Manning – NYG	8.67	6	12	10	7	10	7
Matt Hasselbeck – Sea	10.17	11	7	9	10	14	10
Kerry Collins – Oak	10.33	13	8	12	9	8	12
Drew Brees – SD	12.50	14	11	13	12	12	13
Jake Plummer – Den	13.83	10	14	14	15	16	14
Jake Delhomme – Car	14.00	16	16	11	13	17	11
Ben Roethlisberger – Pit	14.33	8	9	17	17	15	20
Daunte Cullpepper – Min	15.17	19	15	19	16	7	15
Trent Green – KC	17.33	15	18	21	21	13	16
Michael Vick – Atl	17.67	20	13	16	18	18	21
Byron Leftwich – Jax	18.00	17	17	20	14	19	21
Steve McNair – Ten	19.00	21	19	15	20	20	19
Aaron Brooks – NO	19.50	21	20	18	19	21	18
Josh McCown – Ari	19.83	18	21	21	21	21	17

RUNNING BACKS	Avg Rank	dan	Alka	Cap	bass	jets	Plind
LaDainian Tomlinson – SD	1.17	2	1	1	1	1	1
Shaun Alexander – Sea	1.83	1	2	2	2	2	2
Edgerrin James – Ind	3.00	3	3	3	3	3	3
Priest Holmes – KC	5.33	5	5	4	4	4	10
LaMont Jordan – Oak	5.67	4	8	5	6	6	5
Willis McGahee – Buf	6.00	6	6	7	8	5	4
Steven Jackson – StL	8.17	15	4	8	7	7	8
Thomas Jones – Chi	8.33	7	14	6	5	12	6
Tiki Barber – NYG	10.33	10	12	9	9	10	12
Clinton Portis – Was	12.00	14	9	12	17	9	11
Corey Dillon – NE	12.00	16	7	13	11	8	17
Warrick Dunn – Atl	13.83	12	18	15	13	16	9
Julius Jones – Dal	14.00	9	10	18	16	15	16
Carnell Williams – TB	14.00	19	11	19	10	18	7
Rudi Johnson – Cin	14.50	13	15	14	15	17	13
Domanick Davis – Hou	14.67	18	16	11	12	13	18
Brian Westbrook – Phi	14.83	21	13	10	14	11	20
Stephen Davis – Car	18.67	11	17	16	25	22	21
Curtis Martin – NYJ	18.83	26	19	22	18	14	14
Ronnie Brown – Mia	19.50	8	24	23	26	21	15
Willie Parker – Pit	21.83	31	20	17	20	19	24
Fred Taylor – Jax	22.33	17	28	24	19	27	19
Kevin Jones – Det	23.00	22	22	25	23	20	26
Mike Anderson – Den	23.50	25	21	20	21	23	31
Tatum Bell – Den	24.33	20	27	21	22	26	30
Larry Johnson – KC	25.33	23	25	30	24	25	25
Jamal Lewis – Bal	26.50	24	26	26	28	24	31
Mewelde Moore – Min	26.67	27	23	29	31	28	22
Reuben Droughns – Cle	29.00	28	30	31	31	31	23
Chris Brown – Ten	29.00	31	29	28	27	31	28
Michael Pittman – TB	29.83	31	31	27	29	30	31

WIDE RECEIVERS	Avg Rank	d a n	A l k a	C a p	b a s s	j e t s	P l i n d
Steve Smith – Car	2.17	2	4	1	3	2	1
Terrel Owens – Phi	2.33	4	1	4	2	1	2
Chad Johnson – Cin	3.00	3	2	3	1	5	4
Torry Holt – StL	3.82	1	3	5	5	4	5
Santana Moss – Was	5.33	8	5	2	6	7	4
Randy Moss – Oak	5.67	7	8	9	4	3	3
Marvin Harrison – Ind	6.83	5	6	8	8	6	8
Plaxico Burress – NYG	7.67	6	10	7	9	8	6
Larry Fitzgerald – Ari	8.17	12	7	6	7	10	7
Donald Driver – GB	11.17	15	9	11	12	11	9
Hines Ward – Pit	11.33	9	11	10	10	9	19
Anquan Boldin – Ari	12.67	13	13	13	13	12	12
Reggie Wayne – Ind	13.00	10	12	17	15	14	10
Jimmy Smith – Jax	13.33	17	14	14	11	13	11
Terry Glenn – Dal	15.83	11	22	12	17	15	18
Joey Galloway – TB	16.17	14	17	18	14	18	16
Keenan McCardell – SD	16.17	19	15	16	16	16	15
Rod Smith – Den	19.67	18	24	19	19	25	13
TJ Houshmandzadeh – Cin	21.00	21	18	22	21	24	20
Deion Branch – NE	21.67	23	16	23	27	17	24
Joe Horn – NO	22.17	33	21	20	18	20	21
Keyshawn Johnson – Dal	25.17	27	19	15	25	26	39
Chris Chambers – Mia	25.67	32	23	28	26	22	23
Eddie Kennison – KC	26.83	29	26	30	33	21	22
Kevin Curtis – StL	28.50	16	50	25	22	30	28
Laveranues Coles – NYJ	29.17	25	36	41	29	19	25
Darrel Jackson – Sea	30.33	22	50	46	23	27	14
Derrick Mason – Bal	30.83	24	27	31	41	36	26
Eric Moulds – Buf	32.17	36	29	26	20	31	51
Donte’ Stallworth – NO	32.17	37	34	27	36	23	36
Antonio Chatman – GB	33.67	20	30	34	35	39	44
Joe Jurevicius – Sea	34.67	51	20	24	28	34	51
Mushin Muhammad - Chi	35.50	28	31	32	39	32	51
Brandon Lloyd – SF	36.00	39	32	43	45	28	29
Antonio Bryant – Cle	36.17	51	25	42	35	37	27
Drew Bennet – Ten	37.00	46	28	29	51	51	17
Bobby Engram – Sea	37.83	30	50	21	43	51	32
Roy Williams – Det	40.17	51	47	45	24	33	41
Brandon Jones- Ten	40.50	51	37	38	31	35	51
Nate Burleson – Min	40.50	44	33	51	30	51	34
Ashley Lelie – Den	40.50	45	50	33	40	40	35
Lee Evans – Buf	41.33	51	46	36	34	44	37
David Givens – NE	41.33	26	43	39	51	51	38
Jerry Porter – Oak	42.50	43	35	51	37	38	51
Issac Bruce – StL	42.83	31	50	35	44	46	51
Michael Clayton – TB	43.50	42	48	51	46	41	33
Amani Toomer – NYG	44.00	40	42	37	51	51	43
Antwaan Randle El – Pit	45.33	48	41	51	51	51	30
Travis Taylor – Min	45.67	47	38	47	51	51	40
Az-Zahir Hakim – NO	45.83	34	50	40	49	51	51
Andre Johnson – Hou	46.50	51	50	51	47	29	51

TIGHT ENDS	Avg Rank	d a n	A l k a	C a p	b a s s	j e t s	P l i n d
Antonio Gates – SD	1.17	2	1	1	1	1	1
Jeremy Shockey – NYG	2.33	4	2	2	2	2	2
Jason Witten – Dal	4.83	3	3	9	3	4	7
Alge Crumpler – Atl	4.83	6	7	3	4	5	4
LJ Smith – Phi	5.67	1	10	5	7	8	3
Randy McMichael – Mia	6.50	10	6	4	5	6	8
Tony Gonzalez – KC	6.83	5	5	13	10	3	5
Jerramy Stevens – Sea	8.83	8	11	6	6	10	12
Heath Miller – Pit	9.67	13	4	8	9	9	15
Todd Heap – Bal	10.17	12	8	11	12	7	11
Chris Cooley – Was	10.33	11	14	7	8	13	9
Erron Kinney – Ten	13.17	7	21	12	14	15	10
Ben Troupe – Ten	13.67	15	9	10	11	21	16
Jeremaine Wiggins – Min	14.17	9	19	19	18	14	6
Dallas Clark – Ind	14.33	17	12	16	13	11	17
Courtney Anderson – Oak	17.33	21	15	14	15	21	18
Marcus Pollard – Det	17.50	19	20	17	20	16	13
Steve Heiden – Cle	17.67	14	18	18	21	21	14
Daniel Graham – NE	17.67	21	16	15	16	18	20
Jeb Putzier – Den	18.33	16	21	21	21	12	19
Ernie Conwell – NO	19.50	21	13	21	21	20	21
Bubba Franks – GB	19.67	21	21	21	17	17	21

KICKERS	Avg Rank	d a n	A l k a	C a p	b a s s	j e t s	P l i n d
Neil Rackers – Ari	1.00	1	1	1	1	1	1
Shayne Graham – Cin	2.33	2	2	3	3	2	2
Nate Kaeding – SD	4.33	5	3	4	5	5	4
Ryan Lindell – Buf	5.50	3	10	2	7	6	5
Jay Feely – NYG	6.83	4	8	21	2	3	3
Josh Brown – Sea	7.17	6	7	5	9	9	7
Lawrence Tynes – KC	8.17	7	9	8	6	11	8
Jason Elam – Den	8.33	21	6	6	4	4	9
Jeff Wilkins – StL	8.50	8	5	7	10	11	10
Mike Vanderjagt – Ind	11.00	13	4	10	13	8	18
Rob Bironas – Ten	11.83	10	15	12	18	10	6
Todd Peterson – Atl	12.50	9	21	13	8	11	13
Jeff Reed – Pit	13.17	11	17	11	15	11	14
Josh Scobee – Jax	13.83	15	18	16	11	11	12
Adam Vinatieri – NE	14.00	16	21	9	12	7	19
John Carney – NO	15.50	14	16	21	20	11	11
John Kasay – Car	15.83	19	21	15	14	11	15
Matt Bryant – TB	16.33	12	20	20	19	11	16
Sebastian Janikowski – Oak	16.83	21	14	18	16	11	21
Jason Hanson – Det	18.00	21	21	17	17	11	21
Matt Stover – Bal	18.00	21	13	21	21	11	21
Paul Edinger – Min	18.17	18	21	21	21	11	17
Ryan Longwell – GB	18.17	21	21	14	21	11	21

TEAM DEFENSE	Avg Rank	d a n	A l k a	C a p	b a s s	j e t s	P l i n d
Indianapolis	1.33	1	3	1	1	1	1
Tampa Bay	3.50	2	5	4	2	5	3
Chicago	3.67	6	1	3	6	4	2
Atlanta	4.83	3	9	2	7	3	5
Cincinnati	5.83	4	2	11	8	2	8
Pittsburgh	6.33	7	6	9	5	7	4
Jacksonville	8.17	14	10	5	4	9	7
Philadelphia	8.33	21	4	7	3	6	9
Dallas	8.33	9	7	8	9	11	6
Detroit	9.17	5	13	6	11	10	10
Carolina	11.83	16	8	16	10	8	13
Seattle	12.33	8	14	10	19	11	12
Buffalo	12.50	11	15	13	14	11	11
NY Giants	14.67	10	11	21	21	11	14
Washington	15.17	13	21	12	13	11	21
Denver	15.17	15	17	17	15	11	16
San Diego	15.83	18	16	18	12	11	20
NY Jets	16.67	17	21	14	16	11	21
Tennessee	16.67	20	12	19	21	11	17
Miami	17.33	21	21	15	18	11	18
Baltimore	17.33	12	21	21	20	11	19
Arizona	17.83	21	19	20	21	11	15

Legend
dan = danleroi22
Alka = Alkaholik
Cap = The_Captain
bass = mutantseabass
jets = disgruntledjetsfan
Plind = Plindsey88

Assumed League Settings:

Single-season (no keepers), head-to-head with playoffs in weeks 16 and 17, 15-man rosters with the following starters:

1 QB
2 RB
3 WR
1 TE
1 K
1 DEF
6 Bench

Scoring assumed is as follows:

Offense:
1 point per 25 passing yards
1 point per 10 rushing yards
1 point per 15 recieving yards
6 points per passing, rushing, receiving or return touchdown
-2 points per interception or lost fumble

Kicking:
3 points per field goal up to 39 yards
4 points per field goal between 40 and 49 yards
5 points per field goal over 50 yards
1 point per extra point

Many thanks to these fantasy buffs who took the time to rank the players for mid-season drafts!

2005 Mid-Season Player Rankings

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