How the Smash Average rankings work

Each creator publishes a full dynasty superflex board — rank, tier, position rank — from their own process. Mitch and Mello share The Lineup as an advice brand but rank separately, so each counts as its own voice. Nobody sees another creator's board before publishing theirs, which is what keeps the average from collapsing into one opinion.

The blended board takes every player who appears on at least one published board and averages the rank across the boards that include him. A player missing from one board is averaged over the others rather than penalised, so a creator who has not yet ranked a new rookie does not drag him to the bottom.

Tiers are averaged too: letter tiers (S through F) are converted to numbers, averaged and converted back, so the Smash Average carries tier breaks the same way a single board does. Tiers are the unit that matters in a trade — players inside one tier are close to interchangeable, and crossing a tier line is where a pick gets added.

Boards are matched on Sleeper player id, with name-and-position matching as a fallback for rows that arrived as a spreadsheet without ids. Two ids for the same player collapse onto one, so a stale id on one board can never split a player into two rows.

The main average is superflex. The 1QB view re-orders the same players for leagues that start one quarterback, and the rookie board blends each creator's rookie rankings for rookie drafts. Redraft boards are built the same way from seasonal rankings.

The date under a public rankings table is the newest publish across the blended boards; the paid rankings tool shows each creator's own publish date and lets you follow a single board instead of the average.