Mastering Relative Position Value in Fantasy Football

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00:00You have RPV. I'll let you explain what that means. I'll let you get into the early ranks.

00:05Yeah, relative position value. That's what we're talking about. The guys, when you compare them to

00:10the rest of their class and their position, how much better they are than the fantasy league

00:14average. At the end of the day, the more you can outscore, outperform your co-managers in your

00:21league. Well, guess what? That's an opportunity for you to win on a weekly basis. It's a very

00:25simple system that we use, the relative position value. Easy to apply. It makes sense. It's easy

00:32to adjust based on your league scoring or depth of league. And that's what you want to be. You

00:36want to have something that people can use that quantify value. And when you're quantifying the

00:40value at the tight end position, already in the expert consensus rankings, already in most people's

00:45rankings, Travis Kelsey is no longer the tight end one. I didn't get that memo. I love Sam Laporta.

00:50I was a big, we, how many times did we talk on this show last year about Sam Laporta in August?

00:54And I said, well, let's keep an eye on this guy. And then week one, he had that great game against

00:58the chiefs. And even though he didn't necessarily pop with the fancy numbers, you could see the

01:02usage was there. And he said, oh my goodness, Sam Laporta is going to be a part of this office.

01:05And he was fantastic. He did have an injury at some point and I'm not knocking Sam Laporta,

01:10but Travis Kelsey was hurt going into the season. Travis Kelsey was hurt in that game. Travis Kelsey

01:13was hurt in 2023. And it wasn't until you got to the playoffs of 2024. They started to look like

01:18Kelsey. Let me just run through this again for you. Okay. Since 2016, these are the finishes

01:23for Travis Kelsey at tight end. You're ready? 2016 tight end one, 2017 tight end two, 2018 tight

01:29end one, 2019 tight end one, 2020 tight end one, 2021 tight end two, 2022 tight end one, last year

01:36tight end three, even when he was hurt. Stop, please. Can we please put Travis Kelsey back at

01:42the top of this board? It's just crazy to think about. They know what they have ahead of them.

01:47And they have a really clear path in the AFC. I think this year, potentially to get back to

01:51the super bowl and do that trio, get that back to back to back. That thing that no Tom Brady

01:58couldn't do it. Nobody's done it right. Not the Don Shula dolphins, not any of the other Pittsburgh

02:04Steeler legacy teams. Nope. So you have something really special and it's not lost on them. Now,

02:09will they get there? We'll see. But if you're talking about just the health of this player and

02:13I get it, I understand he's older. I understand there's a lot of tread on the tires and maybe

02:17he's not going to be the guy who gets you that crazy level of productivity anymore, but can he

02:23still be the tight end one? I think so. And what's great is you don't have to pay first round value

02:27for him. You're seeing them already go in the second round, sometimes the third round of drafts

02:31because people are a little concerned. That to me is the best value. That means you get an Amron

02:36Ross St. Brown to start your team, a really strong potential running back or wide receiver in the

02:42second round. And then maybe just maybe you get Travis Kelsey in the third round. Again, I'm

02:45seeing it happen as a hell of a start to a team. So let's not forget about Travis Kelsey, please,

02:51at the top. After that Laporta at two, Mark Andrews at three, Trey McBride at four, a guy

02:55who could very well lead his team in targets. I think it will probably be Marvin Harrison Jr.

02:59But McBride's gonna be right there in lockstep. He is going to get a ton of work in this offense.

03:04That's very exciting. So if you miss out on the top two guys, Trey McBride's a fantastic

03:08consolation prize. He might even go behind George Kittle or even Kyle Pitts or Evan Ingram.

03:13Kittle at five for me, Pitts at six, Evan Ingram at seven, but Trey McBride to me is four because

03:18I think of his role in that offense and what it could be. Dalton Kincaid at eight, Jake Ferguson

03:22from Dallas at nine, then David Njoku at 10, Cole Komet at 11, who had a really good season last

03:27year. The question is now with Keenan Allen, what does that target share look like? And Bears

03:31quarterbacks haven't exactly been prolific in our lifetime. No Bear quarterback has thrown for 4,000

03:36yards ever. So maybe Caleb Williams breaks that trend, maybe. But as much as we look at Cole

03:42Komet's breakout season last year, now we have to temper our expectations because now you have

03:46Keenan Allen with DJ Moore and you have a new quarterback. So we don't know what it's going to

03:50be. Then at 12, we have Dalton Schultz and Brock Bowers outside of that grouping. But if Brock

03:56Bowers is used as a tight end, if he is used as a slot receiver, if he's used as an H-back,

04:00there's lots of opportunities for Brock Bowers to possibly get into this top 12 or even top 10

04:06because of how extraordinary of a talent he is. But again, quarterback play,

04:11that's the thing that could hold him back ultimately.

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