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Welcome to the Hub Post for the r/NFL Top 100 Players of the 2024 Season!

METHODOLOGY

Hello everyone! We are honored to bring you r/NFL’s Top 100 Players for the 13th straight year. Myself, u/mattkud , and dozens of other subreddit users have been spending the offseason pouring over stats and film, trying to crunch together a proper list of the best players in the league. We cannot thank our predecessors, u/MikeTysonChicken , /u/Mister_Jay_Peg , u/Staple_Overlord , and u/skepticismissurvival , enough for building a platform that allows us to run this list as thoroughly and efficiently as we did. As in previous years, this list is a ranking taking into consideration 2024 regular season ONLY, as this is what the popular feedback has asked. Play in past seasons and postseason play was not considered, in order to keep it fair for players regardless of team performance. Here’s what our process was:

  • Step 1: Getting the list of representatives. That’s what we did back in January We started with over 100 rankers which led to 38 completed ranking submissions
  • Step 2: We began nominating players who ranker’s believe should be considered that have played/ a minimum of 11 regular season games. Rankers from each of the represented fan bases submitted nominations for their own teams’ players. This ended up being 188 players in total. This took about a week or so and was the only player pool for consideration.
  • Step 3: The Grind. Once the pool was created, we utilized rankings threads about what tiers each player is in within their position group. Users were to break players into the following tiers for their peers to evaluate: Top 25, Top 50, Top 100, Top 101-125. This is done to give everyone an idea of where each ranker feels a player should be ranked based on 2024 regular season play only. This is an important distinction; if we were to rank players using past performance while projecting their standing heading into the 2024 season, the context would be completely different. Do you think a player who had a down year in 2024 will bounce back to the top tier player he’s been? I’d probably agree. However, that’s not what users were tasked with evaluating. Furthermore, we did this by positional grouping in individual threads; standard positional breakdown was QB, RB, WR, TE, OT, OG, OC, Interior Defensive Linemen (IDL), EDGE Rushers (EDGE), Off-Ball Linebackers (LB), Safety, CB. If most users have a player in Tier III (Top 100), for example, while someone has him unranked while another has him in Tier I, we’ll be able to find out why they are such outliers publicly. This took roughly 2 months, because we want everyone to have a thorough discussion of any questions they may have. It also helps individual rankers visualize where players should land on their own personal lists prior to submitting. It also helps prevent any funny business. Users were required to complete at least 80% of positional tier threads in order to progress to putting together a final list.
  • Step 4: After discussions were completed, the remaining users submitted their own, personal Top 125 list. Ranking 125 players was done to get a more accurate and fair average, especially towards the bottom end of the list where rankings tend to wildly fluctuate. Users were given over a week to complete their list.

NOTE 1: Rankings are submitted via individual Google Sheets and auto-compiled into a master list. We reviewed each list for outliers with the help of former rankers to catch individual ranks that are far off the players calculated mean, whether intentionally or accidentally. We calculated a mean rank then the standard deviation for each player. After that, we automatically flagged all ranks outside 1 standard deviation to ensure I caught user submission errors using built-in Google Sheets conditional formatting functions. We also flagged ranks 2 standard deviations or more from the mean to ensure rankers intent with their own list. This was done to ensure flags were identified with as little bias as possible. Conditional Formatting formulas were used to highlight cells to verify automatically to remove subjectivity. Users then had the opportunity to correct any submission errors found prior to finishing the list. We used 1 standard deviation in addition* to 2 since some players had large standard deviations and I wanted to be certain I caught actual mistakes. Rankers were only required to justify ranks 2 standard deviations from the players mean; the keyword here being justify as they weren’t directed to correct them. The entire spirit of this list is to take several individual rankings and find an average.

NOTE 2: All rankings will be made public. That may obviously bring some unwanted heat. But we don’t believe in skirting transparency for convenience sake. This was made known in the Call for Rankers and during the ranking process. This sub will only see the ranks for each post during the reveal. The final post - The Post Mortem - after all reveals will have a data dump with all ranks, individual sheets, and outlier ranking data made available.

  • Step 5: With all rankings submitted and corrections made, if any, users lists were locked and their submissions finalized as their own. We then calculated an average rank as noted above. Unranked players were designated with a rank of 140 to tabulate the average for all nominated players. Additionally, one high rank and one low rank were removed from each player’s tally to calculate the average rank. Players ranked 101-125 in the average will make the Honorable Mentions list while the remaining 1-100 will be the ranked players. Any ties were broken by their average before the one high rank and one low rank were removed.
  • Step 6: The Reveal… where we are now!

After three years of ranking myself, I can tell you this is a fun way of spending the offseason regardless of the praise or scorn you get for the list. You get to interact with people and fanbases that you might not otherwise pay attention to, and analyze and watch players who you might know only in passing. Sometimes I say the final ranking isn’t the most important part, it’s about the journey of rewatching all these great players and having a newfound appreciation for them. I know I’ve become a more knowledgeable football fan since I first signed up to join the list, and I’m sure most rankers would say the same.

The rankers had a number of strategies for how they ranked the players and each was allowed to follow their own personal guidelines within the given parameters and as long as they were not simply using derivatives of other outside rankings. Basically, have your own positions and beliefs. As the reveal progresses, the rankers will have the ability to volunteer their player lists for the revealed numbers and/or where they ranked the listed players as they wish and you are free to engage with them.

Lastly, players will be revealed on the teams they played/finished the 2024 season with.

RANKING RELEASE SCHEDULE

Date Post Link Date Post Link
May 30 Hub & HM THIS POST!
June 3 100-91 link June 6 90-81 link
June 10 80-71 link June 13 70-61 link
June 17 60-51 link June 20 50-41 link
June 24 40-31 link June 27 30-21 link
July 1 20-11 link July 4 10-6 link
July 8 5-1 link July 11 Post Mortem link

We are currently scheduled to release parts of our list twice a week, on Tuesdays and Fridays. 100-91 will be on Tuesday, 90-81 will be on Friday, 80-71 will be the next Tuesday, and so on.

As a teaser, here is the list of the honorable mentions from our list. These are the players ranked 125th to 101st in the final standings.

125.Julian Love - Seattle Seahawks - Safety

Games Played Total Snaps INT Opp QB Rating Tackles Assists
17 1079 3 89.3 79 30

124.Daiyan Henley - Los Angeles Chargers - Off-Ball Linebacker

Games Played Total Snaps Tackles (Solo) Assists Stops Sacks
17 998 84 63 47 1

123.Brandon Jones - Denver Broncos - Safety

Games Played Total Snaps INT Opp QB Rating Tackles Assists
16 975 3 63.1 79 36

122.Josh Sweat - Philadelphia Eagles - EDGE Rusher

Games Played Total Snaps Sacks Hurries Pressures Tackles (Solo)
16 622 8 37 54 27

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