Dynasty Fantasy Football Rankings for 2025

One of the best parts about fantasy football is the number of different formats available. You have your traditional redraft leagues, and you also have weekly formats like daily fantasy sports (DFS) contests. And of course, best ball continues to grow in popularity.

Dynasty leagues are the most long-term format in fantasy football, allowing managers to carry the same players on their roster year over year. For example, if you were to draft Justin Jefferson in a dynasty startup draft, you could in theory keep him on your roster for his entire career. The only way you could lose him would be if you were to decide to trade him away or eventually drop him after his official retirement from the NFL.

Each offseason, dynasty rosters are supplemented with a rookie draft, which is the primary way to add new players to your roster. You can also add players via the waiver wire, but your chances of finding useful additions are slimmer than they are in traditional redraft leagues.

With that in mind, nailing your initial dynasty startup draft and managing your roster well both in-season as well as in the offseason are both imperative. If you have a down year in a redraft league, you can just try again the following season with a fresh draft and brand-new roster. A bad year in a dynasty league could take years to bounce back from.

Fortunately, that’s where our Dynasty Rankings comes into play. Not only will this tool help you draft a strong initial roster during your dynasty startup draft, but it will also help you value players in-season.

Let’s dive into everything you need to know about the Dynasty Rankings Tool.

What is dynasty fantasy football?

Essentially, a dynasty league is different from a traditional redraft league because the rosters carry over in perpetuity. It starts the same way as a traditional league, with each owner competing in a startup draft. However, that initial draft will likely play a large factor in determining how your team will perform for the next few seasons rather than just the coming season.

After that, your only chance to make moves is through the annual rookie draft, the waiver wire, and by making trades. That makes properly evaluating the overall strength of your roster at any point in time very important.

Let’s say that your roster is towards the middle of the pack in the standings. You would need to take a good, hard look at your squad and ask yourself whether it’s truly good enough to contend for a championship. If not – and you don’t have any potential help on the way – you should then consider selling off some of your aging prospects.

Conversely, if your team is close to winning a title, you can look to trade some future assets like draft picks and younger prospects for aging veterans who can help your team win now. Those types of players may not have a ton of future value due to their advanced age, but if they can help propel you to a championship, they’re valuable for your roster right now.

That process of buying and selling players depending on where your team is in the standings is part of what makes dynasty leagues so much fun. Your work as a dynasty manager is never truly done; there are always moves you can consider to strengthen your roster either for the present or the future.

What is the Dynasty Rankings Tool?

As mentioned previously, the ability to properly value players is vital in dynasty leagues. Younger players obviously get a boost in the rankings, whereas older players can sometimes rapidly decline in value.

That’s what the Dynasty Rankings Tool is all about. It’s designed to help you properly evaluate each player so that you can hopefully build a squad that can contend for years and establish a true dynasty in your league.

Why are dynasty rankings important?

It goes without saying that you need to embrace the format in dynasty leagues. If you’re treating dynasty leagues the same as redraft leagues, you’re going to end up with an old squad that can’t compete. It may not happen in Year 1, but sooner or later, you’re going to end up with a roster full of retired or unproductive players.

Dynasty rankings are there to reinforce the value of youth. Young players who are already good (e.g., Justin Jefferson, Ja’Marr Chase, etc.) are worth their weight in gold in dynasty leagues.

Ultimately, how much emphasis you want to place on youth in dynasty formats is up to you. Some people like to play with a three-year window in mind while others take an even longer-term approach.

Regardless, the Dynasty Rankings Tool will give you insight into just how valuable each player in a dynasty league actually is. What you choose to do with that information is up to you.