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League stats

League-wide trends across all eight seasons — the same for everyone, no matter whose team you’re looking at.

Spending trends by position over the years

Average auction dollars per team at each position, season by season — how the market has shifted 2021→2025.

QBRBWRTEKDEF
$0$20$40$60$80$10020182019202020212022202320242025 *QB $17RB $90WR $78TE $12K $1DEF $2

Average auction dollars spent per team, per position, each season. * 2025 on Sleeper (same rules).

Did spending win games?

Correlation between dollars spent per position and regular-season wins (not playoff finish), across all 96 team-seasons. Right (blue) = spending there tracks with winning; left (red) = with losing. The shaded band is statistically inconclusive at this sample size.

+0.12QB+0.11RB+0.03K+0.01TE−0.04DEF−0.08Top-2 buys−0.12Stars ($30+)−0.15WRspending here → more wins →← more wins with less here
RB (r +0.106). Paying up for scarce RBs tracks with winning — the market agrees, pricing RB highest.
WR (r -0.147). Overspending WR tracks with fewer wins — WR is deep, so value is findable cheap; dollars go further on RB.
TE (r +0.013). Near zero league-wide — but expensive-TE seasons have tended to disappoint; pay up only for an elite one.
Stars-and-scrubs (r -0.118). Concentrating cash in a few $30+ studs tracks with fewer wins — balanced rosters fared better.

Modest correlations from 96 non-independent team-seasons (same managers; every team spends exactly $200, so positions trade off). Directional, not deterministic.

Positional price curves

What the Nth-most-expensive player at each position cost — exposes tiers and value cliffs. Hover a dot for the player.

QBRBWRTEx = player rank within position (1 = priciest)
$0$20$40$60123456789101112

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