What's a good fantasy football score?

THE BENCHMARKS

A good score depends on your scoring

A "good" score depends on your scoring. PPR teams average about 27 more points a week than standard-scoring teams, and PPR leagues with a second QB or superflex slot about 16 more on top of that. So a score that wins most weeks in one league loses most weeks in another.

"Wins half" is the lowest score that won at least half its games; "Top 10% week" is the score that beat 90% of all weekly scores.

THE HIGH SCORE

What it takes to win the week's high score

Lots of leagues pay out for the week's top score. In PPR leagues with one QB, the top score in a 12-team league was 164 or more in half of all weeks. To take it in 3 of 4 weeks you needed 179, and 194 to take it 9 weeks in 10. More teams means more shots at a big week, but bigger leagues also spread the player pool thinner, so every team scores a little less, and that wins out: the typical top score was 168 in 8-team leagues and 161 in 14-team leagues.

PPR leagues with one QB. "Typical" is the median of each week's top score; the other columns are the scores that would have topped the league that share of the time.

THE HEARTBREAK

Big scores that lost, small scores that won

No score is safe. In PPR leagues with one QB, a 150-point week still lost 20% of the time, and teams that scored 70 still won 3% of their games.

THE CALENDAR

Scores sag in the middle of the season

Scores move a few points from week to week, and they sag in the middle of the season. In PPR leagues with one QB, weeks 6 to 11 averaged 123 points, against 126 in the other weeks. The highest-scoring week was week 5 at 130, and the lowest week 10 at 122. NFL bye weeks, which run from about week 5 to week 14, are likely part of it: a lineup missing a starter scores less. So a score grades a little better in October and November than in September.

THE TREND

Are fantasy scores going up?

Not by much, once you compare like with like. In PPR leagues with one QB, the average weekly score was 121 in 2010 and 124 in 2025, and every season landed between 121 and 132. The high was 2018 at 132, the season NFL quarterbacks threw a record 847 touchdown passes: big NFL offensive seasons lift every fantasy team at once. Across all leagues the average rose from 101 to 121, mostly because the mix of leagues changed. Among leagues whose settings we could read, 25% used PPR in 2010 and 66% in 2025, and 2 QB and superflex went from 9% to 18%.

THE SEASONS

Every season, by the numbers

The same benchmarks, one season at a time, for PPR leagues with one QB. The score that won half its games moved between 118 (2010 and 2017) and 130 (2018), so a week that was a coin flip in one season could be a comfortable win in another.

PPR leagues with one QB. Darker green is a higher-scoring season. "Wins half" and "Wins 3 in 4" are the lowest scores that won that share of their games that season; "Week's high" is the median of each week's top score in 12-team leagues.

Average weekly score by season and scoring

One-QB leagues, except the last column (2 QB or superflex). A dash means fewer than 20 leagues used that scoring that season.

THE QB BONUS

Does a 6-point passing TD change a good score?

Most leagues give 4 points for a touchdown pass; plenty give 6. Among seasons whose scoring rules we could read, 4-point leagues outnumber 6-point leagues about 2 to 1. In PPR leagues with one QB, teams in 6-point leagues averaged 129 a week against 123 in 4-point leagues, about 6 points more. With a second QB or superflex the gap was about 10, with two quarterbacks throwing touchdowns. This compares leagues rather than the setting alone: leagues that pay 6 for a touchdown pass can differ in other settings too. Use the Passing TD filter in the calculator to grade your score against your own league's setting.

Average weekly score, and the lowest score that won 3 games in 4. Points per passing TD comes from each season's scoring rules; seasons where we only know a label like "PPR" count under All only.

THE FULL BOARD

How often every score wins

How often every score won, by scoring format. The first three columns are one-QB leagues; the last is PPR leagues with 2 QB or superflex. Use it to grade a week at a glance, or to settle a group-chat argument.

Share of games won by teams that scored that many points (to the point). Darker green wins more.

THE FINE PRINT

How to read these numbers

Every number here is a team's regular-season score in one week, counted once per team, from head-to-head points leagues. Lineups differ from league to league: some start a kicker and a defense, some have extra flex spots, some use six-point passing touchdowns. Those differences are inside these numbers, so your league's own can sit 10 or 20 points away. Connecting your league gives you its own record book.

The scoring filters read each season's points per reception for wide receivers, and the Passing TD filter its points per touchdown pass for quarterbacks. 2 QB / Superflex means the lineup had a second QB slot or a superflex slot. Seasons we couldn't classify, and unusual scoring like quarter-point PPR, count under All only. Seasons whose average ran more than 20% from the typical average for their format (scoring, QBs and passing-TD points) are left out: in leagues with huge lineups or bonus-heavy scoring, a 180-point week is ordinary, and counting them would blur what a good score is everywhere else.

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