But what exactly is , and why do experienced fantasy managers swear by it? More Than Just Rankings Boris Chen doesn’t poll his own opinion. Instead, he practices a form of wisdom of the crowds — he aggregates expert rankings from across the industry (think FantasyPros, ESPN, Rotoworld, CBS, etc.) and runs them through a clustering algorithm. The result? A beautiful, intuitive chart that strips away the noise.
Each player appears as a dot. Dots closer together form — clusters of players who experts, collectively, view as roughly equal. The vertical (Y) axis represents average rank, and the horizontal (X) axis spreads players out to show confidence intervals. borischen fantasy
Here’s a write-up on and his famous fantasy football rankings visualization (often referred to simply as borischen ), written as if for a fantasy football blog or analyst column. The Visual Bible: Why Boris Chen’s “Tiers” Still Rule Fantasy Draft Season If you’ve ever prepped for a fantasy football draft, you’ve almost certainly seen it: the color-coded, scatter-plot style grid of player names, clustered into tidy tiers. That’s the work of Boris Chen (@_Borischen on Twitter/X), and for nearly a decade, his visual rankings have become a draft-day staple for winners and grinders alike. But what exactly is , and why do