r/NFL Top 100 Players of the 2025 NFL Season - Post-Mortem

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Hello friends, and welcome to the final post of the r/NFL Top 100 Players of the 2025 Season... our Post Mortem thread! Included here are the individual ranker lists, the master list, and rank breakdowns from this year's ranking process. Ranker Lists / Master List / Calculations Here are the things I’m sure everyone wants to pour over - the individual rankings, their corresponding sheets, and the master list with associated fancy data. The lists that follow are the personal opinions of 31 individual people combined to find an average rank. Some of our users shared their lists as we went along with each reveal. As promised from the beginning, all data is being made available to you. As a refresher, here is a quick run down of the methodology: METHODOLOGY Link to more detailed writeup on our methodology Step 1: A Call to Rankers right after the Conference Championship games Step 2: Rankers from each team nominated players to rank, with a 11 game minimum threshold. Players are associated with the team they played for in 2025 Step 3: The Grind. We instructed users to tier positions groups into T25, T50, etc based on 2025 regular season play only. This took several weeks as the rankers tiered each position group and discussed them. There were no individual player threads and no arbitrary position caps. Just questions and rankings. Step 4: Users submitted their own personal Top 125 lists. Step 5: User lists were reviewed by myself, and u/mattkud . The rankers were expected to answer questions about their lists. They were allowed to make any changes to their list, and were not forced to make any changes Step 6: The Reveal… that’s what we just completed! With that said, here are the lists: Alex_Demote ExpirjTec KingDing-a-Ling13 Noanteater8836 Puldalpha sirvalkyerie bk00pi GamingTaterTot LackofAnotherName Onem0relevel realunpossible_ SkilledB Ch-i-ef HelmetsAkimbo MattyT7 Penguinranker3 scmsf49 tagillaslover cnvas_home IMissHarambe878 MCStimulation Phantom444 Sersteven Yedic ColtsClown inkokmo Musefan8959 PraxMatic Shion314 ZJPV1 Downtownjuliebrown1 These are the completed ranking forms from 1-125 for each individual. After all lists were submitted, u/mattkud and I combined the lists into one sheet to calculate an average rank for each player and a standard deviation to use when trying to find outliers. There were 201 players nominated; with rankers tasked to rank out to 125, any player that didn’t fall on a user's Top 125 was assigned an unranked value of 140. This was used to help calculate the average rank. We then used conditional formatting within Google Sheets to highlight ranks that were 1 standard deviation off a players mean rank in addition to using 2 standard deviations. The biggest reason why we also used 1 standard deviation is that numerous players had large standard deviations to begin with, as you’ll see. This makes sense, especially towards the bottom end of individual lists when players can be unranked by numerous rankers. While it’s not ideal, we had to ensure that we caught players that were accidentally omitted from user lists. Highlighting both standard deviations made this a possibility. We then reviewed each user's list. Part of our hesitation with performing the list reviews is we don’t want to indirectly coerce rankers to move players to certain spots. That would go against the entire spirit of this project. So, we simply stuck to the conditional formatting as outlined above and asked each individual ranker their thou…