Value over replacement scores how many PPR fantasy points a player delivered above a freely available starter at the same position—using actual weekly game logs, not projections. Switch scoring to match your league; the table and baselines recompute from separate snapshots.
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Value over replacement (VORP) reframes the whole draft question. Instead of asking how many points a player scores, it asks how many more points he scores than a freely available body at the same position — which is what actually decides fantasy matchups.
Every starting lineup has to fill the same slots, so a player's real worth is the gap between him and the guy you could stream off waivers at his position. That gap is his value over replacement. A running back who scores 260 points in a year where the RB2/RB3 tier lives around 150 is worth far more than a quarterback who scores 320 in a year where a dozen quarterbacks clear 300 — even though the quarterback's raw total is higher.
We define the replacement level as the last reliable starter at each position for a standard league (for example, roughly the 24th running back or 36th receiver in a 12-team lineup), then measure every player against that baseline using actual weekly game logs, not projections.
A VORP of +200 means the player produced 200 more points across the season than a replacement-level starter at his position. Big positive numbers concentrate at the scarce positions — elite running backs and every-week tight ends usually top the board, because the drop-off behind them is steep. Quarterbacks and, in one-QB leagues, streaming positions show smaller edges, because good-enough replacements are always available.
The shape of the curve matters as much as any single value. When one position's VORP falls off a cliff after a handful of names, that position is scarce and worth reaching for; when it declines gently, you can wait and still get similar production later.