Maybe you aren’t ready to be done with fantasy football yet and have joined a playoff league. A lot of the playoff formats use cumulative scoring, so it’s not just about picking good players — it’s about picking good players who are going to play multiple games.
In a season-long fantasy league, you’d never pick Gabe Davis ahead of Tyreek Hill, who’s a far superior player. In a playoff fantasy league, it might be worth taking Davis ahead of Hill because the Bills are expected to play at least two playoff games and perhaps as many as four, while Hill’s Dolphins are double-digit underdogs this weekend and will probably only play one game.
Here are my tiered positional rankings for cumulative playoff leagues. And here’s a closer look at Kickers.
Check out our consensus rankings for the Wild Card Round and full 2023 NFL Playoffs 
Fitz’s NFL Playoffs Rankings & Tiers: Kickers (2023 Fantasy Football)
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Tier 2
Tier 3
I won’t elaborate on the kicker rankings. The tiering is based almost entirely on the likelihood of these kickers playing multiple games. But, yes, I’m fading the great Justin Tucker because I don’t expect Baltimore to be around very long. I’d rather have the Jaguars’ Riley Patterson, who’s been red-hot and gets a warm-weather home game on wild-card weekend.
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