Fantasy Football Week 1: Examining Trade Market for Top 100 Flex Players

Fortune favors the bold, so don’t be afraid to make a major trade or two if you’re looking to upgrade your fantasy football roster during the course of the 2016 season.

When he was head coach of the Dallas Cowboys, Jimmy Johnson famously created a table giving certain point values to each draft pick. Since then, writers and team executives have tweaked the format in order to more accurately weigh every selection.

Taking the same general approach would be an advisable strategy as you look to maximize the worth of any fantasy assets you’re willing to deal.

Just as no perfect way exists to evaluate the worth of a draft pick, the table below is far from the definitive ranking of the trade values for the top 100 flex players. Instead, it serves as a general framework to consider when you’re judging the worth of one player against another:

Jamaal Charles and Le’Veon Bell are among the names that likely stand out since they’re listed lower than where many expect them to finish the season in fantasy points. The fact is, their respective trade values are about as low as they’ll get this season.

Bell will miss the first three games of the …

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