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How the league’s scoring shape has changed
Each colored line traces a position’s top-12 average PPG across 26 seasons. Below, we bucket those years into eras so you can read off the shift directly. The right side shows where top-12 fantasy points came from — what share was passing (QB), receiving (WR + TE), or rushing (RB) in each window.
Top-12 PPG by position, by year
QBRBWRTE
By era · avg top-12 PPG · share of top-12 total scoring
EraQB PPGRB PPGWR PPGTE PPGPass %Rec %Rush %
Late '90s
1999–2003
2000s
2004–2009
Early 2010s
2010–2015
Late 2010s
2016–2019
2020s
2020–2025
Pass / Rec / Rush % = each position bucket’s share of total top-12 fantasy points across all 4 positions. QB and passing rules drive Pass%; WR/TE drive Rec%. Watch the shift across eras as the league passed more.