BALTIMORE RAVENS
I put an elite roster in the second breed and I'd do it again — the sub-scores show exactly where the points went. The safeties tied for the best grade on the board, the edge room got meaner in free agency, and the offense runs a perfect-10 dawg at running back next to an 8.5 quarterback. The bill comes due in one column: a first-year head coach with no NFL fingerprint to read, so the coaching grade is my educated guess, flagged as a guess. Rings age well. Guesses don't.
The Four Factors
Each factor is normalized 0–100 across the league — 100 is first, 0 is dead last — then weighted into the 69.6. Weights are the same for all 32 teams: defense 35, offense 30, history 20, coaching 15.
DEFENSE
× 35%Top-ten. The room-by-room grades below show where the teeth are and where the fur runs thin.
OFFENSE
× 30%Top-ten. The roster sheet below shows each man's blind dawg grade next to what the market pays for him.
HISTORY
× 20%Top-third. The ring-counter found material; the 40% franchise-vibes term just polished it.
COACHING
× 15%A first-year head coach has no fourth-down record to grade, so this number is my educated guess and I flag my guesses. It's the cheapest column on an otherwise expensive file.
The Unit Room
The raw grades behind the factors — my dawg read on each unit group, 1 to 10, with its weight inside the defense factor and where it ranks among the 32. Defense is graded by unit group this season, not player-by-player — per-player cap-hit weighting arrives when the final 2026 cap tables settle. Said loudly on the main board, said loudly here.
The Roster Sheet
Every Raven on the frozen ADP board — the market's price next to my dawg read. The two numbers were never allowed to meet: I scored the player blind, then ADP told me how much of the offense rides on him. That firewall is the whole method. Every name links to that player's dawg file; the PROP FILE chip goes to his page in the prop room. Anyone rated after the board froze sits at the bottom as UNPRICED — same blind grade, no market number.
| ADP | PLAYER | POS | DAWG |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15.4 | Derrick HenryPROP FILE → | RB | 10.0 / 10 |
| 25.4 | Zay Flowers | WR | 6.5 / 10 |
| 54.7 | Lamar JacksonPROP FILE → | QB | 8.5 / 10 |
| 128.1 | Mark Andrews | TE | 7.0 / 10 |
| 155.2 | Rashod Bateman | WR | 6.0 / 10 |
Derrick Henry (10.0/10) is the alpha grade on this sheet. A quarterback priced at 54.7 with an 8.5 dawg grade is why QBs get a weight bump in my math — fantasy prices the position cheap for reasons that have nothing to do with identity.
Where the Paper Rides
The season-long ledger lives on the main board and grades itself all year. Here is the Ravens' part in it, breed against breed.
RAVENS VS THE LADDER
| OPPONENT'S BREED | ROTTWEILER | GOLDEN RETR. | GREYHOUND | COCKER SPAN. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| THE PLAY | 1 UNIT · OPPONENT | NO PLAY | 1 UNIT · BAL | 2 UNITS · BAL |
Golden against Golden is a wash — nothing goes on the ledger. Above them, the paper rides the Rottweiler; below them, it rides the Ravens — one unit against the track teams, two when a Spaniel wanders in. The rating is locked all season. If I graded the heart wrong, the ledger will tell on me in public.