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. Names that link go to that player's file in the prop room; the rest don't have one yet.
| ADP | PLAYER | POS | DAWG |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15.4 | Derrick HenryFILE → | RB | 10.0 / 10 |
| 25.4 | Zay Flowers | WR | 6.5 / 10 |
| 54.7 | Lamar JacksonFILE → | 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.