How Ratings Work

Every card in Run the Table carries one number from 25 to 98. That number decides how good the player was in that season, which rarity the card gets, and how many of your 17 games you should win.

Where The Numbers Come From

Each rating is our own score for one player in one real NFL season, built from the season's statistics at that position. Quarterbacks are judged on passing yards, touchdowns and interceptions. Running backs on rushing and receiving production. Receivers and tight ends on yards, touchdowns and catches. Team defenses on points allowed, yards allowed and takeaways. A rating belongs to a season, not a career: Aaron Rodgers in 2011 and Aaron Rodgers in another year are different cards.

Ratings are a game mechanic, not an official ranking. They exist so that a 1,000-yard season and a 2,000-yard season are not treated as the same thing.

What A Rating Looks Like

Real cards from the pool, with the stats behind them:

The scale is steep on purpose. Of the 7,029 player seasons in the game, 791 rate 75 or higher and only 249 rate 90 or higher. A 98 is the best a season can score, and only 46 cards reach 97.

Tiers And Rarities

The draft screen labels players by tier, and your collection sorts cards by rarity:

Tiers on the draft screen: Elite 90+, Starter 75+, Role Player 55+, Depth below 55. Ratings stay hidden until you have drafted a card, so you have to know who was great.

From Six Ratings To A Record

Your roster has six slots: QB, RB, WR, TE, FLEX (any RB, WR or TE) and DEF. When you make your final pick, the six ratings are averaged. That average sets your chance of winning each of the 17 games:

• An average of 75 gives you even odds, 50% in every game.
• Every point above or below 75 moves your chance by 2 percentage points. That is about a third of a win over the season.
• Chances are capped between 3% and 97%, so no roster is guaranteed anything.
• A small amount of luck is added on top, which is why the same roster can finish one game better or worse on another day.

The season is rolled on our servers when you make your last pick. That keeps the leaderboards honest. If you are offline the season still plays, but it is marked unranked.

Try It: Season Estimator

Enter six ratings to see what that roster should expect. This is the same math described above, without the luck.

Strategy Notes From The Numbers

• One weak slot costs real wins. Replacing a 40 with a 90 lifts your average by more than 8 points, worth nearly three wins over a season. A single 98 cannot carry five weak cards.
• Defenses sit higher. The typical team defense card rates far above the typical skill-position card, so DEF is often the safest slot to fill, while a high QB, RB, WR or TE is the rarer find.
• Perfect is rare by design. Even a roster of six 98s is not guaranteed 17-0. Run the Table is built so that going undefeated is an event.

Season Grades And Labels

Your final record earns a letter grade and a playoff label:

Draft a roster

Run the Table is an independent fan game. It is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by the National Football League, any team or any player. Player names and statistics are used only to identify and describe historical seasons.