Fantasy Art Series One Five plates MMXXVI
Five plates drawn from a single read-only snapshot of the 2026 fantasy football preseason — draft position, market value, season projections, and fifty hours of a crowd adding and dropping players fifteen minutes at a time. Every figure on every sheet is the output of a query. Nothing is estimated, smoothed, or invented.
Plate I below
Plate I · Lead
A topographic sheet of a country that does not exist, surveyed from numbers that do. Draft position runs east, projected points are elevation — and the whole argument of a draft becomes landform.
14.4 → 162.8 the pick by which a 250-point running back is gone, against the pick where a 250-point quarterback is still standing
Topographic survey 202 surveyed ADP · projections
Plate II
Every player carrying both a price and a value, plotted as a star in one bounded sky. The first pick burns at the core, brightness is what a man is worth, and colour is which way the money moved.
187 players hold both a consensus draft position and a published market value
Celestial chart 187 stars ADP · values · trend
Plate III
Nine players drilled and sliced as mineral cores. Every ring is one fifteen-minute reading of the add/drop list; diameter is market value, and the radial fissures are disagreement.
22,680 managers dropping Ricky Pearsall in one reading — the largest exodus in the record
Specimen plate 9 cores · 194 rings Trending · values · ADP
Plate IV
Fifty hours of the crowd as two opposing currents falling down the page. Ink is volume at one shared scale, so a calm market runs laminar and a frightened one tears.
29.8% of every add in the window belongs to a single undrafted rookie
Fluid study 194 readings Trending · news
Plate V
A letterpress broadsheet with no chart in it on purpose. The news column and the crowd column, set either side of one enormous vermilion crest, so the reader assembles the causality themselves.
135,114 adds in the largest single reading anywhere — logged 2h 13m after he was carted off
Broadsheet 500 wire items News · trending
One SQLite file, opened read-only: 4,258 players, 654 ADP rows across three scoring formats, 693 market values, 3,296 season projections, 500 wire items, and 19,400 trending observations taken in 194 captures spanning 49.8 hours, from 31 July to 2 August 2026. Season state at capture: 2026 preseason, week 0, openers 6 August.
Value Terrain is the one plate with a modelled surface: the surveyed points and contour crossings are measured, but the ground between them is interpolated, and territory width is positional share. The landmass around the figures is a rendering, and the sheet says so.
The Wire and Hivemind Tides both read Sleeper's trailing twenty-four-hour rolling totals, so their crest is partly a property of that window rather than of the crowd alone. Both colophons say so.