GUILLOTINE · SURVIVE THE WEEK

The Guillotine

Every week the last-place team is eliminated — beheaded — and their entire roster dumps onto waivers for a FAAB bidding war among whoever's left. The pool of managers shrinks every week. This isn't a ceiling game. It's a floor game.

Live lens — Floor board derived from live market consensus (ADP + draft-spread tightness) — a market proxy for weekly floor, not a points model.

The one rule

Bank your FAAB.

Most managers in a guillotine league spend FAAB like a redraft league — chasing this week's waiver-wire name because it feels good to add. That's the losing habit. The disciplined move is to hoard your budget, because the wire only gets better: as teams get eliminated, their studs land on waivers too, and the managers who saved their FAAB are the only ones who can win the bidding war that decides the league.

Early FAAB wins are cheap dopamine. Late FAAB wins are the ones that keep you alive — or put someone else's best player on your roster for free, relatively speaking, because you didn't blow your budget on Week 3 depth.

That's why the draft-day version of the same idea is floor over ceiling. A boom-or-bust flier can win you a normal league. In a guillotine, one disaster week and you're gone — the ceiling never gets a chance to show up. Volume-driven, low-variance players are the ones who keep you off the chopping block long enough for your banked FAAB to matter.

How it works

Weekly beheading — the lowest-scoring team each week is eliminated from the league.
Roster to waivers — every player on the eliminated team's roster hits free agency at once.
FAAB war — survivors bid their saved budget for the newly available talent; the managers who banked FAAB have the leverage.
Pool shrinks — fewer teams, deeper rosters, higher stakes, every single week until one manager is left.

SnaptideIQ The Guillotine · survival-floor board · 2026-07-10

Live survival-floor board

15 high-floor anchors — the steadiest-consensus names, a floor proxy, not a guillotine-specific model: drafted early, at a price the room actually agrees on.

Pos

Rank	Player	Pos	Team	Why it's a floor anchor
1	Bijan Robinson	RB	ATL	three-down workhorse volume — the touch share alone is a weekly floor
2	Jahmyr Gibbs	RB	DET	every-week touches plus receiving work — two paths to a floor, not one
3	Ja'Marr Chase	WR	CIN	target volume immune to game script — the target share alone is the floor
4	Christian McCaffrey	RB	SF	when healthy, the widest role in fantasy — receiving work sets the floor even in a quiet rushing week
5	Puka Nacua	WR	LAR	massive target share when on the field — volume does the floor's work
6	Jaxon Smith-Njigba	WR	SEA	ADP 5.9, ±1.4 spread over 112 drafts — the room's more in agreement than split on this WR
7	Jonathan Taylor	RB	IND	lead-back volume in a run-heavy offense — low-variance week to week
8	Amon-Ra St. Brown	WR	DET	high-floor slot volume, catches everything thrown his way — low bust rate
9	Justin Jefferson	WR	MIN	ADP 10.1, ±1.7 spread over 111 drafts — the room's more in agreement than split on this WR
10	CeeDee Lamb	WR	DAL	target hog regardless of opponent — a name that rarely disappears from the box score
11	De'Von Achane	RB	MIA	ADP 8.9, ±2.5 spread over 56 drafts — the room's more in agreement than split on this RB
12	Ashton Jeanty	RB	LV	ADP 12.5, ±2.3 spread over 110 drafts — the room's more in agreement than split on this RB
13	James Cook III	RB	BUF	ADP 14.0, ±2.4 spread over 152 drafts — the room's more in agreement than split on this RB
14	Drake London	WR	ATL	ADP 12.8 with just a ±1.7 spread across 41 drafts — about as tight as the WR market agrees on anyone this early
15	Chase Brown	RB	CIN	ADP 15.8, ±2.7 spread over 127 drafts — the room's more in agreement than split on this RB

What this is: a live market read, not a points model — the board above is derived from the same rankings board (ADP + draft-spread tightness), a consensus proxy for weekly floor. The doctrine — bank your FAAB, draft the floor — is still the real takeaway.