Rest-of-season rankings, in essence, are a way to indicate that you would trade Player A in a one-for-one deal for any player listed below them. Of course, that's thinking about things in a vacuum and, in the case of these rankings, using ESPN standard scoring as the measuring stick. At the end of the day, that's what I'm saying with these rankings.
So, when I take a player and move him up 60 spots in the rankings to No. 44 overall, it means I'm pretty committed to the early returns. It also means I'm doing that with a player who wasn't nearly as highly regarded as he may be now.