The whole point of the baseline is to level one position against another.  It is obvious that a kicker should not be listed in the top 50 players of our cheat sheet because one would never waste such a high draft pick on a position that will be available with high quality much later in the draft.  (Kickers are just an example.  The same problem often arises with Tight Ends and Defenses).  But kickers score a lot of fantasy points!  They score so many points that if they are just valued based on their fantasy production, we would rank them with lower tier wide receivers. So, people use the baseline to reduce the final value of kickers in relation to the other positions.  This helps, but it is often not possible to lower the kickers far enough down the cheat sheet.  The baseline approach can only drop the top kicker to a value of zero, yet there are many players with negative values that should be taken before the first kicker.  In response to this problem, owners start playing with the baselines of the other positions in an effort to drop the kickers further down the cheat sheet.  The baselines quickly become ridiculous fudge factors with the sole purpose of making the cheat sheet look like what the drafter desires.

Although it is often abused, the baseline is relevant as a leveling factor for your league roster requirements.  It will effectively reduce or increase the value of positions that your league places a high value on because of the number that are started, drafted, etc.  So, we're not going to throw out the baseline completely.  What we need to do is further adjust the player values after the baselines have been applied.  We need something to tell us where each position is typically being drafted to make sure our cheat sheet does not "reach" for players that could be available later.  This is where ADP (Average Draft Position) becomes invaluable.

The steps involved to align a PAVT or RLV cheat sheet with ADP is similar to the modification made by applying a baseline.

1. For each position, find where the first player appears in the ADP list.
   

   Position	Player	ADP Slot
   QB1	Manning, Peyton	13
   RB1	Johnson, Larry	1
   WR1	Smith, Steve	12
   TE1	Gates, Antonio	26
   PK1	Rackers, Neil	115
   DT1	Bears, Chicago	84

    
2. For each position, find where the first player appears in the PAVT or RLV list.  Record the associated PAVT/RLV value.
   

   Position	Player	Slot	Value
   QB1	Manning, Peyton	13	119.2
   RB1	Johnson, Larry	1	175.4
   WR1	Smith, Steve	3	151.0
   TE1	Gates, Antonio	21	60.1
   PK1	Rackers, Neil	51	16.0
   DT1	Bears, Chicago	36	29.8

    
3. Get the PAVT/RLV value associated with the ADP slots retrieved in step one.  Note that we don't care about positions or players in this step.  We just need the PAVT/RLV value of the player occupying the ADP slot from step one.
   

   ADP Slot	PAVT/RLV Value
   13	73.7
   1	175.4
   12	79.8
   26	52.8
   115	-7.2
   84	0.0

    
4. Calculate the difference ('ADP Alignment') in PAVT/RLV value needed to bring each position in-line with its ADP.
   

   Position	PAVT/RLV Value	PAVT/RLV Value at ADP Slot	ADP Alignment
   QB1	119.2	73.7	45.5
   RB1	175.4	175.4	0
   WR1	151.0	79.8	71.2
   TE1	60.1	52.8	7.3
   PK1	16.0	-7.2	23.2
   DT1	29.8	0.0	29.8

   
    
5. Reduce the PAVT/RLV value of each player by the 'ADP Alignment' calculated in step three and generate a new cheat sheet.  Note that the first player for each position now appears in the cheat sheet in approximately the same slot that they appear in the ADP list.  In order to get the first player at each position very near to their ADP slot, we must repeat steps 1-5 several times.  Draft Planner performs this loop up to ten times in an effort to get every position to within one slot of their ADP.  The exact location in the cheat sheet varies due to the fact that we are moving many positions at the same time (all except for RBs in this case).  The cheat sheet does not become a facsimile of the ADP list; rather, it is aligned as the first player at each position is taken at about the same slot.  More importantly, the difference in PAVT/RLV values between players and the value comparisons beyond the first players drafted at each position will be preserved.
   

   Position	Player	Slot	Value after all iterations
   QB1	Manning, Peyton	11	33.7
   RB1	Johnson, Larry	1	175.4
   WR1	Smith, Steve	12	33.7
   TE1	Gates, Antonio	25	-1.7
   PK1	Rackers, Neil	114	-88.4
   DT1	Bears, Chicago	85	-66.0

Everyone should consider using the 'Align with ADP' feature now available in Draft Planner.  It removes the guesswork from your baseline decisions as you may now stick with baseline numbers that make sense.  The feature is selected by default, but is only invoked when creating a PAVT or RLV cheat sheet list for all players.  A list showing only a single position does not use the 'Align with ADP' option because the relative values of the players remains the same without it.  The calculations needed to align with ADP are also costly, and only run when a complete cheat sheet is being generated.