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What is the difference between PPR, half PPR and standard scoring?
Only what a reception is worth — but it reorders positions against each other far more than it reorders within one.
PPR awards a point per reception, half PPR awards half a point, and standard awards none. Everything else — yards, touchdowns — is usually identical. That is the entire difference.
Its effect is easy to misread. Inside a single position it barely reorders anything, because every receiver loses the same receptions when you switch formats. Compare two wide receivers in PPR and in standard and they will mostly stay in the same order.
Across positions it bites hard. On a recent week’s board, 16 of the top 20 flex places changed between PPR and standard: running backs filled the top six and receivers fell several places each. That is the decision format actually changes — whether to start a back or a receiver in a flex slot, not which of two receivers to start.
Tight ends are the position most helped by PPR, because a large share of their value is catches rather than yards. In standard leagues the gap between an elite tight end and a replacement one narrows considerably.