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Whether it’s your first time or your 100th time playing fantasy football, a cast of characters takes shape in every league, and in no better place is this cast revealed than during a draft. And it helps to know these archetypes ahead of your time on the clock, so you know what to expect.
Consider this your crash course.
Speaking of crash courses, if you need one in fantasy in general, make sure you get your school supplies and head over to Fantasy U (I tried to teach a course on fantasy personalities and fantasy team names, but they told me I still owed credits from my last semester at Fantasy U, so … yeah).
Anyway, the following personalities are never at their truest selves more than during drafts, and we here at Yahoo Fantasy have taken years of extremely serious, completely factual research to highlight each of them in detail for you.
Not sure which personality your league-mates fit into? Not sure which YOU are? Don’t worry — we’ve got you covered. You might even discover you take on a combination of these personalities during a draft.
Without further ado, behold: the key personalities of every fantasy league.
THE EXPERT
The Expert is the most common of the personalities you will find at a fantasy football draft. A veteran of multiple leagues, The Expert is well-versed in statistics, player performance/trends/histories, as well as various fantasy formats.
One would be forgiven for thinking The Expert is an actual fantasy analyst.
The problem, of course, is that The Expert’s tireless thirst for knowledge hasn’t exactly translated into fantasy championship success — a fact his/her league mates constantly remind him/her of. Renee Miller explains this phenomenon more in her excellent piece on draft biases.
Year after year, The Expert drafts a balanced, contending team, he/she makes great pickups off the waiver wire and makes informed start/sit decisions … only to lose by the slimmest of margins in the playoffs — or miss them entirely, due to some freakish,…
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Publish date : 2024-08-16 15:28:52
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