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We’re ready for the biggest fantasy football draft weekend of the year. You need some quick-hit advice, some swing shouts if you will. Here’s the digestible but useful advice you want to hear before you start building your masterpiece.
General Draft Strategy
ADP gets a bad rap. It’s a rough approximation of what the players cost in drafts, and that has meaning. I never adjust the player order in a draft applet, though I might maintain a list on the side; I want to know what names my rivals are looking at.
If you can pick your draft slot, focus on something in the top of the first round. The talent pool quickly gets flat in the second round, where you can’t separate most of the players. There are more defined small clusters of talent in the first round.
Come up with a draft plan, but consider it a sketch in pencil. The first rule of all of this is to stay flexible. You don’t know what lovely opportunities might surprisingly come available during the draft.
Bye weeks are nothing but a tiebreaker for me. Letting bye weeks significantly affect draft decisions is usually a mistake. If you want a tiebreaker, take the player with the later bye. Your roster is going to look much different in the second half of the year.
More often than not, I find Strength of Schedule analysis to be of little value. Too much is unknowable. Too much changes in-season; it’s a snow-globe league. If I’m going to apply any SOS analysis to my drafts this weekend, it will only be on the extremes, with the outliers. Atlanta’s schedule looks marshmallow-soft — let’s definitely take that seriously.
If a player is already dealing with a major injury, I’ll probably let someone else draft that player. Injury optimism is not your friend, and in fantasy football, you shouldn’t go looking for injuries — they’re going to find you anyway. I realize you might have IR slots and they’re likely open at the moment, but that never lasts for long. Nick Chubb and T.J. Hockenson are essentially not on my draft board….
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Publish date : 2024-08-30 18:36:08
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