It's around that time again. Time for Fantasy Football to start. I have been meaning to run a blog post like this for a few yearn, and finally have found the time.
These are some tips from my many years of playing fantasy football. I have been playing for, gosh, it must be close to 15 years now. Maybe more, maybe less.
Now, this post won't tell you what RB is the best one for you to pick up or when you should draft your starting QB. This is more general purpose post. I hope that you find this useful.
1. It is better to be lucky than good: Many people sweat too much over their drafts when a lot is left up to fate. In 2008, after he had his career year, Tom Brady was drafted in the top five of every draft I was in. He gets hurt in the first game and is out for the season. In 2007, Adrian Peterson was drafted as an afterthought in the later rounds. He won many an owner a championship.
So, just realize, that while you can research all you want, get angry with friends for steal a guy you wanted, don't go overboard. A lot of this game is not in your hands at all. Try to keep good karma so luck will be on your side.
2. What Fantasy Football Magazines Should You Buy?: There are certainly a lot out there that you can choose from. Everyone has something to offer. Lord knows I've read just about all of them. But my three picks would be Fantasy Football Index, Fantasy Football Pro Forecast, and ESPN Fantasy Football magazine. FFI is a well rounded report on all the players, FFPF is great with statistics, and ESPN covers a wide number of players.
Of course, there many websites you can visit that would give you the same info for free, so you could just not buy any magazine at all. But I am a magazine guy, what can I say?
3. Should You Go RB/RB with Your First Two Picks? Check Your Scoring System.: The accepted rule is that you should pick two running backs with your first two picks. This would work if you can find two guaranteed starters in the two rounds that you could like. But Running Back By Committee has slowly become the rule and not the exception, and there are a whole lot more valuable RB's out there. But if QB's and WR's get the same amount per Touchdowns as RB's do, it would make sense to pick one of them up. A second tier QB usually passes for 20-30 TD's a year, a first tier even more. The second tier RB scores 7-10. In my opinion, it makes sense to take the points.
4. You Can Draft With Your Heart, But Sparingly: I recently was in a draft where a Cowboys fan drafted Tony Romo in the first round. I wanted to send him a fruit basket to thank him.
Yes, be a fan, but be realistic. Romo might be the best Cowboy, but he's not worth going #6 overall. He would have totally been their in later rounds.
But , hey, if you are a Bengals fan and want to draft Carson Palmer as your backup QB, go right ahead. But go with your head first instead of your heart.
5. Be Prepare, Be Ready, Be Considerate: The league I'm in every year doesn't really follow with an enforce time limit with draft picks. So every year, usually during the later rounds, there's always one owner who furiously flips through his draft magazine looking for a backup RB, holding up the whole draft in the processes.
Thing is, he should have known what he would be going for with that pick when he made his last one. Or, at the very least, narrowed it down to three positions he would need to fill. He should have been picking about three players for each position he had his eye on (or 9 if he was dead set on one position) and do a mental ranking of which of the 9 he would pick first.
Because it really irks me that I have to wait because some guy is less prepared than I am. You have a year between drafts. You have plenty of time to construct draft rankings for every player in the league, either formally or informally. You should never be caught by that much surprise when a player you wanted is taken prior to your pick.
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