During the early days of fantasy football, people had to walk a few miles uphill, in the snow, to make their fantasy football selections during draft day. Correspondence was also done through the Pony Express then, and people always drafted running backs in the first round.
This antediluvian practice had its day under the fantasy sports sun. While a few ancient relics remain in every fantasy league, a new daily fantasy strategy has surfaced across fantasy circles.
Here are a few of these new draft strategies to utilize this season.
1. Lose for a Week, Win the Rest
You have enough in your arsenal of information to remember on draft day: cheat sheets, power rankings, draft boards, and smack talk. All these are still very important to have an excellent fantasy draft experience.
Select the best players you can have in each round without taking the bye weeks into consideration. If you’ve managed to put together a talented roster with a lot of week ten byes, you have nothing to worry about. Not only will you have nine weeks after you carry out this daily fantasy strategy to figure something out, but you’ll also have 12 other weeks of full fantasy strength.
2. Bipolar Disorder
Fantasy football team owners take all boom or bust players. They are guys who can score huge numbers in any given week, or put up nothing. It’s a “living on the edge” approach that has its highs and lows.
Playing fantasy football is about taking calculated risks. So in order for this strategy to work, an owner has to make the right choices. This is a great strategy for leagues that offer weekly prizes for the highest scoring team.
3. The Batman and Robin
Yes, it has a corny ring to it, but it’s kind of a trendy one.
After the top running backs go off the board, grabbing a top receiver like Andre Johnson has become commonplace in fantasy drafts. What happens next is that same owner will take another top-tier wide receiver in the second round.
This strategy might not have worked ten years ago, but it’s brilliant today, especially in leagues that give points for each reception. With the onset of running-back-by-committees around the league, fantasy owners can get away with not grabbing a starting RB in the first two rounds of a draft.
Meanwhile, the top 15 wide receivers should greatly outperform the rest of the crop. If you can score a couple of these guys and pair them with a deep bench of running backs, it could be the blueprint for a fantasy championship team in 2010. Now that’s worth a risky fantasy football draft strategy.
4. Go for QB 1
Some fantasy team owners think that being successful in playing the games is all about the quarterback. This is highly debatable, unless you have the opportunity to grab Drew Brees or Aaron Rodgers in the first round, which will have your team compete every week of the season.
To avoid having to select Brett Favre as a starting QB in the middle rounds of the draft, just grab a stud in the first round and be done with the position. That’s definitely an easy daily fantasy strategy.
This antediluvian practice had its day under the fantasy sports sun. While a few ancient relics remain in every fantasy league, a new daily fantasy strategy has surfaced across fantasy circles.
Here are a few of these new draft strategies to utilize this season.
1. Lose for a Week, Win the Rest
You have enough in your arsenal of information to remember on draft day: cheat sheets, power rankings, draft boards, and smack talk. All these are still very important to have an excellent fantasy draft experience.
Select the best players you can have in each round without taking the bye weeks into consideration. If you’ve managed to put together a talented roster with a lot of week ten byes, you have nothing to worry about. Not only will you have nine weeks after you carry out this daily fantasy strategy to figure something out, but you’ll also have 12 other weeks of full fantasy strength.
2. Bipolar Disorder
Fantasy football team owners take all boom or bust players. They are guys who can score huge numbers in any given week, or put up nothing. It’s a “living on the edge” approach that has its highs and lows.
Playing fantasy football is about taking calculated risks. So in order for this strategy to work, an owner has to make the right choices. This is a great strategy for leagues that offer weekly prizes for the highest scoring team.
3. The Batman and Robin
Yes, it has a corny ring to it, but it’s kind of a trendy one.
After the top running backs go off the board, grabbing a top receiver like Andre Johnson has become commonplace in fantasy drafts. What happens next is that same owner will take another top-tier wide receiver in the second round.
This strategy might not have worked ten years ago, but it’s brilliant today, especially in leagues that give points for each reception. With the onset of running-back-by-committees around the league, fantasy owners can get away with not grabbing a starting RB in the first two rounds of a draft.
Meanwhile, the top 15 wide receivers should greatly outperform the rest of the crop. If you can score a couple of these guys and pair them with a deep bench of running backs, it could be the blueprint for a fantasy championship team in 2010. Now that’s worth a risky fantasy football draft strategy.
4. Go for QB 1
Some fantasy team owners think that being successful in playing the games is all about the quarterback. This is highly debatable, unless you have the opportunity to grab Drew Brees or Aaron Rodgers in the first round, which will have your team compete every week of the season.
To avoid having to select Brett Favre as a starting QB in the middle rounds of the draft, just grab a stud in the first round and be done with the position. That’s definitely an easy daily fantasy strategy.
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