Fantasy Football Draft Strategy Guide for 2011

Fantasy football is an awesome gaming activity, to say the least, as it allows people who are looking for huge participation and interact with one another to have a good time. Do you want to play a little game with your friends? Go for it. Do you want to engage in a highly competitive campaign against self-proclaimed fantasy football gods from all over the globe? Bring it. However, before you jump the gun and start getting involved in a fantasy football draft, here are three essential tips you need to keep in mind to have a successful draft this year.

1. Mock Drafting Is a Necessity

Going through a fantasy football draft and ending up with an awesome looking team is all about preparation. Unfortunately, no, picking up the fist football magazine you come across with before draft day doesn’t count. The only way to get a feel of the trends of this year’s drafts is to join mock drafts, join another, and then mock draft some more.

After reading this piece, go look for quality mock draft sites and do a mock. After a few days, do another. Keep on doing this every few days and observe the developing trends. Doing multiple mock drafts allows you to play around and adjust your strategies from the start of your draft until the end. You may find yourself preferring to draft a quarterback in the seventh or eighth round, or you may make the right decision to grab a tight end in the third or fourth round. You will never know until you give it a shot, making your draft without mocking takes away the opportunity to iron out potential draft mistakes.

2. Safe Early, Upside Late

Many fantasy football players have become reliant on stat projections to measure fantasy values. While these projections have their place and can be nice discussion material, they shouldn’t be the holy grail of your preparation. A single stat line is never going to capture a player’s full fantasy value.

Now when I say “safe early,” this means drafting the players with the highest floors, meaning they have the lowest chance to be early-round busts. You may not agree with rankings based on upside, but I advise you to manage your risks wisely at the beginning of your draft.

Conversely, all you want at the end of fantasy drafts are players with sky-high upsides. Don’t waste your time getting Lee Evans, Mark Sanchez or Reggie Bush. They may perform at their draft level, but there’s not much opportunity to profit from these picks. Alternatively, you would want to have a quarterback like Tim Tebow, who could be a fantasy football monster if gets to start for the Broncos. If you see any room for a late-round guy to wind up with significant playing time, pounce.

3.Avoid Kickers and Team Defenses

You may have already bitten into the kicker concept and probably have jumped on the concept of devaluing team defenses, but this is not saying you have to leave them out for the end of your draft. This means you should not draft a kicker of defense AT ALL. It may be counterintuitive, but there is good reason for this strategy. As we have mentioned, you want to find some risky picks that have the chance for big payoffs at the end of the draft. You already take away two chances of finding that golden egg by picking a kicker and a defense. Instead, focus on getting more running backs than you could possibly need. Pre-season injuries do happen, and fantasy contributors do sometimes come from the ranks of pre-season warriors.

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