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FSN's Draft Tips
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| 1. Know your Scoring System: This sound obvious, but it is often overlooked. Do some research. Check out what positions, on average, score the highest points in your league. Typically QB’s, and RB’s score the most points, while the majority of the receivers are not in the top 20. Draft according to the positions that score the highest, and pick up the other positions in the late rounds, or free agents. |
| 2. Pick players from different teams: Some fantasy football owners can't resist picking every player from their favorite, others pick too many players from a same team. A few fantasy owners do it right. Following their own team they know who can be the young surprise player or be the veteran solid performer. However, such tactics without restraint leads to inconsistency throughout the season. Should 'your' favorite team periodically have scoring droughts, your fantasy team will suffer the same inconsistency. By having just a few players from each team on its fantasy roster, owners will have teams more consistent over the long run. |
| 3. Bye Weeks: For every player you draft, make sure you note the bye week of that player. If you don't, you may draft too many players that are off on a certain weekend which may get you scrambling to release players and acquire others. Invariably there is always one owner in every league who does not watch the bye weeks. In almost all instances that owner ends up leaving one or two positions blank for that week's game. |
| 4. Position Depth: Keep note of each of the other owners draft picks, names of the players and their position. It may arise that you were looking at a specific position to draft and if there has been a run on that position, it is very possible that you can wait another round and draft another position that is almost important. |
| 5. Hold Outs: Be careful of holdouts. First, they probably will not be game ready. Second, should they not be signed by your league's draft day, who knows when they will be signed. Keep a running list of these hold-outs, if one signs, you maybe able to get a good one on the free agent list. Only draft a hold-out that ranks high on your list or on your cheat sheet, and even then after you have drafted 3-4 of your core players you 'trust'. However, if you gamble on hold outs, they can reap huge rewards. |
| 6. Rookies: Don't draft until at least the mid-to-lower rounds. Historically, rookies don't put up large fantasy numbers, even when some do make an impact on the NFL team they play for, the fantasy numbers come in the following years. Rookie running backs, if any position, do best in their first year. Wide Receivers take on average 3 years to develop. |
| 7. High Powered Offenses: Don't be afraid to draft players on losing teams that know how to put up high numbers on the score board. Some NFL teams have decent offenses and horrible defenses. These teams have the O on the field most of the game and the potential to score a lot. Also look at kickers who are on teams with bad D’s. |
| 8. Free Agents: As soon as your league's draft is over, get a list of free-agents in your league. Start watching the players you may need in the future. |
| 9. Cheat Sheets: Considered by some fantasy football owners to be the most crucial tool used on draft day. Consider this also, -rating drafts of owners of leagues other than your own is somewhat difficult since you do not know their scoring rules. The concept holds for owners who know their own league scoring rules, but have no 'Cheat Sheet' that incorporates players stats of last year with their scoring rules for performance analysis. It basically leaves the owner with the numbers, but less of an understanding of what some players are capable of in their league. |
| 10. Use FSN's Draft Tools: FSN has customized stats projections, customized cheat sheets and the internet's most advanced draft projection tool MAX Draft. All the tools are free and the customized tools require registration to FSN's fantasy sports forum called the Smack Zone. |
