Taking it a bit more seriously

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Greengrass

New Member
I've toyed around with a few FF leagues for a couple of years but without too much success. I've now decided to join a league that requires me to take things a bit more seriously.

Anyway, looking for some general advice from more experienced guys. It's a new league with a traditional draft (order not decided until draft day) and standard scoring with 16 teams.

So, where should my priorities lie? Any pitfalls to avoid?
 
WesDawg

WesDawg

'Burghapologist
Just to get things rolling, I'm very (overly?) conscious about bye weeks. This goes for any league, but especially a deeper one like your 16-teamer. General rule of thumb for me, unless an insanely great value player happens to slide really far, is to not take anyone with duplicate bye weeks within my first 4 picks.
My rationale is that ideally, those selections will be the foundation of your team and presumably your highest scoring players, so I don't want to have to compensate for that much dropoff during any one week.
I apply the same logic to my DEF and Kicker. I typically come out of a standard draft with only one of each, so I try to avoid the same bye weeks there, as well.
 
Birdman

Birdman

Ready For Some Football
Not to be a jerk, but having a lot of players with the same bye week isn't necessarily a bad thing. In fact, I've sometimes worked bye week overload to my benefit. By having most of your stars sit out one week you are allowing yourself to be stronger every other week.

I forget where it was, but somebody showed me a study once that said it's best to have as many players with the same bye week as possible. Just something to think about...
 
12gaugetimmy

12gaugetimmy

Member
Birdman said:
Not to be a jerk, but having a lot of players with the same bye week isn't necessarily a bad thing. In fact, I've sometimes worked bye week overload to my benefit. By having most of your stars sit out one week you are allowing yourself to be stronger every other week.

I forget where it was, but somebody showed me a study once that said it's best to have as many players with the same bye week as possible. Just something to think about...
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Not always a bad thing. Take 1 loss, and have your key players every other week while other guys are filling spots most of those weeks with lower tier players.

I wouldn't advise straying from your rankings very much to stack your team in this fashion, but it's not the end of the world if you end up with several high draft picks sharing the same bye.
 
cctekguy

cctekguy

Staff member
Greengrass said:
So, where should my priorities lie? Any pitfalls to avoid?
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YIKES!

16 teams?

I've never played in a league that large but I can't help but think that the guy who knows the most about the no-name players has a great advantage. You'll have to go 3 deep on some teams depth charts to find the guys that will make or break you.

I would also target a QB (or 2) much earlier than usual. There are only 32 starters to go around. Even though your league doesn't favor QB's, you don't want to wait until there is nothing left but hand-off-ers.
 
Sgt John

Sgt John

Sith Lord of T&A
Sgt John advises you to avoid the following "season killers":
Steven Jackson, RB, St Louis
Tony Romo, QB, Dallas
Larry Johnson, RB, Kansas City
Torry Holt, WR, Jacksonville

Other than this youve gotten solid advice from above.
 
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comegetDATnguyen

New Member
Deep leagues are extremely fun but leaves room for little error.

You really must have a successful draft. Drafting the "safest" guys early is such an important factor here as they will be the staple of your team for many weeks. Losing a key member of your squad due to injury is a back-breaker.

Also, your middle to late rounds will be another important part of the draft. Do your research and draft high-upside guys who will have a chance to make an impact on your team. For example, guys like CJ, Slaton, Forte were all excellent guys to pair with your studs last season who were picked in the middle to late rounds that gave teams a clear advantage over others.

Have fun and good luck!
 
tblGoBlue

tblGoBlue

New Member
Know the rules... what are scoring requirements. Is it PPR? How many of each position do you need to fill? It's pretty basic but some people don't know the scoring and it'll throw them.

For example, if a QB gets 1 point for 25 yards and 4 points for a TD pass, but RBs get 1 pt per 10 yards and 6 pts for a TD then getting the top RBs is much more important.

Also, play close attention during the draft to the rosters of those around you. If you are near the beginning or end of the draft and it's a snake draft, then try and guess what those people on the end are going to be picking so you can be sure to get the player you want when it comes back around to you.

For example, I just did a draft and I was at position 9/12. In round 5 I knew QB was my next priority but the 3 guys at 10, 11, and 12 already had a QB, so I picked a receiver with my rd 5 pick and then got the QB when it came back around to me at rd 6.
 
Arctic Dawgs

Arctic Dawgs

Well-Known Member
Kudos on jumping into the deep end of the pool rite off the bat. As others have stated larger leagues take a lot more work

Like Sarge said above, watch out for the coach killers.

Here's a couple more, I give all holdouts a serious downgrade in the rankings (or off the ADP charts)

An easy way to manage your draft is take any major sites IDP list for comperable league size and scoring sorted by position (exel works best). Go through that list and highlite the the players you like all the way down to the bottom of each position. As you scratch out drafted player it is easy to see at a glance how close it is getting to the guys you have targetted at each position

Good Luck and have fun
 
Arctic Dawgs

Arctic Dawgs

Well-Known Member
Another thing is you will be able to see someone (even if that player is not 1 of your highlited targets) is have a major freefall. All of the sudden he will show up as a major value
 
WesDawg

WesDawg

'Burghapologist
Point of clarification on my bye week comment.
I play primarily in 14 or 16 team leagues anymore. You really have to adjust your approach a little bit to accomodate for the lack of depth you will have in a deep league vs. a 10- or 12-teamer. You may be able to get by having your QB, RB1, and TE all on a bye week if you're 2 deep with good players at those spots.. not so much when there are between 32-64 fewer players sitting around on waivers after you draft.
 
RZR

RZR

Sun-kissed & restless
One of favorite tricks to Fantasy is to watch as many of my players on Sunday as I can manage to fit on my TV. It's one thing to study stats and projections but actually watching the offense/defense unroll week after week, watching when your players excel in tight spots and when they're going to let you down can really give you an edge over knowing when to play your guys and when to sit them. You can read 100's of articles, but seeing it for yourself and being able to make your own call is priceless.

AND you get the chance to really get know the intangible aspects of the players, their drive, dedication, attitude, etc. things they don't make stats for.

I would advise staying away from Braylon Edwards even tho many feel he's ready to bounce back.

Best of luck!! It's a blast and can be highly addicting but cheaper and healthier than cigarettes. LOL
 
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