Fantasy Football: Comparing Draft Theories

Projected Points for Your Two Starting RBs

Observations:

• As expected, you're going to field your best RB tandem using the 2 RB theory.
• Tony Romo can mean money at the No. 5 position if you get a strong RB in the first. Triplets theory by far outscores the others in that position for starter points. Joe Addai and Chad Johnson joined him there.
• Taking Tom Brady with Trips at position No. 6 and then waiting until Round Three for RB only put Trips three points ahead of 2RB in starter points. Going Brady and then Wayne, Chad Johnson in the best available theory made a huge jump in starters. Moral of the story? HAVING to take a RB in there can hurt your team overall on Sunday. Looks like they can wait until the fourth.
• If you feel like you have to go RB in the first two rounds and don’t have the No. 1 pick, the No. 9 hole seemed to work for overall roster. Came in third for starters though.

Conclusion

We have had the 2 RB theory jammed in our heads for years. It causes many owners to panic on draft day and reach for a player that simply isn’t going to score as many points.

In some cases above, it was shown that waiting all the way to the fourth round to take a RB can be effective if you get the right players in the first three rounds.

I know, this would still be very hard to do without panic. It appears that if your not in the very top of the first round, 2 RB is not always the way to go.

The outright favorite here for putting up points on Sunday was taking the best fantasy player on the board five-sixths of the time.

Another goal in this was to see what strategies appeared to favor each draft position.

I hope this has helped, if not in your drafting this year, in killing some time crunching some fantasy numbers waiting for the season.

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