More Fantasy Football Draft List Tips

I started you off with 2 of my 5 best Fantasy Football draft tips in an earlier post.  If you missed that post click here to read it.

I know it seems like a long way off to the official kick off of the NFL season, but since the 2010 NFL Draft is complete teams are in the process of signing their remaining free agents to complete their team roster.

It is definitely not too early to work on your own Fantasy Football top picks.

Here are my #3, 4 and 5 Fantasy Football Draft List Tips that can help you become a winner in 2010.

Here is a tip that many so-called fantasy football experts don’t even touch upon, but it is something that can give you a big advantage if you are aware of it. This one has to do with the Tight End’s and it’s sort of a two part tip.

First of all, I’ll cover the easy part of this tip:

#3a.  Don’t ever draft a backup Tight End

This is wasting a roster spot that you can use to store a valuable RB, WR, or QB. Depending on who your TE is, when their bye comes up you can cut them to pick up another TE for the week or just cut the worst player on your team and pick up a TE for the week. Drafting two tight ends for your roster is much like drafting two kickers, it’s nothing but a waste of a roster spot.

#3b. Build your team with the best RB’s and WR’s available

The second part of this tip has to do with actually drafting a TE. If someone else beats you to one of the top five Tight End’s, then wait it out and build your team with the best RB’s and WR’s available until one of your last three or four picks. Even Tony Gonzalez wasn’t as dominant as he normally is last year, but after Vernon Davis, Dallas Clark, Antonio Gates, and Brent Celek,  the next 12 TE’s, including Gonzalez, averaged between around 5 and 7 points per game. This means you could have had any one of them and your team would have experienced similar results.

#4. Don’t base your entire draft on last years numbers.

While last year’s results tell some of the story, don’t base your whole draft on last year’s numbers. If things stayed the same every year, the draft would be easy for everyone. There are a number of factors that will affect how a certain player may improve or decline each year. Have they been able to stay healthy? Does the team have a new QB? Did they lose offensive lineman or did their offensive line get better? Is their schedule going to be easier or harder than last year?  Last year’s numbers may not be a bad place to start, but if you rank your players this way when you are getting ready for your draft, you’ll likely end up regretting your draft strategy very quickly.

#5.  Don’t get caught up in “handcuffing”

When building a Fantasy Football draft list many so called fantasy football “experts” recommend drafting the backup of your starting RB’s in case they get hurt. That is a fine strategy if they happen to be the best RB left on the board, but this is rare.

Think about it this way: Are you going to pass up on a starting RB on another team just to pick someone who may see only limited action, at best? Chances are very good that if your starter gets hurt, his backup will be available to pick up as a free agent.

Don’t waste a valuable pick on someone you will only be able to use if someone else gets hurt. If I say it enough, maybe you’ll remember it, so here we go again: Draft the best players available to build the best team possible.

I hope this gives you a great head start for your 2010 fantasy football season. Keep these tips in mind and you should have a very successful fantasy football season this year.

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