Fantasy Football Notebook - Draft Tools

This is my third article about fantasy football. The first article dealt with Fantasy Football - Draft Strategy. The second article was kind of a rant and rave about fantasy football keeper leagues, which i am not a fan of. If you would like to see an article on a certain topic, please leave me a comment or send me an email. These are more advanced articles for those who have dabbled with Fantasy Football but are not getting serious with it. I may put in a basics article in the near future.

This article deals with draft tools. I personally love draft tools. There are free tool and there are pay tools. It is a small investment if you have some money at stake. I still see guys going into drafts with fantasy football magazine that they buy at the grocery store. Those magazines come out two months before the season starts, dont bother. I used to customize my own spreadsheets dumping loads and loads of data from various sites. But now I use Draft Analyzer. Draft Analyzer costs $29.95 and is catered towards the host company of your league. CBS Sportsline has a version just for their website. It is developed by company called Draft Analyzer.

Everything is automated. It will download all player data and auto update, right from your host provider. I have been using this for a couple of years. All you have to do is input your scoring system and it will automatically provide you with the best players available. Allows you to print cheatsheets. it works best if you have an internet connection on draft day. I once had a draft where they claimed it was an advantage because people had laptops. So they made us disable our wireless cards. That is BS !

Check out the video tutorial:

As you can see this is alot of data. You no longer have to have tons of wasted paper.

Another website I like is FantasyFootball.com they have some free tools also. They have tools such as:

Cheat Sheets
Draft Predictor
Draft Planner
Depth Charts, etc…

I believe Draft Analyzer is the way to go. It is a all-in-one tool. If will work offline or online. If you are heading out to a draft where there will be no Internet, just update it and take you laptop to do.

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