A Case of Value in Fantasy Football Draws

  

We have all been there. You are in the draft room. For some of you, that draft room is a ballroom in Las Vegas. For others, it is the study room of their school library. Pass the first round. You are the fifth choice. The guy before Clinton Portis took. Hmmm. This is easy, you think. I'm going to catch Willis McGahee. He's the next best guy on the board.

The first round continues. The second is coming. It's your choice. Peyton (of course) is gone. Tiki is gone. Randy is gone. Even (God help me) T.O. It is gone. What do you do? You fight looking for the best racer on the board. And there isn't much left. What do you do?

At the dawn of fantasy football, conventional wisdom would have indicated that he should get the best QB he could get in the first round. And then you move on to the corridors. But now things have changed.

The average fantasy football player is smarter. Or are they really? I remember my first fantasy football draft. It was 1999. I never got into the whole steakhouse thing. The idea of ​​sitting down on a Monday night and calculating the statistics for the entire league sounded somewhat undesirable. But then came the Internet that Al Gore gave us.

When the Internet came, we all realized that we could have someone else calculating statistics, while we played fantasy. Ergo, my addiction and the addiction of many others began.

But, going back to the first draft ... No one, I mean NO ONE, knew what they were doing. Everybody thought you had to have a quarterback in the 1st round. Now, we are in full circle. Compare that to today's drafts. Everyone thinks they must have a running back in the first round (with the obvious exception of the guy who selects Peyton in the first round).

So what do you do when you feel like all the good RB's are going to be taken? The answer ... DON'T DO IT !!! Most people would suggest that you should take a RB in the first two rounds. However, I am not in favor of this mechanical approach to writing. It will only get you in trouble. If it shows up at Baskin-Robbins and the guy behind the counter says we're running out of ice cream, could you just grab the first two flavors that the guy behind the counter says are still available? Doubtful. You still want to get the absolute best ice cream you can วิเคราะห์บอลวันนี้.

Therefore, this is why we must consider the relative value of the players when we write. For example, let's look at this first RB example. Let's go back to the original example. I agree that ORs are critical and hard to come by. But, let's say you make it to the second round. Deuce, he's gone. Ahman Green, missing. Even Lamont Jordan is gone. Why do you feel like you should take a RB?

When you're drafting, you have to think of one thing ... the relative value to other players at their respective positions. For example, let's look at TE. You have some top-tier players in the NFL on TE. González, Gates, Witten, Shockey. Once you get past the first ones, the bottom really starts to drop. Very soon, you will be staying with Chris Cooley. So why not take that TE in the second round, instead of an average RB? Or a top-tier WR that would otherwise be overlooked until 3.

I'm not saying you shouldn't take RB in the second round. It would be foolhardy advice. I am simply saying that you should analyze each position and assign a point value for each player in each position, based on the number of fantasy points a player will generate in a season.