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Free Fantasy Football Tips
1. The only way to win at Fantasy Football is to PAY ATTENTION. Most champions check their teams and NFL news every few days with rare exception. Five minutes a day will keep the last place far away. This is the only way to keep up to date on Fantasy Football injuries, trades and other team moves.
2. Going hand in hand with paying attention to your Fantasy Football team is Maximizing Your Starts. Make sure you know when your starters bye weeks are coming. You may have to cut a so-so back up to pick up a kicker when he is on a bye. Obviously, you don't cut a good player, it would be better to take the points hit in that case, just be aware of the bye and make the best decision. If you haven’t you, have left points on the table. This could hurt playoff seatings or cost you a points title.
3. The Fantasy Football Draft. Most players base their entire season on the Fantasy Football Draft. Your team does not live and die with the draft, but of course it is very important, especially in football. When conducting your Fantasy Football Draft the best advice is to play it safe. Don’t try to out smart yourself, draft a balance of running and passing.
Check your Leagues Point System before the draft and occasionally during the season. Obvious, but often ignored. Notice during the season which categories seem to be manufacturing a lot of points. If you see a point strength in the some category make moves for players who excel at that category. You will be surprised how you can stop a weakness on your team and turn it into a strength in the league. Some leagues, like Yahoo Fantasy Football, have a STANDINGS scoring summary. Use this to analyze strengths and weakness of categories during the season.
Running Backs: Draft a "sure thing" veteran running back.
You need to know that every week you will get consistent, top-scoring
from one your running backs. Make sure you look at the running backs
ability to score in the red zone and his ability to catch the ball.
Those two factors are what separate to good fantasy backs from the
average backs. Make sure to grab some extra running backs in the
late rounds. Extra running backs are more important than any other
position because of the lack of change that happens at the position.
Take a gamble on a running back. A rookie or a back up of a top
running team is a good gamble.
Quarterback: They will generally score the most points in Fantasy Leagues. The problem is there are only a couple First allow us to introduce the 4 types of Fantasy QB's: 1) The Franchise QB. This is the Peyton Manning or Duante Culpepper of the 2005 Fantasy Football Draft. 2) Fantasy Stud. These are sure things and have potential to be a Franchise QB. This would be someone like Donavan Mc Nabb. 3) The third and most common QB is the Fantasy Starter. This is your Marc Bulgers, Aaron Brooks, Jake Plummers and others. Finally, there is the Fantasy Hopefuls. These are either inconsistent veterans or young QB's. Brian Griese and Eli Manning fit these bills. You should put all QB's into these categories to help your draft. "Franchise QB's" are few and far between in any given year. It is probably worthwhile to take one of these ahead of the best running backs. "Fantasy Studs", which there are few of as well shouldn't be taken ahead of your #1 running back, unless the flow of the draft dictates this. "Starting Fantasy QB's" are the most common QB's. There is a thing line between Studs, Starters and the "Hopefuls". A Fantasy Owner is better on drafting a top wide receiver than a "Fantasy Starter" and at least equal to drafting a "Stud". The point here is if you don't draft a "Franchise QB" you are better to wait unit the mid-rounds to get a "Starter" quality QB. Either start the run on this type of QB's if the time is right or grab yours during the run.
Wide Receivers: The first bit of advice on WR's is to go back to the general draft advice, know your point system. Some leagues give points for receptions. If your league does, this gives possession type receivers more value. It changes everything. After that is established, just like at running backs, you need to get at least one sure-thing WR. He needs to get the consistent 6-7 catches, 100 yards and a TD. Don't under-estimate the value WR's, but don't over-estimate them either. There are around 60 wide receivers to choose from, RB, TE and QB have half of that. After you have a stud, it is almost as likely to find a second or a third in free agency during the season as it is to find one in the draft. This is not to say don't draft more than one, it is to say be aware of it.
Save gambles for middle and late rounds. Plenty of places for gambles, just not too early.
Go into the draft with a small draft plan and some sleepers. Then throw away your plan. The most important thing during the draft is to ADAPT! Notice what positions are and are not being drafted. Can you hold off on drafting your Quarterback because everyone has already drafted one? Was there a run on tight ends? You better get one, even if it is a slightly over-priced player. Go with the flow of the draft and you will do better than sticking to a plan. If you are new to drafting and your league offers an auto-draft option, use it. This will give you a safely drafted team.
4. After the draft is the Free Agent Frenzy that occurs during the football season. Even though the number of star fantasy players that come out of free agency are lower than in Fantasy Baseball, this does mean it is not as important, in fact, because of the low numbers, it can be as important. Every year major undrafted stars arise. Rookies and veterans such as: Kerry Collins, Brian Griese, Domanick Davis, Michael Clayton & Julius Jones, just to name a few, have been generally undrafted free agents in Fantasy Football. This goes right with rule one, pay attention. Using a scouting service is a great way to help in this important area of Fantasy Football. This is the function of Pro Fantasy Football Scout, which is currently free of charge!
5. Trading in Fantasy Football. Not a must to win, but if you
are a successful free agent scout, you need to try to trade. You
will be able to replace many drafted starters with free agents.
The old 2 very good players for one great player is the best way
to improve your team. You improve a position and open a roster spot
for another free agent acquisition. Opening roster spots is one
of the most important things you can do to help your Fantasy Football
scouting. Do your best not to trade any of your "Studs".
Trade early when nobody really objects to trades.
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