Draft Strategies - Dark

There are different types of winning strategies we can employ when building our rosters.

1) Robust RB - draft running backs early and often because they may be the most important position but also the most fragile since RBs miss more games due to injury than any other position. Further, aside from TE, great RBs are few and far between, and the elite RBs tend to score way more than other RBs. The more great RBs you roster, the more likely you have a positional advantage over your opponent every week. However, the punishing nature of the RB position means that when an injury occurs, because it will, your team could go from looking really strong to looking really weak in one weekend.

2) Hero RB - also known as Anchor RB. This strategy dictates you draft one top-10 RB early, then attack the other positions. Get yourself some elite WRs, maybe an elite TE, maybe even an elite QB. After securing other positions, draft your second RB later in the draft. The idea being that the RB2 on your team is the weakest position in your starting lineup. Then work the waiver wire and your trade negotiating skills to roster the "next man up" when a starting RB inevitably gets injured or buy-low on a good RB in a slump.

3) Late Round QB - popularized by analyst JJ Zachariason (@LateRoundQB). The concept behind this strategy being there are more fantasy relevant QBs in a given week than there are starting QB positions in a fantasy lineup. This means a top-15 QB in any given week may be languishing on the waiver wire. Unless you play in a deeper league (14 or more teams) or a 2QB/Superflex league, a good quarterback will usually be available. Build advantages at every other position and work weekly matchups (Derek Carr in Week 2, Marcus Mariota in Week 3, etc) to "Frankenstein" your way into a top-12 QB season.

4) Zero RB - RBs get hurt and miss games. But there is always another RB to replace the starter. Build positional advantages everywhere else on your roster and draft passing-catching backs and back ups to fill out your RB rotation. When the season is fully underway, chaos will inevitably ensue because of injuries, players being benched, etc. When that happens, you'll have the "next man up" RBs and your team's upside is to the moon. Remember the sage advice given by Lord Littlefinger, "Chaos is a ladder."

5) Autodraft - The Football Gods are capricious and chaos reigns every Sunday. All the research and analysis in the world has no bearing on whether a team carries this leather-covered, oblong ball 100 yards down a field while avoiding some of the largest and fastest humans in the world. Just let the platform draft for you and you'll probably make the playoffs.

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