Yahoo! Draft Tools - Any Tips?

[Pengwin7]

Just wondering if any of you guys have picked up any good-tricks or tips to using the Yahoo! In-Draft Tools.
Do you check other teams while you are drafting?
Do you check the "standings" while you are drafting?
Do you sort players by ADP or by position often?
Have you learned any ways to use those tools?


I've got a draft at 7pm - and I. know. nothing.

[Zorro]

Just wondering if any of you guys have picked up any good-tricks or tips to using the Yahoo! In-Draft Tools.
Do you check other teams while you are drafting?
Do you check the "standings" while you are drafting?
Do you sort players by ADP or by position often?
Have you learned any ways to use those tools?


I've got a draft at 7pm - and I. know. nothing.

Hmmmmmmmmm, funny I have a draft at 7pm aswell!! My tips and tricks are locked up in my vault!!

[Pit Bulls]

From my perspective, one of the most valuable tools in Yahoo is the ranking tool. I enter my own pre-draft ranking (or follow a printout of my rankings) and don't worry about the other tools as most of the drafts I have been involved with only give you 45 - 60 seconds to make a pick.

The ADP is typically skewed due to stupid picks in the mocks or due to the auto-draft feature that follows Yahoo's ranking. Not much use I find.

I do sort by position and check last year's stats as part of my pre-draft ranking ritual, but mostly rely on several other sources to determine my ranking.

[Swels Stewart]

I really only use the queue. I look to where my next pick is and pull a half dozen players that I like at around that spot to the queue. Of course I also keep my eye on the ranking list in case players fall. I do flip back between the ranking and position lists, especially as the draft goes on and I feel I need to get a sense of where the depth is and what I need (scarce positions like QB and TE especially). In general, I don't pay any attention to what other times are doing.

[Pengwin7]

Is QB really scarce?

[Zorro]

I'm sorry Peng, I felt bad about not iving you any advice earlier.. So here it goes: J.Nelson and K.Benjamin are available really late!!

[Swels Stewart]

Is QB really scarce?

It depends on your strategy and league(mates), but in later rounds (after pick 100), I think they can be. I don't need Luck or Rodgers, but I don't want to have to rely on platooning Kaepernick or Flacco or Dalton with Hoyer either. Usually, I will wait and grab QB11 or QB12 or QB13. If you are in a league (or a mock) of 12 or more teams and teams start drafting second QBs while you are waiting on your first, even that Bradford, Rivers, Bridgewater, Palmer tier could disappear on you. I have found that even in 14 round drafts there are always RBs and WRs on the wire that I see the upside in having on my bench, but there are QBs rostered that I wouldn't touch.