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    Default Need help! Joined a football league for the first time in years.

    So I was asked at work and I said yes just to be involved. I haven't been in a league in 8 years and don't really follow football anymore. Anyways, in your opinion who has the best rankings and/or website for fantasy football? Is there a concise podcast or article that will somewhat prepare me in a short amount of time? Any help is appreciated. The draft is Sunday and I just don't want to embarrass myself.
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    RW- Raymond, Stone, TWilson, Toffoli, KJohnson, Nyqvist, Zary
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    D- QHughes, McAvoy, Doughty, Heiskanen, LHughes, Mintyukov
    G- Shesterkin, Demko, Andersen, Kahkonen, Levi, Tarasov, Annunen

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    FantasyPros, and Rotoballer are what I use. Together they're pretty solid.

    I have never done a recap of the sites post season to see how their rankings line up at the end of the yr to the rankings before the season starts.

    If your goal is just not to embarrass yourself, I'd just go Best Player Available, outside of drafting a QB early...don't do that. Mahomes, Allen, and Lamar are all ranked/ADP'd outside of where I would want them. Unless it's a 2QB/Superflex league, then you need to draft a QB in round 1.
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    RW: Pavelski (C), Giroux (C), Svechnikov (LW)
    D: Fox, Makar, Bouchard, Morrissey, Gudas
    Util: Meier (LW, RW)
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    1. Go to Fantasy Pros.
    2. Prep/do a "mock draft" with the league settings you'll use.
    3. If you know your draft spot, you choose that "Draft Position".
    4. Watch how the players go off the board.
    You'll get a score at the end based on how your projected points (even with things like BYE weeks) would play out.

    REPEAT that, making little tweaks in your opening rounds - ex... taking best RB, instead of best WR.
    Try to improve on your "score"... by picking a different positional player in the opening rounds.
    This is the KEY thing I learned from past years...whether I should open with a RB or WR or TE... then in round 2... whether I should go RB or WR or TE...
    And eventually - which round should I take a QB.

    This is the ONLY fantasy football thing I've done in the past 2-3 years... and I've been doing very well in my one league... winning it last year.
    (One could also run a "mock" WHILE they draft. For me... doing this in any sport... is cheating. I know some use FHG during fantasy hockey drafts, which, again, for me - is cheating... but... if your morality allows it... go for it. You can stall the mock and wait - and compare to your own draft - especially if you have two monitors.)

    Here's a quick link:
    https://draftwizard.fantasypros.com/...ator/settings/

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    Fantasy Pros has a consensus rankings on their website that is a bunch of people form the industry... you can use that and use the 'pick your experts' and then you can pick the ones that did well in the draft or the season last year in their rankings.

    Fantasy Pros also ranks the people who submit rankings and they show you has done well in the past. Some names that stick out as doing well for multiple years are Pat Fizmaurice and Justin Boone.

    Fantasy Pros also has a good podcast to listen to. Another podcast I enjoy listening to is Fantasy Footballers.

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    If your main goal is to not embarrass yourself, probably the most important thing is who NOT to draft.

    Here is a short list, others can add to it if they like

    Cam Akers
    Travis Etienne
    DeShaun Watson
    Michael Thomas (may return in October)
    Cole Beasley

    Also, don't draft a defence or kicker until the last rounds.

    Fantasy pros rankings are top-notch and updated constantly.

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    ^Yes, and FantasyPros will not show up those "do not draft" players, because the pros will have knocked them down to where they should be.

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    Thanks fellas. Looks like I will be spending some time on FantasyPros.
    10 Team, 60 Player Roster
    G, A, PTS, PPP, PIM, BLKs, Hits, +/-, Shots, W, GAA, SV%, Saves
    C- JHughes, Trocheck, RThomas, Zegras, Norris, Bennett, PLD, Stephenson, Danualt
    RW- Raymond, Stone, TWilson, Toffoli, KJohnson, Nyqvist, Zary
    LW- Keller, Schmaltz, Bunting, Skinner, Barbashev, Duclair
    D- QHughes, McAvoy, Doughty, Heiskanen, LHughes, Mintyukov
    G- Shesterkin, Demko, Andersen, Kahkonen, Levi, Tarasov, Annunen

    Notable Prospects- Nikishin, Kulich, Leonard, Wood, Perreault, Lekkermaki, Ostlund, Othmman, REvans, L-Heureux, Ivanov, Murashov

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pengwin7 View Post
    So I did an autodraft straight from your link... and I'm just not sure I agree with what it is doing...


    It would rather draft me my 6th RB (1st pick was RB) instead of something else...


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    Yeah... you'd better not use it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pengwin7 View Post
    Yeah... you'd better not use it.
    Seeing how people here are new to the tool and at the same time new/not familiar to fantasy football, you want to explain why a 6th RB is picked (I think 3 or 4 WR were also picked) instead of a selection that is not just a standby.
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    No, I don't need to explain it.
    It's a mock draft tool... I've never had that happen to me... a 6th RB.
    I honestly don't know why it would do that...
    It's never done that to me before.
    How deep was your bench?

    Post your roster.

    I mean... I think it goes without saying that you still make some picks on your own.
    When I do the mocks, I often don't choose the pick it tells me, but try making an alternate pick that I feel is right... and I test out how my score moves.

    The FIRST round I do it... I go with all FantasyPros picks.
    But then I slowly start altering a pick or two per round.

    But honestly... if it doesn't work for you... don't use it.

    (or... better yet... recommend something effin better... people that complain without providing a better alternative really piss me off... this isn't even your thread. Point of the thread is to post something that helps the OP... your post doesn't help the OP if you aren't providing something positive or in a better direction...)

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    I just used your link/settings, but I think I changed it to 10 or 11 team. I've since closed out of it.

    I thought you would have the answer lol. I think only two of those had conflicting bye weeks too.
    It did score really well
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    FWIW, last year, on my 15-player draft, I actually drafted 5 RBs... and should've drafted 6... (instead of Lazard or Minshew).
    My team eventually won the league:

    1. (5) Dalvin Cook
    2. (24) Chris Carson

    3. (33) Mike Evans
    4. (52) DeVante Parker
    5. (61) Kyler Murray
    6. (80) Evan Engram
    7. (89) Julian Edelman
    8. (108) James White
    9. (117) Adrian Peterson

    10. (136) Jerry Jeudy
    11. (145) Allen Lazard
    12. (164) Gardner Minshew II
    13. (173) Eric Ebron
    14. (192) Jamaal Williams
    15. (201) Philadelphia


    A strategy that I've seen some people use is to NOT draft a K or D.
    They use all their picks on position players until the minutes before the opening week.
    Then they drop their worst RB or WR (whoever is too far off depth chart) in favor of a K or D with favorable match-up.

    The other team that did really well in this league (rataylor22) drafted 5 or 6 RBs last year as well.
    rataylor finished 1st regular season, lost to me in finals (even with better team, I got lucky).

    1. (6) Derrick Henry
    2. (23) James Conner

    3. (34) Odell Beckham Jr.
    4. (51) Mark Andrews
    5. (62) T.Y. Hilton
    6. (79) Will Fuller V
    7. (90) Carson Wentz
    8. (107) Antonio Gibson
    9. (118) Kerryon Johnson
    10. (135) Tony Pollard

    11. (146) Chris Herndon
    12. (163) Parris Campbell
    13. (174) Jerick McKinnon
    14. (191) Dallas
    15. (202) Younghoe Koo

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    Schedule is out though might as well draft for the first week get the jump. I was thinking trades too once your bye week has passed to swap for a position you will need to cover in later weeks.
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