How to draft the best fantasy football team 

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Today I will be walking you through how to draft the best fantasy football team possible for a points per reception (PPR) league. The first thing you will want to do is look up a list on either CBS sports or ESPN (CBS is my favorite) on NFL players fantasy stats from last year. You will want to go to the year to date category, this will give you the best idea on how they did throughout the entire season last year. You also will want to note who got injured last season, what the injury was, and how long they were out. For example, I try and shy away from drafting Christian McCaffery or Dalvin Cook even though they are rated the number one and two running backs, just because they tend to get hurt every season and miss up to five games. Sure they score a lot of points when they play, but you have to ask yourself if you can survive on the weeks where they do not play due to injury. Once you've done that research it's time to draft. You will want to take a running back for your first and second pick, the reasoning behind this is that running backs consistently get more touches in a NFL game than wide receivers. Don't get me wrong you want good wide receivers, but there are more consistent wide receivers available compared to running backs. So once you have two top 10 or top 15 running backs it's time to look at wide receivers. Since this is a PPR league this means every time your player catches a pass you get a point, regardless of how far they make it after the catch. Since this is a rule when you are drafting wide receivers you don't necessary need two top 10 wide receivers. It's always good to try and get two great wide receivers, but since your main focus should be on running backs there may not be many top wide receivers left when your pick comes around. Look back at the list you should still have up and try and spot a few wide receivers that had a lot of targets and touchdowns. Touchdowns are worth six points! You will want wide receivers that get thrown to a lot, because this just increases the opportunity for points. For example, Odell Beckham Jr is a great wide receiver, but he doesn't get targeted enough which leads to him not performing well for fantasy owners. Technically he is better than players like Jamar Chase and Michael Pittman, but I would recommend drafting them over Odell based on the fact that the ball is thrown to them more often which can lead to more potential fantasy points. Once you have your base running backs and wide receivers it's time to either go for a tight end or quarter back. If no no one has taken a quarter back yet I would recommend taking the best tight end available because the depth on good tight ends available is significantly lower than quarterbacks available. If quarterbacks have already started to get drafted though, I would take one just to be safe. it's always good to try and get a quarterback like Lamar Jackson or Jalen Hurts because they run the ball a lot. Every 10 yards a quarterback runs you get 1 point, just like running backs. So with this contribution from your quarterback you are maximizing your potential for a lot of fantasy points because they are a duel threat. If you end up drafting a quarterback next pick you should draft a tight end, or vise versa. Once those picks are made the only two spots on your active roster that should be empty are the kicker and defense position. You do not have to draft these positions until the second to last and the last round. The goal now is to load your bench with back up running backs, wide receivers, and a back up quarterback. This is what you should focus on before taking a kicker or defense because players tend to get hurt a lot and if one of your star players you picked early gets hurt and you didn't focus on having good depth on your bench, you will be in a pinch on looking to find someone to start that week if you have an injury. All kickers basically end up scoring the same amount of points so this should be your last pick in the fantasy draft. Also, for defenses I like to draft one that has a easy match up week one against a bad offense, and then as the weeks go on try and drop them and pick up other teams that have easy match ups that week to maximize the potential amount of points I will get out of my defense. Some people like drafting a top defense earlier, but this causes you to have less depth on your bench for the more important positions who score more and you have to stick with them when they have tough match ups because if you drop them someone else in your league will undoubtedly pick them up. Some people don't like this strategy I just described to you because some people do not believe in having a lot of depth on their team, they just want star players. This has never worked for me and that is why I am recommending this approach for when the time comes to draft your fantasy football team. Injuries are very high in the NFL and it is very possible that multiple people on your fantasy team get hurt at some point during the season, that is why I think the most important thing in fantasy football is having a very deep bench that can bail you out when your stars get hurt. I hope that this strategy was clear enough for you to try on your own, it has won me a many fantasy football leagues in the past and I hope it will do the same for you 🤝 . There are many fantasy football drafting strategies out there, but there is not a doubt in my mind that this is the safest one.

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