5 Steps to a Fantasy Football Championship

1. Ma­­ke good player projections.  This is the foundation to any good draft.  Without it you can’t create an accurate list of player rankings to take to your draft.
2. Know your league’s scoring format and rules.  By knowing how many points your league awards for passing, rushing or receiving TD’s and yardage you will be able to rank players in each position.  Only then will you be able to truly compare players of the same position against each other.
3. After the first two steps you can then rank each position in tiers, or groups of players with similar fantasy projections.  This will allow you to target groups of players without getting hung up if a specific player you wanted is not available when it comes to your turn in the draft.
4. Pay attention to the pre-season.  Now I am not saying you have to watch every single pre-season game.  But I do recommend paying close attention to position battles, injuries, and sleepers you might be targeting.  90% of your research can be done watching the first quarter alone.  The rest of the game is just to determine which rookies or borderline will make the opening day roster, so you don’t have to waste your time. Most of this you can digest in the box score and by watching the highlights to see how players are performing.
5. Many leagues have and can be won by following steps 1 through 3 alone.  By using step 4 you can gain a little extra knowledge and fine tune your draft day cheat sheet and tier grouping.  Now to take your drafting prowess to the next level and become more consistent from year to year you must use a value based drafting system.  With steps 1 through 4 you can only really make apple-to-apple comparisons of players at the same position.  Value-based drafting will allow you to make apple-to-orange comparisons of players at different positions.  By assigning a value to each player you will be able to know how your #1 ranked QB, RB and WR stack up against each other and when to select them during your draft.  To learn more about value based drafting visit www.draftchamps.com.