Anyone else entering into best ball contests, getting ready for the upcoming NFL season?
For those that might be unfamiliar, best ball leagues are NFL fantasy leagues where everyone drafts like normal, but then that is it. No waiver wires, no lineup setting. The best scores from each position are calculated each week from your drafted players to make up your weekly score. For example, you draft 6 running backs and the 2 best scores out of those 6 players are used for your team that week. Highest cumulative score at the end of the season wins. My favorite thing about fantasy football is the drafting, so this is great for me. I draft and never think about it again until January when I check to see how I did. Gets me exposure to players I would probably not pick in my big season long leagues and I can play around with draft strategy. I have been drafting since right after the NFL Draft, so its been interesting to see how a given player's 'stock' has changed with little tidbits coming out of minicamps, etc. I am playing on draft.com, usually do the 10 person fast draft.
From the early going, it does seem like once again you want an early pick this year. I have had ~10 drafts so far, and have been between 5-10 in the first round for all of them. Have had 3 consecutive drafts where I've picked at the turn in the 10th slot which kinda sucks. However, I would really want either the 1st or 2nd pick of the draft. The optimal start, in my opinion, seems to be Barkely/McCaffery/Elliot with the 1st pick, come back with Cook/Chubb/Damien Williams with the 2nd and hopefully nab either Ertz or Kittle at TE in the 3rd round. The biggest mysteries so far seem to be at RB and TE. WR and QB are deep, especially with only 10 teams drafting. The RB situations are up in the air until training camp and preseason games, so nabbing RBs with solid roles and that don't have an injury history is a premium. TE is also murky after you get past the top three TEs and after the Hunter Henry/Jared Cook range. You don't want to be the last one picking a TE.
Hopefully some other people are interested and we can talk strategy
For those that might be unfamiliar, best ball leagues are NFL fantasy leagues where everyone drafts like normal, but then that is it. No waiver wires, no lineup setting. The best scores from each position are calculated each week from your drafted players to make up your weekly score. For example, you draft 6 running backs and the 2 best scores out of those 6 players are used for your team that week. Highest cumulative score at the end of the season wins. My favorite thing about fantasy football is the drafting, so this is great for me. I draft and never think about it again until January when I check to see how I did. Gets me exposure to players I would probably not pick in my big season long leagues and I can play around with draft strategy. I have been drafting since right after the NFL Draft, so its been interesting to see how a given player's 'stock' has changed with little tidbits coming out of minicamps, etc. I am playing on draft.com, usually do the 10 person fast draft.
From the early going, it does seem like once again you want an early pick this year. I have had ~10 drafts so far, and have been between 5-10 in the first round for all of them. Have had 3 consecutive drafts where I've picked at the turn in the 10th slot which kinda sucks. However, I would really want either the 1st or 2nd pick of the draft. The optimal start, in my opinion, seems to be Barkely/McCaffery/Elliot with the 1st pick, come back with Cook/Chubb/Damien Williams with the 2nd and hopefully nab either Ertz or Kittle at TE in the 3rd round. The biggest mysteries so far seem to be at RB and TE. WR and QB are deep, especially with only 10 teams drafting. The RB situations are up in the air until training camp and preseason games, so nabbing RBs with solid roles and that don't have an injury history is a premium. TE is also murky after you get past the top three TEs and after the Hunter Henry/Jared Cook range. You don't want to be the last one picking a TE.
Hopefully some other people are interested and we can talk strategy