Publisher's Synopsis
The well-reviewed Fantasy Football Draft Strategy Guide has been updated for the 2019 season of fantasy football! It focuses on draft strategies that make use of game theory and analytics and applies them to fantasy football. An emphasis is made on finding value throughout the draft process.
This book is a complete guide that includes strategies, informative graphics, detailed examples and useful links to dominate your fantasy football drafts!
A good strategy is designed to get you the best players at the most advantageous draft position. Learning how to optimize conditions that put you into position to acquire players that offer the most value is the key to successful player acquisition, and those principles are covered extensively in this book.
Value-Based Drafting and using Wisdom of the Crowd to identify and target high-upside players is heavily investigated. So is using Average Draft Position to gain leverage over your competitors to obtain the players you want.
The Fantasy Football Draft Strategy Guide is for fantasy football players who want to step up their game to the next level by using statistical analysis to build winning, title-contending teams.
Highlights of the Fantasy Football Draft Strategy Guide include:
- A review of game theory and how it applies to fantasy football drafts
- Discussion of metrics and analytics and their applicability to fantasy football
- The importance of obtaining value, with an emphasis on identifying undervalued players and sleeper players
- A comprehensive examination of strategies that include: Value-Based Drafting, drafting based on Average Draft Position, and using tiers to separate players of similar value
- Investigating the importance of consistency in fantasy football and how to quantify it
- A step-by-step explanation of a successful draft process
- The importance of identifying targets and who to target broken down by position
- A list of players to target in this year's fantasy football drafts
- How to prepare informative VBD cheat sheets that will aid tremendously in the player acquisition process
- The importance of mock drafts and how to properly gain information from them
- Links and descriptions to key fantasy football tools available online
