Shawn Siegele breaks down the six tactics that should put you in your home league championship game.
One of my family members wins about 75% of their home leagues, which doesn’t seem mathematically probable. For the sake of this exercise, we’ll call her my sister. Last year I drafted an FFPC Main Event with her, and she won that too.
She has an amazing ability to distill everything down to the league-winning principles. Draft a foundation RB. Draft a high-scoring QB — it doesn’t always have to be early; last year it was Jayden Daniels. (I’ll tell her about my teams, and she’ll look at me quizzically. “I’m a bit worried about your quarterbacks.”) Draft a priority target with every other pick. Game over.
As a subscriber, if you’ve been . . .
- working through Kevin’s breakdown of all 32 teams
- reading my Big Gorilla blueprints
- perusing the League Winning Players series
- and following the Zero RB Candidates Countdown
. . . you know the types of players and tactics that we like to deploy.
Let’s work through an exercise that lets us layer in a few more elements to the dominant home league blueprint that our more successful siblings execute every year.
Last year, home league priority targets like Jahmyr Gibbs, Trey McBride, Malik Nabers, Tee Higgins, Jaxon Smith-Njigba, and Jayden Daniels helped you cruise to victory. Even in a season where veterans stayed healthy and performed better than usual, the young players were the league crushers, and in home leagues they come at substantially reduced costs.
