Depressed About Your Draft Slot? This Aggressive Plan Will Help You Overcome That Obstacle and Put You On the Path to a Title
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Yesterday, we crafted a 4-Step Plan to Dominate with an RB-RB approach in 2020. But does that plan work from every draft slot?

If you have a late pick in 2020 drafts, you’re playing from behind. This is fairly intuitive as you won’t have a shot at players like Christian McCaffrey and Michael Thomas. You won’t be able to select any member of the Big 5 at running back, and you may not even have a chance at Clyde Edwards-Helaire. It feels worse drafting late this year, and that’s not a good sign since it’s been consistently terrible in the past.

These are the Fanball results from 2015 to 2019.[1] The top four slots are ideal, the next four are workable, and the last four are disastrous. In order to combat this problem, those of us who receive poor draft slots must come up with an aggressive, creative, and evidence-based plan of attack if we want to be competitive.

This is that plan.

An Aggressive, Evidence-Based Plan for Winning When the Deck Is Stacked Against You

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Footnotes

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1 I’ll be using Fanball for a format-neutral result that should fit with ADP for our ESPN readers and Apex fans, but you get similar results for FFPC.

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Shawn Siegele

Author of the original Zero RB article and 2013 NFFC Primetime Grand Champion. 11-time main event league winner. 2015, 2017, 2018 titles in MFL10 of Death.

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