Shawn Siegele works through a real $100,000 draft to show the importance of executing structurally in the double-digit rounds. In this exercise he profiles the players and tactics necessary to build safety and upside into your rosters.
Recently, Colm Kelly, Blair Andrews, and I drafted an FFPC Best Ball Tournament team with the goal of winning the $100,000. We received the 12 slot in our draft, a position which has historically returned dreadful win rates. In Part 1, I showed you how to not only reverse those fortunes, but completely flip the script and generate win rates above 12%.
Now in Part 2, we’ll look at the second half of the equation. How do we create upside and safety in the back half of our draft, while solving any problems we might have created early?
When I finish a high-stakes draft and evaluate the competing rosters, I’ll usually find four or five that have elevated chances to win. These drafts will often be the Zero RB entrants, and the Christian McCaffrey and Travis Kelce squads if the drafter has then proceeded to load up at WR. Unfortunately, after the first eight rounds, a lot of these squads will then deteriorate in their final 10 picks. They either select the wrong types of players to bolster their early-round builds or they ruin their balance with poor positional allocation.
In this draft workshop, I’ll profile the players and break down the tactics from a real high stakes draft to help fantasy players avoid these mistakes and build elite upside into their lineups.
