Consistency wins
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In both of my featured Fantasy Football leagues the highest average scoring team in the League won the Championship. All is right in the Fantasy universe. If you have played Fantasy Football for a few years you will know that that isn’t always the case. It’s Fantasy Football, so absolutely anything can happen. What makes the right thing happening so special this Season is that my Grid Warriors team was the highest scoring team in the Gridiron Pros Fantasy Football League. Which means I have retaken the Championship in my longest running Keeper league. 😁 I managed a fourth place finish in the other feature league. I lost the semi-final to the eventual Champion Texas Proud. Trust me when I tell you that it didn’t come as a surprise. I predicted them to win it all Mid Season.
Top 6 Final standings
Gridiron Pros
True Fanatics
Coming out on top as the eventual Champion this Season was especially special. There were an unprecedented amount of Star Player injuries, underperforming, and overperforming teams, and amazing rookie seasons. Who would have predicted that the Jacksonville Jaguars would make the playoffs, and the Dallas Cowboys or Denver Broncos wouldn’t. Some of the top performing Quarterbacks at the end of the Season were backups at the beginning. Finishing first this year means you stayed one step ahead of it all.
Dawn of a new age
I hinted in my last Fantasy post that Fantasy Football has been dramatically changed. For at least the last five Seasons the primary focus of Fantasy drafts have been about Running Backs. Year after year it seemed like the number of quality Running Backs continuously diminished. More teams adopted the Running Back by committee approach. Utilizing two or three Running Backs each and every game. Reducing the value of each back to fantasy irrelevance. The NFL has slowly transitioned into a passing league. Further limiting the value of Running Backs. Their increased chance of injury coupled with the concussion protocol system means that most of the top Running Backs will miss at least a few games. If you didn’t draft a quality RB early you were really hoping to get lucky with a backup, or fantasy relevant third down back. Well next year things are going to be a lot different. The recent crop of star rookie Running Backs, backups that excelled when given an opportunity, and teams that have switched to a Run heavy offence will dramatically change next Season’s draft. Coming in to this Season there was only about 10 potential high value Running Backs. In a 12 team League which I consider to be the most competitive that left very few to go around. By the time you draft next summer things will be much different. I can count on at least 20 high quality Running Backs being available in next Season’s draft, and that’s not including Rookies. If Ezekiel Elliott, Leonard Fournette, and Kareem Hunt haven’t convinced you how important a Rookie Running Back can be to your team then you probably shouldn’t be playing Fantasy Football next Season. There’s at least another 10 after the first 20 that will be fantasy relevant, and could help you win a Championship. Gone are the days of the First Round Running Back pick, or you’re in trouble drafts. With that many quality Running Backs available you can afford to wait until the third Round before you draft your first RB. It is my belief that the NFL currently has more star power now at every skill position than it’s had in over a decade. The only skill position that’s at all lacking is Tight End, and it’s the least important in Fantasy. My Grid Warriors team won this Season with a combination of Charles Clay, Hunter Henry, Eric Ebron, and Austin Hooper. That’s how unimportant it is. Due to the wealth of talent there’s only one draft strategy that’s viable in my opinion next Season.
Take the best Player available!
Position picking will be far less important next year than in years previous. Where I used to be concerned about drafting a Top 10 Running Back in either Round 1 or 2, it won’t matter now. If you drafted a stud Wide Receiver in Round 3, and when your fourth Round pick comes around there’s another great WR. Don’t even think twice about it, draft him. I used to stack my bench with Running Backs in case my first or second rounder went down with an injury. Trust me when I tell you that I won’t be doing it next year. There are so many quality backups that I’ll pick one up off the waiver wire when I need one. Managers would stress over when to draft a Top tier QB. Well let me be the first to tell you that next Season should have you stress free. There were so many great QB performances this year that picking one early doesn’t make sense at all. Next Season should actually be better. I guarantee that a number of Backup Quarterbacks that were given a chance to strut their stuff will be full time starters on another squad nest Season. It was already leaning that way the last couple of Seasons. So much so that I was able to draft Matthew Stafford in the 10th Round this Season as my primary Starter, and used both Tyrod Taylor as a backup early in the Season, and Blake Bortles later in the Season. Blake Bortles was in my lineup for the Semi-final and Championship games by the way. Blake Bortles! As next Season draws closer I’ll go into far more depth about each position, and why drafting the best available is your only option for success.
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