The best time of the year is almost here - your fantasy league's draft day! In order to succeed, you'll need to manage your time well. Here, we'll review how to best prep for your upcoming draft, depending on how much time you have available.
1 Minute Left Before Draft
Stop wasting your time reading these words. Instead, do this:
- Go to David Dodd's Top 300 Draft list for either Non-PPR leagues: or PPR leagues: and print out a copy to match your league scoring.
While not customized exactly to your scoring and roster rules, these fundamental draft lists will get you through most any league's draft.
5 Minutes Left Before the Draft
Planning ahead isn't a strong suit of yours, but at least you left yourself more time than the 1-Minute-Left guy.
- Go to Dodd's Top 300 Draft list for either Non-PPR leagues or PPR leagues and print out a copy to match your league scoring.
- If you have some more time:
- Review of the most recent Injury Rounds: Preseason Week X article by Dr. Jene Bramel.
- Write notes on guys who are injured on your 300 player draft sheet from Dodds.
30 Minutes Left Before the Draft
- Go to the Cheatsheet generator (for fairly standard leagues) and get yourself a customized draft list. Print it out.
- Review of the most recent Injury Rounds: Preseason Week X article by Dr. Jene Bramel.
- Read the latest If You're Drafting This Weekend article by Dan Hindery.
- If you have some more time:
- Review the Footballguys.com Staff Rankings to see where the Staff consensus is on players you may have doubts about
1 Hour Left Before Draft
Do the steps above but more in-depth OR if you are familiar with the Draft Dominator Online and comfortable using it:
- Go to the Draft Dominator Online and log in with your Footballguys.com username and password.
- Set up your league parameters as described in the Quick Start Guide and then:
- Do a couple of quick mock drafts.
- Switch to a real draft and get ready to crush the competition in your league!
- If you have some more time:
- Review of the most recent Injury Rounds: Preseason Week X article by Dr. Jene Bramel.
- Read the latest If You're Drafting This Weekend article by Dan Hindery.
Several Hours (or Days) Left Before Draft
Now you are in a place to leverage the many drafting tools that Footballguys offers.
- Set up your Draft Dominator Online and do some mock drafts. Even customize it to suit your particular drafting style.
- Review the Footballguys.com Staff Rankings to see where the staff consensus is on players you may have doubts about.
- Review of the most recent Injury Rounds: Preseason Week X article by Dr. Jene Bramel.
- Read the latest If You're Drafting This Weekend article by Dan Hindery.
- Read through some of our most-important current articles:
- Articles by David Dodds
- Articles by Sigmund Bloom
- Articles by Matt Waldman
You have set yourself up to maximize the power of Footballguys!
