The NFL is notorious for injuries and other unplanned events that can upset your fantasy football league. When drafting a season long league, you really can’t take these things into account, and you shouldn’t try, either. It’s random chance, and trying to dictate a season long draft strategy around something that has no rhyme or reason is an act of foolishness.
However, in a daily fantasy football league, you can take these things into account because you will have a new draft every weekend. There are many things like this that you can now more easily take into account, and that’s one of the best parts of daily fantasy sports.
One nugget of wisdom that the top experts will give you is that you shouldn’t draft a top quarterback in the first round of your league’s draft. This doesn’t really apply to daily fantasy football since there are no rounds, but a salary cap instead. It’s still an important principle, though. Your QB should rarely be your top prospect unless you can get two quarterbacks in your league, and in daily leagues, this rarely happens.
Why, though? A quarterback is sometimes too unpredictable, and if it’s too unpredictable to draft a QB in the first round of a season long league, it is even more so in a daily league. You still want a top tier quarterback, they just shouldn’t be your highest priority when it comes to pricing their salaries out. Instead, focus on a wide receiver. The WR position is the most consistent fantasy point scoring slot, and getting a high quality WR is the best way to get the top point scorer week after week. Yes, QBs and RBs will sometimes score more points than the best performing WR, but the WR has the most potential for points on a weekly basis, just because of the way that most daily leagues are structured.
What about Andrew Luck? Many experts believe that he will be the NFL MVP this year, and this has led to his stock going way up the last several weeks. Even if he is eventually awarded this distinction, the season is way too long to predict it right now with any degree of certainty. And that’s especially true because Week #1 hasn’t even kicked off yet. Luck might be a top producer in fantasy points, but odds are, a WR will take that distinction from him at some point in the season. That’s why you shouldn’t overpay for him in a season long league in the first round, and it’s why you shouldn’t focus on him as your most expensive pick in a daily fantasy football league, either. He might be worth it, but on most weekends, he won’t be.
You need a good QB to have a good showing in your daily leagues, and you need a good QB every single week. The point being made here, though, is that you don’t necessarily need the top priced QB each week, especially if they are in a tough matchup or haven’t been producing the same level of fantasy points that a wide receiver has been making. The first WR roster slot should be your highest priority, followed by the top RB (depending upon your league), and then the top QB. Give this outline a lot of wiggle room depending upon the week, but based upon the scoring structures of both FanDuel and DraftKings, this is going to happen more than 50 percent of the time.
Let your competition make this mistake and then beat them because you knew what they did wrong and avoided it. Luck might outperform everyone once in a while, but it will not happen often enough for you to try and predict it with any degree of accuracy. He might not even be the best QB on a given weekend. In other words, he has a lot of hype, but not enough evidence has come forth to give you a good enough reason to put any amount of risk into him. On the other hand, there are many top WRs out there that deserve much more of your salary, and these athletes have already proven that they are capable of doing what you expect them to do.
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