Preparing for your fantasy football draft is one of the most important parts of the entire season. You make decisions on draft day that affect your entire year. Sure, you can trade and use the exception thread to fine-tune your team, but some mistakes made on Draft Day cannot be overcome. Get ready to dominate your league through proper ดูบอล.
ESPN, THE SPORTS NEWS, the NFL and dozens of other entities publish Fantasy Football Guides every year. Every manager has his favorites and there are plenty to choose from. Go to your local bookstore or magazine rack to check the titles, and flip through them to see what they offer. Player interviews are not important and statistics are. A good guide shows the last 3 years statistics for all major players except rookies. It will also list the team’s defensive stats, coaching changes and most importantly a 2009 fantasy football mock draft. This shows an actual round by round draft by Fantasy Football Experts that helps give you an idea of how the Pro Fantasy Football Leaguers think this year will turn out. They will usually also provide articles with insights from FF experts.
Preparation also means watching NFL reports in the offseason, pre-season and all-season long. There are way too many shows and networks to list, but 2 very reliable sources are ESPN all week and ESPN and the NFL outline. These 2 big boys offer streaming videos, daily and weekly updates and FF-specific news that are very necessary to say the least. Far back in 1991, my first FF season, I pulled Vance Johnson, WR, to Denver, even though he was lying on his back in a hospital at the time. I did not perform my due diligence and wasted a Draft Day choice because of it.
You should also watch as many pre-season games as possible. Now you have a real excuse for your spouse when you say you’re going to the sports bar to watch football all day – research. I watched a couple of Philadelphia Eagles pre-season games last year and noticed that rookie WR DeSean Jackson had serious wheels and just enough of a fat “I hear here” attitude to keep an eye on. I wrote him late and got incredible value.
Okay, so you bought a Fantasy Football Guide, you check regular updates on your computer, and you see enough Pre-Season games to get you divorced. Now you need to be intimate with your scoring system, so next time is “Fantasy Football For Beginners – Lesson 3 – Know Your Scoring System.”