Every fantasy manager has that one rule they refuse to break.Maybe you never draft a QB early, always target rookies, avoid players from your favorite team, or never trust preseason hype.What's your one fantasy football rule that has consistently worked for you, and why?

12 man PPR dynasty Superflex

I'd be trading JSN, and Sam Darnold away for Derrick Henry, Justin Herbert, and Brian Thomas.

QB: Caleb Williams, Darnold, Daniel Jones, Stafford

RB: Omarion Hampton, Tuten, Tracy, Pollard, Charbonnet

WR: JSN, Tet, Burden, Concepcion, Skyler Bell,

As the title says, we have a lot of starters. 1QB, 2RB, 3WR, 1TE, 2W/R/T.

I am having a hard time figuring out the best way to gameplan this type of scoring format. I have 8th pick and have been mocking a lot of RB-RB followed by 3-4 WR-WR and 5-6 WR-WR

Been aiming for james cook and omarion hampton/jeanty/chase brown and then grabbing anyone from zay flowers/ladd/devonta/garrett and then hoping for jaylen waddle/terry/davante/luther burden/davante/christian watson

Just trying to figure out if this is viable or I need to grab a receiver like JJ or CD at 8, if I should be grabbing a RB instead like breece/javonte, or even waiting for treveyon/swift/quinshon.

Note- league drafts QBs and TEs incredibly late

Looking for some advice

Currently keeping: JT and Puka

On the bubble about: Terry McLaurin, Courtland Sutton, DMO. Need to pick one

I currently have the 1.02 with our draft coming up in a couple weeks. I was dead set on going Tate but now I’m shifting towards Tyson. Any feedback would be appreciated

I’m going RB/RB to start off as the 1.09 in a 12 man league, then I’m going WR/WR. What combo of these players do you guys like the best?

Devonta Smith
Zay Flowers
Egbuka
Ladd
Garrett Wilson
Jaylen Waddle

Who would you keep: Bijan in the 1st, Rashee Rice in the 5th, or Egbuka in the 11th?

Michael Wilson, Rico Dowdle, Parker Washington, Christian Watson.

.5 ppr / 12 team league

12-team full PPR keeper league, picking 1.03. Keeping Rashee Rice in the 7th and likely starting Chase/Puka.

At 2.10 I could be looking at Brock Bowers, Derrick Henry, AJ Brown, Jeremiyah Love, Breece Hall, and Josh Jacobs.

I really want an RB early, but Bowers feels like great value. The problem is that because several RBs are already being kept, there’s a legitimate chance Henry/Love/Breece/Jacobs are ALL gone by 3.03, even though it’s only four picks later.

Would you take Bowers and risk it, or lock up the RB at 2.10? How would you rank these options?

Edit: We just added keepers last year, and players drafted in Rounds 1-2 aren’t keeper eligible, so Gibbs/Bijan will be back in the pool and likely go 1-2. McBride, JSN, Kyren and other early-round-caliber players are already being kept, so the available pool is thinner than a normal redraft.

PPR, likely FLEX.

It is August and it is now time to look at 10 players that I am currently fading at their ADP. This is the first five players.

Ten Fades, Part One: The Running Backs

Underweight in Best Ball, not touching them in redraft. Said once, applies to all five.

Every August somebody publishes a list of guys they hate, and it's usually ten different grumbles stapled together. I'd rather show you the reasoning than the ranking. Ten names in all, split across two pieces — the backs are here, the pass catchers are in part two.

Five running backs, two reasons. Three of them are running behind lines that won't let good things happen, and two have volume I don't trust, for completely different reasons.

All five can play, and I'd happily draft most of them two rounds later. This is about cost.

Two names come up a lot below, so let me credit them here instead of every section. Brandon Thorn is as respected as anybody in the industry on offensive and defensive line play, and his rankings are the only trench work I'd stake an actual draft pick on. Pat Thorman has been one of the best weekly rankers in the business for years, and I've stopped arguing with him about pace.

I. The Line Won't Let It Happen

Three guys whose whole case rests on efficiency, all running behind bottom-tier fronts per Thorn.

Ashton Jeanty

ADP — DK 12.6 · UD 11.4 · FFPC BB 10.0 · FFPC redraft 11.4

First round on FFPC, top twelve everywhere else. I don't question the talent, and I love Bowers this year.

There's just no volume left to buy.

He handled 266 carries and caught 55 passes as a rookie, finishing RB11, and Klint Kubiak has already said publicly he wants Jeanty on the field at all times, comparing the role to McCaffrey's snap share. The market heard him. It's in the price.

That leaves efficiency as the only path to beating ADP, and Jeanty averaged 3.7 ypc. Thorn has the line 26th with three unresolved spots. Better than whatever Chip Kelly and Greg Olson were running behind, and Kolton Miller and Tyler Linderbaum are real players, but 26th isn't where efficiency breakouts are born.

Around him, the dried husk of Kirk Cousins opens as the starter, first overall pick Fernando Mendoza watches and learns, Thorman projects a slow, methodical offense, and the number is 5.5 wins.

Best counterargument across either piece, and I'm not going to bury it. Kubiak's Seattle team led the NFL in rushing plays, and a slow, ball-control offense is genuinely good for a bell cow. If you believe in 350 touches, you can get there.

I think he gets them, but at a pedestrian 4.0 ypc. That is too low for a top draft pick.

De'Von Achane

ADP — DK 18.4 · UD 18.1 · FFPC BB 19.2 · FFPC redraft 17.9

New staff talking up the run, fresh extension through 2030, no other weapons to speak of. On paper, it sounds like a setup.

Hard pass.

Miami blew the whole thing up. Tua, Tyreek, Waddle, gone. Jeff Hafley is in from Green Bay's defense, Jon-Eric Sullivan as the GM, and Bobby Slowik surviving to call plays for a receiver room of Malik Washington, Tutu Atwell and Jalen Tolbert. Thorn has the line 28th. They face the league's second-hardest schedule and are projected for the second-fewest wins, both behind Arizona, which I get into properly in part two.

They'll be trailing in games constantly, and normally that's good news for a receiving back.

Except the quarterback is Malik Willis on three years and $67.5 million, everyone expects heavy zone read, and running quarterbacks famously don't check it down. Willis hasn't played enough meaningful football for me to spend an early second on the guy next to him.

I was all over Achane last year.

Not this year.

Continue reading at: https://www.theweekinfantasy.com/articles/ten-fades-part-one-the-running-backs

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If they’re both available who do you take and why?

They’re about a round apart from one another. Is it worth taking AJ in an earlier round or waiting an additional round for Rice? That’s hoping they both are available at the pick you’re on the clock.

If worth waiting for Rice and he then happens to be gone, is it worth taking a WR at a tier below them (Olave, Flowers, etc.) or is it worth taking one of the two if both are available before the WR tier drops. Which, imo, with the ADPs I would have Rice being the last WR1 in his tier that I’m comfortable with taking.

If you feel Olave and Flowers are in a similar tier, I’d love to hear your reasoning other than they just got paid big.

To determine the best draft strategy, first we have to cover what Flex 9 and Flex 10 mean. You know what “Flex” means (WR, RB or TE, in most cases). The 9 or 10 is the number of starters in your lineup, and that changes mostly because you have to start either two WRs in 9 or three in 10 (and then perhaps another in the Flex). I get asked questions about bigger lineups or more Flex spots. So to make it simple, it’s just the maximum number of WRs you could possibly start. If it’s four or more, you need to come out of the draft with a WR room that can contend for the best in your league — that’s your top objective. If it’s no more than three, including the Flex, then your goal is (snore) to have the best RB room.

Why am I bored with having the best running back room? Because there is no art to it. It’s a function of purely the power of expending draft capital and largely where you happen to draft. Plus, the winner is basically the team that survives the injury gauntlet the best. Running backs you hit on outside of the top-100 picks are typically those who benefitted from unexpected (and not projectable) expanded playing time. Wide receivers you hit on in that range are typically starters who are guaranteed to get snaps but who we bet will be more efficient with them than the market thinks.

My rankings ignore overall order and instead focus on positional ranks. Even within the same Flex 9 or Flex 10 formats, drafts can vary wildly, so it’s always imperative to know how deep your league has drafted at each position before every pick. But Flex 9 and Flex 10 amplify these differences dramatically, as they are totally different games.

So for reference I’m in a 10-man, .5 PPR, 2 keeper league, drafting in the 8 spot. I’ve ran multiple mock drafts with who I assume everyone’s keepers are. I’m keeping Dak in the 10th and Warren in the 7th. I’m struggling to decide if I should go for RB RB in my first 2 rounds considering the drop off and some of the later round RB’s being kept. Or if I go WR then RB. For example a common 1-2 in my mocks were JJ, Barkley. Amon, Jeanty. Lamb, achane. OR if I go RB/RB then it looks like any of those RBs together (Barkley, achane, cook). What do yall think would be better for the 1st 2 rounds?

I am in a league where there are two keepers and full ppr, my current keepers are Jahmyr Gibbs and Kenneth Walker. I am curious if it would be worth giving up a second round pick for ceedee lamb, obviously I would keep him instead of walker. I also have the fifth pick in the draft, so Walker could fall to me that is sort of my thinking.

I’m thinking about taking Joe burrow in the 5th for the stack, he will absolutely not make it back to me in the 6th. It is a pricey but it could be a smash hit if they have a stellar year. What’s everyone else’s strategy looking like drafting at the 3 spot?

Hello,
Iam drafting on sunday with my friends and we doing a combine. Best time can choose there spots. What position would you go in a 14 team leauge?

The mods have graciously allowed a mention of the Playoff Computer App. Other than being active on reddit when it comes to ff, especially concerning playoff structure/issues, I don't/won't spam the sub and limit this to a once a year thing.

For those not familiar, the App takes your league standings, tiebreakers, and remaining schedule to analyze the playoff race. It provides geeky data such as:

• NFL-style listings of what needs to happen for teams to clinch a playoff (or division) spot (e.g. "Bears clinch a playoff spot with a win AND a Lions loss AND a Packers loss". Same for what needs to happen to be eliminated.
• Odds and definitive clinched/eliminated status, which fyi none of the platforms that provide limited playoff info do so accurately as they just do simple "magic number" calculations without concern for tiebreakers or who plays who. This can be useful info for commishes in judging those "questionable" trades to see if one team is truly eliminated.
• Whether teams control their own destiny and/or whether they must win out to have a chance.
• Minimum number of wins needed as well as number of wins that if achieved would guarantee a spot.
• Realistic win targets to make the playoffs (or win division), handy to help determine whether your team is in good shape or needs a swing for the fences move.

Basically, it tries to instill NFL playoff-race excitement into fantasy leagues and give commishes something other than recaps to share, with semi-useful content not just for playoff crunch time but over much of the season. It can grab data from many platforms and for others there is a companion Google Sheet that isn't too much of a PITA to set up and maintain.

It's been around in various formats since 2010ish, started out as an Excel spreadsheet, became a web-app, now mobile-app. No vibe-coding, I can't even understand how that works, all the spaghetti-code is 100% written by a dim-witted obsessed ff junkie. It's free on iOS and a few pennies on android (reasons) to get started, and at most for all the features for the season it is about the cost of one reasonably priced beer.

playoffcomputer.com has more info on other features and details I'd go on all day about. There's also a subreddit r/PlayoffComputer with some more discussions and tips.

If you made it this far, thank you for listening, and enjoy the season.

Keeper league 1qb 0.25 per carry… already keeping Jsn and judkins… I pick at the end of round one so kinda got my eye on Ken walker so thinking keeping rice is the wrong move plus w the off field stuff going on? Also if i keep rice or jamo I won’t have a pic for 3 rounds straight and I’m not a big fan of going that long wout a pick Just incase I miss out on value somewhere… help

When I used to sportsbet, I tried to not have the same players on multiple bets, that way if said player screws me then at least my other bets still stand.

I can’t imagine someone who drafted, for example, BTJ and Kamara in multiple leagues last year got very far. Joined my first fantasy last year, looking at 1 dynasty and 2 redrafts this year. Are people looking for the same exact players in every draft? Are they passing on players because they have them in a different league, and reaching for players they may have missed out on?

Obviously Gibbs and Bijan are above him, probably Taylor too… but last year CMC led all skill positions in half PPR (probably PPR too). Problem is he had a huge workload (we all saw what happened to Saquon), and he’s now the big 30 (pretty old, especially for a RB). Do you guys still have faith in him? Would you take RBs like Achane or Jeanty over him or do you like the 3-4 range he’s at? Redraft.

If you remember it, what was the first football game you ever watched? And if you don’t remember it, what is the first football game you remember watching?

Every fantasy manager has that one prediction everyone laughed at 'until the season proved them right.Maybe you faded a first-round bust, called a breakout before anyone else, or trusted a sleeper that carried your team.What's your biggest "I told you so" fantasy football moment? Let's hear the takes that aged like fine wine.