5 Things You Can Do To Draft Better

The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

Jeff Ratcliffe

Sports, Fantasy Sports, Football

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Jeff breaks down five key things you can do to instantly draft better. He talks about knowing your room, using a draft board instead of getting stuck in rankings quicksand, sticking to your strategy even when the room gets weird, staying mentally sharp from Round 1 to Round 16, and why ceiling matters way more than floor when you’re building a league-winner. This is your blueprint to draft like a pro and leave your league in the dust.

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0:00.0	Rap back where you at?
0:13.8	Yeah, what's going on?
0:16.2	It's the rant.
0:17.1	I'm Jeff, and it is Tuesday, July 22nd.
0:23.5	All the two teams will be in training camp as of today and obviously things are going to start to heat up from a news standpoint. But in the
0:30.5	buildup to fantasy football draft season, which is about a month from now, I want to sprinkle
0:35.9	in, you know, various strategy podcasts. We still
0:39.7	have to do a tight end strategy podcast. I realize that. And we will get to it. Don't worry
0:44.2	about that whatsoever yesterday. We did quarterbacks. I did running back strategies last week.
0:48.3	Sprinkled it did some news stuff as well. So we're going to keep continuing along this trajectory.
0:53.7	And today, as you can see, five things that you can do on draft day to draft better.
0:59.4	Not in the buildup, but actually when you're there at your fantasy football drafts, I'm going to break it all down for you today.
1:06.8	Insights, wisdom, whatever you want to call it from my many years of doing live fantasy football
1:11.9	drafts. These are the things I focus on. These are the things that will help you be a better
1:16.5	drafter on draft day at your various fantasy football drafts. Of course, we are also helping you do
1:21.8	that exact same thing over at FtnFantasy.com. This week is tiers week at FtnFantasy.com. This week is Tears Week at FtnFantasy.com. Quarterback and running back
1:30.2	tiers are already up. Tomorrow I will do wide receiver. Thursday, I will do tight end. So you get all
1:37.4	the tiers. And those are free. I know some folks listen to this show and don't subscribe at FtnFantasy.com.
1:43.9	Well, first and foremost, that is one way you could help out this show is by subscribing over at FtNFantasy.com. Well, first and foremost, that is one way you
1:45.4	could help out this show is by subscribing over at FtnFantasy.com. And it doesn't have to be
1:49.6	the NFL pros subscription. I know some people maybe don't like the price point or maybe they don't
1:55.3	want it for the whole year. If that applies to you and you just want fantasy draft information,
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