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Yes, it is July, which means football is right around the corner, which means redraft as well as best ball is going to take over for the next few weeks.

And if you've been drafting a lot of teams, it's time to kind of consider how to adapt to redraft and how to take the best possible approach to your leagues this year.

Andrew, as someone who ranked top five in Fantasy Pro's expert consensus rankings for 2024 drafts,

what stands out with most to you when it comes to adapting for 2025 when you've been drafting a lot of bestball drafts and then

looking at redraft. Well, I know for me, I have to take some time off of drafting bestball teams.

I need to kind of reset the brain into redraft mode, into I actually have to push the start

button on these certain players. So as great as it sounds to say, oh, man, this wide receiver is going to have so many spike week. It's going to be great. I never have to push the start button on these certain players. So as great as it sounds to say, oh, man,

this wide receiver is going to have so many spike week. It's going to be great. I never have

to project when to start them. Not the case in redraft. You have to be able to click the button and

think, oh my God, I have to put Keon Coleman in my starting lineup. Am I going to feel good about that in week one. Maybe not. So I think that's one of the big things.

And I think with best ball, it's obvious that it sets your lineup automatically. But one of the

things that's different is there's no access to the waiver wire. And we know how integral the

waiver wire playing the waiver wire during your redraft league, how important that is to building

a winning team.

And I think that you made it a great point in the outline, Tom, where you talked about the later

rounds and best ball drafts where you're getting to 15, 16, 17, 17, 18, 19, even 20 rounds.

You're basically trying to draft the waiver players before they become available on the

waiver.

Before they become targets in redraft leagues.

Yeah, massively so, because, like, you spin back to a couple of years ago,

Karen Williams Pookinukuwa were guys who, in the vast majority of redraft leagues,

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