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The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

Draft Day Psychology

The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

Jeff Ratcliffe

Sports, Fantasy Sports, Football

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Jeff dives into the psychological traps fantasy football managers fall into every single year on draft day. From overreacting to position runs to blindly trusting ADP, these mental missteps can quietly wreck a draft, and Jeff's here to help you avoid them (and exploit them when your opponents fall for the bait). If you want the upper hand in your snake draft, this episode is your secret weapon.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Rap back where you at?

0:13.6

Yo, what's going on?

0:15.1

It's Wednesday, August 6th.

0:16.6

This is The Rant.

0:19.0

And we're continuing this kind of mini podcast series, I guess,

0:24.5

on things that are going to help you on draft day, whether they're draft strategies or as you

0:29.5

can see from today. Draft Day psychology. So some of these elements to fantasy drafting that

0:34.8

don't get talked about a lot. If you're just coming into the podcast

0:38.1

fold right now, go back through the last couple of weeks. You're going to see a bunch of

0:41.4

evergreen podcasts, including something simple like, how do you use a cheat sheet? I know it sounds

0:48.2

dumb on the surface, but it actually is much more nuanced. And there are ways to definitely

0:53.8

misuse a cheat sheet on draft day.

0:56.3

So go through all that stuff if you're just coming into the fold.

0:58.6

Now, if you've been here all along, I appreciate you, of course.

1:01.9

So let's get into a little draft day psychology.

1:03.7

Of course, before I get into that, I do appreciate everybody and the positive words about

1:07.9

the new and improved draft day checklist over at FtnFantasy.com. It is paywalled,

1:12.9

but it does give you a lot of information. How do you get set up on draft day? How do you,

1:18.7

you know, things to focus on during the course of the draft? And then how do you execute round by

1:23.2

round? And I even give you, if you're in a superflex, I add those in. If you're in a 10-team league

1:27.8

or smaller, I add those in, right? Little check marks there. Things that you want to execute.

1:34.1

It's a really great resource, very, very simple and easy to use on draft day in addition to a

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