Fantasy Files: 10 tips to follow in your fantasy football draft
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🗓️ 9 August 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Host Ian Hartitz breaks down his top-10 tips for you to follow in your fantasy football draft. Things start out with Ian advising everyone to not get too cute early considering how much sharper early-round average draft positions are compared to later rounds. Next up is a breakdown on the 14 running backs Ian feels especially comfortable with drafting inside of the top-three rounds. Conversation continues with talks on upside and targeting players priced closer to their floor than ceiling. Additional topics include: injury prone and already injured are two different things, Kirk Cousins, strength of schedule, scoring formats, tight ends and when (if at all) to draft kickers and defense.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to the FF Fancy Football Podcast. I'm your host Ian Hardin. Today we continue our Fancy |
| 0:13.6 | Files series with a bit of a special edition here. I want to give you 10 tips to follow in your Fancy |
| 0:19.0 | Football draft. Now the goal of this Fancy Files series of which we are 80 plus episodes in has |
| 0:24.3 | usually been the crunch down on one specific quarterback room running back group, wide receiver, |
| 0:29.5 | tight end room, whatever the hell we were talking about, usually just stuck on one thing, which was |
| 0:34.1 | great. Again, we've been doing this since May. There's been a lot of time to, you know, go through and |
| 0:38.8 | not necessarily hit the single most important thing every single day. With that said, I know a lot of |
| 0:44.6 | you are getting back into your Fancy drafts and I'd rather try to help you win those more than, |
| 0:49.4 | you know, artificially and arbitrarily just complete this series, which I'm going to continue doing |
| 0:54.3 | just instead of finishing off with, you know, podcasts about the Detroit Lions quarterback situation |
| 0:59.2 | or the New York Jets running back situation. Still important things that believe me. I am considering |
| 1:04.6 | but not necessarily devoting entire podcasts to them. So in turn, I want to do some just again, |
| 1:09.5 | more all-encompassing pieces here coming up that were really just do the goal here and that's |
| 1:14.2 | try to win you money in your Fancy Football draft. So today, I'm going to roll through my 10 tips that |
| 1:18.6 | I believe anybody should be following and their Fancy Football draft pretty much regardless of |
| 1:23.6 | format. I'll get to that more in the future, not including dynasty, just redrafts, so chill out, |
| 1:28.8 | but best ball too. So with that said, tip number one, don't get cute early everybody and I think |
| 1:35.8 | most of you are pretty good about this. We don't normally see, you know, a wide receiver 30, |
| 1:40.0 | so you don't see Chase Claypool going in round three, even if you might be ranking him there. |
| 1:44.0 | For a reason, average draft position, just like in the NFL draft, is sharper in the beginning parts |
| 1:50.4 | compared to the later. And that's what we see in Fancyland. We have spent so much time all off season, |
| 1:55.6 | people like me with a full-time job, people like you that are just getting into this in August, |
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