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The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

How to Adjust Strategy Based On League Size

The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

Jeff Ratcliffe

Sports, Fantasy Sports, Football

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Jeff breaks down how your fantasy draft strategy should shift depending on league size. Whether you're in a shallow 10-team league or grinding through a deep 14-teamer, the way you approach each position needs to change. He dives into why Hero RB is his preferred approach in all leagues, how WR depth becomes king in larger formats, when to grab your QB, and why tight end strategy is more league size-dependent than you think.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Rap back where you at?

0:14.1

Yo, what's going on?

0:16.8

It's Monday, July 28th.

0:18.5

I'm Jeff.

0:19.0

This is the rants.

0:20.6

And guess what? Our first full weekend of

0:23.4

NFL trinity camp, it's in the rearview mirror. We have preseason coming at us this week.

0:28.2

Hall of Fame game, but still preseason nonetheless. And things are starting to heat up.

0:32.4

In fact, this past weekend was the last weekend for me that I won't have a fantasy football draft until the start

0:38.8

of the NFL season, five straight weekends of fantasy football drafts. I realize the first

0:43.9

weekend in August is early for a lot of folks out there, but the middle of August isn't, and that's

0:49.1

three weeks away. I mean, we're careening towards fantasy football draft season. So today on the show,

0:56.0

since there really wasn't a ton of news from over the weekend, I mean, a couple stories,

1:00.4

Terry McLaren's in camp holding in big surprise. Joe Mixon's banged up, but not major needle

1:06.2

movers right now. We still have some time to talk some strategy on the podcast. So, you know,

1:10.7

we're going to

1:11.4

drill down on some more things here. And one of the most common questions I get asked, because,

1:16.1

of course, I break down my strategy for you in the game plan draft guide over at FtnFantasy.com.

1:21.4

You can use the promo code rat pack for 10% off to get access to that. I just updated cheat sheets.

1:26.6

So they're fresh, brand new, great article

1:31.0

content up there, projections, tools galore. It's 365 if you get NFL Pro. Use promo code rapack

1:38.4

for 10% off. But I break down my strategy. And my strategy is what's different than last year.

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