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The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

Why Mocks Don't Help You Draft Better

The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

Jeff Ratcliffe

Sports, Fantasy Sports, Football

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Mock drafts might be fun, but they’re not making you a better fantasy football drafter. In this episode, Jeff breaks down why mock drafts give you a false sense of preparation, the big differences between mocks and the real thing, and the smarter ways to get ready for your draft. If you’ve been wasting time in mock lobbies, this one’s a wake-up call.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Yeah, what's up?

0:13.5

Yeah, what's up?

0:15.6

It's Friday, August 15th.

0:17.2

I'm Jeff.

0:17.6

This is the rant, and it is the day before a lot of people start drafting

0:21.5

in fantasy football. Maybe it has some drafts already, but come on, man, come on. Tomorrow,

0:27.6

a lot of fantasy football drafts will be going down, and then of course next Saturday. It's the

0:31.9

biggest fantasy draft day of the year. Today's topic deals with preparation. People love mock draft drafts but do mock drafts actually help us

0:41.6

I argue that they don't in fact they actually could hurt you in your draft preparation

0:47.9

so I want to explain exactly why that is because it is something I say quite often and people

0:52.1

are like really no no. You're wrong.

0:57.9

Well, I humbly disagree with that and I'm going to make my case. And I'm going to tell you what

1:01.9

you could actually do to really help yourself prepare for your fantasy football drafts.

1:05.9

Of course, you know that's going to lead me into promoting FtNFantasy.com, but I promote it because I love it,

1:11.5

man. The whole idea of this thing is like, how do you create a site that has basically everything

1:17.4

that you need from soup to nuts? Not only draft, draft day, draft preparation, how to dominate

1:23.9

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2:01.2

And that's just the tip of the iceberg. I mean, in season, we help you out throughout the off-season we help you out in our Discord community where you can talk directly to me. The cheat-sheets glower are going to help you for your drafts. And I'm going to update those bad boys tomorrow morning, bright and early, baby, to get them all set up. I have a draft at 1 o''clock so we're going to have to be done before then so we get the freshest information possible reflecting

2:05.3

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2:11.7

you get stats galore you get a premium article content i mean the list goes on and on and on. But here's the deal. Take

2:18.5

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2:23.5

Don't wait. Dominate. That's what I'm saying, man. All right, so let's get into it.

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