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The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

Why "Value" is Killing Your Hero/Zero RB Builds

The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

Jeff Ratcliffe

Sports, Fantasy Sports, Football

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Everyone loves the idea of flexibility on draft day, but sometimes “mixing strategies” just leaves you with a mess. In this episode, Jeff breaks down why blending value-based drafting with Hero RB or Zero RB is a dangerous game. From conflicting priorities to wrecked roster construction, he walks you through the traps drafters fall into when they try to mash these philosophies together. If you want a clear plan of attack for your fantasy football draft instead of a Frankenstein strategy, this episode is a must-listen.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Rap back where you at?

0:14.5

Yo, what's going on?

0:16.8

It's Tuesday, August 19th.

0:18.7

I'm Jeff.

0:19.0

This is the rants.

0:23.8

I can tell you, every so often,

0:30.8

things become crystal clear. And for a long time, I wondered why, you know, I would break down the draft strategies for Hero and ZeroRB. And I'd have folks in the Discord over at Ftnfantasy.com, you know, I'm going to talk about that in a minute,

0:39.1

but they tell me, you know, I just couldn't resist this player in this spot, right? So I abandoned the

0:46.7

strategy. And I say over and over, hey, if you abandon the strategy, the strategy doesn't work.

0:51.6

And I kept thinking, why the heck do people abandon it?

0:55.8

It became crystal clear this year.

0:57.1

I figured it all out.

0:58.7

I figured it out.

1:05.6

Most fantasy drafters, seasoned fantasy drafters, not novices, beginners, only a couple drafts under their belt, those folks.

1:07.3

But seasoned fantasy drafters, most of them are value-based drafters.

1:10.7

Even if you don't realize that you're are value-based drafters. Even if you don't

1:11.9

realize that you're a value-based drafter, this idea has become so pervasive in fantasy football

1:17.6

that most people are just value-based drafters. That's just how they do things. Well, if you have a

1:25.0

value-based approach and you try to use HeroRB or ZeroRB,

1:30.7

those two do not mix.

1:32.3

They don't mix at all, they're oil and water.

1:35.7

And so I wanted to sit down and actually talk a little bit about that

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