I’ve been playing fantasy football since high school, and for me, that’s a long time… over 25 years since I graduated. Yeah, back then, we used pen and paper, we went by the Chicago Sun Times game stats to determine the winners each week; it was great. Fantasy football has come a long way since then. For the past 10 years, I’ve been in the same league with a bunch of guys from work for the most part; next Thursday at the draft will mark the start of our 11th year. We’ve gone away from the snake draft a long time ago; auction is the only way to go in my opinion. But this year, we tried something different… something we’ve talked about doing for a long time. We’re starting up a separate league… a keeper league. Don’t recall ever having more than 1 team per year, but this year will be the 1st. This Thursday was our draft.
I forgot how different a snake draft is; it doesn’t take much skill in my opinion. Pick the best guys available. Calculate when your next pick or picks will be and reach if you really want a guy. Then there’s the whole dumb luck with what pick you get slotted with that could change everything with a draft strategy. I picked last in this draft.
I was reading about a zero RB draft strategy doing my minimal research for this season. It was an interesting concept… kind of misleading a bit, because obviously you need RBs… but you wait until later to pick them. As the first round rolled to an end, I wasn’t interested in any of the top RBs left, so I guess I executed the zero RB strategy. I took Julio Jones and Travis Kelce. I’m OK with that.
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It wasn’t the same feeling as an auction draft; it confirmed to me what I already knew… auction all day for me. Yet, the keeper portion of this league will be the interesting thing… to see how we can all build teams over the years. I do look forward to that, reminding me of Maddon Franchise mode back in the day. Playing for keeps sounds good to me… now, who will be my keepers? Next…
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So, who picked, or should I say, ‘who’s outta Luck?’