While we hope you will devour the entire Draft Kit, many have asked us what is most important here and how to be ready to win in a short period of time. This is a quick guide to answer that question.
1. USE OUR RANKINGS AND TIERS
Our rankings are our top priority. It is important to us to provide the best experience possible for our customers. When news breaks during peak drafting season, we update our rankings nearly immediately. In short, you can trust our rankings reflect the latest news and our best effort to make accurate predictions.
Our rankings are built using a combination of the team’s collective input, including professional fantasy sports players Adam Levitan, Mike Leone, Drew Dinkmeyer, and other contributors. They are based on full season-long projections for every player but are not simply an ordering of projected points (for example, a player we project to score more in December than in September would be worth more on a fantasy roster than a player with the opposite profile). Our rankings are customized to all popular fantasy scoring systems and format ADPs. Each set of rankings comes with a PDF cheat sheet for draft day, and the Rankings Hub has links to every format we cover. Separately, Evan Silva creates his own set of rankings and tiers based on half-PPR scoring. We recommend consulting both ETR’s and Silva’s rankings and using the set you feel more comfortable with, or some combination of both.
**NOTE ON RANKINGS UPDATES: THE PAGE TIMESTAMP DOES NOT UPDATE, BUT THE RANKINGS UPDATE AT 9 AM DAILY (and often multiple times per day)!
2. FANTASY FOOTBALL ANALYSIS
Our approach starts with solid format-specific rankings and tiers for drafting, but we create a significant amount of other analysis. We have dozens of pieces in the Draft Kit but have highlighted a few that we think are particularly useful. For a list of all of our articles, click here.
Exploiting The Default Rankings: ESPN | Yahoo | Sleeper — Adam Levitan identifies players who are mispriced according to ADP on each major fantasy drafting platform. This allows you to start with a list of players who may be over- or under-drafted, especially in more casual leagues.
Levitan’s Perfect Draft — Adam takes us through what a perfect draft would look like for him through the first 10 rounds.
Levitan’s Favorite Fliers — Adam hits on his favorite draft targets that have a consensus ADP outside of the top 10 rounds.
ETR’s Late-Round RB Targets — As the market moves, this list stays updated with our favorite late-round RB targets and which rounds you should select them.
ETR’s Training Camp News Tracker — Overwhelmed by fantasy “news” that isn’t actually relevant to player outlooks? Our staff tracks and analyzes news so you can quickly stay up to speed on what we think you actually need to know.
ETR Staff: Sleepers & Busts — Our staff walks through their favorite Sleeper & Bust candidates, with a short blurb about why.
Silva’s Sleepers & Busts — Evan provides his Sleepers & Busts for the upcoming season.
Silva’s Team Previews — Evan delivers team previews for every team in the league.
Silva’s Shy Away 30 — Evan shares 30 players he believes will underperform their ADP in 2023.
Jack Miller’s How to Draft Series — Jack Miller breaks down his ideal strategy and roster construction when drafting from every potential draft slot in a 12-team league. For Picks 1-4, click here. For Picks 5-8, click here. And for Picks 9-12, click here.
3. LISTEN TO THE DRAFT PLAN AND POSITIONAL OVERVIEW PODS (FREE)
We release podcasts to cover how to approach your draft slot, and how to think about the QB, RB, WR, and TE positions. These make for good listening to quickly get up to speed on the overall landscape of each position, including our team’s targets and fades.
Fantasy Football Draft Plan: Picks 1-4: Podcast | Video
Fantasy Football Draft Plan: Picks 5-8: Podcast | Video
Fantasy Football Draft Plan: Picks 9-12: Podcast | Video
QB Positional Overview: Podcast | Video
RB Positional Overview: Podcast | Video
WR Positional Overview: Podcast | Video
TE Positional Overview: Podcast | Video
4. YOUTUBE CONTENT
We have a number of videos that provide focused analysis to help you efficiently prepare for your draft.
10 Late-Round RBs with LEAGUE-WINNING Upside ~20 mins
8 RBs You MUST Draft in Fantasy Football ~6 mins
7 WR LEAGUE WINNERS in Fantasy Football ~6 mins
10 Tips From Expert Auction Fantasy Drafters ~50 mins
How To WIN Your 2-QB and Superflex Leagues ~45 mins
Identifying the “Dead Zone” RBs in Rounds 3-6 ~45 mins
5. AT THE DRAFT: “WIN THE DRAFT”
Before you draft, we recommend familiarizing yourself with Evan Silva’s Top 150 to get an idea of where he stands on most fantasy-relevant players. Next, find the set of ETR Top-300 Rankings that applies to your league format. When drafting, we recommend using Tiers of Evan alongside our rankings to guide you through your draft. Note that you can download PDF cheat sheets for all of the aforementioned resources.
Finally, on draft day, consider using our ADP Report to get a sense of where players typically are being drafted.
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