The 5 Biggest Newbie Mistakes In Fantasy Football

Written by  //  June 20, 2012  //  Lists, NFL  //  2 Comments

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Fantasy football is back and with it comes a crop of new names such as Browns RB Trent Richardson and Colts QB Andrew Luck.

It also brings with it a bumper crop of other newbies with names like Louie’s Lizards, Buccaneer Bruisers and Show Me Da Money.

The latter group will probably get invited to join a fantasy league at work, through a friend or simply because they were the first person that was encountered by a league commissioner that was desperately grasping at straws for one last odd to make an even in a 10 team league.

If you are in that group, understand this no one expects you to do well. They will be happy if you set your roster consistently to keep things on the up and up.

This is by no means an ultimate guide to winning as you need to understand much more than what follows to get you the copper-plated trophy with the $50 stuffed in it, but these simple ideals can keep you from getting laughed at.

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  • The_Mick

    These are nice warnings for newbies -and oldbies- but I would add one comment that your league’s scoring, number of teams, number of bench slots, and how many people start (or can possibly start if you have a flex position) at each position can alter the recommendations a little.

    For example, I generally draft DST’s and K’s in the last two rounds. But CBS’s standard scoring for DST’s is so huge (games start with 20 pts) -sometimes 3 of the top 15 overall scorers have been DST’s- that I draft a DST in R7 or R8 so I can get the Ravens or Steelers, etc. who may be a top-ten overall individual scorer.

    In the IDP league I’m in, there are only 2 starting WRs (no fles) and only ten teams. There always seems to be non-elite but hot WR’s on free agent lists. But top RBs (2 start) are scarce during the year because they’re somewhat limited to the few teams that feature primarily one running back, and the same one consistently. So I’m likely to slightly load up with RBs but only 3-4 WRs (depending on who’s on the board, of course, during the draft) during that draft.

    • http://www.playersview.net Hurricane-PV

      All VERY true!

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