How To Research In Preparation For Your Fantasy Football Draft

How To Research In Preparation For Your Fantasy Football Draft

What type of research should I do in preparation of my fantasy football draft?

The first research you should do for your fantasy football draft is to follow the football news as much as you can on an everyday basis. A guy that's ranked really high in a magazine you buy in the middle of the summer might blow out his knee, and then he obviously is not someone you want to draft. You want to follow the news every day, maybe on a site like ESPN, Rotoworld or NBC. Before you draft, I also think it's a good idea to look at some rankings done by fantasy football writers. I'm one of those writers, so I'll make my rankings - I'll rank who are the best running backs, the best wide receivers, the best quarterbacks. You can go to a number of different fantasy football sites - not just the one I work for, but ESPN, Fox, NBC, etc. - and you find out who the highest ranked fantasy players are, which can at least give you a guide to drafting. I would not follow my advice word for word, because it's your own team and you need to decide what you need to do, but at least it gives you a guide and a framework to work from. Other than that, I think the main thing to do before a draft is to keep track of strategy articles, and keep track of who's hurt and who's not; injuries are very important in fantasy football.