Thoughts to ponder for season ahead
Thoughts to ponder for season ahead
UPDATED: 08/03/2012

Anyone else feeling obsessed with football now that training camps have opened? (Hands go up throughout the room.) Good. Happy to know I’m not alone. I actually had a dream the other night in which my wife reacted angrily after I deleted episodes of “Project Runway” to make room on the DVR for preseason games.

A few of you degenerates already have had fantasy drafts/auctions, but for most of us, the draft season is just ahead. Please allow me to dislodge an indiscriminate jumble of fantasy-related thoughts from my brain. The first two pertain to strategy. The others are more player-specific.

One school of thought heading into the fantasy draft season is that there’s so much depth at wide receiver, owners should wait on wideouts and load up at the other positions (particularly the Keira Knightley-thin RB position) in the early rounds. I agree — to a point.

The shrewd move is to tailor your draft strategy to the size of your league and the lineup configuration that your league requires. If you only have to start two receivers each week in a 10-team league, then yes, it makes sense to be patient at the WR spot. If you need to start three receivers each week in a 14-team league, well, you’d better not wait too long before dipping a toe into the WR pool. I played in a 12-team expert league last year where the flex rules allowed you to start as many as five WRs in a 10-player lineup — and you had to start four WRs each week unless you opted for a second tight end in one of the two flex spots. Getting caught short on receivers in a league like that could be fatal.

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