Comments on: Fantasy Draft Strategy: Tiering Your Player Rankings and Cheat Sheets

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Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:52:18 +0000

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Wed, 19 Aug 2009 01:41:38 +0000

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By: Expert league drafting for experts in the expert off-season | Fantasy Football Fools

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 06:34:16 +0000

[...] I’ll take Ocho Cinco that late any day. I don’t mind his mouth. It might just end up being another way for him to catch the ball and/or celebrate his TD. You really notice when guys fall to you like this in a draft if you do one simple thing: tier your cheatsheet. [...]

By: The Difference Between a RB1 and RB2 | Fantasy Football Fools

The Difference Between a RB1 and RB2 | Fantasy Football Fools — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 07:08:57 +0000

[...] these tags with players on your cheat sheet — maybe by tiering them off into RB1 and RB2 categories — you can better prepare for the kind of team you want to build [...]

By: Jacob

Jacob — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:25:45 +0000

@Lee:

A clang? Is that what I am supposed to hear when someone subscribes? Like when an angel gets wings?

I always thought my notification was the rooster tied into my computer that crows randomly throughout the day until I slap it. Maybe I need to upgrade…

I have my articles publishing to Bleacher Report at the moment so that fans wander back here for the rest. I’m glad to have you on board, Lee.

By: Lee

Lee — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 23:32:29 +0000

Good stuff Jacob. I read your stuff all the time at Bleacher report but don’t know if I have made it over here or not. Hear that? The clang of a new subscriber…

By: Jacob

Jacob — Wed, 28 May 2008 20:17:21 +0000

@ffexchange

That’s good use of your tiers. When you have a good sense (or secret tidbits of info that you collect all off-season), taking your high-risk players near the end of your draft can payoff big.

I usually try to mark players that I see as “sleepers” or high upside players regardless of where they tier. When it comes down to the end of the draft, similar to your method, I snag as many as I can.

@Doug

I’ve never used this tiering method for an auction draft, but it can be easily adapted. Here’s how I would prep it:

In tiering for an auction league, do your research and split the players for each position based on how much they will cost you (using average draft pricing or expert projections). I’d try to set aside 2-3 players at each position that could be your high-pay stud to build a team around. You’ll try to get at least one of these studs for you team. Split the tiers where the big hype/money breaks will be.

The difference when you get to drafting is that you can use the tiers to budget your team. For example, if you get a tier 1 RB stud and maybe a tier 1 QB, you can look to tier 2 WRs to fill out your roster.

The tiers will keep you from overpaying and also let you track when a player can be “stolen” off the board for much less than he should normally be worth.

If you use this for your auction league, be sure to let me know how it goes.

By: Doug Darroch

Doug Darroch — Wed, 28 May 2008 16:34:26 +0000

Have you ever used your tier system for an auction? And how would you reccomend someone use this system for an auction?

By: ffexchange

ffexchange — Wed, 28 May 2008 16:29:36 +0000

I love the using parts of the tiering approach. I mainly use tiers to determine position scarcity. If I have the option of drafting a backup RB of which there is 1 left in a tier or my 2nd WR of which there are 7 left in a tier, I usually grab the RB because I’m pretty sure there is a WR in that group that will be there when my turn comes up again, even though most would consider the 2nd WR to be more important than a backup. Near the end of drafts, I tend to throw away the tiers and would rather take a high-risk, high ceiling guy in a lower tier than a safe player in a higher tier.

By: Weekly Haze « The Hazean

Weekly Haze « The Hazean — Wed, 28 May 2008 15:32:12 +0000

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