I posted this as a response to someone in the Ac forum after they asked to rate their team, but I think it's sound advice for everyone during this draft season so I'm positing it here too:
Hey man you know what? Don't even sweat it and don't worry about people's answers to rate my team questions. No one has any clue how the players you drafted are going to perform this season. Seriously.
If I asked you last year in early September to rate this team what would you say:
Qb: Peyton manning.
Rb: zac Stacy, Shane vereen, Andre brown, Andre Ellington,Jordan todman
Wr: vjax, jordy, josh Gordon, Keenan Allen
Te: Jordan Cameron
Def: streaming week to week.
You would have said "man you're in trouble". Of course, this team went deep into the playoffs for me and lost by ONE point in the sb last year.
But the team looked completely different on draft day. I turned that roster over so much with waiver wire adds and trades it was almost unrecognizable at the end of the season. And that's what got me to the sb.
Highly touted players bust and several players always come from out of nowhere during the season and propel savvy owners to championships.
If you drafted a team that YOU like and think works, that's all you need to know. The rest is in-season team management:
1) understanding weekly matchups and starting the right players.
2) recognizing when to cut bait and when to give leash on players. Stay objective. Don't fall in love or marry players. There's a difference BW a stud who's situation hasn't changed but he is just slumping and a player who's situation has completely changed (coaching, qb, o line, injury) and he's not playing the same. Knowing the difference is knowing how to read the tea leaves and when to cut bait while the player still has trade value or while that hot waiver wire pickup is out there and you're trying to figure out who to drop for him. Tavon Austin comes to mind for me last year. I cut bait on him a littler earlier than most did. I just didn't like what I was seeing. I dropped him for Keenan Allen rt after Malcolm Floyd's season ending injury.
3) watching the waiver wires like a hawk and preemptively picking up guys who look like they could bust out soon. You must do this BEFORE THEY bust out.
4) never stop looking to upgrade via trades. If another team loses a player to injury or their team is sucking big time, they are a great potential trade partner. Swoop in and grab a stud from them and give them depth.
Do this and your the will look vastly different while you hoist your league's trophy in December!
Hey man you know what? Don't even sweat it and don't worry about people's answers to rate my team questions. No one has any clue how the players you drafted are going to perform this season. Seriously.
If I asked you last year in early September to rate this team what would you say:
Qb: Peyton manning.
Rb: zac Stacy, Shane vereen, Andre brown, Andre Ellington,Jordan todman
Wr: vjax, jordy, josh Gordon, Keenan Allen
Te: Jordan Cameron
Def: streaming week to week.
You would have said "man you're in trouble". Of course, this team went deep into the playoffs for me and lost by ONE point in the sb last year.
But the team looked completely different on draft day. I turned that roster over so much with waiver wire adds and trades it was almost unrecognizable at the end of the season. And that's what got me to the sb.
Highly touted players bust and several players always come from out of nowhere during the season and propel savvy owners to championships.
If you drafted a team that YOU like and think works, that's all you need to know. The rest is in-season team management:
1) understanding weekly matchups and starting the right players.
2) recognizing when to cut bait and when to give leash on players. Stay objective. Don't fall in love or marry players. There's a difference BW a stud who's situation hasn't changed but he is just slumping and a player who's situation has completely changed (coaching, qb, o line, injury) and he's not playing the same. Knowing the difference is knowing how to read the tea leaves and when to cut bait while the player still has trade value or while that hot waiver wire pickup is out there and you're trying to figure out who to drop for him. Tavon Austin comes to mind for me last year. I cut bait on him a littler earlier than most did. I just didn't like what I was seeing. I dropped him for Keenan Allen rt after Malcolm Floyd's season ending injury.
3) watching the waiver wires like a hawk and preemptively picking up guys who look like they could bust out soon. You must do this BEFORE THEY bust out.
4) never stop looking to upgrade via trades. If another team loses a player to injury or their team is sucking big time, they are a great potential trade partner. Swoop in and grab a stud from them and give them depth.
Do this and your the will look vastly different while you hoist your league's trophy in December!
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