NFL/CBSsportsline Drafting Strategy (1 Viewer)

[BusterTBronco]

I have competed in several of these NFL/CBSsportsline leagues in the last couple of years and am still struggling to develop the perfect draft strategy.

One thing that drives me nuts about these leagues is that the QB's always seem to get drafted WELL before their ADP in other venues. Could someone explain to me if there is a logical reason for this?

Here are my theories:

1) These leagues draw a lot of novice players who don't know when to draft a QB.

2) These leagues award 6 pts for passing touchdwon, so the elite QB's may have a bit more value than in leagues which award 4 pts/passing TD.

3) The small roster size (14 players) give the QB position greater value relative to other positions. (i.e. I can always pick up a serviceable WR/TE/D/K on waivers)

 

[videoguy505]

Players are pretty much ranked by projected points scored. Period. So QBs are high on the list, even though they're not valuable. When you open up the league, the QBs are all near the top of the pre-rank lists. Only the owners who click "reset to ADP" will see different.

Also, when you're drafting, you can only see 20 or so players at a time, so QBs stay high on the list and start to fill up the screen, and it takes a few clicks to scroll past them.

In my sportsline league, though, it's a lot of guppies and they love QBs, so that could be part of it too. We play a simple "keep 3" league, where every team has to keep any 3 players, at no cost. So of the 36 kept players, 7 were QBs... the equivalent of 7 drafted by 3.12. Wild stuff. Some guy wanted to keep both Brady and Leinart until he got talked out of it by another owner.

But QBs are no more valuable in this format. You can safely wait on one until 11 or 12 are off the board. Last year I waited until everyone else had one and kept picking value. I ended up with Plummer, Aaron Brooks, and Mark Brunell as my QBs . After 4-5 weeks I had dropped all three and got Steve McNair off waivers. He took me to the championship.

 

[BusterTBronco]

Thanks. Yeah, I kinda followed that strategy in my most recent sportsline draft and got Ben Roeth at the end of the 9th round.