Using David's Draft List (1 Viewer)

[Hersh]

Has anyone used Mr. Dodds' Draft List?  How did your draft/season pan out?  I am trying it out in an ESPN league where you have 90 seconds to make your pick.  Making a pick in 90 seconds is not my problem, but scratching off the picks when a lot of people are making autopicks causes me a great deal of frustration!

 

[Deamon]

Has anyone used Mr. Dodds' Draft List?  How did your draft/season pan out?  I am trying it out in an ESPN league where you have 90 seconds to make your pick.  Making a pick in 90 seconds is not my problem, but scratching off the picks when a lot of people are making autopicks causes me a great deal of frustration!

Yes his list is good.  And it should be easy to cross a name off a list quickly... haven't you ever played Bingo?

 

[-jb-]

It’s good but at least for this year I don’t think it works. The concept of taking BPA leaves you pretty exposed at RB this year

 

[Hot Sauce Guy]

It’s good but at least for this year I don’t think it works. The concept of taking BPA leaves you pretty exposed at RB this year

Part of BPA is also using VBD and positional scarcity. Recommend reading the “perfect draft” article on here - it goes into that. 

You want BPA within reason. If BPA is Thomas, but you’re not comfortable taking a WR top 4, then take the RB. 

You should have a plan in mind for the first 5 rounds to end up with what you feel comfortable with.  It might be 2 RB, it might be 3 .use that to determine BPA for your strategy. 
 

 

[acarey50]

Part of BPA is also using VBD and positional scarcity. Recommend reading the “perfect draft” article on here - it goes into that. 

You want BPA within reason. If BPA is Thomas, but you’re not comfortable taking a WR top 4, then take the RB. 

You should have a plan in mind for the first 5 rounds to end up with what you feel comfortable with.  It might be 2 RB, it might be 3 .use that to determine BPA for your strategy. 
 

I think this is an extremely important piece that many people misunderstand or misconstrue when talking about BPA.

To simplify your example, Thomas may be the best WR and BPA at that point in the draft, but if you expect 4 more RBs but only 1 WR to go before your next pick, and that drop at RB is greater than the drop at WR you expect to see, then you take the best RB with the current pick, then the best WR at the next pick, and your net value is greater. Oversimplified a bit as you need to look at that across each position (and easier said than done determining who will go where).

I'll use a current draft I am in as an example. We're part way through, and I am in a spot where I could use either a 3rd/4th WR or a back up TE. IMO, the best player currently available in the draft is a WR, but the drop to the next batch of WRs, which I almost assuredly will be able to get one of at my next pick, is not that great. The next player up is Gesicki, and I see a rather big drop off behind him in the next available TE (I have him higher than many of the other TEs drafted already). In addition, three of the teams that pick between my next picks are also in need of a 2nd TE. Very low chance Gesicki makes it back to me. I'm planning to take Gesicki (if he survives the two picks to go in front of me) with my earlier pick (even though he is not BPA) and then address WR the next round, as the combination of Gesicki and lower WR is greater than top WR and lower TE.

 

[-jb-]

I get what you’re saying but I don’t believe that is what Dodd’s is actually saying.
 

ETA what you’re describing is standard VBD.

 

[candian fantasy guy]

With the craziness of the RB's this year, I have taken the approach in almost every draft to grab 1 RB in my first 2 picks and then I pound on those top WR's. Unless an RB falls of course. It leaves my RB2 sometimes a little questionable, but 4-6 upside RB's on my bench also ready to go when the time comes and I'm loaded at WR.  

Dodds list and the dominator keep pushing those players up the list this year, so I'm going with it and feeling good about it.