Help with Fantasy Football by Months
Intro | June-August | August | September-November | December
It’s a Marathon, not a Sprint
Nobody has ever won a Fantasy Bowl Championship before December, and nobody ever will. I’ve often said that you can only put yourself in a position to win a Championship. About one-half is skill, but another one-quarter is luck and the other one-quarter is timing. You need two things more than anything else- Patience and Determination.
Get a Solid Start….
The first four weeks of the season are basically an extension of the Draft. It is paramount to examine the results of every game (The Box Score Bandit), so you can find a player or two that comes out of nowhere to post consistent numbers throughout the season. Your goal is to find that player or two before anyone else does, while strengthening your roster at certain positions and filling holes in other areas.
It is a fact of life that every year there are players who were not drafted, who go on to become starting Fantasy Football players by mid-season. Last year there were many players that fit this mold, especially WRs that became top 10 players (Bradon Stokley, Drew Bennett).
….Then Get into a Stride
You should get into a routine by mid-season, by constantly reviewing your roster on a weekly basis to see if there is either a trade that could help your team and/or a free agent that has favorable match-ups coming up that may help him start to produce better numbers. Always look to build depth- it’s really the most important aspect of Fantasy Football.
As the November nears, you should set your weekly starting lineups 3-4 weeks in advance, based on your players’ match-ups. A good time frame to do this is before Thanksgiving hits, when your opponents start to get distracted by the Holidays. This insures that you will not be left with a roster full of players with unfavorable match-ups as you enter the Playoffs.
The Art of the Trade
Another approach you can do during the Draft is to go heavy on RBs or QBs and hope that you catch somebody later on in the year desperately looking for a player to fill the void left by a season-ending injury or unproductiveness to one of their key players.
More often than not, this works out well with QBs. If somebody has their top QB go down and all they have to replace him with is Kordell Stewart (yikes), they’re going to be looking around the league to see who they can make a trade with.
The other key to trades is to look for Fantasy teams that have just lost 3 or 4 games in a row and are looking to make major changes to stop the slide. Find out what positions they have depth at and what positions they could use a productive player in. If you offer them an enticing trade, they’ll be more inclined to give up on a high profile player, such as a Terrell Owens or Randy Moss, because they’ve had 2 or 3 bad games.
Help with Fantasy Football by Months
Intro | June-August | August | September-November | December
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