fantasypros ten salary draft tips
Top 10 Tips for Salary Cap Draft Domination | Player Price Range vs. Value (2021 Fantasy Football)1
1 - every draft is going to greatly vary in terms of value
- They are all unique...
2 - identify cheap talent with ROI upside
- Talent that will out perform ADP and price point
- Leave the draft the most value / ROI
- Wait until the end of the draft, don't nominate them early
- i.e. Laviska Shenault Jr. WR
- Quarters: 1 ($$), 2 (deals deals deals), 3 ( or nothing), 4 (no money)
3 - don't leave money on the table
- Nominate an early defense or kicker that you want and maybe someone will take them for $2 which wastes their money
4 - wait for bidding to level off?
- Don't inflate your own prices
5 - get your guys
- even if you have to pay a premium
6 - price enforce when applicable
- price enforce (pump up undervalued players) when you are ok having the player on your roster for that price
- do NOT do this if you are not comfortable winning the bid
7 - Be ready for the early lull on big name talent
- The first or second player are usually undervalued, which results in a correction as there are less players remaining (aka the post-lull)
you need to have tiers
8 - Nominating high profile players early to take money out of the pool that you don't like
- Or a player we don't necessarily want but would be ok getting at a deal
- At the beginning of the draft sometimes teams are skiddish on spending money and might give you a deal
9 - Build dummy rosters within the budget
- Given a $200 budget, build out a roster using estimated draft values
- This is a baseline to get an idea of what players can fit together
- i.e. roster with big RBs, or WRs, or a specific top tier player like Kelce
- Sometimes it is good to have "the hammer" i.e. having more bench money than everyone so you win late round bids
- BUT the last thing you want in an salary cap league is to have money left over
10 - Suggested player prices are a guideline, not a strategy
- It's not just prices, it's approach
- some strategy ideas:
- Stars and scrubs
- Best ROI
- Create a cheat sheet with projections as a guide for price
- I'm willing to move $5 up but no more - be careful about over paying
understanding value
- Not beholden to the salary cap draft value
- If values are going to $10 over, there are going to be deals later but you can't just build a roster on 4th round players. You need top players to win.
other
- You need to set your tiers by position
- always create a spending plan
- general of how much to spend per position
- excel spreadsheet to track spending your budget so you can adjust if you over spend
- and to keep track of everyone else's roster so you know how much money they have left
player price powerball
they picked some random players and identified their top picks based on the price, assuming half PPR
QB
group 1
- $19 - Dak Prescott (winner)
- $17 - Herbert, Wilson, Rodgers
group 2
- $9 - tannehill (winner)
- $5 - joe burrow
RB
group 1
- $42 - eckler, aaron jones
- $40 - joe mixon
- $40 - nick chubb (winner)
- $38 - najee harris (still good value)
group 2
- $23 - mike davis
- $25 - miles gaskin (winner)
- $27 - josh jacobs
- $27 - jk dobbins (just got injured so zero now)
WR
group 1
- $22 - robert woods (rams suck)
- $22 - terry mclaurin
- $22 - allen robinson (winner)
group 2
- $17 - julio jones (winner)
- $14 - diontae johnson
- $14 - tee higgins
TE
- $40 - Kelce
- $30 - Waller/Kittle
- or $1-5 range (winner, need RBs more)