Hello Brandon and Scott!
My name is Dan and I have a couple fantasy questions for you. My league is taking the next step and becoming a keeper league. In addition to this, we are also creating a superflex spot in the roster. The roster will likely be composed of the following come draft day: QB, WR, WR, WR, RB, RB, TE, SFLEX (QB/WR/RB/TE), FLEX (WR/RB/TE), K, DEF, BN x5. It is .5 PPR and composed of 12 teams.
I’m fairly experienced when it comes to drafting in 2 QB leagues, so that makes the superflex component straightforward (value of QB’s goes up). However I was just wondering how you think I should adapt my draft strategy when taking into consideration that it’s the first year of a keeper league. My first question is would you suggest that I go with young players so that I have a competitive team for multiple years, or should I draft to win now? Or both?
I've found the 4for4 custom ranking tool to be a great help. My second question is, while it doesn't account for .5 ppr (just std and full point ppr), I assume finding the average out of these two rankings would be a great way to formulate the top 200 I use for my draft?
Thanks for all your help and I look forward to another great year!
Hi Dan!
I would go with players to win now. There's no reason not to keep a guy like Adrian Peterson for example over a guy like Jeremy Hill because of long term potential. However, I would use age as a tie breaker, i.e. Hill over someone like Matt Forte.
I like your league. In a 12 team league, with that many starting slots, it probably makes drafting and working waivers all the more important. I think that's very cool!
I find the straight up PPR rankings are close enough for .5 PPR leagues. If you wanna get super into it, then copy-paste the rankings in unicode text into excel so that all stats get their own cells. Add a column with an =.5*receptions formula, then add another column that is =FF Pts - your new column, then re-sort by that column. That'll give you the projections in .5 PPR order.
Hope that helps!
Yes it does, thanks Brandon! I'm going to try that out.
