How Winners Draft Quarterbacks in Underdog Best Ball Mania
Drafting QBs in best ball often feels like paint-by-numbers for adults. If you drafted Puka Nacua in the first round, well, you take Matthew Stafford around his ADP. Let’s see if we can dig further using the Best Ball Mania V (BBMV) data from last year. The big questions we’ll answer are how many QBs to take, when to take them, and if there are any good indicators for the QBs to focus on.
Roster Construction
The two realistic options for the number of QBs to draft are two or three. It was a draw in the first four iterations of BBM. It was optimal to draft two QBs in two years and three QBs in the other two years. BBMV was the tiebreaker in favor of three QB builds. But given how small a sample we’re working with, either option is fine. The table below shows the most popular roster constructions used last year. Even with three QB builds providing about a 1.0% advance rate edge, the most successful build had only two QBs.
- All Premium Content
- The most Accurate Rankings Since 2010
- Expert Draft Picks w/DraftHero
- Highest Scoring Lineup + Top Available Players w/LeagueSync
- ...and much much more
