Well, as of this weekend, I’ve officially been eliminated from winning in the fantasy football league I’m in for the 2007 season. I’m fairly satisfied though as I did make the playoffs (barely - by 2 points) and will be in the toilet bowl this weekend. While fantasy football is still fresh in my mind, I would like to make some notes about this season that I can hopefully use to draft and play better for the 2008 fantasy football season. So… here goes in no particular order.
#1 - Definitely do a lot of mock drafts. The online mock draft sites I used in 2007 helped a lot. Although some where buggy, they still made my real draft go a lot smoother. Hopefully some of the bugs will be eliminated and/or improvements will be made for 2008.
#2 - Consider drinking coffee during the draft. Sure, it’s fun to get drunk during the draft, but this will probably hurt your draft results. Drink coffee and celebrate AFTER the draft.
#3 - Buy a draft kit. The one I got off Yahoo was pretty helpful. I’m sure there are other ones out there, but that one seemed to be good enough.
#4 - Try to guess how other team members will draft and plan accordingly.
#5 - Consider a shocking strategy such as drafting the two top WR WR’s. This could start a run on WR’s and leave plenty of RB’s for you to draft next.
#6 - If Tom Brady is available and it is your turn, get him.
#7 - Get RB’s on teams that are weak on passing offense
#8 - Get WR’s that are on a team with a studly quarterback such as Tom Brady or Tony Romo…and perhaps get one on the same team for the double point effect.
#9 - Get up to date on who’s injured… and who’s not
#10 - Follow football stuff during the off season
#11 - Don’t worry too much about kickers
#12 - Consider getting a good defense early… but if you miss out, don’t sweat it too much
#13 - Don’t trade early in the season
#14 - Initiate trades with newbies in the league early… try to scam em’
#15 - So far in 2007, the top point producers were all quarterbacks and not running backs
#16 - Some studly RB’s might not pay off until late in the season
#17 - RB’s get injured a lot… draft RB’s that are next in line to start
#18 - Another strategy to consider would be WR RB. then again, you might wanna do WR, RB. Or… how about QB WR.
#19 - Make defensive moves. If someone gets Tom Brady before you, try to get Randy Moss next!
#20 - If a player did well in one year, it doesn’t mean they will the following year. And vice versa
#21 - Get highlighters to mark who has been taken, who hasn’t, etc.
#22 - Make a plan for who you think you will draft. I think this is called target drafting.
That’s about all for now. Here are some of the hot players of 2007…let’s do the top 10 starting with best first.
Quarterbacks:
Tom Brady, Tony Romo, Peyton Manning, Derek Anderson, Brett Farve, Ben Roethlisberger, Drew Brees, Matt Hasslebeck, Carson Palmer and Jon Kitna
Running Backs:
LaDainian Tomlinson, Brian Westbrook, Adrian Peterson (slightly banged up), Joseph Addai, Willis McGahee, Jamal Lewis, Maurice Jones-Drew, Marion Barber, Clinton Portis, Earnest Graham.
Wide Receivers:
Randy Moss, Terrell Owens, Braylon Edwards, T.J. Houshmandzadeh, Wes Welker, Reggie Wayne, Nate Burleson, Larry Fitzgerald, Chad Johnson, Marques Colston
Tight Ends:
Antonio Gates, Jason Witten, Tony Gonzalez, Kellen Winslow, Chris Cooley, Dallas Clark, Heath Miller, Donald Lee, Jeremy Shockey, Owen Daniels
Kickers:
Mason Crosby, Nick Folk, Kris Brown, Rob Bironas, Stephen Gostkowski, Jason Hanson, Josh Brown, Robbie Gould, Shayne Graham, Phil Dawson
Defense:
Minnesota, Seattle, San Diego, New England, Green Bay, Chicago, New York, Dallas, Indianapolis, Pittsburgh
Well, that’s about all of the “advice” I can offer myself or anyone else who may read this. Hopefully next year I can read this and maybe it will help me do a better draft. Either that or I can just use a dart board… 
I’m going to post this on Fantasy Football Cafe - hopefully others can add some tips so we can all read and learn from them next year.
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