Fantasy
Football Lineup Strategy
We
get an amazing amount of questions each week from owners who are
asking for advice on lineup changes. We love the questions (but
please try to send them early in the week, not on Sunday morning
; 0 )
One
thing we notice is how many owners don't really research the teams
their players are going up against. Early in the season, this is
a little tough, but as the season wears on, you can make better
decisions.
A
simple way to do this is have a ranking of all the defenses in front
of you. You should have a seperate ranking for how they do against
the run and the pass. Also, have some information from the last
time the 2 teams met. Check to see what kind of numbers were put
up.
Using
these two simple pieces of information, you can then start grading
your roster. For example if your WR is playing one of the 5 worst
pass defenses in the league, you might give him an "A"
for the 1st matchup grade. But if he got shut down by the team the
last time they played, you might give him a "C" grade
for that.
Then
maybe you want to grade your WR on how he has done the last 2 games.
Has he caught a lot of balls, or is the QB looking at someone else.
Or has he been too hot and is due for a down game? We call this
the "gut feeling" grade. Obviously, it is the biggest
wild card, but a trens is a trend. You just have to sniff it out.
Put
all the grades together and come up with the average on assign the
final grade. Do this for your whole roster, then set your lineup
full of the best "students".
This
is just one scenerio for grading you lineup. Obviously you can put
any twist on this to make it fit your general way of thinking. But
over the course of the season, we bet by doing this you will make
more good lineup choices than bad.
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