How to Win Fantasy Sports

Winning fantasy sports can be easy, but it takes time and preparation.
There are certain steps that need to be taken before your draft even
starts.

The very first thing you should do to begin preparing is to come up
with a depth chart of every team in the league. This should probably
be done right before pre season starts. I would also recommend writing
this yourself and not just printing it out so that you become familiar
with the teams and their new additions and subtractions.

The next step may be one of the most important because it will affect
all of your results. You need to check the settings of your league.
You have to see what stat categories are worth points and how much of
a value they have. You have to check to see what positions you need to
draft and how many. This seems simple but most people never bother to
check this and they think that players are good in any league no
matter what. Well Reggie Bush is not nearly as valuable if the league
does not count receptions. Ryan Howard is not as valuable in leagues
that count strikeouts against you.


Now is where the work comes in. You have to go position by position
and player by player and project how they will do in the upcoming
season. You will be looking at the stat categories provided in the
settings and only these categories because anything else is
meaningless. If a pitcher gets a lot of losses it wont matter in most
leagues because they usually don't count against you.

You can come to a reasonable projection on players by looking at their
past 3 years stats as well as taking into account any changes in the
offseason that may affect the players stats. Some examples of this are
being traded to another team, a big player being traded to his team,
an injury, a key player on his team getting injured.

After you have finished projecting each player, you have to rank each
player by position. To rank a player you have to come up with a value
for each stat category. You would add up all the stat category values
and come up with a grand total for each player.

Another very important part of preparing that most people do not do is
to put the players into tiers. You look at your rankings and group
players into their similar values. This is important because you do
not want to draft a player when there are four or five players right
behind him who give you around the same value. On the flip side you
will also know when this is the last player left at this value. You
can say to yourself, if I don't draft this guy the next player is
going to be a big downgrade.

You are now set for the draft, but after the draft your research will
still be valuable. You will be able to match up trades based on your
values of each player. I would also suggest sticking with your values
to at least half way through the season maybe more especially with
proven players. Most people in fantasy baseball give up on their
players way to early. Baseball is a long season and sometimes players
don't start out great, but in the long run proven players will come
close to their career numbers.

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