Spring Break
Fantasy World
Quick tips to making the right moves with a fantasy football team
By: John Lowery
Issue date: 8/9/04 Section: Sports
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Watching a starter break his leg and with it the playoff hopes of his team, and third string players who will soon be on a plane back to NFL Europe is enough to demoralize any good football fan. Fortunately, however, something important and beneficial to the National Football League and its fans begins around the same time as the preseason: fantasy football drafts.
The draft is unquestionably the most important day in the life of a fantasy football team. Although owners are not limited to a losing season after a bad draft day, what they do on this day will greatly determine whether someone can boast championship to friends, or wet the bed every night with guilt for choosing Az-Zahir Hakim as the number one wide-out on a team. Chronic bed-wetter or not, no one wants to have to depend solely on the Texas A&M football team as their only shot at a championship.
That said, here are common mistakes the average person makes that inevitably cost him or her a winning season:
1) Letting Actual Allegiance Determine Fantasy Allegiance
A close friend who is an A&M student, inevitably drafts Robert Ferguson before the end of the third round every draft year simply because Ferguson was a former Aggie standout. Just as inevitably, his team, the "Ferocious Fergusons," tank every year. A similar scenario would involve a person picking David Carr, Domanick Davis and Andre Johnson because he or she absolutely loves the Houston Texans. A good fantasy owner always separates collegiate and professional team allegiance from fantasy allegiance; avoid choosing players on draft day simply because you love the team they play or played for.
2) Not Picking the Best Talent on the Board
Don't be one of those people who is hopelessly caught up in filling each starting position if better talent still exists in a position already drafted. If an owner drafted LaDainian Tomlinson in the first round and Priest Holmes is still available the second round, that owner shouldn't take Todd Heap just because there's a blank tight end spot on the roster.
Even if one ends up stockpiling a position, know that a trade for a player of equal ability in that position that is lacking is always a possibility.
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