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Fantasy Football 2016: Breaking Down Mock Draft and Cheat Sheet
- Updated: August 5, 2016
The road to fantasy football glory begins with an excellent draft.
There are other important factors—making the right trades, scouring the waiver wire and, of course, navigating your lineup decisions on a week-to-week basis—but nailing your draft is the first step to bragging about how much smarter you are than your friends.
When it comes to drafting, there are several ways to build a strong team. If you read up on fantasy football strategy, you’ll see some who prefer to stay old school and grab elite running backs in the opening round. You’ll also see those who say you should forsake the early-round running back and go with as many elite receivers as you can.
The truth is, league championship teams can be built using either of those strategies or adopting a less extreme method and trusting your ranking of the players to take the best available.
With that in mind, here’s a look at a cheat sheet with rankings for the top 15 at each position.
The key to good drafting is to know where you stand on a player. As much as fantasy football players would like to say that drafting is a matter of skill, there’s still an amount of luck that simply can’t be accounted for. You want to stock up on guys whom you are high on and prepare for any one of your players to tear his ACL the day after your draft.
Using FantasyPros’ mock draft simulator, which uses average draft position (ADP) to simulate the 11 other owners, here’s a glance at what your draft might look like. Players who are likely to be the best value in each round have been highlighted.
Note: The draft was based on composite ADP rankings from FantasyPros using a standard scoring system. The entire 20-round draft can be found here.
Breakout Candidates
Putting together a championship team requires finding the players who are going to outperform their draft positions. Here’s a quick look at some players who might be primed to put together their best seasons yet.
Coby Fleener, TE, New Orleans Saints
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