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Fantasy Football 2016: Mobile Cheatsheet, Mock-Draft Strategy for Top Positions
- Updated: August 7, 2016
The perfect set of fantasy football rankings won’t manufacture a championship on its own.
Rankings are nice for those who crave order and reason in a world without either. Yet any analyst who presents his or her ratings as gospel is a liar. Nobody knew Blake Bortles would finish 2015 with more fantasy points than Aaron Rodgers. Even the biggest Devonta Freeman supporter wouldn’t have pegged him as the top running back.
Fantasy football is a weekly game of chaos. Take it from someone whose team of Rodgers, Todd Gurley, Lamar Miller, Antonio Brown and Allen Robinson received a first-round playoff boot against Isaiah Crowell and Ryan Fitzpatrick. (Remember the week when the Tennessee Titans forgot to cover Brandon Marshall?)
It takes weeks, maybe months, of preseason preparation to finalize the ideal rankings, but they all fall out the window once Week 1 starts.
Listing the top guys can incorrectly portray an equal separation between each player. For someone waiting on a quarterback, the difference between QBs No. 6 and No. 10 may be inconsequential, but he or she might perceive a steep decline after QB No. 11.
Keep these hindrances in mind before blindly following these positional rankings, assembled for leagues with standard scoring (no points per reception). To provide some context, let’s study a mock draft to examine the strategy behind when to target each spot.
Rankings
Mock Draft Overview
These are the results from a 12-team mock draft conducted on FantasyPros, a simulation that expedites the process against 11 automated competitors. The computer teams, however, are guided by rankings from multiple experts rather than following one list.
For years, picking at No. 2 meant drafting a running back without hesitation. Not this year, even in a mock without PPR consideration. Once Brown went, there was little time …
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