Fantasy Football 2016: Funniest Team Names and Mock-Draft Strategy at Key Spots

Everyone knows the fantasy owner who reaches for a quarterback in the first round of a fantasy football draft, causing a cringe from everyone else.

Not really a cringe—more like a fist pump because a whole lot of value just fell down the board.

Don’t be that owner. Understanding the right strategy in fantasy football in live drafts is the most important part of the whole thing. There’s no making up for a poor draft due to a lack of fundamental standard-league strategy.

With such a theme in mind, let’s take a look at a few of the tougher positions to strategize after a glance at a sample mock draft.

Draft Strategy for Key Spots

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Notice something about the sample mock draft above?

There’s only one quarterback taken over the first two rounds, and it’s Cam Newton of the Carolina Panthers. But it requires the majority of the biggest names at wideout and running back to come off the board first.

Always, always wait on quarterback. Last year, Newton led the way with 373 points and only five quarterbacks scored 300 or more. But 12 quarterbacks scored 272 or more—meaning there’s a starter available for each owner in a 12-team league.

Quarterbacks are generally extremely easy to predict on a weekly basis and there’s 32 starters in the league to choose from. Why take a guy who might score 300 points when better running backs and wide receivers are on the board and a platoon of guys with predictable outputs could get an owner to the same year-end total?

Besides, banking on 300 or more from a single guy is silly. For example, Matt Ryan, Ben Roethlisberger and Andrew Luck were some of the notables who didn’t break into the mentioned 272-point category. Ryan Fitzpatrick, Blake Bortles and Kirk Cousins did.

Quarterback is best drafted when an owner has a comfortable platoon of backs and …

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