Joined a fantasy league for the first time in about 20 years and I’m a bit out of the loop as to who the best fantasy players are outside the obvious. I know there are tons of fantasy sights to help a guy out but any tips on who could be sneaky good or players to avoid would be great.
It's an inexact science, and it is harder lately with COVID and more injuries than normal, but the below link is helpful. To me, the mark of a good draft is getting good value.
https://fantasyfootballcalculator.com/adp
So RBs are back to being the top prospects? I thought it'd moved to QBs being the first picks for a while, but I haven't paid much attention for ages.
QB's are never top picks anymore unless you are in a league where you start two. There are so many good QB's (when it comes to fantasy scoring) that you are only hurting your team to spend an early draft pick on one.
In my limited fantasy football experience, I find running backs are the most valuable, because with QB’s and receivers/tight ends, they benefit each other (so if you have Mahomes and your opponent has Kelce they cancel each other out) but with no O-Lines in fantasy, running backs stats are theirs and theirs alone.
That's certainly the way it was back when I was playing. I was just of the opinion that a few years ago the model changed and QBs started becoming key. Not only when the NFL became predominantly a passing league, but when QBs started doubling as RBs. Maybe I imagined this, or maybe it went that way for a few years and has now reverted back to the old ways. I've no idea.
I quit playing FF when I realized that it was all pointless. In reality, the quality of your team will never be as important as who you play any given week. The random drawing that creates your schedule is what determines who wins. Not anything you do. I had back to back seasons where I had, by far, the best team in the league. One of those years I scored, I think, 14 pts a week more than second place, on average. Alas, both years my oponents always had their best weeks of the season when they played me, something I could not control. 84, 92, 91, 87, 132, 94, 86. Guess which week I was.
After putting up stellar numbers week in and week out and not even making the playoffs for two consecutive years, I decided that the whole thing was pointless, gave up a team I'd managed for 15+ years, and never looked back. Don't miss it in the slightest.