Shawn Siegele breaks down all 18 rounds of the Apex Experts draft, providing 13 insights from a draft extravaganza with 11 of the top analysts in the world.
The Apex Experts League is annually one of my favorite drafts. It’s a great opportunity to find out how the best minds in the industry are playing that season’s unique dynamics. It frequently foreshadows big shifts in ADP that will infest the fantasy hive mind during the height of draft season.
In Part 1, That Bad Draft Slot May Be a Gift: How to Dominate Instead of Playing Catch Up, I put out my yearly plan for dominating with a historically unfriendly slot. We used the Range of Outcomes and Win the Flex tools to find exploitable elements in player selection and locate the loopholes that lead to league wins and tournament titles.
With that as the foundation, today we dive into the details, including . . .
- A look at trends across all four positional groups and the methods managers used to zig when others were zagging.
- A breakdown of all 18 of my picks with evidenced-based backing from tools like the Advanced Stats Explorer, the NFL Player Explorer, and the Stealing Signals tool.
- Tactics for pushing your Zero RB build to the extreme.
- A sneak peak at priority targets from the 2022 Zero RB Candidates, a list that has now crushed for seven consecutive years.
Don’t Bail Early at WR: Pure Zero RB Tactics, 13 Draft Insights, and a Sneak Peek
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