Originally published August 9th, Zachary Krueger helps you prepare for FFPC best ball tournaments by reverse engineering the perfect draft. A few weeks ago I outlined in my recent article Reverse Engineering Your FFPC Best Ball Slim Draft Could be the Key to Winning $100,000 how Shawn Siegele and I tackled one of our builds in the FFPC best ball tournament. Today we head back to…...

Bjorn Yang-Vaernet explains the three roster-building guidelines to follow after drafting Travis Kelce and running back in the first two rounds to more than double your baseline win rate. In the 2019 season when Christian McCaffrey had the legendary 448.4 PPR fantasy point season, best ball managers that had him on their team won an insane 36.9% of the time. Considering 8.3% is the baseline…...

Meng Song discusses the intriguing profiles for two deep sleepers at wide receiver and explains why they’re exactly what you need to win your best ball contests. Many are talking about Laviska Shenault and Darnell Mooney as potential breakout candidates in their second year in the NFL. It’s easy to understand why, as Shenault has tantalizing athleticism and yards after the catch ability, and Mooney showed…...

Sam Wallace profiles an assortment of late-round running backs and highlights the importance of pass-catching and efficiency. Pass-catching running backs have become a sort of cheat code in recent years. As the industry has shifted towards more point-per-reception (PPR) scoring, the available pool of relevant players has grown exponentially. While we can debate whether three dump-off passes for 10 yards should be worth the same…...

Bjorn Yang-Vaernet makes the case for why drafting Travis Kelce early in Round 1 can not only lead to a higher floor, but a better ceiling in 2021 best ball. In the Stealing Banana’s episode “Is Modified Zero RB Part of the Zero RB Universe?” (31:00 min), Ben Gretch and Shawn Siegele talked about the questions surrounding the running backs in Round 1 going after…...

Michael Dubner continues his deep dive series in stacking for Best Ball Tournaments. So far we’ve touched on historical success of the most popular stacks and we uncovered three successful stacks that the Best Ball community is ignoring. Single-stacks are flooding best ball draft boards, but like in DFS, fantasy football managers should take it to the next level with double stacks. Here we’ll see…...

Are the best mobile QBs worth their draft price in best ball drafts? Bjorn Yang-Vaernet examines historical win rates to determine which elite QBs to be overweight and underweight on in 2021. The fantasy football draft has similarities to the stock market. The players are similar to stocks in that one can craft the portfolio of players that you believe in most. However, everything comes…...

The wide receiver dead zone is destroying best ball teams in 2021, but even savvy drafters are often taking the wrong kinds of risks to solve the problem. John Psilas dives into the RotoViz tools and unveils an evidence-based, counterintuitive solution to ramp up win rates. The presence of a running back dead zone has finally penetrated the fantasy consciousness in 2021, but drafters are…...

I recently wrote about five tight ends who were experiencing an uptick in popularity with drafters over at the FFPC. I won’t rehash my findings for you here. What with time being in short supply as we continue on our journey through life. But I would suggest having a glance at it. In the interest of balance, I thought it only fair to have a…...

Most of the current talk in fantasy circles is of the Scott Fish Bowl, the drafting of which unofficially ushers in the new fantasy season. But other drafts are still taking place, especially over at the FFPC, and have been for some time. With this in mind, I thought it might be fun to take a look at a few players at my favorite position…...

Is stacking always the right play in best ball leagues? What if your quarterback picks get much of their fantasy production on the ground, rather than in the passing game? Bjorn Yang-Vaernet explains how to approach stacking with mobile quarterbacks and provides some easy tactics that can give your win rates a significant boost. Blanket rules are pervasive in the fantasy football industry.  Wait on…...

NFL Best Ball drafters have been applying the concepts of stacking learned in DFS to Best Ball Playoff Tournaments. Last week we went through the most popular macro-level stacks, including the common QB-WR1 and QB-WR2 stacks, as well as a very unsuccessful stack that is still commonly drafted. While stacking your studs like Josh Allen to Stefon Diggs and Patrick Mahomes to Tyreek Hill are…...