Well, folks! It’s time.
I know most of you are up to your eyeballs with fantasy baseball, and rightfully so. But for those who like to push their MLB to the back-burner once the fantasy football talk starts up, this one’s for you…
It’s time to unleash the Mock Draft Army for fantasy football!
Sure, it’s only June, but with the FSTA Fantasy Football Draft taking place Monday, June 13, it’s time to whet your whistle and start your prep work for the upcoming fantasy football season. Just as we have done in the past, the Mock Draft Army will run anywhere from 5-7 drafts each week from now until Week 1 of the 2016 NFL regular season. You can do as many or as few as you like. The only requirement is that you stay for the entire draft and give it your full attention.
For those who might be new to the Army, allow me to explain…
For me, there’s no better way to prep for your draft than to do a series of mocks. It allows you to test out countless strategies while also giving you a realistic look as to how others perceive the value of players. Do enough mocks and you can walk into your own draft and crush the dreams of everyone else in your league.
The problem, however, is that when you hit the big sites to do your mock drafts, rarely do you find 10 or 12 people willing to take part in the entire draft. Some will, but for the most part, you get a lot of people who draft maybe four or five rounds before they put it on auto-draft and leave the room. And if you don’t even fill the room, then computer players are assigned to auto-draft the whole way. How is that going to give you an understanding of public perception? Auto-drafting uses the web site’s default rankings, a creation of its writers, so when their mocks are filling up with auto-drafters, the Average Draft Position (ADP) becomes nothing more than an extension of those rankings.
Not only does the Mock Draft Army offer you a place to do full mock drafts, but it also gives you the opportunity to draft alongside members of the fantasy sports industry. One of the more appealing aspects of doing drafts with the Army is that I fill half the room with you, the readers and listeners, and the other half is stacked with some of the most amazing fantasy football minds from Jeff Mans, Ted Schuster and Dom Murtha to Bob Harris, Mike Dempsey and Jeff Ratcliffe. Not only do you see which guys they like, but you also get the chance to ask them any and all questions you may have. From there, I take the data and put together my own ADP which, according to many who joined the army for fantasy baseball this season, is one of the best and most helpful you’ll find.
Again, drafts will run right up until Week 1 of the NFL season and are run during the week, both daytime and evening hours. They will consist of leagues between 10 and 14 teams, both with standard scoring and PPR format. If you would like to get on the email list for the weekly mock draft schedule, follow me on Twitter -- @rotobuzzguy – or email me at mockdraftarmy@yahoo.com. Schedules go out every Sunday night and all you have to do is email me back and tell me which draft(s) you want to do. It’s as simple as that.