A measure of consistency is key to building a championship caliber fantasy team.  Heading into the draft with a plan to target a few players who you can rely on for certain production will allow you to reach out for more upside picks that can help lead you to the promise land.  In the 2015 Fantasy Alarm Draft Guide Jeff Mans tells you why it’s best to build on consistency than those players with the highest upside.

The Model of Consistency

I’m going to start out by dropping a bomb on you. No, I am not going to personally visit your home and ask to use the facilities to unleash an upper decker. Rather, I’m going to give you a heavy dose of reality right off of the top. Your first round draft pick will not win you a championship this year.

Boom. There it is.

There is way too much made over first and even second round picks in fantasy football year after year. First round picks are important, but not for the reasons you think. These selections are probably not going to lead your team in points, make it through the entire season without an injury and they may not even start for your team every week this season.

Despite this, 90 percent of the phone calls on the Fantasy Alarm Show on SiriusXM Radio want to discuss who to take in the first round at varying pick levels and formats. Inevitably what happens is that these first round picks go bust in the early part of the year which leads to many folks thinking that their season is over and stop paying attention.

Let’s take a trip in the Fantasy Alarm time machine (yeah, we got a time machine…you want to fight about it?). In June 2014, we took part in the Fantasy Sports Trade Association (FSTA) Fantasy Football League Draft which is usually the first football draft of the year and the unofficial start of the fantasy football season. I was fortunate enough to draw the first pick in the draft. After doing all of my research and going through each and every NFL team, I realized that Matt Forte of the Chicago Bears was the obvious choice for #1 overall. After all, just a few days before this draft I had decided that Forte would be our cover boy on the Fantasy Alarm Draft Guide for the same reasons that I would now be taking him with the first pick.

The FSTA Draft was held live in San Francisco in front of hundreds of industry people, broadcast live on SiriusXM Radio and filmed for television by the Fantasy Sports Network. When I went to the microphone and announced Matt Forte as the #1 overall selection, you would have thought that the ghost of Bruce Jenner’s penis fell to the earth and was attacking everyone in the room. Seriously, there were gasps from the people in the room and I pretty much got trashed by the hosts on radio and TV.

You can read the rest of this article and much more by purchasing the Fantasy Alarm NFL Draft Guide found here https://www.fantasyalarm.com/nfl_2015_pricing.php.