Fantasy Football: 10 Tips to Winning Your League

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2. Don’t draft too many players from one team

Another most common mistake amongst fantasy football users is drafting too many players from one team. Specifically, those users draft players from their favorite team. There’s nothing wrong in drafting from your favorite team, but drafting all Ravens players, for example, is just silly and down right stupid. At the same time, not drafting rival teams’ players is stupid as well.

This is fantasy football not the actual game being played. Put your emotions aside about your favorite team or rivals. Rivals have good players and that’s great news for fantasy football. It’s great that multiple teams have players worth drafting for fantasy football purposes. This will allow you to pick the players with the best matchup from week-to-week and also work on providing depth as mentioned on the last slide.

Too many players on your roster from one team is also bad because you are putting all your eggs in one basket. The success of your fantasy team shouldn’t be relied on by how one team’s players does on the field. As a rule of thumb, it’s wise not to have more than three or four players on your fantasy squad from the same NFL team. When this rule is followed as a guide, it’s easier to spread your wealth and depth of players and find better success within fantasy football league circles.

Lastly, there’s another reason not to have too many players from one team, which can be found on the next slide.

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