Fantasy Football: 10 Tips to Winning Your League

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May 28, 2015; Philadelphia, PA, USA; Philadelphia Eagles head coach Chip Kelly answers questions during a press conference at OTA

1. Be aware of the bye weeks

Just as a soothsayer warned Caesar about what was about to come in March. Well, for fantasy football users let me warn you, “beware the Ides of Byes.” Bye weeks are inevitable in fantasy football. While days off in other fantasy games aren’t as big of a deal, bye weeks are something to watch when drafting players.

Drafting too many players from one team is a big no-no mainly due to the shared by week. When preparing and pre-ranking your players, write down when their bye week is. If you don’t, they will sneak up on you, and you’ll have to make drastic measures to fix your roster and keep it successful. Some weeks will just be worse than others, but you can limit how bad my spreading out when your roster shares a bye.

Specifically, it’s key to make sure your quarterbacks and defenses/special teams, two fantasy teams with little depth built in, do not share the same bye week. If they do, say goodbye to one of them, cut your losses, and check the waiver wires for other options to help your weakness for the bye week. If there’s nothing on the waiver wire, then check free agency or propose a trade.

This is another area that many users don’t may attention to. It hurts them for most of the season as week after the week the bye week sneaks up on them. Most fantasy leagues go from Week 1 to Week 16 and teams have bye weeks from Week 4 through Week 12. Half of the fantasy football league season has players on byes and has the potential to be as deadly as March was for Caesar.

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