After a few years watching from the sidelines I finally decided to get my feet wet with the NFBC’s Draft Champions competition. For those of you not familiar, a Draft Champions league, or DC, is a 15 team 5x5 roto redraft league where you draft 50 players (750 total players drafted) and you keep that team for the entire season without any waiver moves. The team you draft is the team you work with. It’s a test in depth of knowledge of the player pool as well as formulating a balanced roster as you can’t rely on the wire to stream SP, add newly crowned closers or grab an extra SB threat.
The end result of the team can be viewed in the tweet below.
Here's my completed NFBC DC team. It's my first ever, so would love honest constructive criticism that I can apply to the next one. pic.twitter.com/xDvMx0rTvj
— Smada (@smada_bb) January 16, 2021
While I’m certainly not an expert in the format and only time will tell how that team fares, I wanted to share my thoughts on how I valued players across the ADP spectrum — who I’m passing by at cost, who I’m in on at ADP and who I think is worth the reach and a shorthand note for each player. I’m basically playing in this format with an open book moving forward.
This is the first installment running through the top 100 players by ADP from NFBC DC drafts in January. I plan to get through at least the top 700 players and maybe go even further. While this is geared specifically towards the Draft Champions format, many of my targets and notes here transfer over to other formats.
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