How to Draft a Fantasy Football Team

    It is without question that the most key component to a fantasy team's success is the draft and its results. Ensuring a good roster to begin the season serves as the best chance at winning a league.

    These are the steps to take to draft a strong team.

1. Find a Platform to Draft on

    The options of where and when to draft are pretty much unlimited. There are multiple host sites that easily allow for leagues to be created and drafts to take place. ESPN, Yahoo!, and NFL Fantasy, are some of the leading names. Finding these sites is as easy as entering in an online search like "ESPN fantasy football league creation", creating an account, locating the fantasy sports tab, starting a league, and inviting others to join your league after entering some league and draft time information.

2. Adopt a Draft Strategy

    This is where some potentially heavy research comes in. A primary source of NFL information and projected statistics should be befriended. YouTube is probably the best resource to use. Thousands of channels provide their own unique insight about which strategies are optimal and which players are projected to do well during the season. It's in this research that a personal strategy should be adopted. Some will advise against others and there's plenty of noise but keeping a steady mind and remaining flexible is paramount. Expect the unexpected before drafting.

3. Become Aware of What League-mates are Doing

    While the draft is in full-swing it is vital that the behaviors of others in the draft are closely monitored. For example, if someone has started to intently draft players at a single position, that limits the amount of players that will be left in the player pool. It may become advantageous to draft a player of that position as to not fall behind the trend. Honing in on roster makeup and becoming generally aware of draft patterns has a direct impact on personal success. Drafting with your own team strictly in mind handicaps potential and limits upside.

4. Draft to win, not to not lose

    Football is remarkably unpredictable. Many come into a season with what they believe to be sure-fire expectations, but they almost always fall flat. With that, drafting becomes as easy as selecting players who you and others think will score the absolute most fantasy points. The terms "ceiling" and "floor" are always being floated around by fantasy players. They refer to an NFL player's potential and upside during the season. When drafting, shoot for players with a high ceiling rather than a high floor. Chasing the highest upside is the goal during the draft.

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