If you are new to fantasy football and want to win your fantasy football league, remember these 9 tips and you are guaranteed to be competitive and with a bit of luck in the playoffs you can win the league championship.
1. Know Your League’s Scoring Rules – If you’re new to fantasy football, it’s important to understand how your league awards points, especially if you play in a PPR league that awards points based on receptions. For example, some running backs rarely catch passes, while others catch more than 5 passes per game, so knowing their scoring format will allow you to select the best players for your league’s scoring format.
2. Do not select all your favorite players. It’s okay to pick 1 or 2 of your favorite players if they’re really good players, but don’t overdo it. The odds are slim that you can pick 5 players from your favorite team and still make a competitive fantasy football team.
3. Don’t start an idle player: It may sound like an obvious tip not to start a player that isn’t playing, but it’s not as easy as it sounds. NFL teams don’t announce their inactive players until 1 hour before game time, so it’s critical to your success that you check the inactive list on NFL.com within an hour of game time to make sure that his starting players are really playing or he will be safe. of a goose egg in the points column for that player.
4. Don’t start a wide receiver against New Your Jets’ Darrelle Revis: You may have heard of the term Revis Island, which refers to Revis’s ability to completely shut down the opposing team’s No. 1 wide receiver. Any wide receiver Revis covers is isolated for the entire game because opposing quarterbacks rarely try to throw Revis. Until a wide receiver proves otherwise, you’d be wise not to start any of your wide receivers who will be protected in man coverage by Darrelle Revis or another future shutdown corner.
5. Don’t start with a running back against the Pittsburgh Steelers: The Steelers’ Dick LeBeau is the best defensive coordinator in the NFL and his defenses consistently block the run year after year, including elite running backs like Chris Johnson of the Tennessee Titans. . As long as Lebeau runs the show and as long as Troy Polamalu and the Steelers defense are healthy, he just says no to his running backs against the Steelers unless he likes the 17-carrying 32-yard running back stats …
6. Start defenses that play poor offensive teams: Unless you have the Steelers defense, which you have to start almost every week, you’re better off choosing waiver-wire defenses that play poor offensive teams or teams that are plagued by injuries to offensive linemen and/or are starting with a backup quarterback who is prone to turnovers.
7. Start kickers playing against poor defensive teams: It’s hard to predict how well kickers will perform each week, but playing kickers against weak defenses is almost a guarantee of 5-10 points a week, which can be the difference between winning and lose your week. match.
8. Make sure you have good playoff matchups: Most leagues hold their playoffs during weeks 14-16, so be sure to keep the playoff schedule in mind when drafting, trading, and drafting waiver-cord players.
9. Read every game score box and summary – The best way to win your league is to read the score box and summary after each game so you are aware of player injuries, players who are struggling and the players who are emerging as the best players at their position Many fantasy football leagues are won by teams that have previously unknown players who heat up late in the season, so make sure you know who to pick off the waiver cable when it matters most .