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Disaster of a 2017 Fantasy Football season? Your recovery starts RIGHT NOW!

By Matt Mikolas

EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ - OCTOBER 15: Tight end Austin Seferian-Jenkins No. 88 of the New York Jets is seen after what was originally called a touchdown against strong safety Duron Harmon No. 30 and cornerback Malcolm Butler No. 21 of the New England Patriots during the fourth quarter of their game at MetLife Stadium on October 15, 2017 in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The Replay Official reviewed the runner broke the plane ruling, and the play was reversed and called a fumble. (Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images)
EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ - OCTOBER 15: Tight end Austin Seferian-Jenkins No. 88 of the New York Jets is seen after what was originally called a touchdown against strong safety Duron Harmon No. 30 and cornerback Malcolm Butler No. 21 of the New England Patriots during the fourth quarter of their game at MetLife Stadium on October 15, 2017 in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The Replay Official reviewed the runner broke the plane ruling, and the play was reversed and called a fumble. (Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images) /
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Fantasy Football Season
Fantasy Football Season: EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ – OCTOBER 15: Tight end Austin Seferian-Jenkins /

Fantasy Football Season: The Disaster Season

Whether it comes from an injury-riddled 3-10 effort, or you went ’17 Browns and served yourself up a nice, juicy 0-fer burger (the latter being my particular flavor of misery; reasons beyond my control, excuses, blah blah blah…) it’s something nobody wants to live through during their fantasy football season, and would be CATACLYSMIC to RE-live.

So, let’s make sure that never happens again. Together, we can be the phoenix rising from the ashes of our dumpster fire of a 2017 fantasy season. And I’m going to tell you how.

This will be the first in a series of articles that will outline how you can go from zero to hero in your fantasy football league. I want to help make you the smartest person in the room; the one that everybody moans and groans at, because you took their sleeper right before they were about to snag him. You’re going to be the one getting cursed out because of ANOTHER great pick. This is YOUR YEAR. This is OUR YEAR.

Fantasy Football Season: Recover Starts Here

Part 1- The Preparation

Realistically, your prep should have started at the NFL draft. Or even before. If you still haven’t started, that’s OK. We all have busy lives. But, getting the leg up on everybody else means putting in more work; starting earlier. Being most thorough.

Your pre-draft rankings can be where a championship is won or lost. But they should be YOUR rankings. Like your favorite team’s general manager, your draft board isn’t going to look like everybody else’s. What I like to do is take five to seven different experts and calculate the average of their rankings, to start. (As we get closer to August, I’ll do this for you)

Once you have the rankings sorted out, it’s important to look at the numbers from last year listed next to the player on your ranking sheet. Generally, a player will play to the back of their playing card. So, if experts have a five year veteran suddenly having a breakout year, but their previous numbers don’t show that they have that capability, go with the numbers, not the expectation. Let somebody else take that risk.

Lastly, you should be able to have a printout in your draft folder or clipboard of each team’s depth chart.

The goal is to assemble a team on draft day that, barring catastrophic injury, doesn’t require you to make a blockbuster trade in the middle of the season. There hasn’t been a year I’ve missed the playoffs, ever, in re-draft fantasy, that didn’t involve a big trade that I whiffed on. If we do things right, we won’t have to trade.

But that’s getting to the IN-DRAFT strategy, which is the most important piece to the recovery. That’s what I’ll talk about next week.

Next: Tyler Lockett Fantasy Sleeper?

Stay tuned to Fantasy CPR for all your fantasy football news and analysis as we lead up to the 2018 NFL season!

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