Fantasy football draft recap: Picking from the 5 spot!

Fantasy Football: High stakes FFPC draft pick 5

They were the best of fantasy football times, they were the worst of fantasy football times…

My two good friends and co-owners of these FFPC teams are a bit torn on how we feel about this team. Going into this write up, I didn’t even want to look at this team. One guy has drafted with me the last two years and we won both times with teams that really didn’t look good on paper.

He kept reminding me of that as he saw me start to spiral after the 5th round or so. You know when you go into a draft and you have some guys in mind you want to walk away with? And by the end you didn’t get nearly as many of them as you wanted? That’s how I felt at the end of this draft.

Doing this look-back is helpful for me (and hopefully you as well) as season long drafts are continuing through the holiday weekend. Last week, I wrote up a similar recap but from the 7 spot and absolutely loved that draft. That article can be found here.

Let’s take a look where things went wrong with this high stakes draft from the 5 hole. As a reminder, this league is extremely deep with 20 rounds, it’s 12 teams, point per reception (PPR), and tight ends are a premium meaning they get 1.5 PPR.

Given how long these drafts are, I won’t do a full round by round analysis but I want to take a look at some of the more important swings we made and what our thinking was. Unfortunately, I can’t get a picture of the draft board loaded in so I’ll be embedding a tweet of it for reference throughout the article.