Yahoo! Fantasy Football Autodraft Strategy Question: Does it make sense to exclude all kickers?

Question

This is for a custom league with default settings that might have less than 10 people playing. The thinking is that I do not want the autodraft to select a kicker with an 8th or 9th round pick. By excluding all kickers, no kicker will be drafted, but I can then try to pick someone off of waivers (or morely likely a FA).

Would the analysis for answering this be any different if we are talking about tight ends and/or defenses?

Answer 1

With less than 10 people, I'd say that's not a bad strategy. In fact I like it quite a bit, with such a small league. One thing I like to do in an autodraft league is only allow for players I want to draft.

How I do this is take the total number of players to be drafted (for example a 10 team league drafting 15 players = 150 players drafted). I then take the top 150 players and add them to my list and exclude the rest of the players. I then look through my list and see if there are any players I want to exclude (in your case, the kickers) and remove them. I then look through the excluded list and add players to replace the ones I've removed. Finally I rank the players I've included. This will insure only getting the players you've included.

I don't like the strategy for tight ends and defenses as there can be a much larger discrepancy between a #3 and #10 than in kickers.

Answer 2

Absolutely makes sense. Kickers get picked up and dropped all the time in Yahoo leagues. They are essentially worthless. There are always a few kickers that start to have great years on the waivers. I think DEF. fall into the same category. I have won leagues with a top 20 Def and a top 10 Def both of which I picked from the waiver wire.

Answer 3

I don't think that you want to exclude ALL kickers. Most of the kickers will give you a constant higher score than the top 1/3 Tight Ends.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

that is a great strategy. kickers are surely the most unpredictable of positions because their scoring depends on circumstance and a huge variety of factors. drop your last round pick and add a kicker to complete your roster.