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Fantasy Football Draft Board 2010
Fantasy Football Draft Board 2010
Knowing how to prepare your own draft board is a big part of having fantasy football success. You can buy magazines with their own lists and draft boards, you can even find this information for free online, but doing a little bit of research on your own and building your own draft board guarantees you full control over your fantasy roster.
How to Build a Fantasy Football Draft Board
Putting together your own draft board means thinking about a few different draft strategies. If you go into your fantasy draft with just one player ranking list, you’re not going to have a good draft. Why?
What if you draw the first pick in the draft? Who will you pick? You probably already have that answer — most likely it will be RB Chris Johnson or QB Aaron Rodgers. Alright, smart-guy, what will you do if you draw the last pick? Do you really have any idea what order the other players on your ranking list will
go?
Putting together multiple lists for your draft is important. You should draw up no less than three possible draft boards to be prepared. One if you draft early (first, second, or third), one if you draft late (the bottom three picks in the first round), and another if you draft anywhere in the middle. Since you know what order you’ll draft in after your first round
(most drafts follow a pattern of drafting after the first round order has been established) then you can then strategize based on your next pick. For example, if you draft last, you’ll most likely earn two picks in a row — the last pick of the first round and the first pick of the second round.
Fantasy Draft Board — Drafting Early
In 2010, an early draft pick means you just have to select one of a handful of players. Since you won’t have another pick until towards the end of round two, the first or second pick in the draft is really important. In most fantasy leagues, you’ll want to pick a RB or a QB.
If you draft in one of the first three slots of your 2010 fantasy football draft, you should probably select one of the following:
Chris Johnson, RB, Tennessee
Aaron Rodgers, QB, Green Bay
Adrian Peterson, RB, Minnesota
Maurice Jones-Drew, RB, Jacksonville
Fantasy Draft Board — Drafting Late
A late draft pick can be a blessing in disguise. If you pick last, you’ll essentially have to picks in a row. If you pick last in your 2010 fantasy football draft, you should plan to make one of the following selections. Provided are draft picks for both the first and second round.
First round – Reggie Wayne, WR, Indianapolis
Second round – Shonn Greene, RB, New York Jets
First round – Peyton Manning, QB Indianapolis
Second round – Minnesota Defense
First round – DeAngelo Williams, RB, Carolina
Second round- Calvin Johnson, WR, Detroit
Fantasy Draft Board — Drafting in the Middle
A draft pick in the middle of the first round can be frustrating. You may not get a shot at one of the top five players, and your second pick seems forever awau. If you pick in the middle in your 2010 fantasy footballd raft, consider one of the following picks.
Steven Jackson, RB, St. Louis
Drew Brees, QB, New Orleans
Randy Moss, WR, New England
Frank Gore, RB, San Francisco
Michael Turner, RB, Atlanta
Here’s the beginnings of some draft boards for different fantasy football leagues. Use these to put together your own draft board.
Standard Fantasy Football Draft Board, Head to Head
This draft board gives you the top five picks at each position for a standard scoring league with a head to head competition format. The standard fantasy football scoring rules are meant to give equal weight to all positions, and use a team defense rather than individual defensive stats. This is the most popular format for fantasy football.
QB
Drew Brees, NO
Aaron Rodgers, GB
Peyton Manning, IND
Tom Brady, NE
Matt Schaub, HOU
RB
Chris Johnson, TN
Adrian Peterson, MIN
Maurice Jones-Drew, JAC
Frank Gore, SF
Michael Turner, ATL
WR
Andre Johnson, HOU
Randy Moss, NE
Larry Fitzgerald, ARI
Reggie Wayne, IND
Miles Austin, DAL
TE
Dallas Clark, IND
Antonio Gates, SD
Jermichael Finley, GB
Vernon Davis, SF
Tony Gonzales, ATL
K
Nate Kaeding, SD
Stephen Gostkowski, NE
Ryan Longwell, MIN
Rob Bironas, TN
David Akers, PHI
Defense
New York Jets
Philadelphia Eagles
Green Bay Packers
Baltimore Ravens
Dallas Cowboys
Standard Fantasy Football Draft Board, Rotisserie
This draft board gives you the top five picks at each position for a standard scoring league with a rotisserie format. The standard fantasy football scoring rules are meant to give equal weight to all positions, and use a team defense rather than individual defensive stats. Rotisserie format simply means that your players accumulate stats in a variety of different statistical categories, and those stats are added to your category totals as the season progresses. Each stat is awarded a number of points depending on what position you finish in. A standard fantasy football rotisserie league with 12 players will award 12 points for each top finish, down to just one point for finishing last. The tournament champion is determined by aggregate stats rather than head to head performance.
This ranks NFL players by potential reward in a rotisserie league. Rather than rank them by position, we’re showing you a draft board of the top fifty players for a rotisserie fantasy football league.
1. Chris Johnson, RB, Tennessee
2. Aaron Rodgers, QB, Green Bay
3. Maurice Jones-Drew, RB, Jacksonville
4. Ray Rice, RB, Baltimore
5. Frank Gore, RB, San Francisco
6. Adrian Peterson, RB, Minnesota
7. Michael Turner, RB, Atlanta
8. Drew Brees, QB, New Orleans
9. Andre Johnson, WR, Houston
10. Peyton Manning, QB, Indianapolis
11. Ryan Mathews, RB, San Diego
12. Rashard Mendenhall, RB, Pittsburgh
13. Steven Jackson, RB, St. Louis
14. Randy Moss, WR, New England
15. Larry Fitzgerald, WR, Arizona
16. Shonn Greene, RB, N.Y. Jets
17. Cedric Benson, RB, Cincinnati
18. Jamaal Charles, RB, Kansas City
19. Reggie Wayne, WR, Indianapolis
20. DeAngelo Williams, RB, Carolina
21. Ryan Grant, RB, Green Bay
22. Tom Brady, QB, New England
23. Calvin Johnson, WR, Detroit
24. Roddy White, WR, Atlanta
25. Miles Austin, WR, Dallas
26. DeSean Jackson, WR, Philadelphia
27. Brandon Marshall, WR, Miami
28. Tony Romo, QB, Dallas
29. Dallas Clark, TE, Indianapolis
30. Pierre Thomas, RB, New Orleans
31 Marques Colston, WR, New Orleans
32. Wes Welker, WR, New England
33. Matt Schaub, QB, Houston
34. Arian Foster, RB , Houston
35. Jahvid Best, RB, Detroit
36. C.J. Spiller, RB, Buffalo
37. Anquan Boldin, WR, Baltimore
38. Steve Smith, WR, Carolina
39. Philip Rivers, QB, San Diego
40. Beanie Wells, RB, Arizona
41. LeSean McCoy, RB, Philadelphia
42. Joseph Addai, RB, Indianapolis
43. Jonathan Stewart, RB, Carolina
44. Steve Smith, WR, N.Y. Giants
45. Knowshon Moreno, RB, Denver
46. Matt Forte, RB, Chicago
47. Michael Crabtree, WR, San Francisco
48. Antonio Gates, TE, San Diego
49. Ronnie Brown, RB, Miami
50. Greg Jennings, WR, Green Bay
IDP Fantasy Football Draft Board
This draft board is ideal for IDP leagues, in which individual defense players are added to the fantasy football roster. In IDP leagues, you also draft and play Linebackers (LB), Defensive Backs (DB), and Defensive Line (DL) players rather than a team’s total defense stats.
Here are the top 6 picks for defensive positions for fantasy football leagues that use IDP scoring.
LB
1. Patrick Willis, SF
2. Jon Beason, CAR
3. Jerod Mayo, NE
4. Jonathan Vilma, NO
5. James Laurinaitis, STL
6. D’Qwell Jackson, CLE
DL
1. Jared Allen, MIN
2. Justin Tuck, NYG
3. Mario Williams, HOU
4. Trent Cole, PHI
5. Julius Peppers, CHI
6. Robert Mathis, IND
DB
1. Eric Weddle, SD
2. Yeremiah Bell, MIA
3. Bernard Pollard, HOU
4. Charles Tillman, CHI
5. Tyvon Branch, OAK
6. Dashon Goldson, SF
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