Best ball is a version of fantasy football where all you need to do is draft a team and then watch the season play out. Your optimal lineup will be selected automatically each week, at the end of the week, the highest-scoring players are automatically inserted into the starting lineup spots. There is no roster management, no start/sit questions, no waiver wire, no trades. There are many types of best-ball leagues out there so it is very difficult to come up with a standard set of rankings.
For years all of the biggest fantasy sites harped on not drafting early, urging people not to draft until August because of the unpredictability of what could happen during training camps. What they should have been telling you is not to visit their site or listen to them until August because they are just throwing darts at a board anytime before then.
The best players in the world start drafting in February and March, so this is coming out super early, but this year we started in January. By July they can draft blind-folded, they are the ones that have set ADP so they are merely drafting against their own previous biases. They have fine-tuned their rankings and/or projections to the point that they are as good as, if not better than the “Expert” consensus.
They are able to do this because they are constantly drafting in best-ball drafts. Not having to manage starting line-ups throughout the season is glorious! Best-ball allows us to participate in hundreds, or even thousands, of drafts.
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Quarterback
Running Back
Wide Receiver
Tight End
Drafting this early actually levels the playing field, although, admittedly, January drafting is pretty nuts. The unpredictability of where players will land, their role in new offensive systems, health/injury recovery, and overall schedule match-up strength are relative unknowns compared to later in the summer. Every bit of information I have can serve as an advantage over high-volume players that may be hedging their bets, and overloading on certain players.
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