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Let's take a look at Seven Deadly Sin fantasy football owners committ and how you can avoid them: Sin #1: Failure to use a Value Based Draft List. The first sin cast every year by fantasy football enthusiast is not using a value-based draft system. Many of the smartest fantasy football owners I know will take to the draft each year a "cheat sheet" from one of the many fantasy football magazines out on the market today. It's not that these magazine "cheat sheets" are wrong. There are many fantasy football magazines on the newstands that provide an invaluable amount of information. These magazine "cheat sheets" are just not tailored for your league. Plus, most draft lists are created in April and May before pubication, not in August when most leagues hold their draft. By using a value-based draft list you are creating a customized list specific to your league and its scoring system. The power of a value-based draft sheet is amazing! It eliminates the question of who to take each round of the draft, and automatically tells you who is the best available player remaining on the board. It all comes down to point differential. This is the basis of value-based drafting. You want to draft players that can outscore other players at the same position. Sin #2: Failure to use the Waiver Wire. If you commit this sin you deserve to be struck by lightening! This is the number one post-draft reason Championships are lost. It's inevitable that players get hurt, benched, or underachieve. In order to succeed in fantasy football you have to accept this fact and be able to plan for it. How do you do this? Simply put, "Use the Waiver Wire!" Every year there are always players that come up from the fantasy depths and are snatched off waivers. The teams that consistently monitor the waiver wire WIN more games...period. Sin #3: Starting Players against Strong Defenses. When applying this rule, Draft Champs in no way recommends sitting your stud players against any team. This rule should be applied to the average players on your team. If you have two equal caliber players and are undecided on which one to start by all means start the player against the weaker defense. This is just playing the odds. Stack the odds in your favor and in return you are creating a greater potential of scoring more points. After all, in order to win you just need to score more points than your opponent. Isn't this the goal of fantasy football?! When it comes down to it, no one is going to care with what players you beat them with...they just know that they got beat! Sin #4: Falling asleep late in the draft. How many of you witness this every year in your draft? Some owners just don't pay too much attention to the second half of the draft after they have filled their "starting roster." These types of owners then tend to draft back-ups at TE, K, and Defense. This is ridiculous! Instead they should be drafting depth at QB, RB, and WR. These are the position players that get more chances, or "touches", which equals more opportunity to score more points. Don't fall prey to this sin, the later rounds are where champsionships are made.

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