2022 Fantasy Football Draft Strategies: Lottery Tickets vs Scratch Tickets
Published: Sep 04, 2022
Making the early picks in your fantasy football draft is easy. It’s the ones at the END of the draft that are hard as you try to find those fantasy football sleepers who can outperform their NFL pre-season projections. Your fantasy football rankings are all jumbled by that point and average draft position (ADP) goes out the window. It’s not as simple as picking the running back sleepers and avoiding the wide receiver busts. With the biggest fantasy football draft weekend of the year coming up and NFL Week 1 right around the corner, we’re here for more fantasy football draft strategies. In this video, we'll talk about how to look at your bench size and decide whether you should be taking long-term “lottery ticket” picks or short term “scratch ticket” players at the end of your draft. If you're taking advantage of fantasy football ADP, you can stash the “lottery ticket” players on your fantasy football lineup while the “scratch ticket” players will give answers right away. Let's take a closer look at some of those NFL players to take a chance on in your fantasy football leagues.
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