Folks often confuse being a good fantasy football analyst with being a good fantasy football player. You can obviously be both. But you don’t HAVE to. A lot of the best high-stakes fantasy players in the world don’t give up their secrets – they just play at a high level. And they do it on sites like FFPC.

If you want to show the community what YOU can do, there’s no better way to do it than taking down the FFPC Main Event or the FantasyPros Championship. You put “FFPC Main Event Champion” in your Twitter/X bio and people take you seriously. The good news for you is that I love playing on FFPC and I also don’t mind sharing some of our secrets. I wouldn’t be a good analyst otherwise, would I?

I’ve already written some tips on how to dominate tight end premium formats like FFPC already. Now let’s jump into some of the WR ADP ahead of 2024 drafts to see what kind of advantage we can get. Of course, if you are drafting in early August, rumors like the Brandon Aiyuk for Amari Cooper trade could certainly mix things up. But that is still a bit of a gamble. 

What we are looking for here are clear discounts on players we like. It’s the same player but they are simply available later in drafts on one platform vs. another. And we know that because the Fantasy Alarm ADP Tool pulls different average draft position data from multiple different sites. 

So, here are a few players that we both like AND they are cheaper on FFPC than other pages. If you want to take advantage of this but aren’t yet signed up for FFPC, use promo code ALARM and they’ll give you $25 in bonus credits when you deposit $35 or more at MyFFPC.com!

 

 

 

Davante Adams, WR, Las Vegas Raiders

When wide receivers get older, we start to get scared. That’s especially true in dynasty leagues where we worry about not getting a “return on investment” at the end. But there’s one important aspect that folks forget: elite guys don’t follow the same age curves. Hall of Fame caliber guys are in the Hall for a reason. As cliche as it may be to say these days, these guys truly are “built different”. 

Jerry Rice, Randy Moss, Marvin Harrison, Wes Welker, Brandon Marshall, etc. all had their BEST season at 30+. Not good seasons – the best of their careers. Jerry Rice was actually 33 when he had his. Guys like him, Larry Fitzgerald, Steve Smith and Anquon Bolden were productive past 35. It’s not crazy to suggest Davante Adams could still be great at 31. 

Over the last six years, Davante Adams has averaged 10.6 targets per game. That’s a pace of ~180. In his two years on the Raiders, he’s had 175 and 180. How far do we honestly expect that to fall? Even if he were to get two fewer targets per game for the whole season, he’d still be in the top ~10-12 WRs in terms of targets. The floor for this guy is wild. And FFPC is full point PPR, where targets are king. 

And thanks in part to the tight end premium set up which pushes more tight ends into the early picks, you can actually get Davante Adams in the THIRD round at times on FFPC with an ADP of ~29. On every other site on our composite ADP, he goes in the second round, and he often goes around pick 20. On Sleeper Fantasy, for instance, his ADP is 17.7. If you believe in Adams like I do, FFPC offers a discount. 

 

 

 

Michael Pittman, WR, Indianapolis Colts

Michael Pittman is one of those picks that offers the rare combination of floor and ceiling. Not only is Pittman the top target on the Colts but, when healthy, he plays virtually the entire game. In fact, in four games last year, he did play 100% of the snaps and, in 12 games, he played 95% or more of the snaps. They just paid him a boat load of money this offseason, so expect them to continue to lean on the big fella.

The ceiling comes from the quarterback change. Sure, it could be a little worse than it was with Gardner Minshew. That’s possible. But Gardner Minshew isn’t a world beater, so how bad could it be? Pittman should still be in your lineup every week. But folks are forgetting about the flip side – the possibility that Anthony Richardson is simply a much better QB than Minshew. I mean, he did beat him out for that job last year. Pittman could enter the realm of elite WRs this year.

On FFPC, Michael Pittman goes at pick 50 on average. The tight end premium does push guys up which affects ADP, but by how much? On FFPC, there are seven tight ends that go before Pittman. Let’s say we just take all seven of them out of the equation, which would put Pittman at pick 43. On a site like NFFC, Pittman goes at pick 25 on average. On RT Sports and ESPN, it’s 29. No matter how you slice it, Pittman is going at a discount on FFPC – by two full rounds compared to some sites.

 

 

 

Javon Baker, WR, New England Patriots

We had to mix at least one deeper sleeper in here for you. It’s the FFPC after all, which means deep leagues and sharp gamers. And Javon Baker is the exact kind of player we like taking stabs on late.

First off, there have been some reports that he slid in the draft due to character issues. For fantasy football, I’d much rather a guy slide due to off-field issues than simply not being that good. That’s how we got guys like Tyreek Hill, Antonio Brown, Brandon Marshall, etc. in the later rounds of the draft. 

Second, he landed on a team that is wide open at wide receiver. The Patriots don’t have an obvious star. Ja’Lynn Polk could be, but he’s also a rookie. DeMario Douglas? Kendrick Bourne? It’s anyone’s game. And early reports suggest that Baker has looked promising in camp. 

Just last year, a 5th round rookie named Puka Nacua looked good in camp and parlayed that into a top-five WR finish. It’s highly unlikely that happens again to that degree, but guys can come out of the later rounds down the stretch to crack lineups. Look at rookie Amon-Ra St. Brown who was drafted in the fourth round, just like Baker.

Folks on other platforms have caught on already. Javon Baker is going within the top 200 picks on sites like Underdog Fantasy and Sleeper. He goes at 170 on ESPN, which is the earliest on the sites we looked at. On FFPC? Pick ~274 on average. That’s round 23. So, even in a 20-round draft, he’d be going undrafted on average. That’s the type of player that makes for the perfect last round pick. And guess what? The FFPC Main Event is 20 rounds.