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I’ve been spending way too much time lately staring at draft boards and looking at those average rankings, and honestly, I’m starting to get a bit of a headache from it. Every year, I find myself getting sucked into the "consensus" logic, thinking that if everyone is picking a certain guy at a certain spot, I must be the crazy one if I don't follow suit.
But then I look back at my drafts from last season and realize I overpaid for half my roster just because the big names were being pushed so hard by the popular projections. It feels like the "average" is often just a way to inflate the value of players who are more hype than actual production. I’ve learned the hard way that following the crowd usually means you're the one left picking through the scraps by the time the mid-rounds roll around.
I'm trying to be more disciplined this year and actually look for the discrepancies—the guys that the mainstream lists are either way too high on or completely ignoring. It's much harder to go against the grain when you're sitting there in the middle of a draft and the clock is ticking, though.
Do you guys tend to stick close to the projected rankings, or do you actively try to find the players that everyone else is overvaluing?
But then I look back at my drafts from last season and realize I overpaid for half my roster just because the big names were being pushed so hard by the popular projections. It feels like the "average" is often just a way to inflate the value of players who are more hype than actual production. I’ve learned the hard way that following the crowd usually means you're the one left picking through the scraps by the time the mid-rounds roll around.
I'm trying to be more disciplined this year and actually look for the discrepancies—the guys that the mainstream lists are either way too high on or completely ignoring. It's much harder to go against the grain when you're sitting there in the middle of a draft and the clock is ticking, though.
Do you guys tend to stick close to the projected rankings, or do you actively try to find the players that everyone else is overvaluing?