GENERAL DYNASTY STRATEGY

Approaching a Dynasty Fantasy Football league draft is the starting point of your entire dynasty league experience.  It’s the foundation upon which the future of your team is constructed. You can’t always win your dynasty league in your draft, but you can certainly lose the championship with a poorly executed draft.  This is where careful preparation and a sound strategy are critical to the success of your team.  This is exactly what the DLF Dynasty Draft Guide is designed to help you achieve.

Those who fail to plan, plan to fail. It’s an old saying, but it clearly rings true when it comes to building a dynasty team through a start-up draft. With that in mind, you need to have a strategy when it comes to draft day, and that doesn’t mean showing up to your draft with the best beer and a Fantasy Football Magazine you found at the Mini-Mart you bought the previously mentioned beer at. 

Pick the plan that suits your style and travel down that road. We’re going to examine several successful strategies that have been utilized throughout the years and give you a summary, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of all of them. These strategies include the following:

 

  • The Balanced Strategy
  • The Zero RB Strategy
  • The Early RB Strategy
  • Superflex 1-2 Combo
  • Superflex Early QB Strategy
  • Superflex Late QB Strategy

 

While no strategy guarantees your success, choosing one and using our tools like our Mock Draft Simulator will set you up to be as prepared as humanly possible. Forming your dynasty draft strategy will determine your approach in the startup draft.  Here we will give you all of the tools and insights you need to be fully prepared to dominate your draft!

We share several strategies on how to approach your draft. Each approach has its pros and cons. Decide which is right for you and run with.
We review the basics of rostering a large number of running backs, with a strong emphasis on Zero RB strategies.  We examine the pros and cons of using this strategy.

The running back position can be thin and is always in flux. One way to compensate for these variables is to go heavy on the position early and often. 

We examine different strategies to approach a superflex startup draft. ADP trends and the importance of locking in two elite quarterbacks can help form the best approach to this type of league draft.
We examine an aggressive approach of drafting quarterback early and often to maximize one of the more potent scoring positions for dynasty teams.
Considering the early ADP trends from 2022, taking the approach of drafting a quarterback late is not for the faint of heart. What it can do is allow to load up on other positions.

We lay out general strategic principles you can use no matter what specific plan you have going into a dynasty startup draft.