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Originally Posted by that_pope
Yeah, I can't imagine blowing all your budget is a wise strategy. You don't want to be the first one without any FAAB, meaning you can't get anyone any longer.
How do you determine who is eliminated? Simply whomever scores the fewest points in a given week?
Actually disagree.
Throughout the league as teams are eliminated you will still be able to pick up players as other teams literally can't fit them all to be your backups etc...
The goal should be to fill up your team with players who would make the top 3 if we had an All-Pro team
So off top of head these might be the all Pro Teams
QB: Rodgers, Brady, Newton
RB: Gurley, DJohnson, Zeke, Fournette, Kamara, Barkley
WR: Brown, Hopkins, Julio, ODB, Thomas, Hill
TE: Gronk, Kelce, Ertz
Plus whatever is left.
My strategy would be to try and get the Gronk and Rodgers type early, definitely don't leave Round 5 without at least a TE or QB, and probably both and then use my FAAB to acquire the super top RBs and WRs. Since Gurley is pretty damn high, I would probably be betting at least half my stack, and maybe more. I would be bidding a lot less for the DeVonta Freemans, Howards etc... maybe as little as 10% as they are likely to be superseded over time for better players, and the odds of a better player coming into the pool the very next week are pretty high.
There isn't much value in having depth in this format, so I would look to start my early round picks with
RB
Gronk
WR
QB
And later rounds with
WR
RB
Rodgers
whatever
The most important thing is
DON'T BID HEAPS ON ROUND 3-7 RBs and WRs. Look for them very cheap or for nothing, as they aren't actually very valuable. (A burkhead should barely even be started/rostered).