Fantasy Football Drafting Tips

Your fantasy football draft is right around the corner.  Time to run to the store and buy your favorite magazine and start doing your homework ladies and gentlemen.  Here are some tips to winning a fantasy football league, before your draft even happens.

1. The first thing I would like all of you to do is find out what your league's scoring rules are.  These are important when it comes to having a draft strategy.  Either print these rules out or have them up on your computer screen.
2. Using your fantasy football magazine, start by player position and start to rate your players based on the scoring rules in your league.  (In some leagues touchdowns are more important, some give you points for yardage/receptions, it all varies)
3. Please resist the urge to just draft a player because you like him, if you want to lose, do it, but if you want to win, just follow steps 1 and 2.
4. I personally like to stay away from players who are on teams with losing records.  (Players aren't happy when they're losing and may under perform.  If a team has a horrible quarterback, he's not going to get their playmaker the ball on a regular basis.)
5. My last word of advice is to stay away from big name players who are coming off serious injuries.  Serious injuries to superstars can change a guy's career.  Spending an early draft pick on a guy like that is giant risk that someone like me who wants to win should not take.  I advise you fill your roster first, before you go picking a guy who was productive in the past but is coming off an injury.  It's a risk that could result in reward or failure, but if you do it in the later rounds, the risk of it hurting your fantasy team is far less.
6. Have fun and good luck to all! Stay tuned for possibly a few more sleepers/busts from me!